Game 94: Deadly Threesome [Trial 3]

[Spell Craft]

Uratsu, after taking a short break, starts off saying:

"This next part about the gun isn't really a big surprise or anything of importance."
"It's simply something worth mentioning."

He then sighs, not really wanting to talk about his part, but since he had to...

"I was born to an upper class couple who could have cared less about a child, and more about status."
"They needed a child who was proper, poised, and well behaved."

Uratsu chuckles a bit, before it quickly fades.

"As all of you probably know by now, I'm none of the above."

"So they hired an assassin to kill me instead."
"But, I guess I did learn a thing of two about survival from my parents, so I'll at least give them that."
"They threw me to the streets, and I could never return to my previous home."

Uratsu gives off a small grin.

"As for payback, however, I managed to steal my father's precious handgun and it's ammunition."
"Turns out some assassins turn tail and run if a gun is pointed at them."
"Not that I even got to shoot it, but that gun was used as my protector before coming to the orphanage."

Now Uratsu glances to the side, a bit saddened.

"The gun doesn't have the best of memories to it."
"In fact, any weapon would be better for me, so long as it was long ranged."
"Just so I'm not forced to thing about my so called parents anymore."
"But that doesn't change the fact that..."

Uratsu turns to the group, a little grim.

"My handgun went missing."

"Someone took it. And if it's not found around one of the deceased, then that means..."
"Someone here most likely has my handgun."

Uratsu gives a sigh of relief however.

"Not that it entirely matters, because I lost the ammunition for it many years ago."
"But it would be nice to know who has my gun."
"And maybe, why they might have taken it."

[Crow]

Jul 6, 2020 4:09:38 GMT -6 Tetsu said:

"You don't think...that..."

"Yes.. it's a possibility that.. Mother killed Sandra.." Julian sighed, ruffling his hair in frustration.

Jul 6, 2020 5:38:42 GMT -6 Spell Craft said:

Uratsu, being a little more than bombarded with accusations, questions, and revelations, decided to break his silence for once.

He starts by looking down.

"I was trying to protect you."
"All of you."
"From the horrible secrets Mother keeps."
"And the truth about the Orphanage."

He now looks to Julian first.

"The secrets were kept in order to save the lives of not only myself, but anyone I would have told."
"If I told you, both of us would have been adopted."
"If anyone knew, even at the cost of everyone, we all would have been adopted."

Uratsu scans across the group now.

"If you're willing to have your life on the line for a secret, then I'll tell you."
"As Mother isn't here... she can't know that you know."
"But if this is what you all want, then..."

Uratsu pauses, and takes a deep breath.

He carefully antagonized over how to tell anyone these words, for years.

"Mother and I meet every night at 9pm-10pm [A2]."
"We discuss thing about adoption; who will be adopted, when it will happen, how to do about it, etc."
"It was me who really made the plan to stop announcing who gets adopted, but rather to just celebrate as if everyone is being adopted."
"And then that person is simply... gone."

Uratsu holds his head in his hands, looking more bleak.

"She let it slip one day."
"She had accidentally told me about an issue that occurred 3 years ago."
"When a girl was... --had died in the gateway side room, rather than outside these walls."
"She said, and I quote, "I suppose the monsters got too hungry because I was too late in their shipment, that they ate her within the walls of the gate instead of outside.""

Uratsu shook his head, trying to shake loose the images that will never go away.

"Naturally, I questioned her."
"For month, I blamed her. For everything."
"And of course, I still do to this day. How could someone taking care of children feed them to monsters? Where did they come from? Why?"

Uratsu straightened up a bit more, letting go of his head.

"Mother didn't tell me everything. But she did say that I could not tell anyone about our secrets, or else I would get adopted, along with everyone else I told."
"As painful as it was to keep this secret, I had to carry the burden to keep everyone safe..."
"...knowing full well what it really meant to be... 'adopted'."

Uratsu goes silent for a little bit, letting everyone soak in his words before continuing to talk about the gun.

Listening to what Uratsu said, Julian could only look at him with a complicated gaze. Sighing, he said "I believe what you say Ura, as crazy as how the story may sound I believe it."

Taking out a photo frame, Julian place it on his podium.

"From your story, I believe this is a photo of that girl."

Looking at Uratsu once more, Julian scratch his cheek as he said "I am sure we've cleared you out already, but could you please tell us about your night? Just so we can confirm things from your perspective."

"As for the gun.. Please tell me you lost the mag before coming here." Saying that, Julian look nervously at Lucie

[Spell Craft]

Jul 6, 2020 7:26:19 GMT -6 Crow said:

"From your story, I believe this is a photo of that girl."

Uratsu shakes his head.

"Not her."
"I've never seen this girl in my life."
"And I've been hear the second longest of all of us."

