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❧ Who Killed the Luministi Kid?

[a musical cue begins to play suddenly on both vidscreens and CATs, and soon the picture shifts from the normal town montage to a picture of the always smiling Mayor Caligin]

Greetings, Luministi! As you can see our technicians have finally straightened out all the bugs and kinks in the system and everything should be as great as things were before the unfortunate system downtime.

It's just as well that everything is back in working order. The final leg of planning for the 701st Luministi Founder's Day Festival is underway and if anyone is looking for some last-minute volunteering, there is certainly plenty to do as various booths are slowly set up in the town square and pavilion in preparation of the big day. [Caligin's smile broadens] And there are plenty of other surprises in store. I am practically bursting at the seams to tell you all, but that would spoil all the fun!

For now, if anyone is interested in volunteering, contact--

[the sound suddenly cuts off, loud "snow" and static blaring through the vidscreens and CATs, though the Mayor's message continues for a moment longer before the transmission comes to an end. however, even though the vidscreens shut off, the static sound finally cuts out and a view of a minimalist room with expensive furniture shows up on the CATs, the picture shifting about as though the person was shaking the camera, but it continues to move gently, rhythmically, once the person stops moving.]

[the view also shows two men--one with dark hair and the other with gray hair--sitting with their backs towards the camera and the image of this transmission spread across several screens before them. neither turn to acknowledge the new person in the room with them. instead, the younger man slowly stretches his arms and stands.] So this is what she meant.

Sir?

[the younger man turns, casually slipping a hand into his trouser pocket. unfortunately, the picture is low enough that it doesn't capture the image of his face.] This double act. [his hand gestures towards the camera, though he doesn't seem aware of its presence.] I was informed she'd be doing something of the kind. [he turns his body more, facing the camera] Isn't that right, Miss Ardes?

[the older man jerks in his chair, surprised, and suddenly jumps to his feet] What?! What is she doing here?

[the voice that replies is much louder than the other two (thanks to the proximity of the camera), but it indeed sounds exactly like Audrey] Thought I'd stop by. And by the way, that video was my way of handling the situation, just as I was asked.

Sir, you purposefully allowed her into town? Even though the other one is--

Yes. [the younger man puts his hands behind his back] Yes, that's exactly what I did. Do you have a problem with that?

[the older man's arms drop to his sides, a defeated tone in his voice] ...No.

Are you sure? This isn't the first time you've questioned one of our decisions once it's been implemented. If you're unsure of anything, Proctor, you should speak up before we set things in motion. You do know what sort of schedule we're on. And just look at how well we're doing! [he taps the screen, a chart popping up one of the screens. the camera shifts to the side as Audrey moves] The moment that video started to play, the numbers nearly doubled!

Oh my! [she laughs, the camera shaking vigorously] All that because of little ol' me?

That's all well and good, but I know what we have planned next and I still have my reservations about it. The whole thing is highly dangerous!

Come now, sweetie. Isn't that the point? [a hand belonging to her, the fingernails painted a bright purple, reaches for the arm of the older man, but he swats it away]

But is this truly the way we want to fish them out? Have you spoken with--?

[the younger man cuts him off, stepping closer] Wouldn't you eventually show yourself if you had a traitor in your midst? Call them out with a bold move such as this?

[there's a shift in the older man's tone as his voice goes soft] Having never been in such a situation before, I can't say for certain.

Then shut up and watch. This is surely to get some noise going. [the young man sits back down in his seat, waving a hand at the camera] That will be all, Miss Ardes.

[the camera bobs as she bows] Sir. [then the picture blurs as she turns and starts heading out of the door. once it closes behind her with a soft click, the transmission ends]

[but in town, a scream rips through the air]

❧ Plot Details: Who Killed the Luministi Kid?

