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The Sleepy Dragon Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 5:34 pm
The room was really large as far as Lavi could tell. He had been stumbling around for a good ten minutes now, one hand stretched out in front of him like a zombie, the other following the wall he had crashed into. He hadn't encountered a second wall, or a door yet. The long time alone in the darkness had given him time to think about the strange mansion they were currently trying to survive in. It seemed strange for Road to lure them here and leave a note on a table, even though she was there herself to tell them the little riddle. But the candles in those Finders...
His thoughts were interrupted by another strange, creaking sound, similar to what he had heard before he was tossed up to this room. The ground underneath him began to shake and before he knew it, it had completely disappeared. Quite comically he seemed to float there for a nanosecond before falling down with a yell. He crashed to the ground on his back, the wind momentarily knocked out of him. "Okay seriously..." he wheezed, lying there on his back, trying to regain his breath, "This has got to stop..." The room he fell into was light, and his eye took a while to adjust after the minutes of darkness. But when he had blinked the brightness out of his eyes, he found he was looking up at...everyone. "Oh, you guys... it's good to see you." He glared a little at the Noah and her companion, obviously not meaning them before grinning up at the others. "Missed me?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:56 pm
To be honest, Road didn't care much that they'd run into the rest of the exorcists again, however she waved towards Lavi with a grin and a laugh anyhow. "My candles..?" She asked. The question wasn't really aimed at anyone in particular, but she laughed at a related memory of a stabbing. As she did, she wandered over to Sil, floating beside the girl as she took the paper from her hands and read it to herself again. Her back rested on the umbrella she was hovering on and she swayed back and forth with the movements of Lero.
"No face...? I bet it's adorable...~" She smiled, taking the paper and shoving it into Lero's mouth for him to eat. She knew the others would want to have another look at it, but yet again she didn't care. At the moment, since she was in as much trouble as they were, she decided to leave out the details of her not being in on the plan of whoever was playing with them. Road didn't like not being in on any plans, and her brow furrowed as she studied everyone's faces. She wanted the innocence, and she wanted to get whoever it was that had killed her siblings, then she'd get everyone else. "This is boring....aren't we having a race for innocence...? I don't care who's dying.." She paused because she did, atleast for her brothers, but again, she didn't want to show. "This game is a race...not a game of Guess the murderer!" She pouted and rode the umbrella skateboard style around the room, wanting to know if she could feel the presence of the enemy substance even for just a bit.
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:22 pm
"...Road did what..? But she's been with me the entire time," Liv spoke up, actually asserting herself.
"There's no way that Road did that," she crossed her arms.
Then she heard the riddle read aloud, and she frowned, "I've taken a face to call my own...?" she thought about the line that came after, and looked to Road.
But...you didn't do this, Road...I know you didn't...at least...I thought you didn't....
Just then, Lavi fell into the room, causing Liv to jump a little. She hadn't expected him to appear from nowhere like that. But she didn't forget her previous train of thought.
"E..excuse me...everyone...but, I think that riddle is saying something. I think that...someone here is being impersonated. One of us....isn't the real one...," she trailed off and looked around at all of them, fidgeting. Maybe she had only picked up on it, maybe she was wrong, but it sounded like that's what the riddle was saying to her. (( Since the riddle is kind of uhm...confusing... we're going to tell you exactly what it means. Like I just said, one of us is an impostor. One of us isn't real, and it's your job to find out who. The RP will continue, and there will be more clues along the way. Killing will continue until you figure out who is the impostor. After the next clue, the first round of guessing will commence. After that, we'll continue the RP, and there will be some more clues. Then there will be a second round of guessing, where you'll be given the chance to stick with your original guess or change your guess. )) Also, there is a post order again, since we're all back in the same room:
Narration
Road
Liv
Cross
Lavi
Michiyo
Chaoe
Sil
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:42 pm
Cross listened to Sil tell him all they had been through, but also knew that Road couldn't have killed the Finders. He crossed his arms and began to think, trying to assess the riddle. He wasn't terribly concerned about Lavi either, since Michiyo had been given back to them.
