Awards Killing Game 2x2: Moon of Hope (Game Thread) - Day 4: Lunary Cliffs

[GBA]

The Cliffside - is there a rope and water at the bottom?

Is the water similar to the Kitchen, Fountain, and Space Exhibit?

There is water splattered onto some of the jagged rocks. You flash a darklight on it and it sparkles brightly. No similarity to the other sources. Additionally there is a rope tied here to one of the barricades, loosely tossed aside.

Take one of the ectoplasm vials and pour it into the toilet. What does it look like? I shine the Darklight on it too.

You're gonna need a plumber to get that out of the pipes. It dissolves somewhat reliably but makes the water glow under darklight.

I jump into the water in the Kitchen. Compare that too.

You jump into the water. The judges will evaluate your dive.

 

[Turboo]

(Ooc beam) can we body check Lyra, Reigen, Ratigan, Lee, & The Lash for wetness and also shine a darklight on them

 

[GBA]

(Ooc beam) can we body check Lyra, Reigen, Ratigan, Lee, & The Lash for wetness and also shine a darklight on them

You examine these people for wetness. Lash is a bit sweaty, but otherwise muscular and lashing. Reigens back is somewhat wet and cold, and he is wearing a diving suit. Lyra is slightly wet all over. Lee and Ratigan appear to have sopping wet clothes up to their knees.

 

[Dr. Lyra Orpheus]

Kyehehe... Looking over the case facts again, maybe Reigen wasn't the best pick. It serves him right though, the two-bit wannabe excuse for a paranormal investigator. What did he expect, spending time in the Kitchen? Historically, records show that that whole area is a hotbed for murderous activity. You either kill, get killed, or end up as a stooge - and what are we at now? 3? 4 of those? That goes for the ghost too. Pie? What a waste of time, even if he was poisoning it.

Mmm, hold on. Kyeh, I gotta take this...

Yeah?

//:Interesting. You've exceeded our expectations.

I'll be the first to admit, our faith in your capabilities was low. Chaotic, unreliable. You're a clever girl, but your mind is just... Well, it's tragic, isn't it? Or so we had thought. Instead, here you are, our little surprise. You've eliminated an Anomaly, and in the process you've gained access to a level of information that the others may only yearn for.

You may not believe this, Dr. Orpheus, but we at the Bureau are certainly not needlessly cruel. No, no, as I am sure you are well aware, cruelty is simply a means to an end. A means to get results. Likewise, debts may be paid by the same means. At least for the time being, we have seen fit to grant you a reward. A means of motivation. You've earned a small degree of trust - and thus, in accordance with the upgrade "incentive" provided by the host of this facility's incident zone, we will entrust you with a loosening of your shackles.

Do not disappoint, continue your progress - and perhaps more will follow. This will only hurt a little.://

Wait, what does that m-?


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....Aaaahhhh...

This.... This power... this is...

...This is... Kyeheheh.... This is more like it.

Kyahaha... ha... Finally. I feel it again. The swirling and churning of the world. Fleeting, ephemeral, all things coming and going with the roiling of the tides. A thousand possibilities, a thousand discoveries, all spiraling out of this singular moment - the center of the maelstrom. I should be thanking you, all of you! I suppose there's a place for those with middling intellect in this facility after all - I never could've gotten away with it if I'd surrounded myself with fellow geniuses, after all.

In case you're not getting it through your thick skulls, I killed Boo, not Reigen, not Ratigan or Lee or ESPECIALLY that insignificant twerp Victor.

Funny, isn't it? The ghost presented himself as a keeper of hidden knowledge, one who knows all there is to know. Kyeheheh... A lot of good that did him! It was easy, you know. A butcher knife to the chest, and a few more wounds from the chisel I took from the Studio. Why leave the chisel behind? Confusion, misdirection, to make you think a moron did it. Why else? To whatever credit I can give him, he did try to fight back. He almost hit me with one of those stupid pies. Wouldn't that've been a pain?

You were so close too, Albina. Really, the only one with the bare minimum IQ to count as functionally human. I traveled between the water sources in the Hydro Generators and the Kitchen Sink, then... Kyeh... Kyehehehehe...

Kyahaha! I even gave you a hint! A big one, right in the open for you to see - and still, you never had a clue!

The "object" that summoned the water? I showed to you on Day 1! The ladle from the Fishing Hut! If this little Gaddget is any indication of what Dr. Zooks is capable of when he bothers investing his efforts in something besides ghosts, then no doubt he's got a whole treasure trove of revolutionary Esoteric technologies. Just a flick of the wrist, and I was able to scoop up the contents of one of the Hydro Generator basins, and dump it alllll over the Kitchen and Space Exhibit!

You should've paid more attention - one of those basins was still in the process of refilling, after all. Who else would've done it? Porticia? Get real.

Of course, the turtle made things a little more complicated when I burst from the Fountain. Almost boiled to death - probably would've if I didn't smash my way out with my thermos. That's another point to you too, Albina. Give yourself a pat on the back - that's two chances to kill me that you ended up squandering.

Wasn't great on the wrists, y'know?

But all that, and the lizard still patched me up out of the goodness of his heart. Kyahahaha!

As the rivers that crisscross this world flow, I too have slipped through every crack, defied every attempt at capture, and I've carried your chances of learning the truth away with me. I've adapted... I've pushed forward... I've earned the trust of my employers, and now there's nothing you can do to stop me while I plunder this stupid facility in the name of science!

In case you haven't forgotten... I'm the one with all the passwords. You really wanna risk it? Take a swing? Because if anything happens to me... I'll take them down with me, down into the depths where all forgotten things float, to be crushed and collated into an undefinable singularity. You'll never recover a thing - and you'll never learn a thing, unless you know your place and play nicely.

Kyeh... heheh... heheheh... It's only a matter of time now, until I unravel the secrets of the G.H.O.S.T. Complex... and the Dark Moon Shards....​

 

[Revin]

HUH?! Is that my magic water spoon, which famously lets me, the great detective Luke Atmey, use infinite water and teleport through puddles? Gimme a look!

GRRRRRRR! SHUT YER TRAP!

.........................
Geh heh heh heh heh heh... Now I see! It's all gettin' real clear...

Zvarro! The truth's clearer than mud. Sorry to break it to ya, but that's just an imitation copy. If it were the real deal, you wouldn't even need to use the Hydro Generator as a water supply, cause it comes with infinite water, no extra charge. Heh, look what that Gadd guy needs to mimic a fraction of my power. Still can't beat the real deal, pal. As for youse, I'll let ya hang on to that one, since I'm feelin' nice, and it seems like ya know how to put it to good use. Maybe just don't kill any more people or whatever.

...Guess my spoon must still be at home. Probably fell behind the couch.

 

[Superchao]

Once more, the votes had been cast. Once more, those assembled had chosen one of their number for death.

Only this time...

"Wrong, wrong, WROOOONG! Gahahahaha! Completely wrong! Props to the wet scientist, that was some exquisite corpse work there!"

"That was a remarkably tortured reference..."

"Shush.

