[Fin] Murder in the Mountains (End)

[Kennifer]

"As much as I feel weird voting for someone who's basically a kid... like with Mitsuha yesterday even though she was in the cult... we'll get some good information. If the Soul's a cultist? Great. We got one. Maybe Red's another one. If not.. well, we know who to look at next. Sacrificing a kid for this is kinda... not good but..."

Amy sighs.

"...either way I'm not in a good situation since they're not going to go after me directly, and if we get the last cultist... sure all you guys win but what are those creepy voices gonna do to me since I didn't get out the way I was supposed to?"

...yeah she was still kind of bitter about having to roleclaim instead of just... becoming a threat to the cult and letting them get her instead of one of the innocent power roles.

[KungFuCutbug]

[Tainted Soul, having been silent this entire time, simply sighs. But instead of sounding defeated, they sound... relieved?] "th... thank you. i wanted this. i'll explain in a bit."

/vote Tainted Soul

[PointMaid]

...Kid? Are you okay?

Chip does not look like he thinks the Soul is okay.

[Kennifer]

"..."

...what was even happening?

[KungFuCutbug]

[The Soul looks up at Chip and slowly, quietly, removes its cloak, dropping it at its side. Now completely naked, you can see a glowing purple orb embedded into their forehead, with what looks like blood dripping down the middle of their face.]

"d-do i look like i'm okay? i'm... i'm a killer. i killed lloyd. i was the one who snapped his neck. i did it from the inside. and that's why there wasn't any wounds on him. i'm no doctor, i'm a murderer. i'm the devil. and i joined a stupid cult... because of my friend. my only friend. her name's bethany. i joined the cult to impress her. and now she's gone, and i was stuck here alone with that creepy man... and that poor girl... and a bunch of strangers. i didn't want to hurt anyone. i just wanted to get away from the basement... get away from mom... get away from god... but of course i messed it up. i always mess it up. i'm... i'm so sorry... you all hate me now... " [They curl up on the ground, crying profusely and hyperventilating. Suddenly, they begin quietly chanting something under their breath.]

"the universe is ending. silence will fall. the sky will fall. death will rule. it's the end of the world, and it's all my fault. the universe is ending. silence will fall. the sky will fall. death will rule. it's the end of the world, and it's all my fault. the universe is ending. silence will fall. the sky will fall. death will rule. it's the end of the world, and it's all my fault..."

[After a few times, it devolves into incoherent sobbing.]

[...oh.]

[PointMaid]

...Chip and Ada have their mouths agape. Not so much that the Soul is part of the cult, but that it confessed.

[Kennifer]

"..."

"...kinda wish you'd gone after me when I visited you."

Amy looks... pretty distraught, to say the least.

[Magolor]

"....that.... I don't know what to say to that one. I mean... a ghost. Disembodied voices. Cultists... this all seems like a very bad nightmare, and everyone in it is suffering. Who would convince a child to kill...?" Although Lotus pauses often in this statement, she's not quiet. On the contary, she stresses more and more as her words go on.

At the same time, she turns to Red.
"...and to think that you would join them in their killing? You're no Amnesiac—you joined those Cultists on purpose. Not out of necessity, or deceit, I'm sure. You're more unforgivable than even them...!"

[PointMaid]

Ada goes over to comfort Amy.

... I don't understand it. But maybe he'll take pity on you? He's got to know the jig is up as much as we do.

[Kennifer]

"I don't know any more. I just..."

Amy... yeah, she doesn't look too good.

[wingedcatgirl]

"It's time."

Once again, before you realize it, you're all in the basement.

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

You're all standing in a circle around the altar as the Soul and the Forgotten float above it.

You can't tear your eyes away from them.

You see a humanoid silhouette standing behind them, waving its hands like a conductor.

You can't tear your eyes away from them.

The Forgotten turns its club on the Soul.

You can't tear your eyes away from them.

At the first strike, you feel the power of Malakhiri's candle tear through you, rending your flesh.

You can't tear your eyes away from them.

