[Fin] Murder in the Mountains 2: Everyone heads off to a beach somewhere (END)

[wingedcatgirl]

>Looks for the second glove, (seeing as only one was found at the scene) starting in Nico's room and moving outwards. (@Florien)
Another black glove is quickly found on Nico's floor. Overlynd doesn't manage to locate any other glove.

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Death wags a finger at Nico. Ah ah ah~ Spoilers~

And who said anything about a game? it adds, turning to Marie. No, what's going to happen is that my children are going to sacrifice you to me, one by one, and there's nothing you'll be able to do about -

Not if I have anything to say about it.

Ooh, I was hoping to be done with this before you noticed anything...

[TheOtherCG]

"Well, if you're going let your children hurt my wife instead of bringing back our own, I'll give them hell..." Louis growled.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Gotta thay, Nico bein' in other clotheth thoundth pretty weird! Athummin' heth bein' framed, would anyone actually go outta their way to undreth him? Thoundth like a lotta trouble ta go through! But you never know!

Tyson finds himself getting caught off-guard by the new voice.

Two of 'em? Whoth talkin' now?!

[PopcornPie]

Nico started to back up, gritting his teeth. "Sacrifice? What does that mean? Where did Ravi's ghost go?"

[Oggy123]

Yuuta and Suzume, hearing another voice, look around.

[Florien]

What is meant is obviously that every now and then someone will get killed, and every now and then, other things will happen. Anyway I will state my ideas for the people who are currently working for this weird little cult business shortly, after it becomes clear that that will be a productive thing to do.

Anyway, obviously Nico's being framed, the question is, who did that, and is Nico actually in on the framing? I'll explain my reasoning and what we should do about it soon enough.

[PointMaid]

So far all the clues are pointing toward Nico, yes. The glove on his floor, obviously, and that's a pretty egregious thing to overlook, which would point to it being deliberately left there in all likelihood. I'm also obliged to point out that your finding of seams does not necessarily mean what was burnt was a piece of Nico's wardrobe. Obviously most clothing will have seams. (Whether it's a natural fabric or not, well, many clothes aren't these days.) Even a dishrag may have binding on the edge of it that would show up the same way.

[Oggy123]

Yuuta listens to both Samantha and Overlynd.

"Perhaps he's indeed framed. But by who? I'm not really sure..."

> Any other evidences in the nearby corridor and rooms?

[Weirdguy149]

Malos laughed a bit. "Personification of death, huh? This is rich." He turned to the others. "Did any of you besides this kid" He gestured over to Nico. "have anything strange happen in your rooms?"

[PointMaid]

Not that I noticed, no

[Oggy123]

"I don't think so."

[PopcornPie]

Nico spun around on his heel. "No, no I'm not! Why would I ever be okay with being framed for murder?! And this suit...if this suit is tied to the murder, then why would I keep wearing it into the morning? Why would I wear it to kill Ravi at all? If I didn't wake up all throughout being undressed and put in this, then the culprit might have telekenetic powers or something, otherwise I would have been woke up by all the fingers touching me!"

[Kennifer]

"I didn't notice anything weird last night, no. But I was pretty sound asleep. I'll have to be more wary tonight."

"And yeah, a lot of stuff pointing to Nico... it seems a little too conveniently obvious though. I don't know. The mail carrier seems to have some ideas, which could be useful if there's any basis to them rather than just guessing randomly or deflecting." She pauses. "Anyway, ideas with good reasoning is probably all we've got to go on if Nico really is being framed."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

No, didn't thee nothin'!

[TheOtherCG]

"I don't recall seeing anything in our room. We were fast asleep."

[wingedcatgirl]

>Any other evidences in the nearby corridor and rooms? (@Oggy123)
... Nothing obvious. There's sewing materials in every room, provided by the spa, so that won't narrow anything down. They're all in random states of use, too - presumably they only get replaced when they're nearly or completely gone, rather than with every new occupant.

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The rock-headed figure taps their foot impatiently. Well? I already know you're planning to interfere, you gonna manifest or not?

A sighing noise, and another planet-headed figure, one with (tiny) vibrant oceans and (miniscule) lush greenery, manifests in opposition to the other. If you insist. It turns to the others. I am this asshole's equal and opposite - an avatar of Life. For obvious reasons, I'm not super fond of what they're doing here, and I'm going to do my best to stop it.

Right, right, are we gonna reuse the last setup? It worked out well enough for you last time, though I promise my children are much cleverer this time around~

... Approximately.

[TheOtherCG]

"An avatar of life? Why can't you stop Death this instant?" Marie asked.

[Oggy123]

"You're an Avatar of Life?" Yuuta asked, while seemingly intimidated.

[Kennifer]

"...and I thought legendary Pokemon were intimidating. Then again I've yet to see one of them up close and personal like with these avatars."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Avatar of Life? You and me, I'd be willin' to tag-team with you tho we can take on Death together!

[PointMaid]

I was assuming because the Avatar of Life doesn't have the power to stop Death this instant. ...After all, in normal life death happens and is a constant. Although your question is certainly a good one, Samantha says to Marie.

[Whistle]

Liz, having heard what was going on for a bit, decides to slink in and interject.

So if I got this straight, somebody got choked to death, and a kid woke up in new clothes... And now we got two rockheads claiming to be life and death themselves?! Y'know, who here's freaky enough to pull shit like this?

[MadameButterflyKnife]

You can consider me to be equal in power to this pain in the ass right here. Anything I do, it will be undone by them. Life gestures to Death. And yes, I am Life. As you can clearly tell. This is more of a manifestation of my true form; I exist within every fiber of all of your beings.
As do I. Slowly turning you back into the nonliving materials that make you up.
[/size][/color][/glow][/font] Life gestures to Death. And it's annoying. Anyways, same setup, I do believe. My wards against your such few "children".
More than enough to stand against your mobs.

[Kennifer]

"Setup for... what, exactly?"

[wingedcatgirl]

... Each night, one of Death's 'children' is going to attempt to kill one of you. Each day, you'll vote on who you think is secretly a death cultist trying to kill you all, and whoever you vote for will be killed. This, and the gifts I've secretly given the innocents, will be your most powerful weapons against Death's cultists.

Yeah, speaking of that, how on earth did you manage to distribute your gifts to the innocents and nobody else when you don't even know who my children are?

Trade secret.