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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 14, 2023 5:15:10 GMT
"Hmm... Yeah, the beaker was possibly used to splash the poison into Ige's face." Calvin seems deep in thought. "I can't reckon of any other uses the bad egg could use the beaker for..."
"... Part of me wants to believe that the syringe was used in the murder somehow... just that it wasn't used to stab Ige. The other part of me reckon that the syringe was a red herring." The cowboy scratch at his chin.
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Post by Panda on Apr 14, 2023 9:12:20 GMT
"A red herring?" Monokuma cocked his head. "That sounds familiar."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 11:37:19 GMT
“My idea is that the syringe was tossed away because the killer realized it would leave an entry wound, but it could also have been left behind intentionally as a false clue.”
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 14:59:53 GMT
Caitlin thought hard. Really, really, really hard. Harder than she might've needed to. "Let's assess some things. We're stuck on this beaker, but even if we don't know exactly what it was used for, we still know that it tells us when the murder of Ige took place. "We kinda covered it before, but let's just recap. At 15:06, Felix heard me an' Faye having a scrap in the Workshop. During this entire brawl, neither me nor Faye noticed any kind of black bucket, which the beaker was disguised at. Fer that matter, we'd probably have broken the the thing if it was there. Finally, all the tools Faye and I used to try to smash each other's heads in were later found inside the enlarged beaker. Naturally, this means that the beaker could only have been placed after Felix, Faye, and myself checked in at the bar at 15:07. If we go by that, then Nico, Hella and Korrigan, and Mikoto and Yves are natural suspects, as we've established. "We know, also, that the syringe came from the Infirmary, as well as the beaker. Getting either of these things to the Workshop would require another entire trip around the board. The syringe, at least, never made the full journey, as it was tossed in the disposal chute, seemingly unused. Whether this was as a deliberate red herring or simply due to the killer realizin' that the syringe would be too obvious, I have no idea. Also, as others have said, why not just stick yer finger in Ige's mouth? But, I digress. "Anyway, so someone was in the before Faye and I fought and made their way around to the workshop after we fought. Sorry if I'm retreading old topics, I just need to think out loud fer a second. Since the Infirmary is adjacent to the Bar, much like the Workshop, we can count backwards a bit. If we see that I was in the Bar at 15:07, after the fight, and we look back at seven to ten minutes before that, essentially whoever was 'ahead' of me, we can see it's... wait, who the fuck is Darren?" she seemed to stop her ranting for a second and looked around at everyone else. "Am I just noticing this shite?" She slammed her fists down. "Okay, forget all of that, fer now, who the fuck is Darren?" She thought back to the two mysterious items found hidden in the Workshop. "I wonder if someone used Hacker's Toolkit to change their name in the system's logs. And the piece of wood also matched the bar counter... Hrm.... GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! GOD DAMN IT!" Clearing her throat, she continued. "Back on track. Sorry. Look, Nico passed through the bar at 15:10, so he could've dumped the beaker there, is the long short of it, like Faye said. But also, can we talk about this 'Darren' goon? Apparently they passed through with Hawk, so can someone say something? Monokuma? Anyone? Please? I want to go home."
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Post by mec on Apr 14, 2023 15:16:47 GMT
"Were they not Calvin? Also I figured the hacking kit was used to disable the jail card."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 15:27:42 GMT
"Anyway, sorry, I guess back to Nico," Caitlin said in WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN a rare triple-post. "Nico passed through the bar at 14:54 and 15:10. Nico was the most curious about what happened if someone went bankrupt and he also was hesitant to pair up with Felix and insisted that they stay a few rooms apart. Seems pretty... suspicious, if ya ask me."
She was definitely not grasping at straws.
"But that's all just conjecture. Nico was also one of the people pretty close behind Ige the only time he passed through the bar. I have no idea what any of this means, but it must mean something! Also, uh, yeah I guess Darren is just Calvin. Sorry. Got excited, fell into old habits..."