Anyway! Just 'cause you voted wrong doesn't mean I'm passing up my portrait. Tanner, you're up!"​

Once again ready to act, Tanner swoops in with the scythe. Before Reigen can react, his soul is cleaved from his body. The latter drops lifelessly, and King Blocky slams down a glowing portrait atop the spirit of Reigen, sending him spiralling down and down...

Spoiler: Reigen's Execution - "Drowning in Debt"

Into his office. Sitting in the chair, Reigen looks around the familiar place, only to realize it's unfamiliar. He's finally made it, as far as he can tell. The office is decorated head to toe with a variety of awards and medals, all for his blueprints. After all, he was a master of blueprints in the Manor, so he carried it home and made it even better! Basking in his success, Reigen looks over his blueprints. Ah yes, the Spirit Destroyer Enhancer. This one he'd given to Mob, to really juice him up. Oh, some mail. What's that?

Bills, as it turns out. Bills that he hadn't paid. More and more of them keep piling up, Reigen having just kept all the new money when he finally struck it rich. He couldn't bear to part with it, not even for bills... As he flips through and tosses them away, he notices something odd on the last one. It states "Thalassic Repossession Enacted", dated that very day. Thalassic Repossession... Reigen ponders what that could be, only to see a slight leak emerging from one of the framed awards. He gets up, and heads over to straighten it, only for a sudden wave of water to burst from beneath it. The waterspout knocks Reigen back, as several other frames begin to leak, before water starts pouring from them as well.

Running to the door, Reigen slams and crashes into it. He notices it's not only sealed, but a pair of shining blue eyes are staring at him with malice from the other side. Before he can figure it out, the water has quickly risen too much for him to do anything other than float and swim. Trying to keep his head above the water, Reigen swims towards the other wall, but there's no exits there. The water hits the ceiling, and as it does, Reigen pounds against the ceiling. He's not going to make it out... until a pair of strong arms wrap around him. Dr. Lyra Orpheus had teleported in, and now she teleports out, the two of them emerging from a water tank.

Lyra dives back in, while Reigen looks up to see Mob. Mob stares down at him...

"Oh, a spirit. I know what to do."

And with a massive wave of psychic power, Reigen is obliterated.

In reality, King Blocky Boo holds up his fancy new portrait with a grin.

Reigen Arataka was executed! His role was CODE: CYANOTYPE, the Ultimate Blueprinter![/center]

Code: CYANOTYPE
Ultimate Blueprinter

Blueprints, blueprints, blueprints. You have a knack for reading, interpreting, and iterating on grand designs and made by others, especially those on blueprints, and this has given you a certain... charisma. People naturally follow your written orders, and often blindly attribute grand designs and plans to yourself, when in truth, you've never drafted an original design before, and the very thought terrifies you. You're just good at reading the room, especially when it's drafted with proper measurements. Drawn to this manor by its absurd layout and cacophony of weird rooms, you wish to study its blueprints to make some sense of it, and eyeball a few experimental doo-dads and doo-gadds for potential business opportunities.

Hm, "Ghosts", you say? Certainly not in your sights. All you're seeing is blue.

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Abilities - Ultimate Blueprinter

• Your role specializes in "blueprints". With your pure instincts and vibe engineering, if you encounter any broken device, even crude player-made ones, you can partially return it to its original function. You can hazard a guess of how it works based on its components, presuming you have them all.
  • When doing this, you must dedicate a short amount of time at night to drawing a schematic blueprint of the device you're about to repair. You can skip this with access to the device's blueprint. You might be able to find such prints on the map already.
• With a blueprint, you can hotwire a vehicle to use it yourself, or jury-rig crude devices and explosives (with access to proper materials) with exceptional speed, but an inventor you are not. You can't use this power to assemble complex devices with entirely original functions, only modify or build on those that are present or broken.
• You can pass any blueprint to another player, and with extended time (a few consistent nights of progress, depending on the complexity of the device), they can also build or repair the schematic you've drafted or located. Your annotated instructions are naturally very easy to follow.
• Finally, after encountering a functional example of a Gadd device, found on the map, you can bootleg a copy of them for your own needs, and place them on the map yourself. You can only create one copy per item unless otherwise stated. To do this, you will again need to draft your own blueprint of the item you're using and building.

Spoiler: Gadd Device Bootlegs

• Test Subject Gaddgets - With access to a players full rolecard, you can create a one-shot bootleg for your own use. It will have host-adjusted balances to act as a weaker version of the role you bootleg, and also exist as a physical object that can be examined.
• Fake Gaddgets - These Gaddgets have no purpose or function, but they can fool the registration system used by the Complex well enough to let you add them to the Paranormal Test Subject Register. You can do this up to five times.
  • This mysterious document contains details about Gaddget Powers possessed by other test subjects. You also managed to weasel your way into getting a single file in your room on Night 1 for your own reference, and the others will be scattered around the Complex for discovery.
• Pixelator - ???
• Z-Gate - ???

• Ghostly interactions:
  • Despite being labelled a ghost power, and the fact that your bootleg devices can replicate the great inventor Gadd's technology, you have nothing to do with ghosts or the supernatural at all. Upon close examination of your bootleg Gadd devices, they might appear functionally different.
• Weaknesses: You have no notable weaknesses, but require access to parts and blueprints to use your powers at all. Utilizing the drafting room, or either of the two laboratories, you may wish to "borrow" blueprinting paper, measuring devices, scrap metal and spare parts for your bootlegging journey, which means you might have to return there often.
• Forbidden Action: You cannot destroy your blueprints or have them destroyed by others. You must keep them in pristine condition, otherwise, how else will your genius be recognized?

For Case 2 - Interghoulactic Space Program, you were...

Spoiler

Incorrect!

CASE 2 - END​

"Now that was a fun one. Gotta say, you guys are some of the best ways to get haunted paintings out there. But speaking of..."

"I got a soft spot for the Boo. Fun kid. So you know what?"

"He's getting another go! Maybe he can say hi to his killer, huh?"​

Throwing the Ghost Portrificationiser in reverse, King Blocky Boo feeds the painting of Boo1268 in, and a glowing figure emerges...

@Boo1268 has joined the game temporarily as a Wraith! For Case 3, he will be able to post, submit night actions, and participate in the next investigation.

We are now in Twilight Phase.. You have 72 hours to investigate and discuss lore and mysteries of the GHOST Complex, after which Night 3 officially begins.

 

[Lin Beifong]

Inspect the generator and the portal/hoop/whatever thingy in the bunker room.

File the page I composed on KBB and attempt to gain insight into his defenses/combat approach vectors/other useful secrets he doesn't want us to know.

 

[Dr. Lyra Orpheus]

...Now that that's over, I'll throw the rest of you a bone. Clearly you can't investigate much at all on your own.

I'll show off my The Fourth Element and Gadd's So-Called Plan notes. Maybe you'll get something out of it.

 

[Hooded Pitohui]

nfff... Hoarding all of this technology, and to what end? Why chase phantoms when you could amass a fortune? What a pity that this Gadd sees fit to while away hours domineering spirits. Had he even a hint of entrepreneurial drive... Nyah,, well, so long as he is otherwise engaged, who'll even notice a few designs disappearing from so cluttered a den...?

