[Fin] Murder in the Mountains (End)

[Zanreo]

"Right... I feel there's not a lot more to find at this point, and with not much time left, and what we found... I'm getting even more suspicious. Sorry, but..."

/vote Malakhiri

[wingedcatgirl]

Votes (7/12 to confirm)

No Elimination - Malak
Malak - Kondraki, Knuckles, Nellie, Chip & Ada, Amy, Red, Z 🔨🔨🔨

[Florien]

I HAVE AN IDEA! You could not execute me and execute the real murderer because I'd really rather not be dead today, today is a bad day to be dead and a good day to be not dead. Don't end that with "pow", please.

At that moment, the "pow" arrives.

FUCK YOU.

[wingedcatgirl]

"Heeheeheehee~ time for a sacrifiiiiice! This time I must insist upon opening up the basement ~"

[wingedcatgirl]

The mysterious locked door at the back of the cabin unlocks itself with a creepy-ass click and all twelve of you feel curiously compelled to go down there.

[Caret]

Nellie is a bit unnerved by the weird click.

"OK? Is this going to be a trap? This better not be a trap."

> to the basement

[PointMaid]

Oh, this doesn't feel right...

...I'm right beside you. Chip does not sound like he's particularly brave at the moment, and he's holding onto Ada as much as she's holding onto him.

[Kennifer]

"...I better not regret this."

>basement time oh no

[wingedcatgirl]

The door opens up to a stairwell. It goes down... down so far, you wonder if you'll ever reach the bottom -

when suddenly you do.

Despite how far down you've gone, what you reach looks like a fairly ordinary basement.

Y'know, aside from the blood, the bones, and the sacrifical altar with the candles.

Three ritually-dismembered bodies can be seen in the corner. No points for guessing who they are.

The Death Cult Is A Cult!

Compelled, Malakhiri walks up to the altar and retrieves one of their finest ritual daggers from a pocket in their robes.

With a few swift slashes, their blood is flowing onto the altar, and with another swift stab, they dispatch themself.

And somehow, the truth quickly becomes clear...
High Priest of Death and Destruction Malakhiri, Herald of the Seven Circles, was a Death Cultist Janitor.

"What a lovely sacrifice. I almost have tears in my eyes."

"You don't have eyes..."

[door-kun]

" . . . ."

He's clearly sickened.

". . .well, then . .what about the kid, then?"

[Kennifer]

"..."

"Holy SHIT."

[Caret]

Nellie watches Malakhiri's sacrifice in horror and... awe at the same time? What?

"So the literal death cultist... was a litertal death cultist? Why am I so surprised? But that means... Mitsuha should explain herself right now."

[PointMaid]

They Liebers just hold onto each other, staring in horror... but relief when they see they really are one of the cultists trying to kill them, and they're dead.

[Zanreo]

"So... we were right. The "Death Priest" was, indeed, a Death Cultist..."

[Magolor]

"Well, well, well... this poses a fair challenge. Mitsuha, you better explain yourself. In fact, do you even have any possible excuse?"

[PointMaid]

Yeah... Well, that certainly, um, makes sense.

[Kennifer]

"So it really was the most obvious choice. And yeah, Mitsuha... obviously you weren't a Mason with Malakhiri, so..."

Well, no more crazy Death Priest shenanigans to laugh at, but on the other hand investigating further crime scenes will be easier with the Janitor gone, which is... much better than laughing at a crazy death priest be over the top.

[psychedelicate]

...Mitsuha is crying in the corner.

It doesn't look like she's in the mood to talk. Any attempts to make her talk probably won't work (mainly because I'm busy OOC, yes I'm breaking the fourth wall, deal with it)

[Caret]

Poor Mitsuha, Nellie thought. She probably got inducted into the cult against her own will, but there's no turning back at this point.

"I'm... I'm sorry, but... if there's a Gunner hiding behind all of these roleclaims, then you should fire your shot at Mitsuha tonight. I really want to spare her... but... why am I feeling symphony for a cultist?"

[Caret]

CRAP, THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SYMPATHY

[Cassie]

Night falls.

[wingedcatgirl]

Once more, the sun rises. With Malakhiri no longer cleaning things up every night, it's much more obvious what happened while you slept... and it seems that what happened was nothing. How curious.

Day has broken. Nobody has died.
Night will fall at ~7:30 PM CT on August 9th (5 days from this post)

[door-kun]

Knuckles woke.up, with clear annoyance covering his face.

[Kennifer]

"Well, I'm still alive..."

Amy heads out of her room with a yawn.

[psychedelicate]

Mitsuha slowly opens her door a little and peeks out of her room.