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 14, 2023 15:43:02 GMT
"Uh... Hey... I can explain what's up, guys..." Calvin(?) explains, hands up in defense. "I know it looks really bad for me, but I didn't do it, okay?"
"My name is Darren. Sorry for lyin' to y'all. Especially to Nico and Felix." Darren admitted. "Calvin is my friend and well... He was supposed to attend St. Hope on the first day, but a crisis occurred at the Marston Farmlands, which required 100% of his attention. Something about a herd of cows breaking out of the field and into the countryside, I would think."
"So, due to the crisis, Calvin asked me to go in his place. And here I am." The cowboy said as he gives everyone a warm smile.
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Post by mec on Apr 14, 2023 15:43:33 GMT
"Of course... Nico. He's far to short to defeat Ige and could not shove his hands into his mouth... Of course, that's why he filled the beaker with poison, made it bigger, and used it to launch poison at Ige, killing him instantly." Hella muses as though it were a same thought.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 15:44:08 GMT
"Nico has a prosthetic arm, right?" Caitlin asked. "Is that why he would've needed to use a beaker for the poison? It wouldn't come out of his finger? Right? Does that make sense?"
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Post by mec on Apr 14, 2023 15:47:22 GMT
"........ It wouldn't just come out the other hand?"
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 15:49:16 GMT
"........ It wouldn't just come out the other hand?" "Maybe it just comes from the dominant hand. I dunno."
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Post by Panda on Apr 14, 2023 15:50:12 GMT
"Wait, is that really how that works?" Nico asked nervously. He held his dominant hand out at arms length, and yelled "Tywll!"
Nothing happened.
"...huh."
Zofra spoke up at that point. "...Yes... this, is true. The... boy cannot... use that... spell, in parti...cular."
"So then I'm innocent! But, I don't think Hella or Korrigan could have done it either..." Nico said. "I never overtook Ige at any point in that last lap. At least, I never saw him at any point. If he died, it had to have been before I reached the Workshop."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 15:57:03 GMT
"So before Nico reached the Workshop, and after Faye and I fought..." Caitlin said to herself. "How the hell does that work? Unless Ige was killed before the fight, and the beaker was just hidden somewhere to wait for the poison to disappear from it -- like in a Community Chest -- then placed in the Workshop after the fact."
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Post by Kachu on Apr 14, 2023 16:16:43 GMT
"It couldn't have been before your fight, remember? Our fragile glass 'bucket' would not have survived the encounter!"
Mikoto raised a sleeved hand to their chin and spends some time thinking. "Well, then we have a problem, don't we? How could someone spend five minutes murdering Ige with poison in the three minutes it took Nico to get to the workshop? And how could they have avoided being caught by the bar..?"
"I believe the only alternative exit would be through the chest, going to jail, correct? But we know Xhuli was in jail! Does anyone happen to have the time when she arrived? Or when we first noticed her there..? Ah, but I suppose that doesn't really matter. By 15:02 she would've already been bankrupt... which means that after the fight, anyone could've really gone through to jail, right..?"
"I'm just not sure how anyone could've killed Ige if they did it after the fight, but before Nico arrived. There has to be some sort of way we're not really noticing..."
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Post by Panda on Apr 14, 2023 16:22:12 GMT
"It takes far less than 5 minutes to kill Ige that way," Monokuma said, yawning. "Chuck poison over him, stash him in the cabinet and leave! Maybe take a moment to wipe up any really obvious poison spilled on the floor, but if he was killed after Faye and Caitlin duked it out, the place was a wreck anyway. Probably would have just looked like spilled paint or something!"
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Post by Kachu on Apr 14, 2023 16:34:32 GMT
"I'd also like to correct something I said about Xhuli earlier!" Mikoto smacks their face with a sleeve. "I missed that she also went through the bar at 15:00! My mistake! Ignore some of what I said!"
