Umineko no Naku Koro Ni - Died

[Segaco]

When the seagulls

c

ry, there are no survivors

Hello everyone, and welcome to the forum game version of Umineko (kind of)!
To be able to play, you must read the rules first, though the simple explanation is that this game is a murder mystery.

How to play

This game is to be played with a minimum of 2 players and a maximum of 20 players including the Game Master (GM) or Host. Though the number of players depends on how many the hosts needs.

Every "turn" several murders occur until all 18 characters on the "

Game Board

" inevitably die in seemingly humanly impossible ways. It is the players' job to discover as much information as possible while everyone is alive and decide on a certain verdict that they must argue in order to rebut the GM's claim. The players must come up with ways that the murders could have been possible through methods which the GM has intentionally left hidden. The game ends at the resignation of all players or when the GM has been proven wrong during the Meta Phase when all 18-19 humans have been eliminated. When the game has ended, the "Tea Party" is initiated for several days in order to discuss possible errors, suggestions or the round in general.
Every turn is separated into two phases, The Game Board Phase and The Meta Phase.

The Game Board Phase

This is when new murders are discovered. Here, living players may move throughout the mansions rooms as listed by the GM or question other living characters, it is the Game Master's duty to answer the question as the game piece that has been questioned, for example:

I question Ryax, "Where were you at the time of the murders?"

Ryax replies "I was with Xerxes and Flaming in the study."

The information received may be interpreted in whatever way the player wishes, additionally the GM is not obligated to give the truth during Game Board phase, the character that is being questioned is able to refuse to answer a certain question, lie, or tell the complete truth to the extent of their own knowledge. If a game piece is killed, they may not be questioned, if a player's piece is killed, they may no longer question anyone. Once Game Board phase has ended, no more questions may be asked until the next turn.
The number of victims per Game Board Phase are determined by the GM and may vary between 1 and 5. Exception to this are the first deaths, which may be 6. A corpse does not have to be found for every victim. There must be at least 2 humans alive during the last turn before they are inevitably killed off. The GM then writes a summary of where and when every corpse was discovered at the end of the final Game Board phase with the exception of the final victims whose corpses are not to be found but are considered dead.
Game Board phase ends when all necessary clues are discovered.

The Meta Phase

Here is when discussion on the murders that occurred in The Game Board phase happen. This phase lasts 24 hours. Here, the players must question and debate with the GM themselves by using what is known as

Blue

and

Red

truths.

The Blue Truth

It is used by players to set forth a statement that makes a theory.
This text is the truth unless said otherwise by the GM using the red text. If the GM fails to disprove the statement by the last Meta Phase, it becomes absolute truth and the player is considered to have solved that murder. The GM is able to use the blue text to supply possibilities as to how their opponent's blue truth is not effective.

The Red Truth

The truth and nothing but the truth used by the GM (or Host), this is used to disprove theories the players make with the blue truth and conjecture placed by the players but additionally for the players to recall already stated facts. The GM does not have to show any proof to back up a red truth. Additionally, the GM is not obligated to use the red text when prompted.

Example of both truths in action:

The door was locked from the outside of the room.
The culprit used a master key to lock the door.
A secret passage exists.

Nopity nope,

The door was locked from the inside.
No master keys exist.
No secret passages exist.

Roles

They aren't really roles, but there are some.
Players may be assigned these. Or not.

-

Detective

: There is only one detective per game, and everything the detective sees can be considered as the truth. So if he sees a witch appear in front of them out of thin air, it is the truth. Though that will not happen unless I get a very clever idea on how to pull off that trick. Anyone other than the detective may see things that are impossible.

Abilities

-The detective has something known as "duct tape". They are able to seal three rooms with it (all entrances/exits). If someone opens a door/window of a sealed room, the tape put on them will break, so the detective will know someone used them if they check on the duct tape again.
-Detectives can 100% confirm a death, so if they check and body and find it dead, the body they found is confirmed to be dead and not faking it.
-A detective cannot be the culprit. They also can't be an accomplice.
-The detective must live to the end of the game.

-

Doctor

: There is only one doctor.

Abilities

-The doctor may confirm the death of all victims every turn if he's in the same room as them (if he's an accomplice he is able to lie).

-

Helper

: There is only one Helper. They do not help anyone, I just couldn't think of a better name.

Abilities

-Helpers are able to place a piece of paper in the door crack of any one room, the player is told immediately when this piece of paper hits the floor (in PMs. They can tell other players).
-In the Meta Phase, once per turn, Helper can force the GM to repeat a statement in Red, if the GM is unable to due to the statement being false/they refuse, they can try again until the Red Truth is used.

