Game 96 - Trouble in Treasure Town (Trial 2)

[mao]

"Thank you, Eevee."

The Real Meloetta's demeanor quickly changes and pink goo drips out as they open their mouth.

They point their finger and scream...

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"SLAKING IS THE BLACKENED!"

[Evie The Bat]

"Uh why is it slaking?"

[Vaellin the Bard]

Pirouette Meloetta hesitates, giving a shy smile to Evie. "It is presumptuous of me to assume this, but I don't think we can completely rule out Vigoroth. However, you do make a good point. Were he to kill Wobbuffet, it'd be hard for him to have made it into the dojo unnoticed in a single action. But perhaps he took a round about way? Did... did anyone check the tents?"

"Also, even with Vigoroth being in the Psychic Room, with the bow missing I don't think we can limit it to just psychic types. Wobbuffet is a psychic type so the murderer would have access no matter what.

"Though the only information I have is practically worthless. Espurr, Wobbuffet, myself, and perhaps the superior-but-creepy version of me were in the Psychic type house during the first two actions. While I cannot determine when he died, his body was definitely not there at the time."

Speaking of superior-but-creepy, Meloetta turns to Deloetta. "Why do you think Slaking? If anything... I thought he was to be a victim."

[Ktoasty]

Sandshrew asks spaghetti Melmel a question. ”You said Deloetta was able to go in the Psychic house? Did you really see him go in there?”

[Vaellin the Bard]

Nov 19, 2020 18:13:06 GMT -6 Ktoasty said:

Sandshrew asks spaghetti Melmel a question. ”You said Deloetta was able to go in the Psychic house? Did you really see him go in there?”

"No. I'm dreadfully sorry for misleading you. They were in the dojo common room when I was leaving. Any misunderstandings are all my fault! I just meant to imply they could have easily checked! Wobbuffet was the only one in the room when I left during the second action. He was happily dancing then. Espurr left with me."

[Ktoasty]

"No, it's alright. Just something that caught my interest." Sandshrew goes on to explain. "If changing his type allows Ditto to enter different type houses, then we have three, maybe four bows that could have entered the Psychic House. Espurr's, Wobbuffet's, Ditto's, and yours, Meloetta."

Sandshrew makes four bow sculptures out of snow, and one Vigoroth sculpture in the center. "The reason I bring this up is it affects our killer's actions significantly. If Vigoroth really did... end his own life like Slaking suggested, he would only need Wobbuffet's bow to go into the Psychic house. But if one of us killed Vigoroth, then they would need two bows. One for themselves and one for the victim to enter the house."

[Vaellin the Bard]

Nov 19, 2020 18:25:05 GMT -6 Ktoasty said:

"No, it's alright. Just something that caught my interest." Sandshrew goes on to explain. "If changes his type allows Ditto to enter different type houses, then we have three, maybe four bows that could have entered the Psychic House. Espurr's, Wobbuffet's, Ditto's, and yours, Meloetta."

Sandshrew makes four bow sculptures out of snow, and one Vigoroth sculpture in the center. "The reason I bring this up is it affects our killer's actions significantly. If Vigoroth really did... end his own life like Slaking suggested, he would only need Wobbuffet's bow to go into the Psychic house. But if one of us killed Vigoroth, then they would need two bows. One for themselves and one for the victim to enter the house."

"You are incredibly brilliant to think of that," Meloetta states before turning to Deloetta

"I-I may be mistaken, but other me... where did your bow go? Did someone take it?"

[Ktoasty]

Sandshrew recalls Deldel's sort-of alibi. "Deloetta said he had bad encounters with Arcanine, Slaking, and Eevee. Of those three, only Eevee has the Covet move. If anyone took his bow, I'd have to say she's the most likely one."

[Evie The Bat]

Evie shakes her head

"Nope. I only saw Deloetta in the normal type room, lounging about. So they had their bow at that point. This way A5-A6"

[Ktoasty]

Sandshrew takes note. "Does that mean they were already transformed at that point, Eevee? Then Deloetta would have transformed before the action you two met. Can you tell more about what you two did? It seems strange that you were together to the very end of the night, but Deloetta is here without their bow anyway."