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Post by Kachu on Apr 14, 2023 16:43:17 GMT
"You all have likely played this Monopoly game more than I have, right? I must wonder, those 'Get out of Jail' cards are often one time use... right?" Mikoto glances around the empty podiums to look at the rest of the survivors.
"The reason I ask is simple. We were all wondering why Xhuli didn't use hers to escape when she was trapped, correct? Well, what if she did?"
"What if she had already used it to escape jail. If she jumped down from Go To Jail, she'd be back near the workshop again. She'd have a chance to commit the crime, and then jump down the chute to head back to jail, possibly thinking she could get out of it a second time...? Or perhaps not, but just wanted an alibi?"
"I'll be honest, this might be quite the reach, but... I'm struggling to think of other ways for someone to have committed the crime in the few minutes we've got for it. If Xhuli truly thought she could escape jail without issue twice, or something along those lines, then maybe..."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 16:57:49 GMT
“Maybe she tried using the Hacker’s Tools to trick the card into working twice,” Caitlin suggested, not sure if that was helpful or not. “Whether that works or not is a separate issue, but if SHE believed it worked…”
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Post by Panda on Apr 14, 2023 17:05:29 GMT
Monokuma reared up in impotent rage. "All this talk about a Get Out Of Jail Free card, when I never even included one in my game in the first place! What kind of bear do you take me for?"
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Post by Joker on Apr 14, 2023 17:21:46 GMT
“Wait so if you didn’t include one in the game, did someone make a fake one and give it to Xhuli?” Nico theorizes. “That’d explain why it didn’t work…”
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Post by Kachu on Apr 14, 2023 17:23:02 GMT
Mikoto blinks. "Oh. Well then..."
"I suppose we need to figure out where that came from, don't we?"
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Post by Panda on Apr 14, 2023 17:34:05 GMT
"That community chest in the bedrooms contained instructions about the Rat Race. You were meant to find and read them yourselves, so you'd be ready when the game began!" Monokuma raged. "Instead you fabricated some story about me leaving you a cheat card in there... Boohoohoo! You guys are the worst..."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 17:51:07 GMT
"We're terrible," Caitlin agreed. "Hey, if the poison spell makes a cut on yer finger, couldn't we just check everyone's fingers?"
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Post by mec on Apr 14, 2023 17:57:22 GMT
"What!" Hella says shocked. "I guess we could check our fingers for cuts... Why didn't I think of that?.."
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Post by Panda on Apr 14, 2023 18:07:07 GMT
Everyone quickly checked each other. No-one had any cuts on their fingers. Yet, the spell would have certainly left such a mark, and even the Fixotron wouldn't be able to magically fix it.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 14, 2023 18:20:07 GMT
“There’s only one of us we can’t check, is there…?”
“Xhuli. We can’t check her hands for cuts.”
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 14, 2023 18:26:07 GMT
"That's my thinking, Mikoto." Darren nods at the bladesmith as he tips his hat. "If Ige did use the poison spell, then people investigating his corpse would have found a cut on one of his fingers. So... Xhuli must be the one who could have poisoned Ige."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 14, 2023 18:34:46 GMT
"God fucking damn it," Caitlin expressed. "Alright gang, let's solve the death of that crazy wagon... or the weird arrow trap from a few days ago."
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Post by Joker on Apr 14, 2023 19:42:16 GMT
“There’s only one of us we can’t check, is there…?” “Xhuli. We can’t check her hands for cuts.” "T-That's impossible!" Nico exclaimed. "Xhuli wouldn't... There's no way she would've done that..." He seemed to be trying to convince himself rather than the others.
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Post by JaytheBluPirate on Apr 14, 2023 19:47:53 GMT
"I didn't want to believe it either, Nico..." Darren replied as he pulls the hat brim over his eyes in shame. "To think that I was trying to help a killer escape jail... My Pa is going to be disappointed in me."
"We'll never know why Xhuli wanted to leave the game... There's nothing out there for her, right?" The older boy asked "I mean... Yugi is gone and in her place was our friend, Xhuli."
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