Game 103C - Trial 2 - Chrysanthemum Corpse

[Izumiko (Emi)]

"Tch. Fine. Maybe you just need a different perspective to this case. Here. Let me bring some light on what I think happened."

4. How was Amaya attacked?

5. When did Amaya get attacked?

6. Did any mannequin play a role in this night? If so what?

"I think these questions are all related to one and same scenario. It would be the most complex part of the murder. Guess I'll try to explain... What a pain.

"The Mannequin at the testing room? Yeah. That was the lethal trap set up by the culprit. It was said it shoots darts, right? Well, the device in it anyway. We did not find any darts lying around, did we? Meaning the device in the mannequin was never used to shoot one of those darts. What it shot instead, was the one poisoned syringe needle. The mechanism seems to be quite simple to activate. Simply run in front of it... much like Amaya did. The device would then trigger, shooting Amaya in the leg with a poisoned needle, where she was seen tripping and falling. The trip was caused by the shot needle. And this is how the killing blow happened. Without the culprit ever needing to be present.

We have two options for Amaya's reaction. She either planned this herself and let it happen, or she simply did not notice. Both work, as the pain of falling would temporarily disguise the pain of getting shot in the leg. She would later realize around a5, that she has a needle in her leg and take it out before sleep. This is why we found a needle and one of Amaya's flowers in the Storage Room. If anyone wishes to make a suicide theory out of this, feel free to do so. After all, she did leave flowers behind in SOME locations she visited. As if she knew she was going to die.

Regardless of whether this is a murder or suicide, the mannequin delivered the poisoned blow, syringe was discarded by Amaya at Storage, she then went to sleep without telling anyone she was hit by a needle. Even if she didn't know it was poisoned, she should have known by A5, that she was hit by a needle."

7. Where did the murderer retrieve the materials they needed?

8. How was Amaya targeted? Was anyone else a potential victim?

"The relevant tools of murder is the Mannequin and the device set up inside of it. This can be done in either Storage or Repair Room. The poison and the needle were both taken from the Lab. That much is undeniable. The victim could have been anyone using the Obstacle Course AFTER the Mannequin contraption was set up with the poisoned needle. In case of suicide, Amaya might have set up the trap too late and had to take the blow herself. Or she simply did not want to kill anyone and was forced to."

[Misaki]

Jun 13, 2023 0:15:42 GMT -6 Izumiko (Emi) said:

"Tch. Fine. Maybe you just need a different perspective to this case. Here. Let me bring some light on what I think happened."

4. How was Amaya attacked?

5. When did Amaya get attacked?

6. Did any mannequin play a role in this night? If so what?

"I think these questions are all related to one and same scenario. It would be the most complex part of the murder. Guess I'll try to explain... What a pain.

"The Mannequin at the testing room? Yeah. That was the lethal trap set up by the culprit. It was said it shoots darts, right? Well, the device in it anyway. We did not find any darts lying around, did we? Meaning the device in the mannequin was never used to shoot one of those darts. What it shot instead, was the one poisoned syringe needle. The mechanism seems to be quite simple to activate. Simply run in front of it... much like Amaya did. The device would then trigger, shooting Amaya in the leg with a poisoned needle, where she was seen tripping and falling. The trip was caused by the shot needle. And this is how the killing blow happened. Without the culprit ever needing to be present.

We have two options for Amaya's reaction. She either planned this herself and let it happen, or she simply did not notice. Both work, as the pain of falling would temporarily disguise the pain of getting shot in the leg. She would later realize around a5, that she has a needle in her leg and take it out before sleep. This is why we found a needle and one of Amaya's flowers in the Storage Room. If anyone wishes to make a suicide theory out of this, feel free to do so. After all, she did leave flowers behind in SOME locations she visited. As if she knew she was going to die.

Regardless of whether this is a murder or suicide, the mannequin delivered the poisoned blow, syringe was discarded by Amaya at Storage, she then went to sleep without telling anyone she was hit by a needle. Even if she didn't know it was poisoned, she should have known by A5, that she was hit by a needle."

7. Where did the murderer retrieve the materials they needed?

8. How was Amaya targeted? Was anyone else a potential victim?

"The relevant tools of murder is the Mannequin and the device set up inside of it. This can be done in either Storage or Repair Room. The poison and the needle were both taken from the Lab. That much is undeniable. The victim could have been anyone using the Obstacle Course AFTER the Mannequin contraption was set up with the poisoned needle. In case of suicide, Amaya might have set up the trap too late and had to take the blow herself. Or she simply did not want to kill anyone and was forced to."