-

Everyone else

: They are people, they can move around, be scared, talk and other things.

The game doesn't necessarily need all players to be either doctors/watsons/detectives.
Though I can confirm that

a detective will appear on every game and it will always be a player.

Tips

Anyone can be the culprit or an accomplice, except for the detective.
If you are the culprit or an accomplice, you will not know. You won't be told what your character does in secret. Except for the detective.
Anyone who is not the detective will see impossible things, like an apple appearing out of thin air and then disappearing right in front of their eyes. This will not happen if the detective is present.
And yes, this does have a logical explanation.
One last thing,

umineko's special answer will never be used here. I don't really like spoiling people. Do not suggest it.

[Segaco]

Maps

First floor:

Second floor:

Third floor:

Basement:

Players

For the first game i'll need four people. But I'll go with two, should be fine.

1. Lady Lambdadelta
2. JDGA

[Segaco]

Game 1 red truths:

There are more than two keys that can unlock the dining hall's door.
There wasn't and isn't anyone hiding in the Dining Hall.
No one has left though a window.
Every victim died at point blank range with the culprit being in the same room.
The door was locked when Luka arrived to the Dining Hall in the morning.
The door was not locked with a master key.
Only five master keys exist.
The key which was found inside the envelope belonged to Fracie.
From the moment Luka arrived the Dining Hall to when the envelope was opened, the kitchen door remained closed.
The riddle is, in fact, solvable. Sadly, it will not stop the killings. Solving it and sending the answer to me will give you a free useful red, which you may share with the others if you wish.
No one has left through a window.
The only keys which can lock the dining hall's main door are the five master keys and the Dining Hall's key.
There are no more than twelve living humans on the island. Wizards, witches, and the such do not count as "humans".
All twelve living humans entered the dining hall through the dining hall's main door at some point after Luka discovered the bodies.
The culprit had the aid of an accomplice.
The murder weapon was never in the kitchen.
The murder weapon is not currently in the dining hall.
A murder weapon exists.
The murder weapon did not leave the dining hall through the window.
The murder weapon left the dining hall through the dining hall's main door.
The culprit was the one who locked the door.

[Segaco]

Difficulty of the game: Easy-Medium

Well, two people should do. Also, I'm not very original with names so I kind of went with the first thing I thought of.
Anyway,
I'll now tell you who you are on the story:

Lady Lambdadelta is Wuxya White, who is also the detective of this game.
JDGA is Orange Duckling, who is the helper of this game.

Now give me a minute...

[Segaco]

It is October 4th, 1968.
Eleven people have been invited to a private island owned by Xerxes Lefan, a wealthy man known for buying an entire island for himself. No one knows where he got all his money from.
Most of the people Xerxes has invited are his old classmates, who he had lost contact with long ago. Xerxes had also invited some more people, but they either rejected his invitation or did not bother to answer to his invitation letter.
One of the guests, Wuxya White, who happens to be a detective, has been assigned to investigate Xerxes: Xerxes is suspected for having stolen three billion dollars from different banks. The reason of the suspicion is because, after four banks had claimed their vaults were empty, a common person who had average income suddenly had enough money to buy a private island, build a mansion in it and hire servants.
The other ten guests know nothing of this, of course. Wuxya'sobjective is to gather enough evidence to make an arrest without being found.
…
All guests eventually arrive to the island by boat.

Tech Netorius

and his wife

Fen Netorius

are the first to step on the island along with their 10-year old daugther

Jezz Netorius

.
After them follow

Takumi Hijri

and

Nate Turner

, two friends who would do anything for the other.
The next people to walk off the boat are

Yarn Watch

and

Ryax Corney

.
The last four people to get off are

Wuxya White

,

John Watson

,

Thorus Idiotus

, and

Orange Duckling

.
Once everyone was on the island, the guests wave the owner of the boat farewell while he leaves with the boat to mainland. They would have to wait two days for it to come back.
As the guests look at the boat disappear in the horizon, two servant-looking people appear behind them, who quickly introduce themselves as

Flaming

and

Sarah

.
The guests introduce themselves to these people, too, and the servants announce that they would listen to anything they needed.
After this, the servants ask the eleven people to follow them and guide everyone through a path on a forest, and only stop walking when they reach a tree with a ladder against it.
It is then that they announce that Xerxes Lefan, the man who had invited them all, had decided to build his mansion on top of a big tree for some reason.
Although everyone is a bit shocked by this, it does not stop the guests from climbing the ladder anyway.
Once they had reached the top, a big mansion which had been built neatly on top of the tree face all of them. The two servants slowly walk towards the mansion’s door and open it, revealing three other servant-looking people cleaning the Entrance’s floor on the other side.
The servants, after noticing the guests had arrived, quickly greet them. Flaming introduces the three as

