[Fin] Murder in the Mountains 2: Everyone heads off to a beach somewhere (END)

[Kennifer]

"...so much for a relaxing vacation, then."

[PointMaid]

Samantha looks glum, and nods at Felicia. ...Yeah.

[Whistle]

Well, we're fucked alright. And all for spite.

[TenOfSwords13]

I think I killed an Avatar of Death before... with some powerful spells that I no longer know. Ear we go again... So, how about Death's "Children" own up so we can just hop outta here?

[Magolor]

Hmph, what sort of "gifts" would you want to give us? More weapons would only embolden those who are this 'Death' guy's agents. Why not use that head of yours to get the rubble out of the entrance?

Giroro somewhat suspects the two are actually together on this, but there's no point going against it. After all, that's the whole drive behind this game of cat and mouse. H—l, it probably IS a game to them. At any rate, he tries to

>poke the projection of Life's avatar,

to which I presume failure is also imminent.

[TheOtherCG]

"So, whoever gets voted off will get executed...?" Marie said.
She and Louis exchanged glances.
"The moment I heard the word 'execution', I got Déjà vu."
"Same, as if the concept of execution is personal to us."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Giroro pokes the projection of Life. His hand passes through, and the sensation of a cool summer's day envelops his hand. It has no permanent effects, but.

My gifts are sometimes weapons, in fact. You all should know that life is not necessarily kind. I can be brutal if I need to. But others are gifts of evasion, or of knowledge. Sometimes you can swap someone, or know what lies in someone's hearts, or maybe you can know one other person untempted by the void of death.

[PopcornPie]

Nico was shivering harshly enough that the chain around his leg chattered. "In that case, the killer wants me voted off instead of them!" Wow, Nico, way to state the obvious.

[Florien]

Well, I say the burned fabric is probably Nico's prison uniform because everything else points to him, and his uniform is missing. It's a pretty obvious conclusion.

It's also pretty obvious that Nico is being framed, to the point there's no reason to think otherwise, and seeing as we know that Ravi was qualitatively different from the rest of us... perhaps the killer is too.

/Vote Vince Ruiz.

[wingedcatgirl]

Vince is off-limits. Yes, he's mine, but he's not secretly mine.

Vince scowls at this.

And because he's not a secret, he's also forbidden from aiding my children directly. After all, any of you might just tail him to see who he meets up with!

"... I don't actually know who the 'children' are anyway," Vince grumbles. "Doesn't want me 'accidentally' leaking their identities."

[Florien]

Oh. Well then it's too obvious of a frame job. Literally, they took off his clothes and burned them, they left his PILLS at the scene, and tossed a glove in his room. Then they expect us to believe they want us to believe he's the killer? The US Postal service is smarter than that. They want us to believe that they want us to believe he's a killer, but they overplayed their hand.

So unless you can tell us what exactly you're doing here, Nico, what skills you have that may prove useful to our continued survival...

/Vote Nico

[Whistle]

Uh, post dude, look at us. We're all different—at this point it's basically impossible to tell how the bird guy died. But I did hear him want those murder steroids, so I don't know who would have given those to him, or planted them.

[PointMaid]

...Probably Nico's, yes. Likely disposed of because it would have had evidence, like a rip from Ravi waking up and instinctively grabbing at it or something. Of course, somebody else could have 'borrowed' Nico's extra clothing to wear instead of their own, just in case somebody *could* make the connection even after it was burned. Or want us to believe so - as you pointed out, they could be one the killers and the sloppiness was to make us thing he was framed.

> Look at Nico's clothing and the surviving 'vacationers', including yourself. Is there anyone who couldn't have worn Nico's prison uniform because they're too large or, even perhaps, too small?

[PopcornPie]

Nico looked tearful. "Look, I couldn't have done it because...because..." He twiddled his fingers together. "...I don't have any sort of skill that would have let me kill someone! I'm The Heavy!"

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Theemth too early to thart votin' for people. There could be more evidenth out there. Think ith high time we thart thearchin' other roomth... thartin' with da pothal worker!

> There any evidence in Overlynd's room?

[Magolor]

Why did his outfit change, anyway?

> are the suits ALL identical? ANY differences??

[Kennifer]

Felicia just looks... very confused, as if she's still trying to make sense of the postal worker's words... especially if Nico's roleclaim was honest it would make all the "they want us to believe" stuff null and void, right?

[wingedcatgirl]

> Look at Nico's clothing and the surviving 'vacationers', including yourself. Is there anyone who couldn't have worn Nico's prison uniform because they're too large or, even perhaps, too small? (@PointMaid)
There's no obvious cases of people too outsized to wear Nico's uniform.

> There any evidence in Overlynd's room? (@Matthew)
Mike searches Overlynd's room for evidence, but can't find anything obviously relevant.

> are the suits ALL identical? ANY differences?? (@Magolor)
There are multiple suits in every closet, varying wildly in sizes and styles.

---

At Nico's claim to be the Heavy, there's a loud thud somewhere.

Upon closer inspection, he doesn't look entirely present. Almost like he's a specter of someone already dead...

Nico is the Heavy.

Knew something was weird about you.

---

Votes (7 to confirm)
Nico: Overlynd

[Dookie]

"So there are three possible options here:

1: Nico did it and did not clean up anything.

2: The killers went overboard with framing Nico for the crime and made the evidence too obvious.

3: Nico framed himself, making us think the killers merely framed him using too obvious of a frame job.

...And I don't know which one is right."

[Whistle]

Liz looks for a moment.

Alright, so the kid's got nothin'. Any other suspects? I'd say Mike, but honestly he could karate-chop the kid's chain clean off if he wanted.

[Kennifer]

"That's disturbing. Useful information, though."

[Florien]

Well, neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night nor the fact that one of our companions has filed change of Address to Casper, Wyoming before they even arrived here shall prevent our victory!

If anything the last one helps us significantly. Please, everyone roleclaim to Nico. Nico doesn't have to expose anyone, and in fact I recommend against it at this time, but it will prevent people from changing what roles they plan to claim.

[PopcornPie]

Nico looked sadly down at his body. "Someone came at me before, but I thought I got lucky..."

[PointMaid]

Samantha nods. ...I wish I could count some people out from having worn Nico's clothing, but it looks like we all could've.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Nothin' in da pothal workerth room!, then upon hearing what Liz had to say, Oh, you bet I could. But I'm only a killer in da ring, not like one of the cultith killerth, you know what I'm thayin'? Bethideth, haven't taken off my boxin' gloveth thinthe I've been here!