[Fin] Murder in the Mountains (End)

[Kennifer]

"...God, we'd better be right about this, and I really hope them voting for me isn't clouding my judgement..."

/vote Malakhiri

[PointMaid]

Are you sure?

...Pretty sure. Could be both of them. And not voting for someone today means a cultist gets off while another one of us probably gets slaughtered tonight...

Right... Look, folks, if there's anything that you think of that might make us change our minds, say it.

[TenOfSwords13]

I shall now obtain food, I shall return shortly.

Red goes to the kitchen to eat.

[Florien]

YOU WHAT!?

Malakhiri seems irritated at being voted, more than anything.

DON'T BE RIDICULOUS! I'M PART OF THE LODGE! WITH MITSUHA! SHE CAN CONFIRM THIS!

[Zanreo]

"Alright... then guess I'll hear what Mitsuha has to say. However... you'e still my biggest suspect right now."

[Kennifer]

"Okay sure, you could be the masons or whatever. You could also be cultists covering for one another. Like with my own claims, there's... really not a good way to tell unless someone checks one of you, is there?"

[PointMaid]

Mitsuha? Can you confirm this?

...I really didn't want to vote for the kid... but if we have to...

[KungFuCutbug]

[Tainted Soul looks up at everybody, noticeably on edge from being brought up as a suspect.] "of course you guys don't like me because i'm quiet... but i don't know if i can say what i am. if i do, the cultists might try to sacrifice me..."

[Kennifer]

"You should probably tell now, or people might assume your reluctance to share means you're a cultist."

[PointMaid]

...Should we unvote? ...Probably, yes. Until we've got confirmation of the Mason story.

...Wait, not so fast. The cultists should know essentially all the roles the rest of us have, or are claiming That would let them guess that the Masons weren't taken. There aren't enough roles unclaimed for there to be two masons if everyone else is to be believed. And if they're in cahoots, they back each others' story... it could still be them even if they corroborate each other.

[KungFuCutbug]

"a... alright, alright... fine." [The Soul lifts their cloak a little bit to reveal a red plus sign stitched onto the inside of it.] "i'm the cpr doctor. ...i don't know what cpr stands for. but i know doctors help people."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Blue looks to the Soul. ...Understandable, why one wouldn't want to share such a role. And CPR...if I am correct, it is a way of restarting the heart after it's stopped. Only works so many times, and with just enough lukc.

[PointMaid]

...It is understandable why a person like that wouldn't want it to get out. It would foil the Cult's plans if you're successful at it.

Yes, but we still don't know who's telling the truth. The updated list is:

Roleclaims and Claimed Actions Last Night:

Kondraki (Bus Driver); switched Z and Lotus
Chip and Ada (Fruit Vendors); Sent grapes to Kondraki, went to Malakhiri due to "Mod Error"
Amy (Unjester); visited Tainted Soul
Z (Bulletproof)
Red (Was Amnesiac, now claims Investigator)
Blue (Coroner?)
Lotus (Stalker)
Knuckles (Watcher)
Nellie (Commuter)
Malakhiri (with Mitsuha) (Mason)
Soul (CPR Doctor)

DEAD:
Freddy: Investigator
Lloyd: Jailor
Jean: Wannabe

[Kennifer]

"Okay, let's look at people's stories and see what lines up. Blue claims to be the Coroner, and discovered what Freddy's role was. This, at least on the surface, lines up with Red's account. He had amnesia, and if I read right in the rulebook, he could remember having a role from a deceased person... in this case, Freddy's role of Investigator. Now yeah, this could be a lie to cover that he's a Wannabe instead, since... well, you'd expect the cultists to go after an investigator."

Amy pauses.

"As for Chip and Ada, the fruit vendors... they've mentioned sending fruit to particular people who've mentioned receiving it. There'd have to be a lot of lying and covering up going on for that to not line up. I didn't get anything the first night but Lloyd had said he'd blocked them, and so that also lines up with him having been a Jailer. The next night he'd apparently jailed Kondraki, which would explain why neither Chip and Ada nor I remember being switched around, which... again, seemingly confirms Kondraki as the bus driver unless there's a lot of lying and covering up going on."

Another pause.

"As for me, you've really only got my word that I didn't get any sort of information when I visited the Soul last night. So I've also got to take them at their word of being a CPR Doctor. Lotus said she knew I'd visited the Soul, which would line up with her claims of her own role since she was so adamant about asking me to roleclaim. But wouldn't you think if I was lying about my role to cover up being a cultist, if I really was the Rolecop or whatever, that I might've sent someone in after the Soul? I meant it when I said I didn't get anything from that. Whether they're the Medic or not, the Soul doesn't seem to have a role that allows them to kill whoever visits at night."

Yet another pause.

"...I'm sure I'm missing something or someone here. But we've definitely got some liars here, and it'd be good to figure out who. ...Preferably after one of them goes after me at night, but... now that that's out in the open I may have to settle for helping the innocents get out of here. If I've got to go down now that my role's out in the open, I'd rather it be on the side of good."

One final pause.

"As for my being helpful the last couple of days... yeah, that's been my strategy. Be enough of a thorn in their side that the Cultists try to take me out. Especially after it's been proven that I wasn't a Wannabe, because Jean was. Make of that what you will."

[Caret]

"Everything seems to line up well, an that's the problem. Our surveillance-type roles could be coming up with false information, and we wouldn't know because we rely on them for information.  Just like Yanatick... ugh, I still hate you for calming that I had an affair with... whoops, moving on from that... So... stay on the lookout for anything that doesn't seem to line up! Yeah!

[psychedelicate]

Mitsuha peers out from behind a door.

"Oh! U-um, yes... Malakhiri and I... we're both Masons..."

[Kennifer]

"I'm not saying I believe you, since you could be covering for each other. But unlike SOME people..." Amy glares at Malakhiri as she says this, "I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt. For now. But it's pretty damn obvious there's a bunch of people lying here. Are the two of you cultists and covering for one another? Maybe our Stalker or Watcher is really a rolecop or something? Has anybody seen Nellie portaling around or is he lying about that and just picking a yet-unclaimed role? How about our alleged Coroner, maybe she knew the roles because she killed them?"

Amy looks... well, this is the least amused she'd looked by anything so far.

"If I retract my vote for now, I can vote again later right?"

[PointMaid]

Yes. Someone around here is clearly lying.

I've been thinking about the other information we have...

Day 1: No Elimination - High Pries, Tainted Soul (Took back their vote), Kondraki, Red, Mitsuha (Took back their vote), Lloyd Henrick, Xendrack "Nellie" Nel'ren (Took back their vote)

Lloyd was going to jail Kondraki. Then Lotus was going to stalk Malakhiri and Knuckles was going to watch. From Lotus and Knuckles, that's quite important information. They really saw nothing?

[PointMaid]

*High Priest

[Kennifer]

"It looks like something's been getting mixed up around here and not just because of bus driving. If THAT'S even a thing that's actually been happening."

[KungFuCutbug]

"i-i vaguely remember lotus saying she visited knux instead of the creepy cultist man that night... i don't think that helps, though..."

[Caret]

"But why exactly would Lotus do that, even though she clearly said that she was going to stalk Malakhiki the night before?"

[Kennifer]

"Okay, Lotus... care to explain? Because we should get everybody's story straight here."

[PointMaid]

...She's the one who provided Kondraki with an alibi through that song they supposedly both heard, too.

[Kennifer]

"I visited Malakhiri that first night, or I intended to, and I also heard the song. So that much I believe. But if nobody's visited Malakhiri since, there's no way to confirm any switching happened if they didn't hear any music again. Right?"