Fracie

,

Zeus

and

Luka

.
After this, Flaming and Sarah guide the guests through the mansion’s halls, leaving the other servants behind.
Both Flaming and Sarah stop in front of a door which has a sign labeled “Dining Hall”, which they open and make the guests go through.
Inside, they find a big brown table in the center of the room, and circling it they see thirteen chairs. In two of them, two men talking to each other can be seen.
They are

Xerxes Lefan

, the house owner, and

Alex Lettuce

, who seems to be his private doctor.
Flaming signals Xerxes, who then notices the guests, and tells everyone to sit down.
Once sat down, everyone starts talking to each other about the old times: Like that time when Tech believed Nate when he told him he could turn into a dinosaur if he undressed in front of a girl, or like that time Yarn jumped off a tree in order to impress her crush, or that time Xerxes had scammed everyone for their money. Those were precious memories for them.
Probably.
…
After hours talking, it’s night, and most people are tired. Xerxes orders Flaming to guide the sleepy people to their designated rooms and then keeps talking with others.
And so, Wuxya White gets up from the table along with some others and leaves the room with Flaming.
Wuxya takes one last look behind before leaving the Dining Hall, and inside, she sees Xerxes, Alex, Nate, Yarn and Takumi still awake and talking to each other. Fracie is in the corner of the room, waiting for Xerxes to order her.
The door closes, and Flaming guides everyone to their room.
Once inside her room, Wuxya jumps onto his bed and quickly falls asleep.
She must get a lot of sleep: he will have to investigate the mansion tomorrow, after all…

[Segaco]

Meanwhile, somewhere else...

Xerxes is seen still talking with his friends in the Dining Hall.
He glances at the table and notices his cup is empty, so he calls the servant Fracie, who is still standing in the corner of the room, and tells her to refill it.
She nods and walks to the table, but as soon she takes some steps towards it, she falls face flat on the floor.
Some laughter is heard, but it soon stops when they realize she's not standing up.
Xerxes leaves his chair, walks to Fracie and shakes her. Following this, he tells Doctor Alex to check on her.
As both men check on Fracie and the other 3 look at them shocked, someone kicks the door open.
"Helllloooo everybody! I'm the great wizard Segaco, nice to meat you!"
A person with a mask enters the room, and Alex, who is checking Fracie's vitals, doesn't notice the masked person as he confirms Fracie's death.
"Who the hell are you?!" Xerxes takes a handgun out of his pocket and aims it at the masked guy. It may be a prank, he thinks, but Luka told him he had checked the luggages of all guests while they weren't looking, and he doesn't remember him mention anyone had the blue suit, hat and mask Segaco was wearing. This person may be someone who snuck in.
"How rude." With a grin, the self proclaimed wizard snaps his fingers, and the gun on Xerxes' hand turns to dust.
"W..Wha-" Xerxes looks at his hand in confusion. Because of this, he doesn't notice the big fireball being thrown at his face.
Upon contact with the fireball, Xerxes' face is destroyed and he collapses on the floor, dead.
"Well, who's next?"

In the five minutes that follow, the remaining people try to flee the room through the door but find it locked. And so, the wizard kills doctor Alex, Nate, Yarn and Takumi all with fire balls, destroying their faces in the process. The remaining person was Fracie, but he had killed her already, so Segaco only destroys her face.
Having killed everyone in there, Segaco sets all windows' locks from the inside and vanishes from the room.

[Segaco]

At 6:30 AM, the following morning, Wuxya is woken up by the sounds of screams and cries.
She stands up and leaves her room. Once in the hallway, she meets Watson, who tells White he woke up for the same reason as her.
As they talk about the shouts and cries, Thorus and Orange walk down the stairs and ask what the screaming is about.
They all scratch their head until they hear a loud scream coming from downstairs.
Once the four run to the first floor, they find the Dining Hall’s door wide open and smell the scent of blood filling the air.
Worried, Wuxya dashes into the Dining Hall, only to find a gruesome scene...
Xerxes Lefan, Doctor Alex, Yarn Watch, Nate Turner, Takumi Hijri and the servant Fracie lay dead against the table on the center of the room.
Their faces are… gone, it’s almost as if something had hit their face, removing them completely. The only way one could recognize the corpses were by the clothes they were wearing.
Next to the corpses are Flaming, Fen and Luka, who are standing there in shock.
As Wuxya looks at the scene before her, Watson, Thorus and Orange enter the room. Their faces immediately turn white when they see the corpses.