Nyeh? Murder? A ladle and someone frying in the fountain? Oh, yes... That self-professed exorcist banished Boo and his-

NYEH!? Incorrect? You're saying it was...

NYAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA! That sopping-wet Labrat actually liquidated someone? Nyahahaa, impressive! I knew some burning desire distinguished you from those stodgy whitecoats! Go on with your preening. Prattling's a pittance for entertainment of this caliber. Purr-haps we ought to depose our self-proclaimed meow-narch and bequeath the crown to you. Tell me you wouldn't covet limitless access to the technology here. Play nicely, and I may just be able to... deplume the legal eagles.

A shame to see you ejected so soon, Boo... though it appears you'll grace us with your company for a short time more. The years have not dulled your talents. Whether I hear of your banishment or or your possession or your being cast into void, you return so rapidly! The perks of a paranormal pedigree, am I right? Your ejection is one to lament, but at least they're clarifying where we phantoms and half-phantoms ought to put our allegiances! I hope you're paying heed too, Suit! Most number-crunchers would've turned tail by now, but here you are, filing on. Would be a shame to lose someone so dedicated in an... accident.

For all your troubles, a reward is in order. Before you depart, Boo... Oh, what one can glean from what supplies an estate brings in! Or a... complex... Nyeh, whatever... Shall we purr-use all that Gadd shipped in and the associated documents?

Present documents from the Maintenance Hub

 

[Superchao]

Spoiler: Night 3 Theme - Double Down

"So, we've gotten some real good massacres so far. Slaughter and sin as the living deserve!"

"Still feel bad about the kid, though. Didn't mean for a fellow ghost to get wrapped up in all this... ah, well. It's on your heads for killing him and not someone else, right? Right. So I don't feel bad.

Hey, Tanner. What night is it again?"

"It's Night 3, boss. Why do you ask..."

"Oh. Ohhhh, it's happening, huh?"

"Sure is! We've got a tradition to maintain and uphold!"

"It's a Double Murder Night, baby! Oh, and your incentives... well, the carrots didn't work, huh?"

"So here comes the stick! Anyone who doesn't attempt tonight will be unable to obtain any lore documents or new information!"

You wanna solve those mysteries so bad, you gotta work for it! Now let's see some action!"​

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It is now Night 3. You have a 48 hours to submit Night 3's actions. Some map descriptions will be updated with new information in pink, please refer to the OP of the game thread or the Updated Rooms below.

Tonight's Wraith is... a cool, blue-gatorade flavored @Boo1268. His powers are detailed below. Mona will also gain these powers for the night.

Code: ELECTROLYTES
As a Water Wraith, you possess a fragment of the elemental demonic spirit N██'s power, granting you minor resonance with the element of Water.

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Abilities - Water Wraith I

• You can produce small balls of water on command, these can be thrown, and explode on blunt contact, releasing a burst of elemental water.
• Once per night, you can imbue yourself with a momentary burst of watery speed and stealth, allowing you to perform difficult maneuvers and evade obstacles, as if you were made of water.
• You can only move in the Paranormal Dimension. You can have objects move with you in the Paranormal Dimension so long as you maintain contact with them. Please toggle the floor maps in the OP of this thread for more information.
• You can turn invisible to mortals on command, but this invisibility is limited to a few minutes at a time. You will always be visible to other entities in the Paranormal Dimension, and under Darklight.
• You cannot kill. You may accomplice with a living player. Only one accomplice may exist per case.
• You are weak to all standard ghost weaknesses in this universe, and the element of Ice.

Spoiler: Updated Rooms

Under The Ice is now accessible.
A Z-Gate has been uncovered. Living players can access the Paranormal Dimension by entering through Z-Gates.

While in the Paranormal Dimension, Living players have the following traits:

• Can only move in the Paranormal Dimension.
• Can move objects with them in the Paranormal Dimension (i.e. through walls), so long as they maintain contact.
• Are completely invisible, except under darklight, and to other players in the Paranormal Dimension.

Updated Rooms

• Ice Lake: The main feature of the Snowy Grounds The lake has been converted to a pile of frozen papery mush, with a tunnel leading to an unsealed hatch. A long ice slide leads from here to Under the Ice. A small fishing hut is adjacent to the now not-lake. An abandoned, frozen-over water pump serves as a spawning ground for Ice Elemental spirits.
• Kitchen: What used to be a functional kitchen has thoroughly flooded. All ovens and stovetops are unusable. Officially the most dangerous room in the facility. Weird noises can be heard from the dumbwaiter.
• Smuggler's Hideout: A small room with plenty of treasure, currently frozen inside blocks of ice. All of the fanciest treasure chests have been raided.
• Under the Ice - A secret bunker entered via a long ice slide from under the Icy Lake. Contains emergency survival supplies, long term rations, and firearms. The Z-Gate has been powered, allowing access to the Paranormal Dimension from this room.

Spoiler: NPC and Bond Information

Available NPCs:

• Vigil - The Valley groundskeeper who watches over the Complex's residents, living and non. An expert mortician and gardener all the same, his primary residence is the Graveyard. Where there's smoke, there's fire, and his lantern can often be spotted from the Complex's misshapen windows, wandering the distant valley grounds at night. Has powers related to accurate autopsies and accurate testimony.
• Mona Warnewicke - Gadd's trusted Elemental Expert, and a renowned clutz, who elected to take on the Chief Safety Officer role after it was left abandoned for many years. Her handbook is full of seemingly endless safety regulations. Will happily provide guidance on safe work and elemental reactions to anyone who asks, which is usually no one. Has powers related to elemental magic, and methods of death.
• Tanner Tosca - The general assistant for Gadd, a spectral figure who was in the Complex even before Gadd was. Exhausted but unwilling to disrupt his jobs, Tanner can always be found where Gadd needs some help, except for when he's decided to lurk in the basement to escape yet another asinine request. Has powers related to accomplicing and partnership.
• King Blocky Boo I - The big bad, free again at last. An amnesiac cubical demonic spirit, he is the archrival of Professor Gadd Zooks, having finally broken free of his prison. Has powers related to murder and performing successful kills.

Bond Powers

• All - Bronze Frame - Strangers to Acquaintances - No NPC will agree to be an accomplice at this portrait level.
• Vigil- Bronze Frame - Mortician I - Upon request, Vigil will conduct a more thorough examination of the body than a player, and offer additional insight.
• Mona - Bronze Frame - Trace Elements I - Upon request, Mona will indicate whether or not a fire, flood, or frozen object was created/affected by Elemental Magic, as well as a likely (but not guaranteed) source.
• Mona - Silver Frame - Crash Test Dummy III - As someone who's died and lived and died again, many times, Mona can be asked to possess a body, or a suitable stand-in for a body, and perform KG physics experiments from a first person perspective. She'll then give an assessment on whether it would match the victim's experience and current state, and suggest certain experimental adjustments that a host could not. This power can be used repeatedly, but its effectiveness lessens with each use.
• Tanner Tosca - Bronze Frame - Camaraderie I - Upon request, Tanner will give an upfront indication as to whether he feels there's an accomplice affecting the case. There can only be one accomplice per case. Accomplices will be debuffed if their associated killer is caught.
• King Blocky Boo I - Bronze Frame - Two by Two by Two EX - Starts Awards Killing Game 2x2. Oh no... there is no disabling this power either.