Jul 6, 2020 7:26:19 GMT -6 Crow said:

Looking at Uratsu once more, Julian scratch his cheek as he said "I am sure we've cleared you out already, but could you please tell us about your night? Just so we can confirm things from your perspective."

"I can, I don't mind it now."
"I just want to ask, before I say..."
"I assume you want it completely unfiltered, right?"
"You might not like everything you hear."

Jul 6, 2020 7:26:19 GMT -6 Crow said:

"As for the gun.. Please tell me you lost the mag before coming here." Saying that, Julian look nervously at Lucie

Uratsu looks down.

"Unfortunately... no."
"I lost the individual bullets years after already having been here."
"I was here for most of my life, but just not all of it."
"This may be unbelievable to hear as well, but I came here when I was 1 year old."
"I lost the ammunition when I was roughly 7 years old."

[Crow]

Jul 6, 2020 7:37:48 GMT -6 Spell Craft said:

"I can, I don't mind it now."
"I just want to ask, before I say..."
"I assume you want it completely unfiltered, right?"
"You might not like everything you hear."

Taking a deep breath, Julian nodded. "Yes please, it's no longer a matter of if i will accept or not, it's about the truth now." lowering his gaze, He mumbled "And I think I already have some inkling what it might be."

Jul 6, 2020 7:37:48 GMT -6 Spell Craft said:

"Unfortunately... no."
"I lost the individual bullets years after already having been here."
"I was here for most of my life, but just not all of it."
"This may be unbelievable to hear as well, but I came here when I was 1 year old."
"I lost the ammunition when I was roughly 7 years old."

"Can you tell us more about the gun? What model it is and if it have any kind of modifications, and more importantly how many bullets did it have?" Julian asked, rubbing the side of his head.

[Spell Craft]

Jul 6, 2020 8:07:20 GMT -6 Crow said:

"Yes please, it's no longer a matter of if i will accept or not, it's about the truth now." lowering his gaze, He mumbled "And I think I already have some inkling what it might be."

Uratsu nods.

"Alright then."

[A0] I went to the Shed at this time, still looking for my missing handgun. I found Asai here, and she wanted to help me look. She just finished the shed rebuilding, and caught me laying down in the grass, looking around. She asked me if showing me her knees would help, so I laid back in the grass, staring up at the sky, and told her how I felt about her. Asai was taken aback, but she rolled on top of me and...
She reassured me that not everyone understands their feelings, once I admitted that I'm torn between between my feelings. We made a plan to meet at the pool later that night.

[A1] I went to the Gateway from here, trying to look more for my handgun, or perhaps how to open the gate incase my handgun could have been in there. I found nothing.

[A2] Afterward, I went to meet with Mother, as usual, in her office. We talked about who should be adopted, but we never came to a conclusion because we were interrupted by a call Mother got on her red phone. She said she had somewhere she needed to be, and left.

[A3] I left Mother's office to meet with Wiccan at the Grand Tree, another nightly plan we do every night. He wanted to know what Mother and I talk about, but I couldn't tell him at that moment. I was trying to protect him. Wiccan and I decided to check out the sound of the scream that we heard just around the time of meeting.

[A4] Wiccan and I were headed to the Vestibule to investigate, but ran into Asai at the porch. She was looking frantic, and told me she needed to talk to me, alone. I told Wiccan to go on ahead. She went up to me, so I grabbed her in my arms, and she just started hysterically crying; something I've never seen her do before. She was mumbling about finding a dead body at the pool, who we now can assume was Shinso, but she was crying so hard that I couldn't really understand her that well. So I kissed her instead. When she calmed down, we returned to the Vestibule, and saw Wiccan bleeding there, Lucie holding a knife.
Most of you know went down here, so I'll just add that I didn't have a weapon on me at this time. But I was thinking about running away when Lucie mentioned my gun, and everyone turned on me. I knew didn't have the time nor was ready to explain everything about the gun just yet. Asai stopped me, as others said, with her taser. I don't remember anything after that.

[A5] When I finally came to, I saw Wiccan cradling over me, and Niles rushed to my side, both making sure I was okay. Everything was blurry, and I was still trying to gain composure. This was in the Bedroom.

[A6] When Wiccan left and Niles turned around, I snuck out, knowing Niles would try to stop me if he knew. I needed to find my gun, so I tried the Graveyard next, and ...met Asai there. She was slumped over, and when I went to her, I.. the knife... I didn't know what to do. I just held her close for the rest of the night...

tl;dr
Shed
Gateway
Mother's Office
Grand Tree
Vestibule
Bedroom
Graveyard

[Spell Craft]

Jul 6, 2020 8:07:20 GMT -6 Crow said:

"Can you tell us more about the gun? What model it is and if it have any kind of modifications, and more importantly how many bullets did it have?" Julian asked, rubbing the side of his head.