(You may now question people and look around, you can also leave the room if you wish
You can also ask other players what they did last night and stuff, not just NPCs. I'll answer for them.)

[Segaco]

(1.no
2.yes)

[Segaco]

(william must be male or else it will affect something i cant mention
i can give him a name that can be used for both males and females though)

[Segaco]

(alright, i'll just do what JDGA said
please do actions while I change things
William's name is now Wuxya)

[Segaco]

(you'll have to find that out in the meta phase)

[Segaco]

(if you have any more questions pm me)

Orange looks around the room in shock, and manages to say the words "...Who found the bodies?"
"I have..." it takes a few seconds, but the servant boy named Luka is the one who answers. "T-the door was locked, sir..."
After getting that, Orange asks Wuxya, Luka, Flaming, Fen, Watson and Thorus, the ones currently in the dining hall, what they did last night.
All of them respond something along the lines of "I was sleeping."
...
As Orange asks around for alibies, Wuxya examines the bodies one by one. The first thing she confirms is their death, because maybe at least one person was, in fact, alive.
That hope fades away as she confirms the sixth corpse's death.
After confirming all deaths, she looks inside the bodies' pockets while trying to not be seen.
The only thing she manages to find is an envelope in Xerxes' pocket.
As she pockets the envelope, Tech enters the room through the open door along with his daughter Jezz.
"What happened?!" he screams, and notices the bodies seconds after. "W-what the hell??!! Jezz, don't look!"
Tech quickly takes Jezz, who started crying as soon as she saw the bodies, out to the hallway.
Ryax, Sarah and Zeus enter the room afterwards.
"Guys, we heard someone scream, is everything alrig-" Like the others, Ryax stops once he sees the bodies.
Orange had just finished interrogating everyone in the room, so he walks up to the three who just entered and asks them what they did last night.
He doesn't manage to learn much, as the three claimed they were sleeping.
...
While everyone asks each other what happened, Sarah approaches Xerxes, screams, and finally collapses on the floor.

[Segaco]

Wuxya runs to Sarah and checks if she's okay.
...
She seems to be fine, just unconscious. Maybe seeing the corpses was too much for her?

[Segaco]

Orange, being wary, looks at the people around him. No one's acting extremely suspicious. As he watches people's actions, he's able to see Tech attempting to comfort Jezz through the open door. He also gets to see Ryax crouch next to Wuxya, presumably to check on Sarah.
...
"Is she alright?" Ryax puts two of his fingers on Sarah's neck to check her pulse as he talks to Wuxya. "Good, she seems to be okay."
He sighs. "We should take her somewhere else, I don't think she'll like waking up and seeing bodies all around her."
Having said this, Ryax looks at Wuxya, waiting for an answer.
She, however, completely ignores him and stands up.
"Listen to me, everyone" she says "We need to gather all bodies in one place."
Everyone in the room looks at her like she's some sort of crazy old woman.
"...Let's not talk about what to do with the dead people now please." says Ryax as he stands up "And... all bodies are already here..." he points at the table.

[Segaco]

Everyone in the room wants to argue with Wuxya, firstly because moving corpses would be disrespectful, and secondly because moving bodies would actually make investigating for the police harder. No one does so, however. The way Wuxya words things makes them to actually want to do things they don't think are right.
"Alright, but..." answers the servant Flaming when Wuxya was done talking, "They are kind of already here, in one place, on the table..."

[Segaco]

Wuxya looks around the room while talking to her friend Orange. She's looking for all entrances and exits of the dining hall.
The only possible exits and entrances that can be seen in plain sight are the three big windows on the wall, a door that has a sign that reads "Kitchen", and another door which was the one everyone used to enter the room.
She looks around a bit more for a secret passage of some sort, but doesn't manage find any in her search. Wuxya quickly gives up on the idea of a secret passage existing in this room.
...
"Hey, Wuxya, if you'll allow me to speak..." the servant named Zeus calls the detective's attention "What is that in your pocket?"
Wuxya looks at the direction of her right pocket and sees the envelope she had found on Xerxes' corpse sticking out.

[Segaco]

After a long wait, Zeus decides to take the envelope out of Wuxya's pocket.
"I'm sorry miss."
He opens the envelope and drops its contents on the table: A key labeled "master key", a key labeled "dining hall", and a key labeled "kitchen" were inside. There was also a note.
Flaming takes the note and reads a few lines before screaming "God heavens!" and reading it out loud.