 

[GBA]

Inspect the generator and the portal/hoop/whatever thingy in the bunker room.

File the page I composed on KBB and attempt to gain insight into his defenses/combat approach vectors/other useful secrets he doesn't want us to know.

You power the small generator, and the "hoop" flashes with a green bolt of energy, before it opens.... a new path.

A Z-Gate has been uncovered. Living players can now access the Paranormal Dimension by entering through Z-Gates.

While in the Paranormal Dimension, Living players have the following traits:

• Can only move in the Paranormal Dimension.
• Can move objects with them in the Paranormal Dimension (i.e. through walls), so long as they maintain contact.
• Are completely invisible, except under darklight, and to other players or wraiths in the Paranormal Dimension.

I'll show off my The Fourth Element and [/COLOR]Gadd's So-Called Plan notes. Maybe you'll get something out of it.

[It seems these notes have been stolen from one of Gadd's notebooks].

Elemental studies have demonstrated that there are three principal magical elements that spirits within the valley resonate with:
- Fire, a domain championed by the great elemental spirit "Surtr".
- Ice, similarly ruled by the great elemental spirit "Ymir"
- Water, lastly maintained by the great elemental spirit "Nix".

These three harbingers have ties to the natural environments of the valley and can be summoned with the use of sigils. But, there exists a fourth element, a curious glue that holds the foundations of their magical influence together like an aether: slime. Green, radiant, and sticky. Most of my inventions utilize an ectoplasmic green catalyst capable of capturing pure elemental energy, neutralizing it, and converting it to a ghostly medium to mimic powers of actual ghosts, or even mix it with paint to entrap them within portraits, and it remains clear there are fundamental interactions between it and the other magical elements that surpass our worldly understanding.

Yet, I've failed to encounter an elemental associated with the element, so perhaps my assertion is mere... universal coincidence.

No matter, I've assigned subject ██████ a vial of potential spiritual conduit to hopefully draw out a potential "green spirit" as part of the final grand experiment. Additional tubes of "elemental Slime" will be kept in the Dungeons.

[Crudely scribbled notes from the big bad's big bad book.]

- Distribute his final Gaddgets and Ghost Powers for the experiment. (<-- Some of these aren't even useful. One that makes you bald? I'll give them some more deadly experiments to remember.)
- Unentangle """""his dimension""""" from this one. (<-- What is that guy even on about?)
- Conclude the final Grand Experiment, and rid the valley of paranormal influence forever. (<-- NOT going to happen.)

 

[Boo1268]

Boo1268: As a wise ghost once said...

Both:
GHOSTS DONT DIE!

Specture:
Thats right folks were back! And ready to help out anyone we can.

Boo1268:
Within king Fakers rules that is...I know Specture would LOVE the chance to get some revenge on our killer.

Specture:
YOU KNOW I WOULD! Also screw you BPI JERK! you didnt need to kill anyone you know, but NOOO you just had to play by his rules didnt you? also if I had a nickle for everytime I got bumped off with somethng related to red, I would have two coins, which isnt a lot but its WERID and kinda stupid It happend twice right?

Boo1268:
Oh well, nothing we can do now Specture my good man, lets just play by the rules for now...

 

[Roserade]

Um, pardon my absence during the last case. I was tasked with calculating a new assessment on the building... and it's only getting harder by the day...

Per my contract, here is another summary of the last 24 hours of damages we have uncovered. Please, inform me promptly if there is anything critical I missed!​

-The Space Exhibit has been invariably tarnished with the discovery of a dead body and the mass amounts of water released within.
-A one-of-a-kind car model was tarnished and lit ablaze, before crashing near the end of the driveway. The specialized Darklight technology in its headlights is likely the most expensive loss.
-The East Gallery's gallery of physical art has been smashed to bits, while the West Gallery's portraits were likely all burned. Each of these pieces was a unique commission, and the collective costs are practically uncountable.
-Despite a complete renovation of the kitchen (which hopefully did not come at the expense of any savings account!), it has now been completely flooded. If the floor doesn't give tonight, removing all of the eventual mildew will take thousands of dollars.
-The Icy Lake was broken and filled with sheets of paper. I have no means of knowing whether or not those pieces of paper were important. Let's just say they were for a higher insurance payout later.
-Several individuals have been coated in red paint... including myself, while wearing what is now presumed to be the Gaddget codenamed ARMISTICE. Even if any technological interior is safe, the expensive threading is surely ruined.
-The Greenhouse has been thoroughly raided of any gourds. Though some have already started to grow back, each of those would've sold for $6.99 on standard store shelves.

...

Ah, well, one other thing. As a reminder, I dug the hole in the Hollow Tree Heights last night, in an attempt to see if the keyhole shape in the shadows meant anything. All I found buried there was an empty seed packet.

Just now, I looked closer, and the packet depicts a beanstalk with some kind of... key shape, on its top. Plus, on its back side, there is an astrological symbol... I believe it is for Saturn?

How would I know about astrology? Some clients have asked for very interesting techniques for predicting market crashes...

Anyway, if anyone is still interested in "unlocking" the tree's canopy, it might be worth it to start searching for seeds! Just please don't damage the tree in the meantime!​

 

[Waluigi Time]

GHOSTS DONT DIE!

What did I say?! I told you all that you can't stab a ghost to death, and the moment the show's over, our new "host" brings him back like nothing ever happened! And he's still acting like they're not on the same side? This- this- this- this is just, it's pathetic that we're even entertaining this nonsense, really.

Mark my words. You CANNOT trust a ghost. Ever.

On the topic of documentation, I've collected some that may be of use. No use keeping them to myself.

Present Power/Personality Re-Alignment and the document detailing the world exhibit devices.

 

[GBA]

Present Power/Personality Re-Alignment and the document detailing the world exhibit devices

You present your documents.

Gadd's Log, #000024790B - Power/Personality Re-Alignment
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• - This is Professor Gadd Zooks, recording from yet another resounding paranormal success. ███████ Further experiments on the Portrificationiser present in the Dark Lab indicate it's possible to augment ghost powers (and hence the Gaddgets developed to mimic them) according to their user's personality, but the overall result is still unstable, with side effects ranging from ████████████ to ████████████████████ and █████.
• - I've tested the experiment with Vigil. He has noted his lantern is producing more smoke, and acting like a censer, which increases the effectiveness of the ███████████████. However, he notes the radius of the light is much more reduced, and its harder for him to see due to ████████████████.
• - With a bit more testing in the upcoming Grand Experiment, test subjects should be able to submit their Codenames for personality augmentation. Right now, with no further refinement, this will grant them a single +Positive trait, and some kind of -Negative offset, tuned to their personalities, or who the bearer of the device is, instead of what the device is. The development of this device was due to repeated experiments on CODE:█████████, focusing from its transmutational nature based on desire, which remains contained in the ███████████████ to prevent ██████████████.
• - The device will remain disguised and non-functional until powered by ectoplasmic fluid in the Dark Lab, and the code from this log's #(24790B) inputted into its panel. From there, it should be usable by anyone.
• - I hope to remove the -Negative offset with more testing. Right now though, this serves as a momentous breakthrough in allowing non-inventors and non-ghosts to impart their spirits onto a paranormal device. Perhaps we could even use the Dark Moon and ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.