Uratsu then answers the questions about the gun.

"There's not much to it really."
"It's a regular handgun, I don't know much about them so I couldn't tell you exactly what kind."
"I don't believe there's any modifications."
"There were a handful of bullets, I believe."
"I carved my initials into those bullets."

[Tetsu]

Jul 6, 2020 8:54:51 GMT -6 Spell Craft said:

So I kissed her instead.

Wiccan could hear his heart shattering at hearing Ura kissed Asai

" O-oh...I see..." 

Wiccan then stares at his hand

"B-But...right now...how should we begin...do we look at them individually or collectively...c-could Asai...m-murder...Shinso..?"

 Hr tries to keep his voice from breaking

[Crow]

Hearing Uratsu recounting his night, Julian closes his eyes and lean on his podium.

"I already had the idea but hearing you say it still stings a lot." he said, a self-mocking smile on his face.

"Whatever, personal feelings aside this clear you of all suspicion if anyone still have any, although I doubt that.

Tilting his head slightly, he look toward William.

Jul 6, 2020 9:28:23 GMT -6 Tetsu said:

c-could Asai...m-murder...Shinso..?

"As for Shinso's death I had the same idea William, but i quickly cast that aside since she had no personal vendetta against him. Besides if she have problems with you she will confront you head on and give you a piece of her mind." he said, sounding rather distant.

"As for how he is in his current state, I believe the sudden chill that starts about 00:10 last night are the cause of it. I don't know about the rest of you but last night was unnaturally freezing to be spring."

Taking out a bottle of sleeping pills, Julian set it on the podium. "Last item in her purse, I don't know if anyone have insomnia or where did she get this but I am sure this not too important of an item."

"Shinso's murder aside, the only person with possible time to kill Sandra alone was Lucie. she said she went to the boiler room but she was alone so she could have lied about it when she went to the workout area instead." moving his sight towards Lucie, gave her a slight smile.

"She went to the workout area and grab one of the dumbbell and whack Sandra's head. i don't know what personal vendetta she have but the message left seem to point towards yesterday's trial."

Sighing, Julian tilt his head back. "I will need a drink after this." sweeping his glance across the crowd he added, "If any of you have any addition or objection, you can say it now. I just want this to be over with."

[Spell Craft]

Jul 6, 2020 10:47:02 GMT -6 Crow said:

"As for how he is in his current state, I believe the sudden chill that starts about 00:10 last night are the cause of it. I don't know about the rest of you but last night was unnaturally freezing to be spring."

Uratsu crosses his arms in puzzlement. “Well, it WAS unnaturally cold later last night. But, it felt more like an Apparition coldness, or something otherworldly. Plus it’s..like summer outside, extremely hot. Even though it SHOULD be spring. It wasn’t snowing, so it couldn’t have been winter. I don’t think it was cold enough to freeze.” Uratsu adds. “Just what on Earth is going on with the weather,” he mumbles.

[crazynuto]

Jul 6, 2020 10:47:02 GMT -6 Crow said:

"Shinso's murder aside, the only person with possible time to kill Sandra alone was Lucie. she said she went to the boiler room but she was alone so she could have lied about it when she went to the workout area instead." moving his sight towards Lucie, gave her a slight smile.

"She went to the workout area and grab one of the dumbbell and whack Sandra's head. i don't know what personal vendetta she have but the message left seem to point towards yesterday's trial."

Sighing, Julian tilt his head back. "I will need a drink after this." sweeping his glance across the crowd he added, "If any of you have any addition or objection, you can say it now. I just want this to be over with."

Niles slams his fist down on the podium.

"I-I object! I-It couldn't have been Lucie! She and I spent so long alone together a-and...she could've easily killed me at any moment if she so desired! Probably could've easily gotten away with it too!

Besides Wiccan, you were alone for 2 hours today! You even said you were in the computer room. How come you're so innocent? You could've easily attacked Sandra yourself! A-And for that matter, so could you Julian!

I simply don't believe that Lucie had the time to do it! I mean she had a cat on her for god's sake. How could she have possibly held a knife, a cat, a dumbbell, all with an injured arm? It just doesn't make sense!"

Niles looks very upset and very nervous.

[Lucie is too Lazy to signin]

A1 and A2 library with Niles talking
A3 pantry feeding the cat
A4 Vestibule, attacked mother and indirectly attacked Wiccan, Urarsu and Asai came in, took my knife away which was serated NOT a whatever was in Asai (taken last night)
A5 kitchen with Asai to heal cat (kinda auto)
A6 Boiler room with cat where the cat scratched me all up (auto)

[crazynuto]

Niles calms himself down and stands up straight.