After a few minutes, he was about to speak when Lavi appeared. He looked Lavi over for any sign of what may have happened to him, but nothing was out of place save for the missing headband, "What happened to you? Sil already told me about the room you were in. What happened after you became shut in?"
Before Lavi could tell anyone though, Liv spoke up about the riddle. Cross had to agreed with her, "You're right," he took the opportunity to explain what had happened in the room he and the Noah had come from.
He sighed a long sigh, "There's something going on here..." he looked around at everyone, his suspicion at its peak. One of them wasn't who they said they were, and he had to find out. Everyone had to find out, before things got even more out of hand. There weren't many Exorcists left in the Order already, and to lose everyone here...
"Lavi?" he looked to Lavi again to find out the last of all the information.
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The Sleepy Dragon Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:04 pm
Lavi got back to his feet, listening to the rest as he brushed off his clothes. He was happy to see the others still unharmed, although the copious amounts of blood on Michiyo's uniform made him wonder. After Cross' explanation later on it was obvious what had happened, although he couldn't believe it had been her who had killed the Noah twins. When he was about to answer Cross' question on what had happened to him, Road's human companion spoke up. Lavi frowned, looking at the others. "Riddle, what riddle?" He figured this must have happened before he had returned to the group and although he didn't know exactly what this riddle had said, Liv's words made him uneasy. Someone was an imposter? He glanced around at everyone's faces to see if he could spot anything out of the ordinary, but to no avail. He turned to Cross, "As for what happened to me, nothing really worth mentioning. I got tossed up to the second floor through a hatch in the ceiling by some strange, black strands and wandered around in a pitch-black room for a while before falling back down just now."
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:47 am
So, PAUSE until further notice.
I'm back from vacation, so the Murder Mystery is OPEN once again!
UN-PAUSE~ c:
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:30 am
 Though still quite terrified at the whole situation, the reaction of the others at her safe return made Michiyo feel a bit better, also glad to see all of them were okay, though she did miss Lavi in the group. She was startled by the mention of her name, and Sil reaching over to pull a piece of paper out of her pocket. Her eyes widened in surprise, wondering why she had not noticed that herself, and more that is was so clean considering the bloody state of her uniform. Michiyo listened carefully to the rhyme on the note, though it meant very little to her. According to it, there was an imposter in their group, but Michiyo was so new that she didn't think she knew everyone well enough to actually notice any of them action out of character.
She jumped slightly backwards as Lavi fell through the ceiling, her heart racing again. She breathed heavily, willing her heart to slow down again. I'm going to end up with a heart-attack if things go on like this... He did seem alright, which seemed to be a good sign. Whatever this mansion was hiding, it didn't seem to want to kill them. For now at least...
Feeling nowhere near able to formulate any kind of proper plan, Michiyo folded her arms, focusing on the conversation unfolding in front of her, ready to follow general consensus.
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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:46 pm
((Chaoe said it was okay to skip over her for now <3))
 Sil barely reacted as Cross recanted the tale of the gruesome sight of the two Noah, instantly suspicious of his recount of the situation. All of them knew that they hadn’t had anything to do with the death of any Noah; after all, they had just walked into the door of the house together. All of them except for Road and her human pet, of course. That was exactly why they knew they were responsible.
However, Liv’s well thought out explanation of the riddles meaning cast a whole new light on the situation going on. If she was right, then one of them was an imposter. It could be any one of them at all, regardless of how they came in, and now it made sense why the macabre funhouse was tossing them around like chess pawns in a violent game. It was playing with them, and it would keep planting false clues amongst the real ones so they wouldn’t be able to guess who the real imposter was. If they couldn’t figure it out quickly, then it would only be a matter of time until all of them were dead; not to mention something had to have happened to the person being impersonated. Where were they…? What did the imposter do with the real thing?
