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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 4, 2023 7:44:13 GMT
Hello this is your cool thread where you can privately talk to me (the GM). Alibis will be found here for convenience. Otherwise, use of this thread is entirely up to whatever you want to use it for.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 6, 2023 21:34:50 GMT
Slightly interesting information: The victim will be Jackson.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 6, 2023 21:38:11 GMT
Oh okay didn't expect Doot to be the first victim
Wait is this the first game in a while where the first victim wasn't the GM?
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 6, 2023 21:42:08 GMT
F9 was GM F8 had no first victim F7 had GM F6 had Jumpfight who we grabbed so he could be first victim
So yeah
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Post by pancakes on Sept 6, 2023 21:50:28 GMT
Unlucky Jackson is cool, oh well
I think I will add an element to Hisoka's backstory where he was abused which he takes out on his puppets btw. It's messy but also I didn't imagine Hisoka as the type of char who would kill for money or anything so debt or the allure of cash wouldn't stir him to kill. So I think adding a psychological aspect to his killing makes the most sense for him even if it's not that thought out
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 6, 2023 22:10:08 GMT
Murder method is you are going to start a fire and then Jackson would be the person you would best assume it would kill because he is locked in his room.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 7, 2023 0:41:08 GMT
Trying to gaslight Jackson is not working sob
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Post by pancakes on Sept 7, 2023 17:07:45 GMT
Hey Nanjo so I have some more motivation stuff, mostly for post trial. I still plan to try and frame the puppets (although IC Hisoka will genuinely believe they are to blame) but thats just flavor stuff. I think Hisoka will take responsibility as an accomplice though (IC). Let me know if this doesnt work cause there are already plans in place or something.
I think it makes sense Hisoka targets Jackson because he is the most pathetic but I wanted to add extra motive unrelated to cash, he wanted most points to escape the house, not for money or to avoid debt or anything, so I settled on just he had plans for revenge against his abusers and needed to escape to go through with those plans.
Anything here conflict with things preplanned? Also random but is it fair to assume Hisoka had been approached for the show before but refused, and was subsequently kidnapped
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 7, 2023 17:27:41 GMT
I think it’s good! So the story goes that your character will be abused by some of the ppl in the house (maybe egged and people will leave food in your bed and then you get ants?)
You then try to figure out a way to kill someone and the fire plan comes together.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 7, 2023 18:03:23 GMT
Okay I think its good Hisoka also is just annoyed at them as an added bonus lolol
I have a feeling Decker will be the prankster because so far my housemates are pretty nice but he is kinda sussy
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 7, 2023 20:14:49 GMT
Hehehe that’s pretty accurate. I don’t remember if he goes for Hisoka but I think so.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 7, 2023 23:41:57 GMT
I wanted to try making enemies with Ava with the power of my puppets, maybe I should try again. I feel like I should try to get someone to bully me to make the whole thing more effective.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 12, 2023 4:30:51 GMT
> Looking ahead I don't think I'll be able to be very active this trial so you'll all do better than one person at least (edited)
That's so sad noo Jackson
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 12, 2023 4:33:57 GMT
HEHEHEHE I saw that as well very funny.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 12, 2023 19:32:13 GMT
I was thinking of adding maybe like, a younger sibling who is still in the care of his abusive parents on top of his revenge, which might make things more sympathetic for him (aka he wants to kill his parents not for revenge but also to rescue the sibling from them.) Thoughts? Maybe too much?
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Post by pancakes on Sept 12, 2023 19:46:19 GMT
Okay cool! I'll run with it
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 13, 2023 1:08:24 GMT
## Chapter 1
### Trial Start
#### [Day 14 - 1:00 PM] - [ALL] - Dining Room
The players are gathered in the dining room for a late brunch on day fourteen. Despite all of the fear and consternation caused by learning the true rules of the game, there was also a boredom that led people to gather on occasion.
"Hard to believe that we're already two weeks into this!" Felix says cheerily.
"Say, should we switch roommates? New roomies could be fun!"'
"Yeah! Cool!"
"Oh, sure, we could do that."
"Do we really have to move?
"This certainly sounds interesting!"
The group decides to randomly draw their rooms, and Rebecca does the drawing by ripping up four colored index cards and putting them into her bag and holding it out for the others to stick their hand in and grab one. Red would be room 1, yellow room 2, and so on.
In the end, the following rooms were chosen:
Room 1 - Ava, Lyric, Decker, Sara Bella Room 2 - Yutaro, Rosemary, Rebecca, Felix Room 3 - Cole, Dae, Jackson Room 4 - Raphael, Hisoka, Anastasio, A-SH
"Shit! I can't believe this..."
"Nice, time to try out a new bed!"
"Sorry, Jackson, better luck next time, huh?"
The players disperse and move away.