"I would like to propose a theory for Shinso's death. It's obvious that it wasn't cold enough outside to freeze the water in Shinso's lungs if he were to drown. If that was the case the pool water would've been frozen as well. Still, why was the water purple? Yes there's a setting on it but perhaps that was used to disguise what really killed him.

I propose that Shinso was forced to drink an agent that freezes at low temperatures, but still not as low as water. As for what that could be well...

SPOILER: Click to show

Shinsos Face
Looking to his face, it is in a state of shock. There's blue around his mouth.

Perhaps that blue liquid has something to do with it? I believe it is non volatile dry ice, a liquid that is found in most modern refridgerators. This blue liquid is also used in a lot of car radiators, allowing it to cool without freezing unless exposed to really low temperatures. If Shinso's body was cold enough, the refridgerant would've freezed in his lungs after he drank it.

As for how it got cold enough...perhaps he was somewhere cold? Or someone piled ice on him? It's possible he was frozen after he died too."

[Crow]

Jul 6, 2020 12:36:47 GMT -6 crazynuto said:

Niles calms himself down and stands up straight.

"I would like to propose a theory for Shinso's death. It's obvious that it wasn't cold enough outside to freeze the water in Shinso's lungs if he were to drown. If that was the case the pool water would've been frozen as well. Still, why was the water purple? Yes there's a setting on it but perhaps that was used to disguise what really killed him.

I propose that Shinso was forced to drink an agent that freezes at low temperatures, but still not as low as water. As for what that could be well...

SPOILER: Click to show

Shinsos Face
Looking to his face, it is in a state of shock. There's blue around his mouth.

Perhaps that blue liquid has something to do with it? I believe it is non volatile dry ice, a liquid that is found in most modern refridgerators. This blue liquid is also used in a lot of car radiators, allowing it to cool without freezing unless exposed to really low temperatures. If Shinso's body was cold enough, the refridgerant would've freezed in his lungs after he drank it.

As for how it got cold enough...perhaps he was somewhere cold? Or someone piled ice on him? It's possible he was frozen after he died too."

"If we follow by that logic, then the killer have to be in the kitchen to get everything they need before arriving at the pool at 9pm where we presume Shinso to be murdured. From Uratsu's statement they are outside by the gate at around 8pm while William said he is at the dining room alone. which leaves me to be the prime suspect. but then i have the blowtorch and the plank with me when i left the kitchen and as far as i know there was nothing but frozen food or fruits in the fridge when i grab an apple to snack with before heading to the bedroom." Julian said, slightly shrugging his shoulders.

"Besides, whoever Kill Shinso have to force them to drink with your theory. he could have over power them and even if he couldn't, killer will be wet from the struggles. I am no where near wet am i? also i think i remember you mentioning you could smell the chlorine." letting out a chuckle, Julian finally look at Niles.

"Did i miss anything Professor?" he asked, almost like a challenge.

[crazynuto]

Niles thinks really really hard about that. Asai had seen Shinso's body...but why was she soaking wet? The only way that could've happened would be... Of course!

"AH HA! I KNOW THE TRUTH BEHIND SHINSO'S MURDER."

Niles triumphantly straightens up and points towards Uratsu.

"It all makes sense after what he said. That Asai had found a body in the pool. But when was that? When I saw her, it was only 9 pm, [A3] and she was soaking wet, so it must've been directly before that. The only logical place she could've gotten soaked was the pool, since it wasn't raining and she had come from outside. So I ask you my dear friends, why would she have gone for a swim if the body was on the edge of the pool?"

Niles smirks

"It's simple really, the body wasn't there at the time of the murder. It was at the bottom of the pool. Asai had gone swimming, and discovered Shinso's body, that is when she ran away. Whether this happened at 7 or 8 [A1 or A2] I am not sure, but it must be closer to 8 due to her not having time to dry off. Which means that the murder itself would've happened at 7. Someone had later fished it out with the Pool Cleaning Net that was left discarded nearby. My suspicion is that Mother did that, although I have no proof of the matter."

He proudly gives a thumbs up

"Still...there is one question I feel needs to be answered, and that is who did this. Nearly everyone has an alibi at the time aside from Asai, Sandra, Julian, and Wiccan. It'd be almost impossible to make this a suicide, so I think that it very well could've been Sandra. The others all were seen throughout the night, but nobody had seen Sandra at all. I'm not sure how but perhaps she killed Asai, Shinso, and then herself?"

He takes a deep breath, running out of steam here but still satisfied with his theory.

[Lucie is too Lazy to signin]

"So... The spirits of the dead have been urging me to go to the pool... And turn on Scuba mode... We should probably try that..."