[Mafia] Close Circle 2

[Kennifer]

"I mean yeah, I brought some extra clothes and shit. There's probably blenders in most of the kitchens. Can't explain the rifle off the top of my head."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

>Second Rifle? Is this one the real murder weapon? (Lindsey)

It doesn't seem like it was fired.

[Cassie]

...so this seems like this done in an attempt to throw us the fuck off...

[Florien]

Uhh... Okay, guess this isn't the murder weapon. Actually... wait, if there's an unfired rifle here and... What if...

>Was the rifle outside Lucky's house fired?

>Exactly how many rifles are lying around in suspicious places?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

>Was the rifle outside Lucky's house fired? (Lindsey)

It does seem like it was fired, yes.

>Exactly how many rifles are lying around in suspicious places? (Lindsey)

You find two more: One at your house (one that looks like it was fired) and another at Steve's house (one that doesn't look like it was fired)

[Caret]

"OK Why does the <Pound Dog> need a <Confusingly Complex> plan?"

> search the entire cul-de-sac for anything you might have missed

[Cassie]

Sheesh, the fuck...is there anything indicating that one of the fired rifles was used atop the eighth house?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> search the entire cul-de-sac for anything you might have missed (Steve)

You find the pair of shoes at Mila's burned-down house, plus you also look at the dead goon at Lindsey's house, who has a chest wound.

[Florien]

Holy fuck okay that's... a whole situation

Uhh...

I mean the absence of evidence does seem to implicate Tyler. But I don't know, I don't think it is. Ehhhh... Steve, you were saying you thought it might be Tyler. You have any reasoning for that?

[Kennifer]

"This is way more fuckin complicated than just walking around all the houses and shit. And yeah, is the 'it could be Tyler' thing just 'cause of the lack of shit to frame him or is it something else? 'Cause he did just get here and won the challenge thing right away... would he be in Sam's old house otherwise? 'Cause I guess he got Sam's money and alignment shit too?"

[Caret]

"<I Mean>, that was just my <Educated Guess> upon seeing the lack of <Clear Evidence> pointing him. But it could be <Anyone> at this point... <Are You Kidding>, that's too broad of a <Ascription>!!!! We have to <Put The Clues> together if we want to win <Blue's Clues!> Let's start by reconstructing the <Criminal Scene!>"

[Florien]

Crime scene is as follows. I think. Uhh... Broken window, Rambo shot, brick through window, Rambo killed in the rambo house. Dead.

Lindsey makes a face and sticks their tongue out while saying "bleh" to emphasize the dead point.

Rambo dead, then dumped in trashcan with drain cleaner with Steve's shoes, (fshhhhh) then at some point two random capper goons got killed for some reason, one strangled and with a note on (outside the safehouse), and one dead and with no teeth (left by my house). (The teeth were on a necklace at lucky's for some reason.) Then sausage and severed hand. Probably severed hand earlier because it's not melted like Rambo. Then rifles everywhere except Tyler's.

[Cassie]

Tyler grimaces at how...quick whoever the Yarddog is, in immediately doing something likely intended to frame him.

A rifle everywhere except mine...? That...regardless of my firearm skills, that's too fucking ridiculously obvious, the specific absence of a rifle where I'm staying...

Lindsey and the rabbit's houses were the ones with fired rifles, right? If I were using multiple rifles and was aiming to frame someone...I would not do it in such a way that could leave the framing target under risk of possibly being cleared of suspicion because of the abnormal fucking absence of a firearm in their house when everyone else has.

...did anyone have the opportunity last night to check for molotovs, or anything that could've been set up to make a molotov only ignite right this day? If not, we might have the Yarddog just recently igniting a molotov in secret just to further fucking confound us...

The fact that I mentioned thinking of going for either Background Check..or Contract Killer, obviously implies that I could have enough money to even get a Cleaner...though with how messy this scene is...anyway...

...with a 1/6 - taking into account over the fact that I didn't know exactly who was going to die at the time - chance of getting the Yarddog in a Background Check, I'll admit with those low chances given the situation, I won't deny that there's an equal possibility that I'm just rambling out in a way to claim credibility by exploiting how Strawberry tried to throw Steve under the bus yesterday...but given that I already could've afforded a Cleaner being bulked up enough to buy a Contract Killer, and yet the crime scene is anything but clean...