That everyone in town has disappeared, or disappears the moment you look away from them. The town will remain empty for the time being. The disappearing people includes the Sheriff and his deputies, Dr. Resarci and Nurse Hope--everyone.
Except, that is, for Audrey. Audrey’s body is lying face down outside the pub, but her body has no signs of any physical struggle with the exception of a days old wound to the back of the head that was already starting to heal. Those with medical knowledge or can somehow scan a body for such things will find that she died of asphyxiation, but yet her body shows no signs of that. No blue lips or fingernails. She looks as though she’s simply sleeping.
In addition to the lack of evidence that there was any foul play on the body, there isn’t any sign of that in or outside the pub or any of the surrounding area.

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If your character got an A card in the last plot, they’ll wake up with memories of their worst possible death. Whether it’s something that occurs later in their canon, has already happened (depending on your character’s canon point), or will never happen but is a theoretical idea of what could possibly happen to your character, etc. The death won’t actually happen to them, but--and this is really going to get morbid--if you want your character to have died in a manner close to that, you can. Like...let’s say your worst death is being stabbed by a bunch of senators and a traitorous friend. You can die with a knife in your body, and when you wake up back in your townhome, your clothing will have a nice little hole where the knife had been but that’s it.
If your character got a B card, though, they’ll wake up with only the memory of a painless death, like drifting off to sleep or something. And if you’re new to the game and didn’t receive a card, which way will be up to you.

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The murderer is free to come and get Xion. :3

/HORRIBLE PERSON

Signing Croix up to be off'd. Much to his annoyance.

Before and after, though, he's going to be pretty hardcore into investigating. Anyone want to team up? Put heads together? etc?

Sophie is definitely up for looking into this!

I can't kill a pregnant character in good conscience, so Sophie is NOT in the running to be offed.

She is up for investigating, though.

Investigating ahoy! No death plz.

Ichijou sort of lacks the mental fortitude to deal with being killed in even the most gentle way, so I'll put down a "no" for that.

He will, however, be more than happy to play "Bad Cop" to someone's "Good Cop" or show anyone suspicious his crazyface ~~as soon as he's done shaking and crying~~.

Also, also, also! This is a totally silly question but it's something that Ichijou, given his obsession with such things, would notice. On the body, would the fingernails be painted the same color purple as in the video clip?

Funny you mention that... No, they won't~ She won't have any nail polish on.

Good Cop/Bad Cop with these two strikes me as being possibly pretty fun!

FIGHTING CRIME WITH ~~MORE CRIME~~ NICE HAIR.

I approve of this.

...
How could I not-

I'd like to put Fuu up for being killed.
And I sincerely apologize in advance for her being a total mental wreck before and after her death, poor girl. (I mean, she's been hanging out in front of the non-existent phone booth for the last two weeks thinking someone was going to die... oh, man.)

As a distraction from her angst she'll throw herself full-force into investigating, and I'd love for her to do it with others!

Would Fuu like to team up with Jamie? Comes with bonus hugging, too. (Poor Fuu, I think she'll need it.)

Ahh, that would be awesome! yes yes (yes) ^.^

lol, the hugging would certainly be interesting... she's not used to it, especially from a guy XD

Think I will go with no death, but plenty of investigation instead.

He can't die three times in one year. At the moment. So Brax will be getting out death-free.

BUT HE DEFINITELY WANTS TO INVESTIGATE. YAY MURDER MYSTERY. And because he's Brax he'll be solidly undisturbed by all of it, so if anyone needs somebody rational and unemotional to balance the freak outs, Brax will help.

*sets out a cup of tea.*

^.^o

AND HE IS LURED LIKE A RABBIT TO THE TRAP

Don't worry - my trap is quite humane, right? ♥

Any preference of where you'd like these two to investigate?

Hmm, well, I think Brax is going to finally take charge and be organized. Everything going badly has forced him out of his "POOR ME I MESSED UP THE WORLD" shell so he will be doing that, and he'll want to coordinate efforts and map out the place. With Fuu he'd try to go somewhere not awful.