[Tetsu]

Ark looks around sadly

"I see, Wob is dead...as is Vigoroth...I can see why someone would want to take out Wob; it's because of his Shadow Tag ability, they want it to be gone so we can move freely, just the same as Ray's motive of murder. But Vigoroth, I can't seem to figure out why..."

He thinks for a moment,

"I believe, the Meanie, wanted to have two kills because they want to lead us astray like the first time round, they want us to suspect Vigoroth as the Meanie, but...I believe that Vigoroth did not kill Wob."

"The reason why is that, Vigoroth has a dislocated neck, and his expression was filled with pain and horror, the only thing would be someone pushed him of a tree or something hard, since there's no visible bruising. Then what of Wob? What was his cause of death? I believe if we have those two, we would have a better understanding of this situation."

He then looks around

"You see, the last time I saw Wob was at the beginning of the night, where I took him towards the edge of Treasure Town so everyone can look around tonight, and let him waddle back to the guild. As for Vigoroth I did not see the sign of him at all tonight. It seems, Vigoroth could have died early in the night."

"Oh..my investigation was basically useless..."

[Evie The Bat]

"ill say my A5 and A6 so you all can get a sense of what happened, minus a secret project of mine.

A5: Arcanine, Meloetta, and Mimikyu walked by me as I'm deciding what to do. Mimikyu and Meloetta went into the dojo, and Arcanine went into the Chansey Daycare. He let out a howl to alert everyone to his location. I decided to go into my type house to put slaking's toxic blunt into my cauldron. I went into the dojo, where Mimikyu was sitting idly, and went into the Normal Type House, where Meloetta, now in aria form and wearing a charmander costume and fake badge, was reclining on the couch. She told me that I shouldn’t smoke that blunt; it’s got some bad stuff in it. I told her I knew, and dropped it into my cauldron. I retrieved my spell book from my bag and began to flip through it, seeing if I could use that "bad stuff." One spell stands out to me.

A6: After reading over my spell, I looked around the Normal Type House for any of the mentioned ingredients. I found a few ingredients. Before leaving, I talked with Meloetta, who was still on the couch. She seemed confused when I mentioned the debacle with Slakoth in the daycare, but she was Deloetta. She admitted that she took a hit from Slaking’s blunt earlier. I was about to talk more when I was interrupted by Chatot’s Echoed Voice announcement. "Attention, recruits! The Guildmaster has called an emergency meeting at sublevel 2! Everyone is expected to be there post-haste!"
Me and Meloetta leave the Normal Type House together, and exit the dojo. Chatot is standing in the Eastern Square. He directs us to the crossroads. Meloetta holds my paw as she rung the bell, and we’re both warped into the guild house. In sublevel 1, I noticed a red Radio Flyer wagon. I climbed down the ladder. Slaking, Slakoth, Spiritomb, another Meloetta, Arcanine, Sandshrew, Mimikyu, and Bayleef were already assembled. Espurr and Feebas came along behind me, and finally Chatot."

[Ktoasty]

Sandshrew tilts his head, very confused at Eevee's account and the Deloetta in front of them. "That's very odd then. Deloetta was able to exit the Normal house, so they had to have their bow at action 6. So why don't they have their bow now? Did they drop it on the way to Sublevel 2?"

[Vaellin the Bard]

Meloetta (Pirouette) hesitates again and then bows to Sandshrew slightly. "Also, your genius Sanshrew brings up a serious point to consider. I mean about the aura bows. Theres one person here who doesnt even need bows to get around, isnt there? I am not worthy of accusing anyone but Espurr would have the capabilities to pull this off, I think."

[Ktoasty]

Sandshrew bows back to Meloetta. "It's nothing genius. I've just been talking more than others so far. You have a point though, Espurr wouldn't need Wobbuffet's or Deloetta's bows to send Vigoroth to the Psychic room. But we'd still need to explain how either of them lost their bows in the first place."

He goes into a separate topic. "I can share what I found during the investigation period, while we wait for Deloetta's account."

"Wobbuffet had a sky blue friendship bracelet on his wrist, probably from Mimikyu when they met at A3. The eyes on his tail were completely bloodshot. There were also a few fine, lighter colored fibers that I found in his zigzag teeth, and signs of bruising around his mouth. I couldn't tell what the fibers could have originated from, they were too tiny to tell. The last thing of note is my Move Detective, Wobbuffet did have a move used on him tonight."