When Lavi reappeared from the roof, she normally would’ve been relieved. However, she stepped back from him, looking at the entire group with suspicion showing openly on her features. All familiar faces stared back at her, and it terrified her that any one of her friends could be stabbing her in the back at any moment. The only faces that weren’t familiar were the Noah and the blonde, whom she regarded with the most suspicion.
“It’s obvious who it is,” she stated in a surly accusation, directing a slitted stare at the two of them. “It has to be Road or the girl. Road has been trying to distract us the whole time we’ve been in here, and the imposter could have copied her illusion magic. I bet she drew up the image of her dead brothers to throw Cross off the trail. And the blonde girl is all too inconspicuous, really. All of this is one big game. The imposter would know we wouldn’t suspect Road or Liv if it were acting just like them!”
Dominik shook his head slowly, “But Miss Silvia,” he argued. “Wouldn’t he expect the Exorcists to suspect the Noah first? It seems impractical. The game would be over before it started.”
She flushed, realizing that her accusation may have been a little jaded by her own personal feelings about Noah and their supporters. However, if she didn’t believe that they did it… if she had to imagine that one of the Exorcists in the room were the culprit... it turned her stomach. Her eyes drifted over her comrades, viewing each of them with a seed of suspicion that was growing every moment. Lavi had disappeared, and his explanation to where he had gone seemed all but legitimate; it seemed a little too perfect that he had so conveniently survived the room before which had filled her with such fear. Then Michiyo, perfectly placed in the middle of a scene, then to find the note on her. The arrows pointed towards them, but did that mean that the imposter was trying to draw attention to everyone but his or herself? That would leave Cross, Liv, Chaoe and Dominik with their hands still clean of any evidence. Her head was starting to hurt sorting through it all, and she pushed it away with a long sigh.
Reaching into her pocket, Sil pulled out two cigarettes and lit one, sliding it between her lips to calm her nerves. “Well, the only real answer is to figure a way out of this room. If I have to go out, I’m going out in a blaze of cigarette smoke and rage,” she told anyone who regarded her bad habit judgmental eyes, releasing a gentle exhale of sweet smoke. “The stupid door is locked from the other side.”
Dominik jiggled the handle and it easily flew open, leaving the Finder looking utterly shocked as it lead into a room filled with darkness so they couldn't see what lay beyond the threshold of the doorway. Another illusion, more than likely. They had no choice but to keep moving forward, to wait and see who the next victim would be, and what clues they could use to better discern who the culprit was.
“Oh great, and now I look like I’m not even competent enough to open a goddamn door anymore,” she flicked ash on the floor and rubbed it hard into the floorboards, her way of telling the house to go screw itself. “Our only choice is to keep going. Watch your backs because no one else is going to do it for you now.”
((Liv is popping in front of Road to do the narration from here.))
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Ghost-it Notes Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:10 pm
"What!? It's not me!" Liv replied to Sil indignantly. She was the one who had just figured out what the riddle meant. Why would she help them if she knew she was the culprit? Ridiculous...
"This is all your fault, all of you!" she gestured to the Exorcists hysterically, her eyes watering again, "You! All of you! Devi and Dero are gone now and it's your fault!"
She had snapped, and as she screamed she waved her hands around frantically and wiggled her finger at Michiyo as she mentioned the Noah twins. She was shaking, and her nerves were dreadfully unhinged. She needed to relax. Why couldn't Tyki have come? She asked herself this over and over in her head.
"Road and I haven't disappeared. But YOU. You Exorcists! You're the ones that keep disappearing! You're the ones that look suspicious! I bet you in the next room there's something terrible again! And it's going to be your fault, I know it!" she had tears trickling down her cheeks again.
She noticed Sil light up a cigarette and it reminded her of Tyki. He loved his, and they always calmed him down -- They always calm him down.... Liv moved over to Sil and snatched the cigarette from her.
"I'm having one of these," she stepped far back from Sil again, away from all the Exorcists, and looked at the cigarette for a moment before trying it.
She coughed and sputtered at first, obviously not used to them. Her hand was shaking still and it took her a couple minutes to relax, but finally she did. She took several puffs from the cigarette, becoming accustomed to it before looking around at everyone again.