"Welcome to my new island, everyone. I am now the owner of this island and my name is Segaco. Up until now, I've been watching over this land not being able to do anything, but recently, the old house owner Xerxes decided to get into the occult, and managed to summon me through the use of spells, though he just thought the spell hadn't worked because I turned invisible right after being summoned.

Well, during today, I’ll do my best to steal back what has been stolen. Now, I must explain one part of the contract Xerxes made when summoning me. I, Segaco, will be given all of the gold bars Xerxes has stolen from other people, but there's an extra condition.

As for that condition, he will give me all the gold by the end of the contract. And as an interest, I can accept everything of anyone in this mansion... Including lives. Upon hearing this, everyone will probably lament as I am being too merciless.

However, I am a nice wizard, and in order to give a chance to leave the wealth and fortune untouched, added a special clause. Only when that clause is satisfied, I’ll eternally lose my right to collect the gold and the... interest.

As said before, when the contract ends, I will have the right to collect the gold and the interest. However, if a person happens to find the hidden gold of the contract, Segaco must eternally and completely abdicate of this right …From now on, the collect of the interest will be performed but, if whoever one person among everyone can satisfy the special clause,

Everything will be returned including the part already collected.

Furthermore, as an outset of the collect, I already have received in my custody the face of these six people that indicates there's no way out now.

About the hiding place of the gold, I have already announced it behind this letter. The conditions are equal to all the people who can read it. If the gold is disclosed, I will return everything, including all lives. With that, please, enjoy to the fullest your battle of wits with me.

I’m praying from the bottom of my heart that tonight turns out to be an intellectual and yet elegant night.

――Segaco the Wizard"

Flaming finishes reading and flips the note to see if what it said was true, and yes it was.
Once reading a few more lines of what the new text said, he reads it out loud:

With you, I may look to the past
And try and learn your secrets to tell the future,
Of myself and of my own.

The one who obtains the key must journey to the heavens in accordance with these rules
At the first twilight, you shall lift up as sacrifice the six chosen by the key.
At the second twilight, those who remain shall tear apart the two who are close.
At the third twilight, that poor person with fire in love will be.
At the fourth twilight, gouge the neck and kill.
At the fifth twilight, gouge the chest and kill.
At the sixth twilight, gouge the arm and kill.
At the seventh twilight, disappear the two from existence.
At the eighth twilight, the fool because of their mistake will pay.
At the ninth twilight, the wizard shall be revived and none shall be left alive.
At the tenth twilight, the journey shall end and you should reach the village of god.

The wizard will praise the wise, and should bestow four treasures.
One shall be, all the gold from the contract.
One shall be, the resurrection of the souls of all the dead.
One shall be, even the resurrection of the lost love.
One shall be, to put the wizard to sleep for all time.

After reading, Flaming puts the letter back in the table.
"...What did I just read?"

[Segaco]

Meta Phase 1 start!

Looks like you've finally got a mystery in your hands.
Well, let's see if you're able to deny my existence!

[Segaco]

So pretty much no one's got an alibi, so the main question is how was the locked room murder committed.

There are more than two keys that can open the dining hall's door

(since we've got two in the envelope)

The suspect hid in the dining hall or kitchen after committing the murders, and sneakily rejoined the group when the bodies were discovered
The suspect left through a window after committing the murders
The suspect left through the kitchen after committing the murders
The suspect was able to kill while not being in the dining hall or kitchen
The suspect is Luka, who lied about the door being locked

That should be a good enough start for now~

There are more than two keys that can unlock the dining hall's door.

Every servant has a master key, remember that.

There wasn't and isn't anyone hiding in the Dining Hall.
No one has left though a window.
Every victim died at point blank range with the culprit being in the same room.

And of course,

the door was locked when Luka arrived to the Dining Hall in the morning.

I'll leave the others there for now.

[Segaco]

The door was not locked with a master key.
Only five master keys exist.
The key which was found inside the envelope belonged to Fracie.

[Segaco]

Repeat this in red:

The culprit had no accomplice or outside help from other humans or natural beasts on the island.

Ho. I'll refuse for now.

The door was locked from the inside with the dining hall key, which was then placed in the envelope. The culprit then hid in the kitchen for the bodies to be discovered and stealthily rejoined the group at that time.

And while we're at it,

It is impossible to solve the riddle in the envelope with the clues currently presented.