#### [Day 17 - 4:00 PM] - [Hisoka|Anastasio|A-SH|Raphael] - Room 4
Hisoka, Anastasio, A-SH, and Raphael sit in their room. The place is absolutely crawling with ants. Ants crawl in and out of a soda can someone left out, and even more plates and food that were on the ground in the middle of the room. Ants crawl over everyone's sheets, like a whole colony has been living there the whole time.
"I don't think... We can live in these conditions. Who did this?" Raphael says, looking around at her roommates.
"These plates were on the bed of Hisoka, earlier. That would indicate that they are originating from him," Ash says matter-of-factly. "You can see that he has the most ants by far."
Anastasio gasps, "Well! I wouldn't have thought we would have such a slob in our room! That's so much fun! If Hisoka wants us to live with ants, then I have no issue with it!"
"What? If he left all these plates out, you should stop him! Please!" Squeals the bear puppet. Hisoka quickly smacks the puppet against the wall.
Hisoka growls, "I didn't leave this food out."
Ash and Anastasio immediately call out Hisoka for trying to lie his way out of the situation. Hisoka never admits to any wrongdoing, but eventually Ash, Anastasio, and Raphael agree to sweep all the ants and food onto Hisoka's side of the room and he is officially responsible for cleaning.
#### [Day 17 - 4:00 PM] - [Hisoka] - Room 4
Hisoka genuinely didn't leave out any cans or plates. Some of the plates are his, but he's been good about taking them to the sink. He was likely framed, but now he has to work harder than all his roommates to keep the room clean.
#### [Day 18 - 6:00 AM] - [???]
Pop! Bang! Creeeeeeeeeak!
A strange noise wakes some of the occupants of room 4. They look around in the dark room, looking for the source of the noise. Maybe it was coming from outside? It's very early and the room is dimly lit. There's some noises as maybe some people in the beds are stirred, and then everything goes quiet. The window gets shut.
#### [Day 18 - 6:00 AM] - [Hisoka] - SECRET
Hisoka is the one who gets up when the noise is made. He goes over to the window and glances outside. Outside the window, Raphael is struggling to fix the fire escape as it bends away from the building. It looks like it would kill the next person to walk on it, but she seems to get it balanced back into place somehow. After seeing that, Hisoka goes back to bed, not wanting to be seen by Raphael.
#### [Day 18 - 4:00 PM] - [ALL] - Dining Room
"My roommate is having a birthday soon. We can afford a little celebration, even if we get some points for it." Rebecca says one day while everyone is in the dining room, shoveling down some freshly grilled linner steaks.
"Whose birthday?" Anastasio says, their eyes twinkling.
"No thanks," Hisoka says quietly.
Rebecca points at Yutaro who looks sheepishly at his plate, "I don't really need a party."
"Nonsense!" Lyric cries, "Oh what a chance it would be to celebrate your special day. Are you twenty-one?"
"He'll be nineteen tomorrow evening!" Felix says excitedly.
Rebecca nods, "Simply put, although everyone wishes to do this or that, I am interested in having a party for him. I've made a list of who should do what to help prepare. Sara Bella, Felix, Ava, Raphael, and Decker should work in the kitchen. We want a cake and a pasta dinner. Rosemary, Dae, Jackson, and Anastasio should prepare a fireworks display. And everyone else can help by decorating the sitting room for us to party in. Sound good? Start preparing tomorrow at 3 PM. Party starts at 8 PM."
Everyone agrees to Rebecca's plan and goes about the rest of their days.
#### [Day 19 - 1:00 AM] - [A-SH|Decker|Hisoka|Yutaro] - Room 4
PSHHHHHHHH!
White foam covers the room as Decker and A-SH use a fire extinguisher and blast it at Hisoka. Hisoka jolts awake from his deep slumber, trying to steady himself on his puppet-covered arms.
"This will help suffocate the ants," A-SH says matter-of-factly.
Decker nods, but he has a jeering smirk on. "Haha dude! You totally got in the way of where we were using the extinguisher!"
Suddenly, the door to the room opens, but instead of Anastasio or Rosemary heading to bed in room 4, it's Yutaro. "Is something going on in here?" The teenager looks at the android and the skater.
A-SH nods, "We are dealing with an Ant problem in this room. Hisoka has a particular problem with them. The suppressive foam should help suffocate the ants nearby."
Milk and Lotus cough in Hisoka's hands. "Help us! We're being attacked!"
"Stop being so noisy..." Hisoka says as he pushes the puppets into the foam further.
Yutaro shakes his head. "Ugh, I need to go to bed, but I'll help clean. You two need to stay out of this." He shoots an extra glare at Decker.
Yutaro and Hisoka clean the bed area for a while and the others disperse.
#### [Day 19 - 1:00 PM] - [Jackson|Hisoka|Raphael|Yutaro] - Room 4
The door to room 4 opens and Jackson walks in. He looks worse for wear. Tired, weary, anxious. Hisoka and Raphael are in there quietly sitting. Yutaro is also in there, cleaning for some reason.