[Florien]

I mean, you could just be lying about how much money you have/had, or saving your money because this idea of a "cleaner" kill is stupid and not worth the cost when there's much better things for the assassin to do, like throw out swarms of blockers or invert their alignment to investigation.

Mostly the former.

Mind, I don't necessarily think you did it, you're just being... like, really conspicuous and I'm not sure if that's a ploy by you to look innocent because you have nothing or a ploy by the killer to make you look TOO innocent or a ploy by you to make it look like the killer made it too obvious that you were too innocent and really it's just a whole "I know you know" situation.

As for the rifle things, it really could point to anyone. You because you have none, Me or Lucky because ours were fired, or Mila and Steve because they have unfired rifles. Basically, we know Rambo was killed with a single bullet. That means the second rifle was deliberately fired to throw things off. So the fired rifles are probably meaningless noise.

Tyler stands out, so that seems... dubious. I don't know whether he's the killer or not, but I don't think he is. He stands out too much for it to be a coincidence. Now, last time someone stood out really hard, it turned out to be them, but I really don't think that's what's going on here. Steve is most likely cleared either way, because lying about him being a capper (or testing as one) wouldn't make sense. So that leaves Mila as the one who stands out the least. Though I don't know about her either.

[PopcornPie]

While he looked the ruined blender over, Lucky pulled his ears back and called. "I'd just like to point out that I hate using rifles. I CAN, but due to these short arms, it's really uncomfortable and hard to aim. If I were to shoot somebody, I would've used me Paw, a knife, anything but a goddamn rifle. Know why? Because I believe in efficiency."

"Also, it's possible that those rifles were used by the other dead Cappers. We could've had ourselves a little shootout. That'd explain why some are fired and some aren't...No, it wouldn't. Not unless the killer took the time to take the rifles off the Cappers' hands and hide 'em. If one was fired in front of me house, then it sounds like an attempt to frame me, even though no self-respectin' murderer leaves the weapon right in front of his property. We know there's a shot in Rambo's skull and a shot in his window, so was one rifle used to break the window, the other used to kill him?"

[Florien]

Uhh... anyway, we should do... something. Don't want to lose initiative here.

Fuck. Guess I'll uhh... fuck. I mean, that blender was notable enough to stand out.

>What's up with the blender?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

>What's up with the blender? (Lindsey)

It's all burnt up to work anymore. But there is some kind of dust inside it.

[Kennifer]

"At this point I'm just wondering if whoever did this is trying to be as confusing as possible."

[Kennifer]

>dafuq is the dust in the blender anyway

[PopcornPie]

Maybe the bastard is trying to make a getaway while we're running in circles. I'll check around."

> Look for anyone who resembles a fleeing suspect

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

>dafuq is the dust in the blender anyway (Mila)

You dropped the blender. But at least you didn't spill any dust.

> Look for anyone who resembles a fleeing suspect (Lucky)

Doesn't seem like it

[Florien]

I'm not going to touch that. I'll end up snorting it or something. Anyway, we know the killer is one of us... or possibly Bubba, but he would probably come out and tell us if he did. So looking for a fleeing suspect doesn't make much sense. If it was a fleeing suspect, they'd have already left. Anyway, the yarddogs want to eliminate ALL of us outside contractors. So the killer wouldn't have reason to run.

[Kennifer]

"Okay, I know this is gonna sound paranoid as fuck but I can't help wonder if someone wants me dead. Couldn't get me themselves 'cause I had two nights in the safe house, but all this shit in my house like someone's trying to frame me makes me wonder... couldn't kill me at night so are they trying to frame me or something to get me voted out? Fucked up, if it is. That or I'm being paranoid, which... yeah, also a possibility."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Trust me, if I wanted to kill you all, I'd get you all together and then off you all. Gather them all in a trap right where you want them, you feel me?

[Florien]

Great, excellent, we know now what to never do when you ask us. Anyway...

So, uhh, Mila I don't think this has anything specifically to do with you but we'll see. I mean, it's pretty clear everyone's being in some way implicated.