From the moment Luka arrived the Dining Hall to when the envelope was opened, the kitchen door remained closed.
The riddle is, in fact, solvable. Sadly, it will not stop the killings. Solving it and sending the answer to me will give you a free useful red, which you may share with the others if you wish.

[Segaco]

I refuse to repeat.

[Segaco]

-In the Meta Phase, once per turn, Helper can

force

the GM to repeat a statement in Red, if the GM is unable to due to the statement being false/

they refuse

, they can try again until the Red Truth is used.

The two bolded statements are in conflict, unless you specify the refusal confirms that something in the blue is false (and thus cannot be repeated in red).

Please solve this conflict.

That means that if I refuse, the Helper can try making me repeat other things until I do repeat in red.

The culprit went through the kitchen window.
The culprit had the aid of an accomplice.
There is another key that can lock the dining hall door besides the five master keys and the dining hall key in the envelope.

No one has left through a window.
The only keys which can lock the dining hall's main door are the five master keys and the Dining Hall's key.

[Segaco]

so then the word "force" is a lie?

Not really, I will eventually have to repeat something, so it would be kind of "forcing" me.
I mean, if she wants me to repeat something that is false and/or is just "repeat: X is the culprit", I will just refuse, that's what that rule means.
I can change the word if you wish.

There are no more than twelve living humans on the island presently.
All twelve living humans entered the dining hall through the dining hall's main door at some point after Luka unlocked it and discovered the bodies.
The culprit is one of the six victims.

Repeat it in red:

The culprit had the aid of an accomplice.

There are no more than twelve living humans on the island. Wizards, witches, and the such do not count as "humans".
All twelve living humans entered the dining hall through the dining hall's main door at some point after Luka discovered the bodies.
The culprit had the aid of an accomplice.

[Segaco]

The murder weapon was never in the kitchen.

[Segaco]

The murder weapon is not currently in the dining hall.

[Segaco]

There is no murder weapon.
The murder weapon left the dining hall through a window.
The murder weapon left the dining hall through the dining hall's main door.

A murder weapon exists.
The murder weapon did not leave the dining hall through the window.
The murder weapon left the dining hall through the dining hall's main door.

[Segaco]

The culprit was the one who locked the door.

[Segaco]

Alright, some progress was made, I suppose.
But will that be enough to prove magic does not exist...?

Meta phase end!

[Segaco]

Gameboard Phase 2 start!

"Uhh, Wuxya, why did you have this envelope...?" asks Flaming, confused.

[Segaco]

(Meta has ended)

[Segaco]

Wuxya does not answer Flaming's question.
"Hey, Wuxya, please answer him. We are in a very serious situation." says Watson while glaring at Wuxya.
Seeing that Wuxya was apparently not going to talk and something was going to happen if she didn't, Fen takes the letter from Flaming.
"We can leave that for later, let's focus on the letter for a bit..." Fen thoroughly examines the letter before continuing "I do not recognize the handwriting, and considering I've received letters from all of you in the last few months, excluding the servants, of course, I don't think any of us wrote this. That only leaves..."
Fen stops looking at the letter and looks at the servants standing around the room.
"...the servants."
...
The guests in the room quickly grow suspicious of the servants. The door had been locked, and the only way one could lock the door and escape the room would be by locking it with a master key, so their suspicion was justified. At least that's what Wuxya thinks as she sees Watson and Orange demand the servants to give up their master keys.
Luka and Zeus give their key to them immediately, but Flaming, however, doesn't.
"I-I'm one hundred percent sure I had them here!" Flaming panics as he searches his two pockets, "Y-You must believe me!"

[Segaco]

Flaming is too busy searching his pockets to hear what Wuxya has to say about the envelope.
"I-I don't know, when I arrived here I'm certain I had the key in my pocket!"

[Segaco]

"Y-Yes, that seems to be the only possib-"
"Bullshit!" Watson stops Flaming mid sentence, "How could have someone possibly stolen your key if your pocket has a zipper?!"
Watson slams his fist on the table and now silence fills the room, and Fen is the one who decides to break it after a few seconds.
"...Let's forget about that" she says, "Judging by the current circumstances, the culprit can be someone who isn't us. They simply locked the dining hall's door from the inside, went to the kitchen and hid there. Simple as that."
"So...?" Watson glares at her, annoyed.
"The culprit is most likely hiding in the kitchen, so let's go." is the answer she gives.
As the people in the room head for the kitchen's door, Wuxya remembers about the key labeled "Kitchen" on the table.