The Forgotten strikes again and again, until there's nothing left of the Soul. And the Forgotten then disintegrates into dust.

You can't tear your eyes away from them.

Tainted Soul was the Death Cultist Rolecop.

"... I'm gonna set the sun in a bit. Do what you will until then."

Night will fall on the Mountains at ~7:30 CT (a bit over 1 hour from this post)

[Kennifer]

Amy's just gonna kind of... stare off into space for a bit.

[artsyGeek]

". .it's always the kids, huh. . No matter. Red is a filthy liar, and that's something we could agree on, yes?"

[Caret]

Nellie simply stands in silence, stunned at what he just saw.

"...I have your condolences... why does it have to end like this...?"

The angel lets out a single tear, before uttering something in an extremely cold tone, to the point of sounding nothing like Nellie's normal voice.

I have one thing to say to you, Wicked Avatar of Death. Damn you.

Innocents and Cultists

Innocent

• Freddy (dead, likely Investigator)
  
• Lloyd (dead, likely Jailer)
  
• Knuckles (dead, Watcher)
  
• Kondraki (Bus Driver, pretty much confirmed by Knuckles during the Night 3 fiasco. Also a Rickroller.)
  
• Lotus (Stalker, per Malakhiri's botched attempt to kill her on Night 3)
  
• Chip & Ada (Fruit Vendors, nobody else has claimed be a fruit vendor, and the "Mod Error" pretty much confirms it)
  
• Z (Bulletproof, per physical evidence and Knuckles)
  
• Amy (Unjester, I presume that the cultists communicate through magic, so why would a cultist visit one of their own if they don't want to be caught?)
  
• Nellie (Commuter)
  
• Blue (Coroner)
  

Cultists

• Tainted Soul (Rolecop, claimed to be a CPR Doctor)
  
• Malakhiri (Janitor, claimed to be Masons with Mitsuha)
  
• Mitsuha (Vanillaizer, claimed to be Masons with Malakhiri)
  
• Jean (Wannabe, claimed to be Bulletproof)
  
• Red (Wannabe, formally an Amnesiac, claimed to have remembered being the Investigator)
  
  It's over.
  

[PointMaid]

Yeah... I didn't want to, but... Yeah, indeed. Red is most definitely a liar and we were right not to listen to them and to be suspicious that they might've chosen to become a Cultist.

[Magolor]

Unfortunately for Lotus, she didn't just stand there after the Black Heart went off. That stuff can kill walking corpses, so it likely hurt.

Lying on the ground, she wasn't particularly awake.

[Zanreo]

Z just says nothing for a while after the execution... and then she speaks."...Right... one left now. And we know who it is... I think we can all agree that Red... is looking pretty sus.

[Kennifer]

Amy would laugh at this if 1) there was any reason for her to get the reference in-character and 2) she wasn't still in the middle of a BSOD right now.

[Caret]

After a period of more silence, Nellie then addresses the sky in the same unnaturally cold voice that he used to curse Death eariler.

"I have one last question for you, Death. I have one last commute reaming, so what if I were to open up a portal right on your sacrificial altar, where the boundaries between this world and your world is probably very weak? What if I were to discover where you are hiding in, assuming that you even have a physical form, and take you down as revenge for TRICKING multiple innocents to join your STUPID RITUAL GAME?"

[wingedcatgirl]

"... That doesn't actually make sense. You can't commute to where I am."

[Cassie]

NIIIIIIIIIIGHT!

[wingedcatgirl]

Day will break on the Mountains at ~7:30 PM CT on August 13th, if all night actions are sent in by that time. If not, day will break at that time on the 14th.

[wingedcatgirl]

As the sun rises, you smell smoke. Rushing to investigate, you find the hallways burned beyond recognition, and two charred corpses...

Day has broken. Chip and Ada Lieber, Fruit Vendors, have died.

[Kennifer]

"No... No no no no NONONONO it should have been me..."

[artsyGeek]

[Kondraki looks at the hallway, then at the dead couple.]

“WAIT WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE?!”