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Post by wintercoat on Apr 24, 2023 0:22:24 GMT
“Huh… that’s not a bad idea,” she admitted. “You’re kind of a genius, sometimes.”
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Post by Collin1002 on Apr 24, 2023 1:08:15 GMT
Felix looked exhausted. His hair was disheveled, and his eyes were red and puffy from crying during the investigation. He swallowed down the lump in his throat, though, and let out a shaky sigh.
"So, um... if no one else wants to taste test, I, uh, I can. Chefs usually have a pretty good sense of taste."
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Post by Panda on Apr 24, 2023 8:03:46 GMT
The players no longer had access to the crime scene, but they recalled that Faye's jacket seemed a bit salty.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 24, 2023 14:41:20 GMT
“Then, why didn’t she return to her room..? People passed by her on her way to the blimp, so she must’ve done something else. Maybe she’s the reason why the controls were muddy…?”
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Post by Panda on Apr 24, 2023 15:16:11 GMT
[To clarify: her jacket was salty, the rest of her clothes weren't. It's reasonable that she changed the rest of her clothes but only had the one jacket.]
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Post by Kachu on Apr 24, 2023 15:28:03 GMT
"Oh." Mikoto falls to their knees as though they were in a walmart.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 24, 2023 17:29:02 GMT
“I’m concerned about all the blood by Faye’s body. Why didn’t it react to the spell and how could there have been so much? Was it really even blood?” Caitlin asked all at once.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 24, 2023 17:41:00 GMT
"It's strange... I don't know why it wouldn't react to the spell. I'm not sure of any specific conditions that has to do with it..."
"If it's not blood, then... um... if it didn't react to Golau then it's not magic related at all, I think...?" Mikoto looks around hoping someone can help. But nobody is there.
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Post by satan on Apr 24, 2023 17:57:13 GMT
"If it didn't react to the spell, then..." Hawk's eyes widened. "Then whatever that substance was, it wasn't blood. It was probably something else entirely."
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Post by Joker on Apr 25, 2023 2:18:25 GMT
"What could it have been then?" Nico asks a bit shaken up, due to the murder and his near death experience.
"I don't see how any of the spells could have anything to do with it..."
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Post by Panda on Apr 25, 2023 8:52:20 GMT
"...Per...haps it would... be... wise to esta...blish, a baseline. Of events," Zofra suggested. "What... must... have happened, to... cause... this."
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Post by Kachu on Apr 25, 2023 14:37:50 GMT
Mikoto nods. "Very well."
"To my understanding of the situation, during the thunderstorm, Faye and the killer managed to climb their way up to the top. This would've been of course after the lightning strike. Then, at the top of the tower, our killer shoves Faye, surprising her and causing her to fall off, and down to her death..."
"That... Doesn't explain much of the things we've discovered during our investigation though. There must be a lot I'm missing."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 25, 2023 14:48:18 GMT
“Surely the timing of who dropped in at the casino is important, right? Maybe we can deduce things using that, too,” Caitlin suggested.
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Post by satan on Apr 25, 2023 15:01:09 GMT
"I know I came in after the tournament was well under way, and Korrigan was already there. We left at about the same time as well, so up until that point, I can vouch for where Korrigan was. Though I must admit, I was travelling well over the island, so where I was at what time is... Difficult to pin down for sure, especially after the storm rolled in."
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Post by Neotelenta on Apr 25, 2023 15:03:00 GMT
"You would think there's a reason Faye and the killer even went up to that particular spot. Did anyone find any notes or correspondence that would help explain why they went up there?"
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Post by Kachu on Apr 25, 2023 15:12:20 GMT
"I don't think so...?" Mikoto lets out a deep breath.
"I do wonder, though, just where all this mud on the blimp controls came from. None of you are muddy without showing it, right? And Faye's clothing is all cut up... How could that even happen? What could even slice up an outfit like that? An animal attack...? Would those scratches match up with say, claw marks?"
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Post by mec on Apr 25, 2023 15:42:54 GMT
"Oh, Bwystfil." Hella says as though having a realization. "The killer transformed into a beast and killed Faye."
