[Mafia] Your Final Frontier: Go 4th and perish!

[Florien]

Incidentally, and ssurprising no one ssince it was already basssically out, she was the Defibrillator. Sso sseeing as she'd already ussed that, that ssure was a move made.

[Kennifer]

"mmmphhmmm no autographs please..."

...wait shit it's day. Inez gets up from her beanbag and groggily goes to check things out.

[PopcornPie]

"What benefit would our antagonist gain from taking out the one whose power has already been used up?" The Etherian stuck a claw in their mouth. "Either Hallie knew something, or this was a waste of a shot."

[PointMaid]

Good question.

> Let's take a look at those tracks

[Caret]

"Hallie stayed in Group A, right? There's flour all over the place, which might mean somebody placed flour outside the Rec Room and Studio A to track movement through the complex. Good thinking."

> inspect the Rec Room and Studio A

[PopcornPie]

"Good thought, but the flour probably covers up the tracks of the real killer. I'm going to look at the bullet wound. Grisly, this is why I hate guns."

>Look at the bullet wound

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

... I have a theory. The scum went for Haille because she was a safe choice. Assuming that Coel is the Cartoon, they could have activated their immunity at that time. Because they went for Haille instead, that would mean Coel wasted one of their Lucky Charms boxes for playing it safe. And we all know how much the judges absolutely DESPISE disappointment.

With that being said, Coel being the Cartoon may very well be wrong, but considering the unaminous vote, as well as his comment about luck... I'm inclined to believe that my theory is, if not likely to be correct, at least reasonably probable. Now... About that dough...

>Check out the blood dough

[Kennifer]

Once she's sure she's got her bearings again Inez shall

>Check around the outside of the warehouse for evidence of people coming and going

[PointMaid]

...Yeah, I'm pretty sure the flour is deliberate, and the Coel votes? Because somebody rigged the voting to make it easier for us.

[Dookie]

”Wow, man. What did she do to deserve this? We already know what role she is.”

> check the dough

[PopcornPie]

"Pardon me, but that makes Coel the 'Dinowrestler' right? Or is Dinowrestler one of the judges? Oh, right the judges..."

Double slips their heels off and continues the bullet wound investigation in bare, raptor-like feet.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Bit's already at Hallie's body, glaring at the wound.

[glow=cyan] "It's some kind of gunslinger who did this. I'll bet my life on it."]]

>investigate flour

[PointMaid]

Ok, the tracks. It's a bit messy. There are medium prints, best I can figure, along with ours confusing things. Barefoot tracks, small ones. And some tracks of boots with heels that seem to have been coming from the rec room.

> What do I remember, staying in the Rec Room?

[Kennifer]

"Okay, that's... a lot of tracks. There's small barefoot ones and some kind of pointy shoes standing out, but... yeah, I can't tell if those were here before anybody came to look or not. And a lot of medium sized ones which could probably have come from anybody. At least that is what I was seeing, but given last night I kind of got shot with a tranquilizer dart should I even trust my eyes this morning?"

[PopcornPie]

"Boots with heels? Did someone use mine while I was asleep?"

[Zanreo]

"Or maybe... Hallie could have been swapped with someone else who was the intended target? For whatever reason..."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"The heels are mine. I was walking around last night, spreading flour. Must have stepped in it. Wonder what the smaller ones are for, though. Bart. Ana? You're kids, you have small feet. What did you do last night?"

[PointMaid]

Well, it couldn't have been Inez, I definitely remember her passed out darted.

...And that the freaking Rec Room used to be a torture chamber. What kind of memories is this holo suite sending me?!

[PopcornPie]

"Was just going to say, I assure you I never left the warehouse. I considered it, though, because it was uncomfortable in there. Trying to think, did I hear a gunshot?"

[Caret]

"I found nothing of note in Studio A or the Rec Room. Oh... OH. Bart and Ana popped up in the rankings this morning, even though I scrubbed the rankings of the kids last. Yes, I was responsible for the rigging. Mostly to see if I could discover some patterns, Anyway... what were you two doing?"

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Again, I'm convinced it was a Gunslinger of some
kind. The bullet wound that no one could recover from, the gunshot we both heard, etc."

[Florien]

Sso floran'ss going to sstart the sspeech in... let'ss ssay about two hourss.

But meanwhile, yeah, keep looking around, maybe you'll ssolve the mysstery of hisstory or ssomething.

[PointMaid]

We might solve a mystery, or rewrite history. Ducktales, Awooo!

[Florien]

Rewriting hisstory iss one of the mosst inssidiouss thingss implied by the ducktaless theme ssong. It'ss not "disscover new hisstory", it'ss explicitly "rewrite hisstory".

bassically what floran iss ssaying iss that sscrooge mcdooge probably killed dozenss of people and sstole their money but rewrote hisstory to claim his wealth as legitimate, mosstly from taking cultural artifactss, which, you know, fair. Cultural artifactss aren't thiss ssacred thing that people act like they are ssometimess. Ownership, title, and theft are intimately intwined. But the point iss, sscrooge clearly doess not think his own wealth iss legitimate if he'ss rewriting hissstory. And that'ss asssuming the hisstory he'ss rewriting iss about himsself.

What elsse could he posssibly be doing with that? It'ss one of the mosst haunting theme ssongss for an otherwisse unremarkable show, which impliesss the show iss in-universse propaganda and the theme ssong iss the out-of-universse thing to remind you of what the deal iss with the show.

[PopcornPie]

"Was that another one of your speeches, darling?"