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Post by Kachu on Apr 1, 2023 15:20:23 GMT
"If the killer was on the second floor the entire time, there's only four potential suspects." Mikoto crosses their arms, thinking. "You were all present on Ingrass and split up, unless we start assuming there's more accomplices in the situation. It feels impossible for someone to have snuck away to commit this crime, right?"
"If the window was broken all this time, I don't know what specifically that changes. They'd be able to enter through the front door if they arrived before anyone else, and if they flew in through the window after you arrived, you'd have seen him, right? Or am I overlooking something there..?"
"I don't think there's enough space for the statue to be enlarged and to stay up there." Mikoto shakes their head, having asked the GM for some epic confirmation on this. "But I think that's the right line of thinking!"
"I do not think the cloaked figure is our killer, unless you're saying the killer is one of the four of us who were not with any group. As everyone arrived on the scene together after the murder happened. We know that the killer did not dispose of the telescope themselves, so I'm curious when they had a chance to pass off the items to someone else. That someone else had to have been on Ingrass as well, so it couldn't be a second independent! I think the only 'accomplice' that makes sense is Su-Ah's familiar!"
"Everyone arrived with their groups, so if the accomplice was Nico or something, Felix would know, right? The same would apply to the rest of those who were present for festival preparations. I don't know when they'd have the chance to go all the way to Sissus after getting items from the crime scene, and still make it on time with the rest of their group after hearing the bell at 15:03!"
"I think the telescope was used to knock the victim out cold, to get him into the right spot under the statue. But if the plan was to just cast it and crush them, then there'd be no need to knock him out! So there must've been some reason for them to have to keep him in place! But if it's impossible to see the statue from outside, then I don't know what it could be..."
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 1, 2023 15:21:47 GMT
"So, you're saying that the statue was prepared beforehand, Yugi..." Calvin thinks for a moment. "I wonder if that's what Sissus was trying to tell us."
"If we're to assume the statue was prepared beforehand, then the killer have to use the telescope to whack the victim in the head and then moved the victim underneath the statue. How would the killer knows where to position the victim underneath the statue? Perhaps it was because of the particularly large hole. on the second floor. The hole was roughly above the dead meat."
"I'm not sure if that's what we're supposed to think." He said quietly.
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 1, 2023 16:51:47 GMT
"... So, we're going to just throw up the sponge and let the killer get away with this murder?" Calvin asked the others. "And have a innocent person takes their place?"
The cowboy shakes his head in disappointment.
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Post by satan on Apr 1, 2023 18:13:14 GMT
"Ms. Helving," Hawk suddenly spoke up. "A thought has occurred to me. If we were to bring the statue into this room, and have you examine it, would you have a reasonable guess as to the stone it was made from?"
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 1, 2023 18:13:52 GMT
"Sissus, can you bring us that statue that killed mister Itsunoi? I want to make sure- uh, actually I want to admire its form to find inspiration. Yeah."
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Post by Panda on Apr 1, 2023 18:18:35 GMT
"Oh, looking for a show are we?" Sissus sang, before squatting and then jumping with enough speed to achieve escape velocity. Shortly afterwards he was back, giant statue in his arms. "I don't usually lift giant replicas of myself... Feels a bit too egotistical, you know? But I'll oblige!" He proceeded to show off his strength by holding the hefty stone statue above his head and posing a lot.
Eventually he was done, and tossed the statue aside. It landed near the players, giving them a perfect chance to examine it.
By the looks of it, it had been carved from an asteroid. The other statues had been similar. The asteroid belt probably provided convenient access to rocks of all shapes and sizes.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 1, 2023 18:20:04 GMT
Mikoto stares blankly at the statue.
Whether it's admiration or something else, all the light from their eyes is gone.
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 1, 2023 18:20:44 GMT
Faye raised her arm towards the statue. "Gwlad Hud." she said, intending to make it bigger.
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Post by pancakes on Apr 1, 2023 18:22:07 GMT
"...Don't do that!! WHy would you do that?!"
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Post by Panda on Apr 1, 2023 18:23:17 GMT
The statue, already large as-is, grew 10 times larger. Ige was pushed off his pillar by the expanding arms. A giant vaguely resembling Sissus now towered over all the players. Even the Demon Lord himself was rendered speechless.
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Post by NIKI on Apr 1, 2023 18:24:29 GMT
"Wow!"
"What now?"
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 1, 2023 18:24:57 GMT
"I didn't think it would work!" Faye screamed in abject terror. "I just wanted to make sure!"
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Post by Collin1002 on Apr 1, 2023 18:26:10 GMT
Felix had backed away before the statue grew, and he awkwardly cleared his throat as he looked around and saw how little space there was remaining in the room.
"A-Alright, that clearly didn't work...!"
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Post by Kachu on Apr 1, 2023 18:26:18 GMT
Mikoto falls to their knees.
"So. The killer took an asteroid. They shrunk it down. Then, they reshaped it... placed it upon the rafter, over the poor victim, who was knocked out cold..."