The following document pertains to the functions in the Aviation Exhibit, Nautical Exhibit, Space Exhibit, and Train Exhibit. Please be advised NOT to touch these features, or take accesories and clothes from the exhibits, unless prompted.

Space Exhibit
The Space Exhibit features buttons disguised within constellations decorating its walls.
- LEO - Press Regulus and Denebola. Activates the exhibits Solar System display, which only functions during the day. All planets will rotate around the sun.
- ARIES - Press Hamal and Sheratan, input staff code located in Metal Lab. Activates the exhibits anti-gravity function, which will send out a paranormal wave that reverses gravity in both the Space Exhibit and the Aviation Exhibit. Dangerous! Further details can be found with the Metal Lab code.
- PISCES - Press Alpha Piscium and Beta Piscium. Activates Kitchen dumbwaiter's Incinerator, which will burn any objects within with elemental fire.
- AQUARIUS - Press Sadalsuud to generate "cloud cover" in the Aviation exhibit, detailed below.

Aviation Exhibit
Impacted by the effects of the antigravity function in the Space Exhibit. The planes will remain secured in place with cables during antigravity. A function known as "cloud cover" can be generated by pressing buttons in the Space Exhibit, detailed above. The cloud cover will generate water elemental mist, coating the room in a dense fog.

Nautical Exhibit
You learn of a button which allows you to cause a commotion, playing loud nautical music from the speakers and rocking the boat portion of the exhibit. The cannons are functional, and can be charged with elemental energy to fire a blast of elemental power capable of piercing walls.

Train Exhibit
Documents for the basement rails and how they operate exist in the room, as well as a manual for the Cargo Lift elevator. The train is functional, and will ride the looped train tracks within the exhibit when powered. The train whistle is loud and can be heard from several rooms away. Its speed can be increased to dangerous levels.

 

[Lulu Azhal]

Here are the documents Prince Winter, Reigen and I found under the ice.
Present the Disregarded experiments notes, and the recording on the upcoming grand experiment and the possibility of Gadd vanishing.

 

[Lin Beifong]

File the page I composed on KBB and attempt to gain insight into his defenses/combat approach vectors/other useful secrets he doesn't want us to know.

WINTER:
Moon, are you there?

I'm having a terrible feeling. Call it a premonition if you will. But I could use your help with something I've been working on.

MOONWATCHER:
What would you have me do?

WINTER:
There is a spirit here. The one I've been telling you about; Gadd's enforcer who is keeping us prisoner.
If we are to fight this creature, I need more information on it. So I was hoping you could use your powers on it.

You can sense the entity, even across dimensions, can't you?

MOONWATCHER:
...Yes, I think so. It's a rather powerful presence. I can see it clearly in my mind's eye.

MOONWATCHER:
I sense... a bottomless well of depression. Unknowably, unfathomably vast, deep, and dense. A suffocating pressure, ever-present from all directions. A crushing weight that dims all hope and swallows happiness. I see the shackles constraining its soul, cast from iron, their cold searing scars into its phantasmal flesh...

Torment, unrelenting, everlasting torment. A sea of tears, streaming down his face like black ink...

WINTER:
That... doesn't quite seem right?

MOONWATCHER:
No, I can see it so clearly! Its sad presence, locked in a deathly struggle with its own traumatic past.

Such a morose mind... Such oppressive sorrow...
What horrors has this entity endured to become this damaged?

WINTER:
No, I think you have the wrong guy. I meant the other one.
The boisterous one with the crown?

MOONWATCHER:
Oh, the loudmouth?

Are you sure you don't want me to do this specter of anguish instead?
He's lived such a storied and tragic life. I'm sure if I probed into his mind, that would--

WINTER:
Stay on task, Moonwatcher!

MOONWATCHER:
Oh all right. I'll do the laughing one.

MOONWATCHER:

Deep inhale...

Lord of Braggarts. Tyrant of Taunts.
I hear the restless whispers of those that surround you.

They are not happy with what you've been doing.

Ghosts of the valley. To all who bore witness, please show me.
The Blocky Boo... Reveal to me his secret self...

"A king he is not. A fraud, lesser spirit, borrowing the strength of one above him. The true monarch. The one who will awaken if his imposter is slain.

In life, he used to be... a simple entertainer. A stage fighter, showcasing his martial prowess for the entertainment of the masses. I see him... next to an "Under Construction" sign... Perhaps he fell into a hole and died here, and that is why his spirit haunts the complex. Or it could be something else. He is too protective of this memory, I can't see further.

This guardedness... his compulsion to conceal the past and falsify a title of authority... they are mental weak points. His staging of the death game and shattering of the moon... distractions from these shortcomings. Insecurity. Exposing this insignificance will make him uncertain.

He is weak, but... the crown. The crown protects him. It gives him the power to exist beyond his true status as a lesser spirit. If he were to lose it... his powers would wane.

Though he is protected... a strong flash of light, combined with exposure to a trinity of elements can stun him.

And... there is a connection. The ghost and the ghost researcher... His being is linked to the one you call "Gadd", beyond a mere rivalry."

WINTER:
Is there anything else?

MOONWATCHER:
Just some fragments, and they seem less useful to what you're trying to do.

Like, I think he once played a milk crate in a theater play written by... a... hm.
I think this memory got corrupted when he died, because the image I'm getting is that the playwright was... a walking toilet?

WINTER:
If your readings are that susceptible to corruption, are they even reliable?

MOONWATCHER:
Well, you know, sometimes Nightwing powers are a little more art than science.
But I think there is truth to them, even if they may not be as straight-forward as they seem.

WINTER:
Very well. I will write these down and go over them with Tempest later.

-- Scene End --​

 

[Revin]

Ya know, I've been hearin' what all of youse are sayin'. "The destruction of the mansion is costin' a lot of money". "Valuable pieces of history are bein' lost fer no good reason" . "Destroyin' stuff needs to be funny, otherwise there's no point". And youse know what I say to that?

Don't be such a stick in the mud! There ain't nothin' like the pure adrenaline that comes with havin' a fun time smashin' stuff up, and that's somethin' you can't put a price on! Especially when it's enactin' justice for the actions of a murderin' car lover. All these damage reports are bringin' down the mood, rainin' on our parades. So why don't we reframe this dumb narrative with a little more positivity, huh? Here's what one of those reports SHOULD be lookin' like!

Round 2 Results​

Spoiler: Detailed score

Achievement	Breakdown	Rank
Car totalled	Windows smashed and engine burned out * DARKLIGHT multiplier from destroyed headlights.	S
Paintings burned	Most paintings from West Gallery turned to ash.	A
Statues smashed	Most statues from East Gallery broken to pieces.	A
Kitchen flooded	Kitchen completely unusable. I had nothing to do with this one but still taking credit because it was done with a knock-off of my ladle.	S
Chests raided	Valuable chests in Smuggler's Hideout opened and looted.	A
Outfits ruined	Multiple people covered in paint + GADDGET bonus for painting ARMISTICE - Some people seen but missed.	B
Overall ranking		A

That there's what we call a high score! If youse ever need a way to blow off some steam, feel free to try and beat my score. Don't let little miss Rules and Regulations suck the fun outta our stay here. Ya gotta have some way to relax in between all the mystery solvin'.