"Oh wow. I'm very impressed that you even managed to say more than one sentence let alone a whole paragraph!" She says in a sarcastic tone. 

[Kuroneko]

"So Mr. Rat, considering how well you were able to hide yourself and the times you had been unseen by any aside from Tia who won't reveal those she had been with, there is quite the potential for you to have sneaked into the lab to create the poison. Then during the latter half of the third hour (A6), you could have stabbed the victim while the two of you were away from other participants in Tia's Room. Perhaps this is a stretch, but unless you can provide evidence otherwise..."

[Snow]

"Well... It would seem we're approaching the end of our time. In any case, I'd like to ask our overlords some things."

"Lady Sue, you weren't seen at all during the night. Is it appropriate to presume that you weren't present?"

She next turns to Rio Ranger

"Count Rio, as for you, who was seen in your own room. Could you tell us about anything from your time there? If Miss Tia left at all, who entered, and exited... and an approximation of when?"

She also passes Tia a glance

"Miss Tia, if you could be so kind as to corroborate what Count Rio says, it would be very helpful."

[Snow]

"I know I am not the first person to say some of these things, but allow me to speak what I believe is the truth of this case."

1. Who Killed Amaya?

"Mr. Anonymous. He is the killer, and the person responsible for her death. Either directly or indirectly."

2. When did Amaya die?

"During night time. Once we hit 11pm, and the curfew was enacted, Amaya went to her own room. As she lay in bed as the night went on, her body begun to fail on her. She died while we all slept, most likely in a slow, painful and mortifying way."

3. What was Amaya’s cause of death?

"I would like to be more specific here. Poison is correct, as it lead to her death, but the poison didn't exactly kill her. I am going to say it was either asphyxiation or hypoxemia due to acute respiratory failure, as caused by water hemlock poisoning."

4. How was Amaya attacked?

"Attacked is a strong word. In fact, it seems likely that Amaya did not even realise she was dying until it was too late. I would scarcely call that being attacked. Alas. During her attempt of the Obstacle Course, as she passed by the motion detector, a dart, which had a small amount of poison on it hit her in the ankle."

5. When did Amaya get attacked?

"This was during her attempt at the Obstacle Course, which would make it sometime between 9:30 and 10pm."

6. Did any mannequin play a role in this night? If so what?

"Indeed. The mannequin who manages the Testing Room was used. Upon being programmed to mildly increase the lethality of the Testing Room, the killer told the mannequin to dip the first dart's tip in a small amount of poison made from water hemlock. The mannequin made the poison, and filled a small syringe's worth of it, and brought it back to the Testing Room, where it was applied to the next dart."

7. Where did the murderer retrieve the materials they needed?

"This seems to imply the murderer got the materials themselves, but my theory stands in opposition to that. In any case, The Laboratory was used to harvest and create the poison, and the Testing Room was used to apply it."

8. How was Amaya targeted? Was anyone else a potential victim?

"Again, targeted is a strong word. It was naught but the demon's roulette. She was unlucky. The trap didn't require Amaya specifically, but whoever would next go over the Obstacle Course. This would mean that another potential victim could have been Roroa."

[Peregrine]

"There are a few names coming up a lot. Just to cover our bases, I'll try to remember where I've been and who I saw during the night."

1. "As soon as the night started, I went to the Relaxation Room to grab some cigarettes. Amaya entered shortly after me, holding a flower bouquet. I passed through the Trial Room on the way downstairs, and Mr. Anonymous joined me as we both went to the Storage Room. Lex was already there."

2. "I went into the Repair Room around the same time Aki left it."

3. "I bounced around between the Repair Room and the Electrical Room for a while. This was when I saw Tohru come in from the Storage Room; she moved on to Rio's Room soon after."

4. "Power and Fuzz came in through the Storage Room and left not long after. They were together both times, I'm pretty sure."

5. "A lot of people came in after that. D.A. Ratticus came in from Rio's Room and rushed into the Storage Room. He looked like he was in a hurry. Maki came later on and started messing with the camera near Rio's Room. Amaya entered shortly after, and the two of them disappeared into the Electrical Room. Tohru was the last to enter around this time. She'd returned from Rio's Room and headed back into the Storage Room."