"There's still residue from that foam..." Yutaro grumbles.
"I didn't get any sleep last night," he whines, his eyes looking dead.
"Tell me about it. I've only gotten a few hours every day since we last switched rooms. I might kill room one if they keep me up on my birthday too," Yutaro says, apparently quite bitter.
Lotus sobs, "Oh please! Let us sleep in peace!" Hisoka rolls his eyes, but they look tired as well.
Raphael looks bleary-eyed as well, "Yeah, I think I'm going to take a nap before we have to start preparing stuff.
Jackson nods, "I'm not going to help anyone! Not with how things are going recently. Sorry to the birthday boy but I'm going to sleep! I'm going to go crazy if I don't sleep!" He stomps out of the room, leaving the others to continue what they are doing quietly.
#### [Day 19 - 2:00 PM] - [Hisoka] - Shop - SECRET
Hisoka can't take much more of the constant bullying and manipulation. He needs to get out of this place. Make a stand against everyone. Especially those that he escaped from when he was kidnapped for this game. He is sick of being treated like a freak.
The party this evening will be a good place to create some chaos. He knows that the fire escape is broken, the fire extinguisher is freshly used, and that Jackson is stone tired. If he can just start a fire...
Hisoka goes to the shop and puts in an order for trick candles - ones that should hopefully re-light at an inopportune moment. It looks like many people have put in requests today to the shop to get various party supplies. He throws his paper in with the rest of them.
Not too long later, the various supplies are fulfilled. He sees that there are some fireworks on the counter as well, and he takes them for himself, hiding them under his sweater along with the candles. He then goes in the kitchen and replaces the candles that are in the cabinet with his own box of candles. He then shreds up the boxes, throwing them away. He then throws the remaining candles in the oven to melt. He then goes upstairs to help the group with preparing.
#### [Day 19 - 3:00 PM] - [Hisoka|Rebecca|A-SH|Lyric|Cole] - Sitting Room
Hisoka, Rebecca, A-SH, Lyric, and Cole are tasked with preparing the sitting room for the party. They start by setting up the many wireless speakers around the room. There's about ten of them total, and they are placed all around the room. The group then sets up a laptop and adjusts the volume of the individual speakers so that the room sounds nice as different music plays.
They then take some time to clean the floors and wipe off all of the table areas. They check in each room, but there's way too much clutter and trash in them to clean. They end up throwing away some of the stuff that was in the rooms.
After that, the group sets up streamers and balloons that somebody bought the other day. The streamers are put up around the room and it takes a very long time.
They cut and make some signs like, "Happy Birthday!" and so on, leaving those on the counters and couches.
Next, they set up some table cloths and card tables with some bottles of alcohol on them.
Then they sit around and add music to the playlist for a while and set up a little dance area by moving the couches. This takes them a few hours and then the cooks come upstairs around 8 and begin socializing.
#### [Day 19 - 3:00 PM] - [Hisoka] - Sitting Room - SECRET
Hisoka takes one of the speakers and puts it against the wall between room 4 and the stuffy room. As the music plays during their set up, it must be making it impossible for Jackson to get any good sleep in.
He then hides the firework in a trash can with all the paper trash in it. He puts it right by where the cake will be. Hopefully, this will cause a big fire. For good measure, he dumps some tiny alcohol bottles in there as well when nobody is looking in order to make things more flammable.
#### [Day 19 - 8:00 PM] - [A-SH|Cole|Rosemary|Raphael|Hisoka|Yutaro|Sarabella|Ava|Felix|Lyric|Rebecca|Decker] - Sitting Room
A-SH, Cole, Rosemary, Raphael, Hisoka, Sara, Ava, Felix, Lyric, and Rebecca hide upstairs around the room. It's kind of silly and pointless, but even so it's fun to make
Yutaro makes it to the top of the stairs and everyone jumps out and claps excitedly, cheering.
"Happy birthday, Yutaro!" Lyric says, immediately guiding the young man around the room, despite the fact that he had been seeing these people for nineteen days already.
"Has anyone seen Jackson?" Sara asks, standing on tiptoes to try and look around the room.
Rosemary shakes her head, "I figure he must just be exhausted, what with the bloody noise in this house all the time."
There's a beat of quiet before Raphael let's out a, "Well that seems fair," and everyone starts moving around the room.
Soon, the party is in full force. Drinking, Karaoke and Dancing takes up everybody's time. The music is loud and keeps everyone moving.
The lasagna is served along with a side of salad. Both are very delicious to eat.
