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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 4, 2023 7:45:19 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 JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 4, 2023 16:44:39 GMT
Hmhm, thanks for having me. I look forward to all the great gayming and many musings to come in this crustacean-themed abode in which we find ourselves.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 4, 2023 16:46:14 GMT
Nice! Glad to have ya!
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 6, 2023 0:54:39 GMT
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 6, 2023 21:56:06 GMT
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 13, 2023 1:11:15 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 18 - 5:30 AM] - [Ava|Lyric|Decker|Sarabella] - Room 1
Ava, Lyric, Decker, and Sara Bella look at the clock, rock music blasting in their room.
"Oh my, look at that time!" Lyric says with a pout. "It's already almost dawn! Should we retire for the night?"
Sara Bella giggles, "Yermph!" She slurs her words, tired from dancing along to the music and talking with the others in the room. She wavers back and forth and stumbles against her bed. "Goodnight, Cinnamon..." She mumbles.
Decker stops doing skate tricks in the middle of the room and kicks up his board and takes it over to the wall. "Yeah, I'm getting pretty kickin' tired, yo!" he stretches.
Ava giggles, "lol me too. Same time tomorrow?"
Lyric fluffs her pillow, and takes down her hair. "Of course, let's have fun as roommates for as long as we can! I bet we're really going to be some of the favorites on the show." She goes over to the boombox and portable speakers that are on super loud and turns them all off.
The four of them finally go to sleep at this time.
#### [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 - 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 - 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.
### Investigation Group 1 - [Yutaro|Anastasio|Felix|Lyric]
#### Garden
The area where all the fireworks were shot off has a box for fifty fireworks but its empty.
All around the ground are the cardboard shells of four dozen fireworks.
There is a plastic ring like the kind that carry rolls of tape out here in the grass.
#### Crime Scene
Autopsy Report:
Name: Jackson Diamond - Time of Death: 11:15 PM - Cause of Death: Head and neck trauma - Other injuries: Smoke filled lungs, exhaustion
The corpse lays next to the building, head against a garden rock. Blood drips from his head and into the nearby storm drain.
Pockets are empty. He is in regular clothes.
Next to where he fell is the ladder and platform of the fire escape. They appear badly battered from the fall.
A large metal spike (like a tent stake) sits on the ground nearby. Two metal spikes poke out of the metal walkway.
Looking up the side of the building, there appears to be holes where the fire escape was set into the building. A glance at the fire escape on the other side confirms this.
There is a crack in the wall between the window Jackson fell from and the adjacent window leading into room 4. It looks wide and there are ants crawling around it.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 13, 2023 1:31:40 GMT
This isn't relevant to the case, I know, but I must have it answered before I can post in the trial.
Did Lyric's guitar survive the fire? I think she would've thought to grab it if they weren't in a big rush, I leave it up for you to decide, unless you think it's better if I decide. If she didn't grab it on the way out, it'd be one of the first things she'd look for when investigating Room 1, just for peace of mind.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 13, 2023 1:34:23 GMT
You deciding is fine. Everyone will have to decide if they want certain items to make it. You can't have grabbed it beforehand.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 13, 2023 1:35:22 GMT
Is it okay if Lyric brought it to the trial with her after the investigation?
Oh, and she would've had a mind to make sure Decker's bass guitar was alright, so I guess that's for me to decide too? Or am I asking too many pointless questions?
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 13, 2023 1:59:21 GMT
Yeah you can do that!
I would maybe ask Jay if he's okay about the bass guitar being okay but I would assume he would be okay with that. Or I can ask him.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 13, 2023 2:03:48 GMT
Thanks! Maybe go ahead and ask him? He and I aren't friends on Discord yet and I don't know when he'll see the friend request, let alone if he'll accept it.
EDIT: Never mind; he got back to me. I'll let you know if I have any actual important questions I need answered!
EDIT2: Oh, there's less stuff in the investigation results then there were before. If I wasn't meant to see what I'd seen before about the investigation of the bedrooms because I wasn't actually part of that group, then that might make it impossible for me to have checked on my and Decker's guitars, but . . . I dunno, either someone else could've checked on them, or I was given special permission to check on them, or something. It doesn't matter all that much. I'm just checking.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 13, 2023 5:01:00 GMT
It's fine. Yeah there was an error where all the third investigations were in there but it's still all good.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 14, 2023 13:54:11 GMT
Did we in Room 1 stay up nearly all night blasting music again on Day 19, or did we not do that, or was the boombox broken by that point so we couldn't do that?
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 15, 2023 2:36:42 GMT
You did! Boom box looks like it burnt in the fire lol.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 15, 2023 3:34:08 GMT
Thanks boss. I'll bring that up when I talk about the loud music.
Lots of evidence and scenes to pick through and stuff to tease apart. It's great fun so far!
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 15, 2023 3:51:23 GMT
That’s good!
I’m learning some stuff for case 2 tho
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 15, 2023 4:03:28 GMT
No kidding? I know your workload is already heavy but I'd be curious to read about the things you've been learning after the game's over.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 15, 2023 19:19:02 GMT
I didn't think about this until that question in the thread about which of us ran out of tape, but the sitting room decoration scene just describes the activities generally. What part of it did I specifically have a hand in?
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 15, 2023 19:22:59 GMT
You made signs, made a playlist, brought up the liquor bottles — nothing to do with tape.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 15, 2023 19:27:01 GMT
Ash used the tape
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 18, 2023 21:45:30 GMT
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 19, 2023 21:48:08 GMT
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 21, 2023 15:54:50 GMT
Out of curiosity, how many passengers can the motorboat hold? And how many for each canoe? My guesses are 6-8 for the former and 4 for the latter.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 21, 2023 16:43:10 GMT
6 for the motorboat. 3/4 on the canoe.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 24, 2023 20:55:55 GMT
If I were to buy the ??? item, is it against the rules to reveal what it is to everyone?
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 24, 2023 21:47:34 GMT
No it's not against the rules.
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 24, 2023 22:43:48 GMT
You know what? I'll bite. Let's drop 5 Gs and see what this "mystery item" turns out to be.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 24, 2023 23:24:32 GMT
Awesome! Lyric puts in an order, I'll hand it over when it's ready!
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Post by JoyTheBard (Slezak) on Sept 25, 2023 0:06:50 GMT
If it's just a T-shirt that says "I spent 5000 points on Manor of Crabs and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" I just might have to go scream into a pillow, or perhaps punch one a few times. Or both.
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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 25, 2023 0:07:44 GMT
I mean that would be a pretty fun prize
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