WHO DUNNIT?

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WHO: YOU! And you! And you and you and you! ALL Y'ALL.
WHAT: Liveaction Cluedo Event
WHEN: Evening today!
WHERE: Town area, starting in the restaurant.
WARNINGS: MURDER. Except minus the actual dying. Because of the already dead. Oops.
SUMMARY: Dinner turned murder mystery with costumes. More details here.

Everyone's been invited to a giant dinner courtesy of the Shinda Sekai Sensen at the restaurant in town! It looks like maybe a few people have been strong-armed into coming, but.. oh well. They're there to have fun and enjoy a good meal, right?

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Dinner

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Say you just want to enjoy your dinner first, go ahead and comment here to chat some other people up while they enjoy their food.

[superhacker]

[ Chihiro is picking at the food slightly, not feeling hungry, but he's aware that he's got to get energies for tomorrow. That, and he definitely needs to strengthen his body. How ironic, doing this once you're dead and gone. ]

[onewayroad]

[Totally the least sociable one here. Accelerator is minding his own business and picking at the food. It's free.]

[theheroguy]

[You can find Goku eating... almost anything. He might even try to snatch something from your plate if you're not careful.]

[tsunball]

[ This is pretty much your only opportunity to see Leon alive tonight.. not that he shows signs of behaviour that's any different from the usual, nope. He's just being loud as usual, laughing and piling up food (although avoiding the scary looking things, thank you) on his plate. At one point he gives the finger-shaped carrots a sidelong glance, his face dropping to some expression of horror. ]

W.. what the hell are those supposed to be?!

[loserthug]

[ Nothing was worse than being dragged to a dinner party. He couldn't even remember how this happened. It was annoying...well, except for the free food.

Well, no use complaining now. ]

[extraordinarily]

[ It's obvious that Haruhi is dressed up as the detective inspector, trench coat and all. The only little thing that she added a red armband that says "supersleuth". Obviously, she may be staring down people while eating, but only because she's suspicious of all of you. ]

[screwdrivers]

[ Augh, this is weird and he probably should've never came. But it was where everyone else was going, so ...

Keisuke is going to be sitting alone, as far away from everyone as he can get, pretty much. He hasn't been in the mood to speak to anyone since he got here, and he's still not really feeling up to it. Maybe he's a little (very) lonely, though. Especially without Akira.

But he'll just be sitting there, quietly picking at his food and trying to stomach it. ]

THEN SUDDENLY, MURDER!

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Of course, when thing go intentionally awry, they most certainly stay that way. Perhaps you were just finishing up your fish or your delicious boo bento special. Or, you know, that freakish looking thing called a Luther Burger (who comes up with these things..)

The lights go dark. Sudden screams, then when the lights go back on, the first murder victim lies dead in his seat... (Extra dead, even. Is that blood all down his front?) Also he is suddenly in a tuxedo, yes someone changed his clothes while the lights were out, much like Dr. Black/Mr. Boddy in a familiar game.

Under the chairs, everyone will find an envelope with a set of clues and a costume. As for answers, well... Your "Host" of the night will explain a little bit about those.

IC EXPLANATION TO EVERYBODY

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[ Yuri stands up on the table about half a minute after the lights have gone back on, already dressed in her outfit as Madame Rose. So you can definitely, definitely see her no matter where you are in the room with all that pink/magenta. She raises both of her hands. ]

Attention everyone! As your local psychic of the night and leader of the SSS, I'm here to let you know that there is a murderer in our midst! Beneath your seats are outfits and clues, and now it's time to find out who did it! Poor Dr. Leon Black got taken out and now it's up to us to solve his murder!

All around town, there are various items that could be the murder weapon and you've got clues about which one is correct and who is the murderer under your chair. We're pretty much playing that one board game.

[ Yuri proceeds to explain all of the rules as dictated in the original plotting post, then jumps down off the table and go to unlock the doors to let everyone out into the town to find the weapons/murderer and explore. ]

CLUES

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Reply to this comment with your character to receive a set of three clues! Some clues may be duplicated, but there will definitely be enough to figure out who it is and what the weapon was!

[superhacker]

[ ...
Chihiro was sitting right next to Leon when the lights turned off. He couldn't percieve in the dark, so he tried to feel around, reach out to his friend, fear raising at every second. But he was only grabbing at air, and when the lights turned back on... the first thing he saw was black. Clothes that he didn't see seconds before. And then red. Blood. All over it. All over Kuwata-kun...

It takes a long minute to register what just happened, and even then, he stands there, immobile. The film of Leon's body hanging from that pole, bleeding, with those baseballs dripping about, plays again in his head, over and over and over and over--

He can't hear Yuri's announcement, too busy being paralyzed by horror and staring at Leon's corpse. Of all things to expect, witnessing the death of this particular classmate for the second time in a row clearly wasn't it. He's just standing there, looking like nothing can snap him out of the funk he got himself in.

At the notice of that set of clothes, he's going to snap back to reality, letting the fabric hang from one of his hands. What is he suppost to do with this...

...

Just then, he remembers how to cry. ]

[thneed]

[ He was sitting across from Leon so the view was lovely.

