[ START PANICKING - THE HALLOWEEN MURDERFEST. ]

[tsundelta]

Who: gargleblasted
What: HALLOWEEN BALL UNTIL SOMETHING GOES DREADFULLY WRONG AKA THAT PLOT.
When: Halloween.
Where: A fancy mansion converted for the use of parties.
Warnings: It's a murderfest, albeit a fake one. You can expect some trauma.

[ Your invitation leads you to an extravagant ballroom, looking as if it's been converted from the makes of a mansion

Comments

[First Break.]

[tsundelta]

[ You don't want this nonsense? Fair enough. Until 1 AM, you're free to spectate, speculate, and try to break out all you like. You were played like a fiddle. Try breaking some windows or vents, one body is one body too many.]

[pishirogane]

Yes... Well, turned out to be much more than a prank.

[stompyerface]

Yeah. Man, this sucks.

[pishirogane]

And I thought I might be able to enjoy this evening...

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[sapphirearrow]

[Karen recognizes you! You're that detective who tried to arrest her little doll friend and got Yuuka'd for it.]

Any thoughts?

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[pishirogane]

[Yuuka'd and allowed to live]

Premeditated murder. However, I don't believe the victim mattered.

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[sapphirearrow]

[And without even being blonde!]

So, someone was planning on... just killing someone?

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[pishirogane]

[Yup]

Consider the set-up. Everyone received invitations from an unnamed host or hostess to this mansion. The victim arrived with her friends while everyone else has just recently met her tonight. There's no real motive for a new acquaintance to kill her, and the questioning brought forth no suggestions that those individuals she arrived with had a grudge against her. The motivation is simply killing for fun, but there's no dubious intent from the guests...

Finally, the meat tenderizer and the knife were both in the kitchen, but would any of the guests know the layout of the kitchen and its utensils? There's no evidence of fingerprints on either weapon and no trace of a foreign follicle on the victim. The only footprints there now would be from myself and everyone else who investigated the crime scene. It was a clean crime and only someone who knows the mansion already.

[Naoto nods to herself]

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[sapphirearrow]

[Listening, nodding. All very sensible. Though...]

Of course, there's no obvious motive for the host, either, is there?

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[pishirogane]

[Nods]

Of course not. Sometimes, murder doesn't need an obvious motive. You've seen some people on Thor. There are those who simply enjoy killing.

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[sapphirearrow]

...that puts us all in a tight spot, doesn't it?

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[pishirogane]

It does. Make sure you're careful and try not to wander off alone.

[She should take her own advice...]

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[sapphirearrow]

You, too.

[Or at least Karen's. Jeez.]

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[pishirogane]

[Should, but she isn't going to. Oh Naoto...]

I will... Excuse me. I have to resume the investigation.

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[ineuphony]

[over here, maka is look rather frustrated.]

-- Shit! My soul perception won't work no matter how many times I try.

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[sapphirearrow]

Maka?

[Karen understands frustration! "Soul perception," not so much.]