Yay, Brax! I'm glad to hear it ^.^ *is cheering you on*

~~lol, everywhere in Luministi is awful...~~ If you like, how about the Botanical Gardens? (Even a part of it - they're huge o.o) Or perhaps the town square?

Sophie needs someone with enough knowledge to help her search Resarci's clinic for any new murderous agents?

He totally can do!

How shall we do this?

WELP I am forcing myself to settle down and let Brax make and organizey post, and he'll definitely want his Sophie Investigator Buddy to help him out.

Yay! She will help as long as he makes no more attempts to slither out :| *eyes Brax*

He is cutting down on the slithering out. PENANCE.

Sophie will appreciate this very much! Although it will be very strange.

Question: Just how close did the scream sound? That is, to Fuu who was there at the time. (Mu (http://luministi.livejournal.com/34263.html?thread=2107095#t2107095) wants to know, and so do I XD)

Suggestion! Once it becomes clear to our characters that they can poke around town a bit, would any of them be leadership-inclined enough to suggest that we coordinate our efforts?

Since Fuu was right there, it'd definitely be very close to her, and if anyone was on the opposite side of town, it would be faint but still audible enough to draw their attention.

And I'm sure someone--or more than one person--will crop up to coordinate and all that~ We have plenty of leader-types!

Thank you!

Yay! I hope so \o/ (lol, more than one. That'd be fun.)

In regards to playing out our characters getting clues around town when they are in pairs - will you give us all the details of what our characters can possibly find, and we can use that as we like in our log? Or would you like an idea of what the characters are looking for so that you can give us clues based on that?

In regards to the deaths of our volunteered characters, what are some options of how this can be played out? Like, could two people be in a log doing investigation and suddenly one character kneels over dead? Or, for whatever random reason, someone is in the house of the person who was killed, then that person reappears suddenly?
(Just tossing out ideas to see if something besides a CAT post of 'oh my goodness did I just die?' will work ^.^)

And, will any trauma appear on the body before it disappears? Or will there only be the evidence afterwards like you described above?

Thank you for always listening to my zillion questions ^^

I would like an idea of what you guys are looking for or where you're going to look so I can give you specific details of what you'll find. Some places might not have anything of note. I'll also give you a general idea of the look of the area (if it isn't already elaborated upon in the Town Features page, I should say).

As for the death options, honestly, it can happen however you want to play it out. You can be in the middle of something and keel over dead (or randomly turn up with a knife in your back, etc), or you can post something after waking up just like you said in your question. And yeah, if someone's staying at, say, Fuu's place, they can be there when Fuu comes back to life again. Anything goes, really! No limits there. When you do post your death stuff, I'll comment with a clue you would have gotten about the killer.

And as for trauma, it definitely can show on the body before it disappears. If it's really, really graphic, I'd put a warning just in case people are squeamish about that sort of thing, but yeah, it can show.

Hope that helps!

Helpful as always! Thank you! ♥

...Now who is going to die first? o.o

Hawk is up for both investigations and being offed! o7

In CSI: Luministi, Brax and Sophie are taking the Clinic, and Fuu and Brax are taking the gardens. I know Brax is going to be scruitinizing the equipment like woah, and he's also taking a particular interest in the files that are left around. Anything data-like. At the gardens, he's lookign for hints of what was there last time, but is also looking for any hints of a presence he didn't expected. In both places, as Columbo put it, he is looking for what's there now that wasn't there before, what wasn't there before that is there now, and what is being moved.

As above, Fuu's with Brax for the Garden!
She will also be looking for anything that seems out of place in comparison to last time - because of the lock-in at the re-opening and spending the night there during the illness, she's spent a while there.
She will have her eye especially on the place where they received the notes from the box, and on the topiary dogs.

Fuu and Jamie are taking on the library!
Outside, Fuu would investigate the Neptune sundial. Inside, she would certainly notice anything out of place, even in the staff areas, because she worked there for a while last time. If the computers are still all right, she can try checking the borrowing records of the principal residents.