 

[Cloudwalker]

"So here comes the stick! Anyone who doesn't attempt tonight will be unable to obtain any lore documents or new information!"
You wanna solve those mysteries so bad, you gotta work for it! Now let's see some action!"​

"Wh-what? No... Blockster, this is... this is too much. Without trying to kill someone, I can't do the optional side quest?? I... I..."

"Oh, boohoo! Boohoohoo! This is too much for a poor, innocent in the context of the nightly slashing soul to BEAR! Curse you, curse you all! Because the lot of you decided not to try and bump someone else off like a good person, now we can't not do that and risk our lives for the sake of a few scraps of context at the same time! Blockhead, I can't believe you'd take away our optional and not required ability to search for passwords and whatnot without stabbing our fellow "houseguests" in the back... a shame, a shame..."

"...is what I would say if I gave a crap about it. Sure, lore and stuff is nice and all, but are we really going to go stabby-stabby to one another for the sake of newspaper clippings and emails? Come on! I can go without a little searching for one night, Boxy! I wasn't even searching in the first place! In fact, I bet that the whole lot of you won't even TRY to lay a finger on one another for this stupid game of this cubical crybaby's! Keep all that info tucked away as you may, but not even ONE death will happen this night, I tell you! Right, guys?"
​

"It's a Double Murder Night, baby!"​

"I'm sorry what"​

 

[Lin Beifong]

[CONTROL OVERRIDE ENGAGED]

//:It was quite the enlightening conversation. Yes, yes. Our host knows a great many things that will be extremely valuable to our research. I would like to thank him for his compliance in our survey of this place and the energies that pulse below the surface of this world.://

[CONTROL OVERRIDE DISENGAGED]
​

But all that, and the lizard still patched me up out of the goodness of his heart. Kyahahaha!

As the rivers that crisscross this world flow, I too have slipped through every crack, defied every attempt at capture, and I've carried your chances of learning the truth away with me. I've adapted... I've pushed forward... I've earned the trust of my employers, and now there's nothing you can do to stop me while I plunder this stupid facility in the name of science!​

Spoiler: Music

WINTER:
...

She is getting worse.
...

TURTLE:
Who is getting worse?

WINTER:
A scavenger I've been monitoring.
I've told you about her. The Symbiote? There has been an incident.

TURTLE:
That was the twitchy one, right? The one Moon said had disturbing thought patterns?
What happened? Did she hurt someone?

WINTER:
No...... Er, well, yes. But that's not what I'm talking about.

There was a point during the proceedings today where she spoke, and the voice coming out of her mouth was completely different from the way she usually vocalizes. It was cold and clinical; talked about a survey and energy reservoirs below this facility.

TURTLE:
Huh. What do you make of that?

WINTER:
I have had my suspicions for a while that something was not right with her. She didn't seem like her mind was fully her own.
But that incident has made me certain! I believe a powerful animus is controlling her actions through that plate bolted to her head!

TURTLE:
A rogue animus... Do you know who it could be? Is it related to the experiment?

WINTER:
I don't know who it is. It doesn't feel like the same brand of nonsense I've been exposed to in this facility. I'm thinking it might be an external party.

Turtle, you are an animus yourself. What is your take on the situation?
If I restrained her and ripped that thing off of her, that would break the control, correct? That's how I freed my brother back then.

TURTLE:
Well, not necessarily. It depends on the exact nature of the enchantment. There's a chance it may work, but it could also do permanent damage to her, depending on how the spell was constructed. It could even, you know, hurt YOU if it's designed that way.

Like, that's the insidious thing about animus-touched objects. They don't need to be near you to work, and you never know what traps are on them.

WINTER:
Can you disable it remotely? Or even just learn if it is trapped?

TURTLE:
Uhhhh... No, I don't think so. My magic can't reach across the veil, otherwise I'd have pulled you out of there as soon as the death game started. If you could bring her here, then yeah, I could probably do something. But where you are now... Sorry. It's not possible.

WINTER:
Hmm...

TURTLE:
Winter, if I may ask you a question... Why are you so fixated on that one scavenger in particular?
The things Moon said about her thoughts, the strange arcane energies woven through her being, she seems kind of dangerous.

WINTER:
I'm not sure entirely...

I think pity is a substantial part of it. Existing in a state like that, with someone else's claws in your brain, it is not a way anyone should have to spend their life.

Whenever I see someone being controlled in this way, I think back to my brother, who had to spend years trapped inside someone else, tormented by memories that weren't his own. And then I think about when it happened to me, feeling my thoughts twist in my head until they were unrecognizable.

Altering someone else's mind, it's... disgusting. Wrong. Even if you do it with good intentions. It deprives the innocent of their free will, and it denies the wicked the punishment of having to live with their guilt. There is never any merit or justice to using a power like that.

Having to see yourself, and live on as an utter caricature of your former self... If I had the choice I think I would rather die.

TURTLE:
...

WINTER:
But also... I think I can understand her feelings.

I may not be able to parse the noises she is making, but I hear their tone and intent. I can tell she is someone who wants to show her strength. She is hungry. Desperate. To prove to the world that she is powerful and capable. It's a feeling I understand very well.

I can tell it by the look in her eyes. The very eyes she hides behind those stark yellow facial coverings. There is that glint. A need. A drive to persevere.

The truth is, that kind of defiant hunger doesn't form by mere chance. You don't just wake up one day and decide to struggle against the world because it seems like good fun. You do it because you have to. There is always a reason, something that ignites that glint in your eyes and pushes you.

It is the glint of spite! When you fight every day to show the world that you are strong, that means at some point the world has made you feel weak. There is no desire to prove yourself without someone or something who does not believe you.

I don't know what happened to this one. Maybe she was a victim, or maybe underneath all of this twisted magical mess she is a terrible person who deserves scorn. But regardless of any moral disposition, she is someone who struggles, and she should have the right to do so without some malicious actor's meddling.

And that's why I think she should be free. To live her life in pursuit of fulfillment, or rot away in the depths of guilt. But either way, the experience should be hers alone. And for some interloper to take that from her is something I cannot accept.

TURTLE:
I see.

WINTER:
Do me a favor and don't mention any of this to Qibli.
I can do without his yakking about me commiserating with a scavenger.

TURTLE:
Oh, he is, uh, standing behind me.
I should have probably mentioned that. Sorry.

WINTER:
Ugh... great.

TURTLE:
He wants me to ask you if you got his plans for what to during the upcoming night?

WINTER:
Tell him I will NOT hide inside one of the grandfather clocks in the clock workshop room! That plan is stupid!

TURTLE:
Oop, now he's trying to join this conversation! Oof! Agh!

WINTER:
Spare me! I am not in the right headspace to deal with the stream of nonsense burbling forth from his mouth right now!
Tell him I'll talk to him tomorrow. It's getting late.

TURTLE:
All right. Good luck, WInter.