6. "Amaya and Maki came back from the Electrical Room together, and D.A. Ratticus came back in from the Storage Room. The three of them all went back to Rio's Room together. I briefly went into the Storage Room, and saw Denji lying on the ground there with a wound in his chest. He seemed to be alive, so I didn't pay him too much mind and returned to the Repair Room until curfew."

[Vaellin the Bard]

Jun 13, 2023 5:42:28 GMT -6 Snow said:

"Well... It would seem we're approaching the end of our time. In any case, I'd like to ask our overlords some things."

"Lady Sue, you weren't seen at all during the night. Is it appropriate to presume that you weren't present?"

She next turns to Rio Ranger

"Count Rio, as for you, who was seen in your own room. Could you tell us about anything from your time there? If Miss Tia left at all, who entered, and exited... and an approximation of when?"

She also passes Tia a glance

"Miss Tia, if you could be so kind as to corroborate what Count Rio says, it would be very helpful."

Tia answers this one with a tearful, bubbly grin. "I-I have it on good authority that all three of us were in our rooms last night, all night."

[Kuroneko]

"The three of you seem reluctant to tell who you were with, but Tia, would you mind telling us when others were around?"

"After thinking for a bit, the pain I felt while running the course was indeed that of a dart."

[Vaellin the Bard]

Jun 13, 2023 10:13:06 GMT -6 Kuroneko said:

"The three of you seem reluctant to tell who you were with, but Tia, would you mind telling us when others were around?"

"After thinking for a bit, the pain I felt while running the course was indeed that of a dart."

"W-We are allowed to say where we are, but not who--if anyone--we s-saw. Sin-since we can't be killers or accomplices, our word is too... um reliable?"

Rio snorts and glowers at Roroa. "Basically you can't rely on everything. Someone wants to lie about being in my room at the last stretch of the night when no one else is there? Yeah they can do that. But they better include me if I AM there because I won't lie about my location."

Tia nods. "C-consider us like objects, but since w-we won't be there for the investigation, we have to tell you."

[Kuroneko]

"Yes, that was why I was asking for when you had been visited and not by whom."

"Are we able to remotely order mannequins to our side, or do we need a phone like room service? How well can they sneak?"

"It would seem that I was shot around the leg area by a dart that came from below. It happened during a jump, so there was little chance of avoiding without knowing about it."

[Vaellin the Bard]

Jun 13, 2023 10:28:03 GMT -6 Kuroneko said:

"Yes, that was why I was asking for when you had been visited and not by whom."

"Are we able to remotely order mannequins to our side, or do we need a phone like room service? How well can they sneak?"

"It would seem that I was shot around the leg area by a dart that came from below. It happened during a jump, so there was little chance of avoiding without knowing about it."

"You would need to contact an mannequin directly to give them any kind of order. All remote contacts cease during the night."

[Kuroneko]

"Could our hosts clarify where one would find working mannequins? I was under the impression that there were none in the lab, testing, repair, and storage rooms that functioned. The trial room also didn't have any last I checked."

[Vaellin the Bard]

Jun 13, 2023 10:52:37 GMT -6 Kuroneko said:

"Could our hosts clarify where one would find working mannequins? I was under the impression that there were none in the lab, testing, repair, and storage rooms that functioned. The trial room also didn't have any last I checked."

"At the start of the night there were no working mannequins downstairs. Upstairs you have the Cafeteria, Relaxation room, the theater, the casino, and the lounge."

[Kuroneko]

Jun 13, 2023 10:56:28 GMT -6 Vaellin the Bard said:

Jun 13, 2023 10:52:37 GMT -6 Kuroneko said:

"Could our hosts clarify where one would find working mannequins? I was under the impression that there were none in the lab, testing, repair, and storage rooms that functioned. The trial room also didn't have any last I checked."

"At the start of the night there were no working mannequins downstairs. Upstairs you have the Cafeteria, Relaxation room, the theater, the casino, and the lounge."

"Could someone have repaired a mannequin enough to get it working again?"

[Vaellin the Bard]

Jun 13, 2023 10:57:54 GMT -6 Kuroneko said:

Jun 13, 2023 10:56:28 GMT -6 Vaellin the Bard said:

"At the start of the night there were no working mannequins downstairs. Upstairs you have the Cafeteria, Relaxation room, the theater, the casino, and the lounge."

"Could someone have repaired a mannequin enough to get it working again?"

"Good question."