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Post by Collin1002 on Apr 25, 2023 15:48:56 GMT
"Oh, Bwystfil." Hella says as though having a realization. "The killer transformed into a beast and killed Faye." "The spell lasts twelve hours though, doesn't it?" Felix asked. "No one was unseen for that amount of time."
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Post by mec on Apr 25, 2023 15:53:48 GMT
"Well maybe.... They told the birds to carry Faye up high before dropping her down? Didn't think that did you?"
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Post by Kachu on Apr 25, 2023 15:58:10 GMT
“Luca is a rather large bird who was unseen for a long period of time, right…?”
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Post by Neotelenta on Apr 25, 2023 16:11:07 GMT
Korrigan shakes his head. "He's only about this tall." Korrigan says, measuring between the top of his shoulder and the top of his helmet. "Hawk's bird on the other hand is much bigger. But they're accounted for." Korrigan gestures to Hawk.
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Post by Collin1002 on Apr 25, 2023 16:46:57 GMT
"If a bird picked Faye up, we'd surely see talon marks on the jacket, wouldn't we...?" Felix wondered aloud.
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Post by Kachu on Apr 25, 2023 17:23:06 GMT
Korrigan shakes his head. "He's only about this tall." Korrigan says, measuring between the top of his shoulder and the top of his helmet. "Hawk's bird on the other hand is much bigger. But they're accounted for." Korrigan gestures to Hawk. "A bird of that size is plenty big to attack a person, no?"
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Post by satan on Apr 25, 2023 17:24:03 GMT
Korrigan shakes his head. "He's only about this tall." Korrigan says, measuring between the top of his shoulder and the top of his helmet. "Hawk's bird on the other hand is much bigger. But they're accounted for." Korrigan gestures to Hawk. "And I doubt anyone would have convinced him to do something of this nature. After all, we are bound to a single source; his actions reflect on me, just as mine do on him. "... Hm. So, perhaps there is something we are missing... Something simple? Why don't we consider the basic facts of the case from the beginning, and try again?"
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Post by Kachu on Apr 25, 2023 17:33:38 GMT
"I wonder..." Mikoto pauses for a moment. "How did the killer leave the scene, anyways? There's a few possibilities. They could've jumped and fell slowly from the window. But that puts them at a risk of being spotted by a third party, correct? Might not be particularly likely."
"I wonder as well, how damaged the clock tower was. We know that just in an attempt to investigate, it began falling apart more. Was it stable enough to not only allow the victim and killer to ascend, but for the killer to descend as well?"
"I don't know what direction this could really lead us in, but I am trying to figure out the sequence of events that had to have taken place for this murder to work... There was not enough time for the killer to transform into an animal, so that's out..."
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Post by Panda on Apr 25, 2023 17:43:32 GMT
[Just to clarify, the clock tower started out intact. Then it was struck once by lightning, resulting in its current state. It wasn't significantly damaged any more after that, otherwise people in the casino would have heard.]
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Post by Kachu on Apr 25, 2023 17:49:22 GMT
"...Actually, if there was no further damage to the tower, then there's no way anyone climbed up it at all. Otherwise it would've fallen apart like it did during the investigation."
"Faye and the killer must've gotten up there through the hole after the lightning strike... or some other way I'm not thinking of."
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Post by satan on Apr 25, 2023 17:51:26 GMT
"When I, Mr. Nadeau, and Mr. Holden went to investigate the tower, it was in rather bad shape. Mr. Holden was able to begin to cross, but once Mr. Nadeau started to cross, the floor collapsed from under his weight. I would presume, then, that the tower was not built to support the weight of more than one lerson at a time."
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Post by Kachu on Apr 25, 2023 17:58:08 GMT
"So then, that must mean Faye wasn't pushed at all. If it's impossible for two people to have been up there at the same time." Mikoto takes a deep breath.
"That... makes this a lot more complicated..."
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Post by Collin1002 on Apr 25, 2023 18:03:46 GMT
"Yeah, it collapsed pretty quickly once we arrived... Could Faye and the killer have really been up there for a long amount of time, if at all?" Felix questioned. "If not, then how did she wind up impaled...?"
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