"What...? Let's just go on," she headed into the black abyss first, after Dominik had opened the door.
The room they entered remained pitch black until they had all gotten inside, and the door again disappeared afterwards. A small whimpering could be heard, like the sound of a crying woman. As the lights lifted, they would be able to set sights on the Maid of the Mansion. She looked very frazzled and lost, and it seemed she had been wandering in the dark for some time.
"Oh-!" She yelped a bit as the lights came up, and her eyes widened at the sight of the group. She didn't know what to make of it, but she didn't care...she was saved.
"Oh my goodness, finally someone has found me! Please!" She started towards them a bit, "You don't know what I've been through - We have to get out of here! This place, it's the - "
Everything went pitch black in an instant, and the maid screamed in horror. Her loud shrieks filled the entire room, and as they did....so did a large mass of fire. The maid had been set alight, and she was burning alive before their eyes. She was completely engulfed, and there was nothing any one of them could have done to save her. She was dead.
What as left of her body fell to the floor, the scent of burning flesh filling the room with a gut-wrenching stench. At her feet there laid a puddle of liquid, the fire whipping across it - it was something flammable. Not far away, near the edge of the flames, there rested the butt of a cigarette. Liv, Sil and Cross were all missing the ones they had been smoking moments before.
Liv backed away from the corpse, in utter shock. She noticed the cigarette and looked first at Cross and Sil, and then realized her cigarette was gone, too.
"That's- ...I- ...." She was speechless, and she had only just gotten done saying she didn't look suspicious. How did she look now...?
The first round of guessing is now OPEN!! All the clues thus far are on the front page. c:
Please send your guess in a PM to -Livverz-. Also, please continue with your responses as normal. c:
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:47 pm
((WARNING GRAPHIC didn't know how else to respond, so I got graphic, but you can skip it if you're queasy))
With the woman's body falling to the ground, broken and burned, Road couldn't help but stifle a giggle or laugh. She was soon laughing as hard the maid had screamed in her dying moments. Her laugh echoed creepily, and soon, once it died down, she grabbed at her side and gave one final giggle. She knew the situation didn't call for such a fit of laughter, but it didn't matter to Road, it never had. "I'll remember a death like that for the next time we're in battle." She said cold heartedly.
In truth, Road had had enough. She knew that the deeper they went into the mansion, the more dangerous it could get, or rather, it WOULD get. She watched the fire crackle and burn at the woman's skin, the bubbles forming and the skin blackening at the parts that had already burned past being red. Her eyes were open as well as her mouth, both body parts wide as if to echo the permanent plea for help. Her skin looked as if it were exploding with the innards having cooked their ways out, and where her nails used to be, her fingers were stuck scratching at the skin for always.
"It's pretty sick...but it's cool..." Road commented cruely.
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:24 pm
Cross had made a convulsive move to help the woman, but before he could do anything, she had burned up to the point of death. He looked away from the body, but not before noticing all of their cigarettes were missing, and the obviously planted evidence lying in the pool of lighter fluid. He reach a hand behind his head and rubbed the back of his neck with a sigh, shaking his head.
"This just keeps getting better, doesn't it?" Of course by better, he meant dreadfully worse, "Whatever is going on here...it...the impostor....looks to be trying its hardest to confuse all of us. It certainly has begun to win against us, the way we're all turning on each other," he looked at Sil especially, since she seemed the most accusatory of all, even towards him, her General.
"We should be on our toes, but we also need to work together to solve this. I don't know whether we should continue forward or stay put and try to hack this out," he contemplated.
"If we move forward, we run the risk of coming across more danger, but at the same time, we'll surely get more clues," he offered.
He looked around the room and saw there was again one door leading forward. He took a few steps, pacing around a bit. He looked at everyone and could see the fear in them; this had really turned into a lengthy, serious mission. It wasn't that he hadn't expected it, but even for him this was becoming a bit of a problem, which was saying something.
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