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 1, 2023 18:27:25 GMT
Calvin stares at the statue, jaws agape.
"What in the tarnation..." The cowboy mumbled.
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Post by satan on Apr 1, 2023 18:28:38 GMT
Hawk, for once, smiled. It was not a very pretty smile.
"Ah. Now I begin to see. These spells are very flexible indeed. I should keep this in mind for later."
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Post by Collin1002 on Apr 1, 2023 18:31:18 GMT
Mikoto falls to their knees. "So. The killer took an asteroid. They shrunk it down. Then, they reshaped it... placed it upon the rafter, over the poor victim, who was knocked out cold..." "I-If that's the case, it explains why Mr. Itsunoi was knocked out. So that way, he'd be in place when the spell reverted."
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Post by pancakes on Apr 1, 2023 18:32:08 GMT
Ige was still falling. Someone save him!
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 1, 2023 18:33:16 GMT
Ige was still falling. Someone save him! "Cast wind, stupid!" Faye yelled like this wasn't her fault.
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Post by satan on Apr 1, 2023 18:34:19 GMT
Hawk snapped his fingers, and his eagle swooped down to snag the assistant by the belt, beating its wings frantically as it tried to keep the man from falling forever into the abyss.
And then it remembered that the laws of aviation don't apply here, and thus it is a bee, so it casually floated up and deposited Ige back onto his pillar carefully.
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Post by pancakes on Apr 1, 2023 18:37:30 GMT
"G-Gwynt!!" Ige frantically cast, propelling himself back onto the pillar with the help of Hawk's familiar.
"...C-Can I go to the restroom..?" Ige asked in a daze.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 1, 2023 18:39:07 GMT
"Let's go over the timeline of events once more, everyone!" Mikoto seems to have gotten some energy back.
"We know that the killer used the telescope to put the victim in the proper place. Which would mean that the victim was already in the kitchen, or moved there. But considering they left Ingrass with Yugi, Mister Magno, and Hella, we can probably safely bet they were attacked in the kitchen!"
"Following that, then, as I said, 11:00 was when these four left Ingrass. At that time, Su-Ah, Nico, Felix, Calvin, Ige and Yves were still on Ingrass! But just ten minutes later, Nico, Felix and Su-Ah left. If everyone accounts for each other, as they have been, it seems to be impossible for either of them to have stepped away to incapacitate the victim."
"So, even knowing now how the crime was committed while the killer is away... we still need to find exactly when between 11:00 and 15:00 the killer knocked the victim out!"
"If the statue grew back to its usual size at 15:00... The killer must've gotten to the asteroid late at night. I wonder if that means anything...?"
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 1, 2023 18:41:01 GMT
"So, if statue grew back to its size at exactly 15:00... It means that someone shrunk it at 3:00. So, it's like Yugi said, the statue was prepared beforehand." Calvin summarized.
"3:00... Who would have time to do something like that?" Calvin wonders.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 1, 2023 18:46:43 GMT
"Someone who would sleep well after to restore enough SP for the next day, at 9am." Mikoto nods.
"Someone who was present on Ingrass with the accomplice to learn about the trick to Planet Sissus." Mikoto nods again.
"Someone who had ample opportunity to attack Mister Itsunoi." Another nod.
"Someone who used two spells earlier to cover their tracks... but not all of it, to still pull of a key part of the plan." Mikoto hands their head.
"Someone... There's only one someone, is there?" Mikoto lets out a deep breath. "Why...? After all of this...?"
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Post by satan on Apr 1, 2023 18:47:48 GMT
"Who do you think it is?"
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Post by pancakes on Apr 1, 2023 18:51:12 GMT
Ige would also very much like to know who Mikoto was thinking, although he couldn't vocalize it due to a recent near-death experience.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 1, 2023 18:53:55 GMT
"...Did you really do all of this, Su-Ah?" Mikoto eyes her like a sad, pathetic puppy. "There's no reason for someone to help another with a murder. The only accomplice here is your little friend."
"If logic dictates nobody would help someone escape, then the only person who could've done all of this is you. While covering your tracks so well, on top of it..."
"S.. So... You'll tell me why I'm wrong, right? Why you couldn't have done it? Why you helped someone get away with it, perhaps...?"
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 1, 2023 18:55:00 GMT
Faye sighed. "... Well, that sucks. Thanks for the rabbit, by the way."
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Post by pancakes on Apr 1, 2023 18:58:42 GMT
"...Su-Ah did this?" Ige asked, snapping back into reality. "Are we sure..? What about all that stuff about the cloaked figure..?"
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Post by Kachu on Apr 1, 2023 19:00:25 GMT
"There's no possible where the cloaked figure was a person who was present on Ingrass and at the same time had the freedom to independently go to Planet Sissus. It must've been a familiar." Mikoto shook their head sadly. "Nobody left their groups, at all. And Su-Ah was at the crime scene after the figure flew away."
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