--Scene End--​

 

[Superchao]

Spoiler: Day 3

"You know, after tonight, I'm glad I decided to rely on you guys. I mean, I was worried that the double murder wouldn't work out after you spent all that time not killing each other. And I had set it up special and everything!"

"So thanks for not disappointing me! Let's see just what you did tonight!"[/b]​

Attention all Test Subjects of the Grand Experiment! Something has happened! A body has been discovered!

Ratigan has been found dead in the Sewer! His role was CODE: FLITTERMOUSE, the Ultimate GHOST Bat!

Code: FLITTERMOUSE
Ultimate GHOST Bat

The sun sets, the moon rises, and with the stars at your back, you spread your wings, and take off into the night. You have the ghostly powers of a very special bat. This bat is a rarely encountered species only sighted at the GHOST Complex, and one you happen to be an expert in. How you came across this power is up to you... but in this game of death, life certainly looks much better when you're handling it upside-down.

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Abilities - Ultimate GHOST Bat

• You have a special "false vampire" bat form you can turn into briefly at night, but with less of a craving for blood. You can decide the colors and shape of your bat appearance at the start of the game, so long as you are assuredly a "bat". This bat form is not vampiric, but is carnivorous. (You can also just accept a default bat design to save you the trouble.)
• The bat you design will be present as a naturally occurring species on the map, which you can communicate with in bat form.
• You can assume your bat form by wrapping yourself in a cape or cloak of any kind. This cloak is dropped wherever you take flight.
• Once a bat, you have the following abilities: you are smaller (roughly a third the size of a normal player) and more difficult to attack or notice, you can roost from the ceiling upside down, and you possess limited flight (to the height of two floors).
• Additionally, this bat form has diminished sight, but you have exceptionally good hearing and smell while in bat form, and will pick up on these things in your account much easier.
• While a bat, your arms become wings, and you cannot carry items except between the claws of your feet, limiting you to lightweight items. You cannot roost while holding an item. You also cannot operate complicated machinery or firearms as a bat, as you lack opposable thumbs. You can easily wield a baseball bat, or any other crude device you christen as a "Bat-[something]" with a proper label, as all bats know how to work bat devices.
• You can revert from bat form at any time, so long as you're conscious, but you'll immediately be subjected to damage from gravity, if you aren't prepared.
• Ghostly interactions:
  • While a bat, due to your diminished sight, you echolocate with soundwaves only hearable by yourself, other bats, and in the Paranormal Dimension.
  • You also glow under darklight while in bat form, making it easier to see and follow you in rooms lit by darklight, compared to other bats of your likeness.
• Weaknesses: While in bat form, your sense of sight is greatly diminished. Your vision from this point cannot distinguish between specific players, and your account might miss important visual details. A capable foe could exploit your echolocation to pin you down more reliably, but luckily, such sound-waves are only heard by other bats or entities on another plane of existence. While you may have exceptionally good hearing and smell while in bat form, an unexpected loud noise or pungent smell may disorient you.
• Forbidden Action: You cannot be in bat form at the end of the night when the sun rises. If you are knocked unconscious or killed in bat form, you cannot revert willingly, and your autopsy will be conducted with your bat body.

"But that ain't all. And this one is REAL special. Check it out!"​

Attention all Test Subjects of the Grand Experiment! Something has happened! A second body has been discovered!

Prince Winter has been found dead in the Train Exhibit! His role was CODE: EPHEMERA, the Ultimate Scrapbook Grimoire!

Code: EPHEMERA
Ultimate Scrapbook Grimoire

As a test subject interested in documenting the world around you, and its inhabitants, you've been granted authority over a not-so-ordinary magical scrapbook bound to your soul. It's allegedly capable of communicating with spirits of the recently departed to obtain knowledge, or maybe it's enchanted by a single warlock in a distant tower feeding you answers in a long-winded attempt at catfishing.

Whether or not you trust its powers, memories can be powerful catalysts for great magic, and it is known that spirits are big arts and crafts critiques, so they won't respond to any old questionable scribble in the margins of a dusty book. With this spruced-up personal diary, you're going to ask them for guidance with style. There's no ghostly phone reception around this mixed-up building, anyway, so what have you got to lose?

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Abilities - Ultimate Scrapbook Grimoire

• Your Gaddget is a physical grimoire-like scrapbook with the ability to communicate with the afterlife. You have a seemingly infinite amount of pages to write in and doodle notes on, but to activate the tome's power, you have to create a "scrapbook entry".
• Scrapbook entries require you to gather specific objects as catalysts, as usually the craft involves collecting memorable items. Ghosts will latch onto these and provide you with a specific kind of information or answer depending on what you paste into the book, allowing it to function as a grimoire of otherworldly knowledge, drawn from whatever you deem important enough to devote its pages to.
• You can create two reliable scrapbook entries per day phase, from a list of scrapbook styles and their required catalysts below. Attempting to make extra entries after that is possible, but the ghosts' answers are not guaranteed to be correct or helpful, in fact becoming almost completely worthless.
• You can only create one entry of each style per day.
• At night, you can remove blank pages from the grimoire to populate at will, without carrying the full book around with you. You can then reinsert the pages and have them generate their answer during the day. However, the pages only function for one night and day after being torn from the book. If you attempt to insert a page after the elapsed time, it will not return an answer.
• Scrapbooks can also be shared experiences. You can tear a page from the book to give to another player, and they can fill it out for you. When returned to the book, the page will function as if you were the author.
• Drying objects before using them for scrapbooking is advised, but keep in mind this may take some time, especially at night.
• Ghostly interactions:
  • The scrapbook is a physical, ghostly item. It and its pages will glow under darklight and darklightvision, especially when a ghost is answering your question.
• Weaknesses: While carrying the book or one of its pages to scout for knowledge, experiences that create strong, traumatic memories can leave a lasting impression, probably due to the book's latent mnemonic power affecting you. At night, encountering a body unexpectedly or watching someone you didn't target die in front of you may shock you into forgetting some of the details in your account, or leave you open to being subsequently knocked out if someone targets you the same night. You might need to use a scrapbook page to properly jog your memory during the day. This weakness also applies to anyone you loan a page to.
• Forbidden Action: Your scrapbook is tied to your life, and is weak to everything that old, dusty books are weak to, especially fire and water. If the scrapbook is destroyed, you will die. Additionally, oily, fiery, or drenched objects cannot be used at scrapbook catalysts without damaging multiple pages, and if you do this more than once, the book will be considered wrecked as well.
  
  Also, no glitter. Especially don't get glitter in your scrapbook. It gets everywhere.

Scrapbooking Styles

• Mixed Media Composition - Paste a photo taken at any time into the book to gain more insight as to what it depicts, as well as any ghostly objects in the picture. A host will provide the answer.
• Nature Etching - Collect earthen items such as flower pressings, bark, bones, etc. and add them to your scrapbook along with a question regarding the actions that took place in the map sector you found the item in. You will receive hazy memories from spirits tied to the area, which will reveal some of the actions that occurred, but not who did them. A host will provide the answer.
• In Memorium - Collect an item from the deceased, you can ask them two questions and receive answers when able. The answers must fit within 160 characters each. The victim will provide the answer.
• Memories In Progress - draw a scene from another persons testimony, or your own, ask an additional question that could only be reasonably answered via memcheck. Your target will be provided an answer with enhanced perception forcibly from the host, and it will be up to them to relay it to you. If you target yourself, the memcheck answer will be even more enhanced and detailed, and can be used to counter your weakness.
• Dark Rituals For Fun - you require access to a sigil or spell in this setting, its known translation, and catalyst. It will impart its power for you to use, or summon the associated demonic spirit for testimony.