[Segaco]

Fen puts her hand on the kitchen's door knob and attempts to open it. After shaking it for a bit, she sighs.
"It's locked, someone please bring the key."
Wuxya heads for the table, picks up the key labeled "Kitchen", and walks to the door. She then puts the key on the keyhole and unlocks the the door.
The door is opened and all the people that were in the dining hall move to the kitchen.

[Segaco]

Once inside, Wuxya looks around the kitchen.
The kitchen has two dark brown cabinets with two double doors.
To the right, below the cabinet doors, there's a sink. The sink is surrounded by a stove to the left and a dish rack to the right.
The refrigerator is right next to a big window in one of the walls, and next to it is a microwave.
In the center of the room, Wuxya sees a small table which has a knife holder on top of it. She also notices that this knife holder has space for five knives, but only four are in place.
When she's finished searching, Fen announces:
"If my theory is correct and there's another person apart from us on the island, they are most likely hiding in here, so look thoroughly."

[Segaco]

Orange looks inside the cabinets, and upon looking inside, he finds both cabinets filled with cups, bowls, and plastic forks and knives on one side and spices and little bags of tea on the other.
After investigating the two cabinets, Orange moves to the fridge. He opens it, and finds lots of vegetables, beer, soda, yogurt, meat, ham, and the like, inside, but no body, so he closes it.

[Segaco]

Wuxya walks over to the kitchen's window and examines it. During her examination, she finds that the window's lock is set.
Other than that, there's not much else to be gained on the window, so she decides to leave it alone.

[Segaco]

Orange sees Wuxya finish her search, and as he approaches her to ask what she thinks, he remembers he had forgotten to interrogate Tech and Jezz, who are together in the hallway.

[Segaco]

bump

[Segaco]

again

[Segaco]

Alright, I'll look for a third player while the two of you are gone

[Segaco]

Bumpity bump, PM me to join
Or if you're already a player you can start doing actions again so I dont have to search for someone else

[Segaco]

Got my player-kun

JunkoChan will be joining the game as-

, uh, since I need a detective,

JunkoChan will be controlling Wuxya until LadyLambdadelta comes back. Wuxya is the detective of this game.

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After a while, having finished checking everything she wanted, Wuxya remembers that they had left Tech and Jezz outside the dining hall. Maybe it would be a good idea to interrogate them.

[Segaco]

(there's a guy named Thorus, you'll be him when lamb comes back)

Wuxya and Orange leave the kitchen and are now in the dining hall. Ryax is next to Sarah, apparently trying to wake her up.
He stops once he sees the two approach him.
"Oh, hello" he says, "Tech entered a bit ago and told me to tell you Jezz had seen Flaming leave the servant's room before she went to sleep. He also said he was going to be busy doing something. I wonder what that was."

[Segaco]

Tech carries Jezz to his room. She had seen something horrible and had cried herself to sleep.
He sighs as he puts her on his bed. He'll stay with her for a bit.
Tech sits on the bed and looks out the window. He then hears the room's door be opened.
He turns around, and sees a masked person with a cape standing right in front of him.
"...Ah-"
Tech tries to say something, but a knife appears out of nowhere from the wizard's cape and flies straight to Tech's neck.
He doesn't know what's happening, but he takes Jezz in his arms and runs to the door, but collapses on the hallway soon afterwards, the knife still stuck where it hit him.
Jezz wakes up after hitting the floor, so the wizard removes the knife from Tech's neck and slits Jezz's neck with it. It doesn't take long for her to bleed out.
Having killed the two, the masked person grins and claps, making two people with goat faces appear.
"Hey, you two, take Tech's body to Jezz's room and Jezz's to Tech's bed right here, I'll go get the keys"
The two goat people nod and do what they were ordered to do, and while they do that, the wizard goes to the servant's room and gets the keys to Jezz's and Tech's rooms.
"This will be fun~"
With a snap of his fingers, Jezz's key is teleported to Tech's room and Tech's key to Jezz's.
When he's done, the goats enter the servant's room and tell the wizard that they were done with the corpses.
"Good, thank you for your help. You can go now." Segaco waves his hands and both goats vanish.
To finish with the illusion, the wizard goes to the doors of both rooms and locks them from the inside with his magic, and finally drops the master key he had stolen from a random servant in front of Tech's door.
"This will do..."
As he nods to himself, he hears the dining hall's door be opened in the distance, so he quickly vanishes.

[Segaco]

The two thank Ryax and open the exit's door, and outside they find... nothing, really. Though, Wuxya is able to see something red on the floor at the end of the hallway.
Tech and Jezz are nowhere to be seen.