The group then goes out to the balcony at about 9:00 to watch the fireworks display. Rocket after rocket are shot up into the sky. People huddle in little circles as they watch. Cole, Hisoka, Yutaro, Felix, Ava, Lyric, Decker, A-SH, and Sara sit up front. Raphael and Rosemary are in a corner in the back. Rebecca spends the time on her computer at one of the tables behind everyone. Bunny sits on A-SH's head.
Finally, after the fireworks conclude, everyone goes inside to eat cake. They light the candles and all sing happy birthday. Cake goes fast and soon everyone puts their plates and garbage in the trash.
"Thanks, guys," Yutaro says modestly. "This whole thing was a lot but in a good way."
Rebecca smirks, "It should be good. We were all cast on this show to provide something. Glad you were entertained."
Around this time, some people divide and move around.
#### [Day 19 - 10:00 PM] - [A-SH|Lyric|Hisoka|Rebecca|Sarabella] - Sitting Room
A-SH, Lyric, Sara, Hisoka, and Rebecca sit in the sitting room when suddenly a burst of fire sprays all across the room like a firework. Flames lick and seep into the walls and floors. All five of them get up and start to run everywhere, but then the voice of Bogota rings out, "Go to Room 2 and escape!"
They all go to Room 2, and as they open it, four more people are there, shocked to see the fire erupting in the sitting room.
"There's a fire escape this way!" Shouts Yutaro, everyone goes out the window in Room 2, down the fire escape, and to the front of the front garden.
#### [Day 19 - 10:00 PM] - [Hisoka] - Room 4 - SECRET
Actually that was Hisoka's voice and not Bogota's that told everyone to take the fire exit out of Room 2. Hopefully Bogota will back up his lie.
### Investigation Group 2 - [Hisoka|Raphael|Decker|Ava|Cole]
#### Foyer
Nothing of interest.
#### Bathroom
By the washing machine is a heavily stained and stinky set of men's pajamas. Smells like rotting food.
tucked under the sink is a thin bedroll. It also has a terrible smell and some stains.
#### Game Room
Nothing of interest.
#### Kitchen & Dining
Inside the oven is a coating of white, waxy substance on the bottom of it.
There is an empty bottle of spirits sitting on the counter.
In the far back of the fridge there is a single lunch that someone made. It is no more than a day old. It contains a fried egg, two steaks, and a porkchop.
#### Reading Nook
A blue lighter sits on the ground covered in ash.
A large pile of ash sits in the middle of the room. It's clear to see that the ash was once pages. All the shelves are empty and charred.
All around the room are points of heavier burning, including in the game room and the shop.
There is some ashes resembling cardboard here.
#### Shop
Several orders were put in today, but only two seem to have been taken by whoever got them. The other things (snacks, games, etc.) are burned.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 13, 2023 8:39:05 GMT
Hey Nanjo I think I understand what happened mostly, but with the Room 2 stuff and me mimicking Bogota, was the intention to weaken the fire escape so when Jackson tried to jump out, it'd be too weak and he would fall?
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 13, 2023 13:00:53 GMT
There are two fireescapes. You exited out the safe one.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 14, 2023 18:26:40 GMT
Ok I know it's me but I'm not sure how Felix singled me out over anyone else who was with me when I got fire extinguished lol
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Post by pancakes on Sept 14, 2023 19:52:06 GMT
Oh maybe it's the candle hehe
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 15, 2023 2:38:53 GMT
I have no clue how Felix is sudsing you out it’s crazy. I was shook.
I think you insist you weren’t the real culprit until they point out that:
A - you lit the fire B - you kept him up C - you knew the most and had the most opportunities to do something
I think Felix detected that you knew about the fire escape and the pranks
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Post by pancakes on Sept 15, 2023 2:53:44 GMT
ATM I don't even think he did I just think he thought maybe evidence was left behind on Milk / Lotus. I don't think there's anything indicating that I knew about the fire escape but Ash / Anastasio didn't, unless I'm the only one who heard the noise at 6:00 AM? I assumed most people did since it wasn't secret
Although now that I think about it I'm not even sure if the others know Anastasio and Ash were with me, I kind of left it to them to post about it but I don't think they ever got to it
And yea it seemed like a crap shoot so I didn't buckle down yet
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 15, 2023 3:10:30 GMT
Yeah it was.
Ash stayed asleep (since in my mind she has the furthest bed)
Anastasio woke up but obviously vamp's been busy.
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Post by pancakes on Sept 15, 2023 3:41:54 GMT
Oh ok, I'll just proceed as Hisoka being the only one knowing then basically. Kind of works out that I posted about hearing the sound of Raphael as a little slip but I don't know if anyone picked up on it yet?
I was going to accuse Ash actually since she emptied out the fire extinguisher + theoretically could have heard Raphael as well but I might not
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 15, 2023 3:54:16 GMT
Ash will be suspiciouser soon I think
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Post by pancakes on Sept 15, 2023 4:07:14 GMT
Oh ok, maybe I dogpile with that then
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