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CASE FILES:
-The Sewer has been damaged by some form of an explosion.
-Ratigan is severely burned and lying halfway over the edge of the water channel.
-Prince Winter is lying trisected in the Train Exhibit.
-Blood is all over the train tracks.
-Thanos's body is missing from the Graveyard.
-The Crow's Nest is badly damaged.
-Many of the plants in the Plant Nursery and the Greenhouse have been shredded.

Day 2 ends Aug 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM . Make sure you investigate wisely! Accounts will be sent out over the coming hour.[/b]

Available NPCs:

• Vigil - The Valley groundskeeper who watches over the Complex's residents, living and non. An expert mortician and gardener all the same, his primary residence is the Graveyard. Where there's smoke, there's fire, and his lantern can often be spotted from the Complex's misshapen windows, wandering the distant valley grounds at night. Has powers related to accurate autopsies and accurate testimony.
• Mona Warnewicke - Gadd's trusted Elemental Expert, and a renowned clutz, who elected to take on the Chief Safety Officer role after it was left abandoned for many years. Her handbook is full of seemingly endless safety regulations. Will happily provide guidance on safe work and elemental reactions to anyone who asks, which is usually no one. Has powers related to elemental magic, and methods of death.
• Tanner Tosca - The general assistant for Gadd, a spectral figure who was in the Complex even before Gadd was. Exhausted but unwilling to disrupt his jobs, Tanner can always be found where Gadd needs some help, except for when he's decided to lurk in the basement to escape yet another asinine request. Has powers related to accomplicing and partnership.
• King Blocky Boo I - The big bad, free again at last. An amnesiac cubical demonic spirit, he is the archrival of Professor Gadd Zooks, having finally broken free of his prison. Has powers related to murder and performing successful kills.

The following NPC Bond Powers are now available for use.

Bond Powers

• All - Bronze Frame - Strangers to Acquaintances - No NPC will agree to be an accomplice at this portrait level.
• All - Silver Frame - Acquaintances to Friends - All NPCs will discuss more detailed or expansive topics relating to their past and the Complex itself.
• Vigil- Bronze Frame - Mortician I - Upon request, Vigil will conduct a more thorough examination of the body than a player, and offer additional insight.
• Vigil - Silver Frame - Distant Watcher EX - Vigil will be able to detect the movements of wraiths in the mansion despite being outside. He will briefly testify about what he notices Wraiths, Demonic Spirits, or anyone in the paranormal dimension, doing, but can't discern any forms unless he's certain who they are.
• Mona - Bronze Frame - Trace Elements I - Upon request, Mona will indicate whether or not a fire, flood, or frozen object was created/affected by Elemental Magic, as well as a likely (but not guaranteed) source.
• Mona - Silver Frame - Crash Test Dummy III - As someone who's died and lived and died again, many times, Mona can be asked to possess a body, or a suitable stand-in for a body, and perform KG physics experiments from a first person perspective. She'll then give an assessment on whether it would match the victim's experience and current state, and suggest certain experimental adjustments that a host could not. This power can be used repeatedly, but its effectiveness lessens with each use.
• Mona - Gold Frame - Barrier From the Crucible EX - Mona can be commissioned to create an elemental wellspring which will shelter elementals of Ice, Fire or Water in any place on the map. Players have to agree on a location during the day, and elementals will be obtainable from that location starting from the very next night. She will only make one of each elemental wellspring.
• Tanner Tosca - Bronze Frame - Camaraderie I - Upon request, Tanner will give an upfront indication as to whether he feels there's an accomplice affecting the case. There can only be one accomplice per case. Accomplices will be debuffed if their associated killer is caught.
• Tanner Tosca - Silver Frame - Cherished Assistant III - Tanner can act as a back-up to an NPC's rolepower by performing a less powerful version of it to double blind confirm the power's result, or use it again on another situation. He will only do this once per phase. He can use this power on eliminated NPCs, should any exist.
• King Blocky Boo I - Bronze Frame - Two by Two by Two EX - Starts Awards Killing Game 2x2. Oh no... there is no disabling this power either.
• King Blocky Boo I - Silver Frame - Heel Tag-Team EX - Anyone who murders can request KBB's assistance on any night. This applies permanently going forward. He will not assist in attempts ("Get your own hands dirty, kids!") and will not hide his assistance. He won't assist if he feels you're trying to trick him.
• King Blocky Boo I - Gold Frame - Complex Restoration EX - KBB is relishing in the damage you're doing to the Complex and Gadd's experiment as a whole, so much that he's willing to grant you a second round of destruction. A majority of players can agree on a single room for KBB to use his paranormal powers on, which will revert it and all objects inside to their state at the start of the game, undamaged. This will not return any items taken from the room previously.
• Empty Portrait - Bronze Frame - The Chorus of Silence - You can each pick a single instrument you are a master in, and play it with no difficulties.

 

[Lulu Azhal]

P-Prince Winter? And so gruesome... I'm gonna check his body. How clean do the cuts look?

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Lee Chaolan​

Good grief, what a mess. First an elaborate trolley problem gone wrong in the train exhibition, now a rat dying in the… sewer. Huh. That sounded a little more grandiose in my head. Well, nevermind, another day, another rat… or should I say dragon?

Let's get the obvious points of interest out of the way, investigate the Train Exhibit and the Sewer.

 

[Superchao]

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P-Prince Winter? And so gruesome... I'm gonna check his body. How clean do the cuts look?

The cuts look very messy and brutal. They definitely weren't cleanly inflicted.

There's also a large contusion on the back of his head.

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Lee Chaolan​

Good grief, what a mess. First an elaborate trolley problem gone wrong in the train exhibition, now a rat dying in the… sewer. Huh. That sounded a little more grandiose in my head. Well, nevermind, another day, another rat… or should I say dragon?

Let's get the obvious points of interest out of the way, investigate the Train Exhibit and the Sewer.

You investigate the Train Exhibit. The train is still going, and you have to be careful of it while investigating as it rolls through. The blood on the tracks is right where Winter's body is.

You investigate the Sewer. It looks like the explosion originated from one of the pipes. A damaged battery, some broken wires, and some burnt cloth scraps are lying around.

 

[Dr. Lyra Orpheus]

Kyeheheheh... So, it was the lizard...

For all his many, many, many, many faults - gullibility being chief among them, I would've pictured something a little more... grandiose for his ending. Like a laboratory dissection. Well, there's always the autopsy!

Let's start by comparing his wounds to the train wheels. Run over that glorified warning signal Mona if you have to! For that matter, how close did his body end up to the tracks anyway? Is it possible the train could've run him over in his current spot?

Huh? The big rat guy's dead too? I mean... Well, in an ideal world he would've fallen under the sword for me last night anyway, so uh, no big loss.