[Segaco]

Wuxya and Orange walk to the end of the hallway, forgetting to close the Dining hall's door. At the end, right in front of Tech's door, they find a pool of blood. In its center lies a key with a label that reads "master key".

[Segaco]

Wuxya commands Orange to call for the rest and attempts to open Tech's door. It's locked, however.
"A-Alright." Saying that with a shaky voice, Orange heads to the kitchen.
Wuxya takes the master key in the pool of blood and uses it to unlock the door and enter the room, and inside, she sees Jezz on the bed. There's also a key in the center of the room.
She walks over to the key and picks it up, reading the label afterwards: "Jezz's Room"

[Segaco]

(made a small mistake with the label of the key oops)

Wuxya walks towards the bed and examines Jezz. Her throat was slit. She quickly confirms her death, and as she sighs, Ryax enters the room.
"Hey, Orange called me-" he notices something's wrong and walks up to the bed, and when he sees the blood coming out of Jezz's neck wound, he's left speechless.
Wuxya decides to leave the body and checks the two windows in the room, but the lock of both is set. Seeing that there is nothing else to be gained here, she leaves the room and heads for Jezz's door, Ryax following behind her. That's when she notices there's a trail of blood going from the pool of blood from before to Jezz's room. She attempts to open Jezz's door, but it is locked, so she unlocks it with* the key she found and enters the room along with Ryax.
Inside, in the center of the room, the two find Tech in a pool of blood, lying face up and with a knife in his hand. From the door, she's able to see his neck was slit, just like Jezz's.

[Segaco]

Wuxya and Ryax walk to Tech. She confirms his death and examines the knife in his hand. It looks like a kitchen knife, and it's pretty bloody.
While she searches his pockets, Flaming, Luka and Zeus dash into the room.
"W-What's happening?! We found Jezz dead in the other room!" yells Flaming. He looks at Wuxya and then at the corpse in the center.
As the three servants stare at Tech's body in shock, Wuxya checks the windows, and after finding both locked, she finds a key in the corner of the room.
Wuxya checks the label, and it reads: "Tech's room"

Gameboard Phase end

[Segaco]

Meta Phase 2 start!

A chain of locked rooms, clearly made with magic.
This meta phase will last two days because of christamsu.
Merry christmas to you three~

[Segaco]

The murder weapon is the same one used for the other 6 bodies
The doors for each room are not the only way to enter inside them

Repeat this in red: The bodies were moved by the same person
The victims died in the room they were found dead

The weapon used to murder both Jezz and Tech was not the one used to murder the six dead people in the dining hall.
The only ways to enter both rooms are through the door or by using the windows.
The bodies were moved by the same person

[Segaco]

You forgot to repeat this in red: The victims died in the room they were found dead

There's an extra master key that can open both doors
the culprit received help for the crimes
the culprit went to both rooms

I refuse to repeat that.

Only five master keys exist. Tech's door was locked with Tech's key, Jezz's door was locked with Jezz's key.
The culprit has at least one accomplice.
The culprit entered Jezz's and Tech's rooms at least once.

[Segaco]

Merry christmas from your favorite wizard: me, Segaco!

[Segaco]

The timing for this phase is so scummy I had almost no free time

Repeat this in red:

Fezz was alive when Tech died
Tech was alive when Fezz died
Tech wasn't able to kill Fezz
Fezz wasn't able to kill Tech

Jezz was alive when Tech died.
Tech did not kill Jezz.

[Segaco]

Meta Phase end!

Niece niece
Let's hope our other two players come back to help you out.

Gameboard Phase 3 start!

Before anyone had noticed, the typhoon arrived. Clouds had completely covered the island, and adding to the fog outside, there was now a heavy rain.
...
Wuxya looks at Tech's corpse in shock. How did this happen? Who killed these poor people? How come the keys were where they were found?
These questions filled Wuxya's head, but she quickly shook her head to forget them.
The others will arrive soon... should she let them see this horrible scene? Especially Fen, whose husband and daughter are dead.
Ryax, Luka, Flaming and Zeus are here.

[Segaco]

(Happy new year from your favorite wizard again, me!!)

[Segaco]

Been almost a month
I also realized what lamb wanted to say with forced, and I must agree that I made a mistake there
Oh well
If no one posts by february I'll lock this

[Segaco]

Sad thing indeed. Four games were planned, but if we can't continue this gameboard phase I don't think we can move on to the other games
By the way, Tech and Jezz were dead outside in two locked rooms, each room having the key to the other
If you want the answer to this whole thing, just PM me.
Thank you three for playing~
And... thread lock!