Can we all pretend that the girly scream that happened when the lights went back on was from a completely different person? He is not going to fess up to that. Totally not him. Nope nope. He covered his mouth and got him from his chair and backed into the wall taking a nice second to compose himself before grabbing the stuff from under his chair and clutching it to his chest ]

Couldn't we just play the board game instead?

[onewayroad]

[Accelerator is seated as such that he has a lovely diagonal angle view of the dead body. He gives probably the least amount of reaction out of everyone. Just gives the victim a Look. And there goes Yuri's explanation.]

People really need to find better sources of entertainment than this.

[Yes he's a stick in the mud. He'll be an even bigger one once he finds out what his costume is.]

[loserthug]

[ His first impulse was to shout. To call Leon. But he knew that'd be pointless...the damage was brutal, blood all over his clothes. A girl stood up, not one he recognized, to begin explaining. Yeah, no shit there was a murderer among them. But that's all you're gonna say?!

Clues. Outfits. Like he gave a shit, even if they were already dead, someone was going around killing people! Again! He didn't have time for a stupid game!

--But the lights had been out. Even if he did want to knock the culprit out, he had no idea who to go for. Yuri's hand formed a fist on the table. He gave the crowd around him a quick glare, before reaching under his seat. An envelope and a cloak and hat. Hmph. He stood up, hurriedly putting the costume on. Fine. He'll play your game. ]

[extraordinarily]

It's about time!

[Haruhi is a horrible person and honestly doesn't care that someone's actually dead. She'll inspect the body for a bit, using her magnifying glass. I mean, seriously. He is going to come back to life, right? They're already dead after all.

She won't touch the body, but she's going to be near it, crouching down and blocking everyone's view.

She's got this.]

[uprooted]

Woooooah... a murder...?!

[So like. What better way to suddenly appear in the afterlife than to pop in during some mystery murder dinner? Which is what has happened to Menma. Of course, seeing as how she just got here, she has no idea about the situation here, nor does she particularly care at the moment. What she does care about, however, is the fact that someone has apparently just been murdered, and it's up to the people here to figure out who the perpetrator is!]

It's up to Detective Menma to solve this mystery!

[Overflowing with bravado, Menma swiftly pulls on the detective outfit that had been sitting under her seat. And then she firmly lifts her magnifying glass up to her eye, holding it there while standing in a stiff, rigid position. And just. Standing there. Yes.]

House A, B, C, E, F, H, I, J

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There's nothing abnormal here.

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri put this together so she's being super useless and avoiding all the clues. Find her in the places where there isn't anything important if you want to talk to her! ]

House D

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There's a flashlight that looks like it's got some red on it...

House G

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An almost-empty bottle of window cleaner can be found next to a bottle with a skull on it.

Apartments (AA)

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Second floor in the hallway: That nail file is covered in blood, how could it not be the murder weapon?!

[extraordinarily]

[Just because something is covered in blood doesn't necessarily mean that it's the murder weapon. For all we know, it could be a red herring.

But she's not going to leave anything untouched, anything unsolved. Just going to note this down in the notebook that she brought. Which is filled with detailed drawings of the murders as well as a list of names of the suspects.]

Restaurant

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Dining Area: A sharpened toothbrush seems to be near the body... maybe it was used as a shank?

Kitchen: Why is there a pillow in the kitchen?

[superhacker]

[ Chihiro is still standing near Leon's body when he was convinced to wear this maid outfit. He's trying his best to stop crying, although the people who decided to stick around can still spot the tears on his cheeks. That's right, he can't stay like that any longer, Yurippe said Kuwata-kun will be back and this is a sort of game. He can't believe he went from one hellish school situation to another... he thought he was finally in a normal school for once. Then again, he should have known by the time that he was pulled into the SSS that this was far from a normal school at all.

He finds the toothbrush, and has a double take when he looks again at the clues he's been given. "The weapon does not shine." ... well, it's not shining, and it's all bloody, so it should be the weapon, right? He's got no courage to pick it up and check it out, though.

"The cause of this mayhem was definitely at the table, but he or she wasn't on the same side as the victim." ... so that'd rule Chihiro himself out from the suspects. Good, because he didn't want to be accused of anything- he wouldn't be able to defend himself.

And the last hint, "Leon is the first victim.", has him fret in panic again. Does it mean he's not going to be the only one murdered? Is someone else going to be killed? He... he should alert everyone, shouldn't he? But all he can do is stand there like paralyzed, holding the paper in his hands and shuddering... someone should help him out there. ]

Convenience Store

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Sewing Shears! There's thousands of them suddenly all over the floor of the convenience store! How did that happen!?

[marumayu]

I'm not surprised they chose that gorilla to begin with...

[ Izumo was going to head back to the restaurant seeing as none of the houses she went to had anything relevant to the murder, but the little Lady Lavender finds this peculiar sight at the convenience store. ]

Sewing shears? [ She walks in the store to investigate.

And maybe get some fruit milk. ]

The Gazebo / Second Murder

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In a twist of fate, a second body is found! This happens about halfway through the game.

Outside (Other)

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If you're just traveling by, wandering around, maybe want to coerce some clues from others under the cover of the moonlight...