Decrypto

[PointMaid]

Frankie pokes her head out of her room.

...He did say screwed, didn't he?

> Check to see if she sees any other murder scenes...

[LavenderDream]

> Check to see if she sees any other murder scenes... (Point)
No other murders to be found.

[PointMaid]

Well then... that's one thing. At least there only seems to be one murder last night.

> Goes to Ivi's murder scene that Hitomi's discovered and examines the scene

[Dookie]

Cass wakes up to Ivi's dead body.

“Oh…oh…we're fucked. We are absolutely fucked.”

> Was anyone kind enough to leave evidence to themselves?

[LavenderDream]

> Goes to Ivi's murder scene that Hitomi's discovered and examines the scene (Point)
Coins and paper currency can be found scattered around Ivi's body.

[LavenderDream]

> Was anyone kind enough to leave evidence to themselves? (Dookie)
There was also a tuft of purple fur near Ivi's body.

[PointMaid]

That's, um. Weird. Very weird. Why is there money...

> Examine Ivi's body

[LavenderDream]

> Examine Ivi's body (Point)
It seems that most of Ivi's skeletal structure fractured due to the impact of the crash. There are also more small puddles of water in the kitchen.

[PointMaid]

Frankie's tentacles curl.

...Ouch. That looks like it hurt bad.

...That's strange. Is somebody trying to frame Cirno again, that doesn't make sense since she's dead, right?

> Um, check out those puddles. What's up with that?

[LavenderDream]

> Um, check out those puddles. What's up with that? (Point)
The small puddles lead up to Ivi's corpse, but stop right next to her.

[wingedcatgirl]

"Given that the killers aren't trying to frame Cirno again," Hitomi says, "the only conclusion is that these puddles are genuine."

(Can we get a roleflip, by the way?)

[PointMaid]

...You could have a point about that.

> Can you tell anything about the puddles?

[LavenderDream]

"Well congrats, you've found her. Poor girl, I really liked her and that Lance guy. Anyway, she was not friend, but rather foe. Ivi was the assassin. She also killed Henako Dank."

[LavenderDream]

> Can you tell anything about the puddles? (Point)
Other than the fact that they lead up to Ivi's body, there isn't much of anything else about them.

[PointMaid]

...Huh.

[Dookie]

“Good. At least the killers killed a monster.”

So let's see…there's money, water, and hair. Who would that lead to?

For the hair, it was obvious. It's Hitomi. That's been identified.

The water was next. From what she knew, it could be either Frankie or Patrick. Or the killer just wanted to play more mind games that made her kill Cirno.

Finally, money. Who the fuck drops money? Is anyone here rich? Does someone make money appear by standing? That's what baffled her.

[PointMaid]

Frankie thinks. She sees what Cass has collected.

Look, if you want to accuse me of something... as far as I'm concerned, those could be Patrick or they could be another false lead.

I'm as confused by the money as you are, honestly...

Then she looks at Hitomi, and back at the purple fur.

> Is that definitely her fur Cass found? No fake?

[wingedcatgirl]

Hitomi grabs a crumpled piece of paper from a back pocket and scribbles on it. "Right. I spent last night working on this..." She tosses the paper onto a nearby table for the others to peruse at their leisure.

The Situation

Wendy- Alive
Cass- Alive
Frankie- Alive
Tiger- Alive
MatPat- Alive
Ivi- Alive Assassin
Hitomi- Alive
Socrates- Alive

Lemmings- Murderer
Cirno- Survivor
Lance Vance- Twin
Kazuichi- Twin
Red- Vigilante
Henka- Medic
Tonya- Psychic

Scenario: 3 killers remain of 7 players
1 vote for any inno leads to a quickhammer and game over. Town should only vote if they are *very* sure they've found scum -- voting otherwise should be treated as a scumclaim.
Self-voting is a possible but risky strategy for both fool (trying to get hammered) and town (trying to bait scum).
A survivor, if present, may out themself and ask scum to pick an inno to end game immediately. There is no counter for this except somehow convincing the scum to reject the alliance. Inversely, scum knowing or correctly suspecting the presence of a survivor may offer the alliance; again only counter is to convince survivor to reject (slightly more plausible but would require a guarantee of protection) or hope scum miscalculated and no survivor actually exists.

Scenario 3/8 is also vulnerable to survivor+scum teamups, though will take two nights - force a tie tonight, scum NK's someone, we're in Scenario A with survivor already known to scum, game over. Additional time makes the strategy vulnerable to disruption by town (but this scenario already requires duplicate roles, making it quite likely) or betrayal by scum. 2/7 and 2/8 are stable enough for normal investigation, unless a *third* survivor exists and is correctly known to any. (While duplicate roles may exist, scenarios 4/8 and 4/7 are not worth considering, as the scum will have already won.)

Notes on Fool: A fool may replace a survivor in any above scenario and offer their own elimination. If the scum accepts this offer, fool is in a kingmaker position - no-haunting will allow the scum to go on to immediate victory, while haunting the scum will hand their now-outed asses to town on a silver platter. Because of this, scum may choose to reject the offer, leaving fool high and dry. If fool offers and is rejected, they have no options left but to continue making the offer each day, as town will definitely not eliminate them now. However, if, improbably, there is a fool and *two* (known or correctly deduced) still-living survivors, the scum may accept the fool's offer without fear of betrayal, though they also don't really need to.

The prospects are very bad for town. But not impossible. Hold your votes until you have a confirmed target.

"Take from it what you will."

[PointMaid]

Frankie adjusts her glasses and looks it over. She nods, nervously.

Well, yes. That is the situation. It's not rosy, is it? It's always good to be careful... what happened yesterday proves it. The only thing I would add is that if we don't eliminate one of the killers today, they're all scott-free for another day and with another kill I believe with the numbers it becomes almost impossible to vote them off. Like I said, being careful is good... but I don't think a no vote is our interest either.

[Dookie]

“…We have sad chances, but…I just want everyone to talk. I feel like the killers might be lurking, falling through the cracks so that we forget about them. It might be weird, but I just want everyone to talk. That'll at least have everyone give their alibis.”

[wingedcatgirl]

"Oh, I'm not saying vote to no-lim," Hitomi says. "I'm saying don't vote recklessly."

[wingedcatgirl]

"... now that Frankie and Cass have seen my summary, that leaves Wendy, Tiger, Matt, and Socrates. I'd like to know when everyone else has seen it as well, so I can move on to the next step."

[Zanreo]

Tiger then enters the room... and sees the body.

"Man, they got Ivi too? And... what's up with this money?"

[Magolor]

Socrates enters the lobby without any other hesitation, since not only would he not care to discover bodies at this stage of the game, but it's pointless to look for another body out of universe. He quickly sees the commotion however...

"Good morning everybody, what's—", and after reading over the paper, "...this is certainly troubling. Although I do agree with the points on this paper, it also leads to the killers understanding our strategy. And taking an alternative would just be asking for it..."

He turns his gaze to the body and surrounding evidence.

"Water puddles again...? Surely there's some reason they're being made..."

[PointMaid]

Your guess is as good as mine. I'm going with another attempted frame and sowing confusion, honestly

Frankie did look up in interest at Hitomi's mention of 'next step'.