She has little preconceptions about what she might find, so she's open to finding even the littlest things interesting - whether useful or not...

Sadly, there isn't anything different in the gardens. The botanical gardens still seem impossibly vast for the space of land that they're in and are still gorgeous, but little alcove where they found the box before is definitely still empty and shows no signs of there ever being any shenanigans done there, and the topiary dogs are as creepy as ever (but nothing has changed with them. One still has the missing eye.)

As for the Neptune sundial, she'll find the "eye" used to retrieve the antidote vial she found with Nurse Hope (found here!), and she might notice some fresh flaking of green copper stuff around Neptune's hands and on the ground below, as if someone has been trying to take the trident away from it.

The computers are definitely all right, but she won't really find too much out of order from the borrowing records--however, if she goes back to last year, she'll notice that Resarci never returned a book leveraged buyouts, and Audrey repeatedly checked out books about mixed drink recipes.

Thank you!

At the statue I suppose Fuu would pocket the eye and give a good yank to the trident (because if seems that's what someone else was doing, clearly she should try too!)

And books at the library being what they are... if Fuu went and found a few of the most checked out books by Audrey, are they really books about just mixology?
And if she tells the people who are investigating Resarci's lab to keep an eye out for his unreturned library book would they find it? (Clearly it should be checked back in so that he can pay his fines XD)

(And I apologize for giving you more questions when you already have so many to answer o.o)

She might not have too much luck on her own, but never know what might happen in the future~

And yep, they're really just about mixology! Audrey's speciality was with spying, not mixed drinks, so she had to be kept abreast about these things just in case.

As for Resarci's book, they won't find it in the clinic or anywhere in town. The book has officially disappeared from town... (And he's being naughty by having such a bad overdue fee!)

(It's all good! I'm only sorry it took me so long to answer them all. I hope these help!)

No worries. Everything totally helps! Thank you! ♥♥

(Runs away to start tagging all the things *.*)

And Fuu and Hawk are going to check out the Chrysalis!

On the way there on the path through the forest, Fuu will be looking for anything odd, like the way the towel was randomly between the theatre and the pub. (She'll do the east path on the way in, and the west on the way out.)

In the restaurant, she will be doing her best to notice any differences between last she was there and now. Having only really been there the once, she will take her time to be through with her search for anything that might look out of place or otherwise helpful.

Fuu will also have her 'death' during this log~

If she goes off the path at all (or she can find it somewhere near the Chrysalis itself), she'll find a vial similar to the one containing the antidote from last season, but be careful! This vial in particular is still potent, even though there's just a tiiiiny bit of poison inside, and if anyone gets it on them, they'll exhibit the same symptoms as before during the poison quick-time. So be careful there~

However, she won't really find much of note in the restaurant itself. The food will be cold and rotting--unless the town residents running the restaurant have returned to clean up that mess. They'll have started to clean up the bad food. The same can be said in other restaurants as well.

Okay, death clues! When Fuu wakes up, she'll find that her nails were painted purple and on her ankle, she'll find what looks like a little flicker of fire drawn on her skin. She'll have a hard time washing it off, though. The ink is similar to henna with its longevity.

ohhh, very creepy, on all accounts! o.o

And I figure I better ask now - Fuu will go to the resident expert Ichijou about her nails asking if he thinks it is the same nailpolish. Will he be able to confirm that?

Yes indeedy~

I don't know why I didn't think to ask this earlier... XD
In regards to dying, would it had made any difference to anything that Fuu was wearing the dress enchanted by Sophie at the time?

It's kinda a moot point now, but for curiosity, or for anyone else who still has to die...?

Actually, no, it wouldn't have--but the dress (or any other charmed item) would be unscathed! Fuu, though... Yeah. Poor Fuu...

*grin* Poor Fuu is going to get grey hairs at this rate!

And actually, this bit of info will come in really handy! Thank you ^.^

Heading for the Chrysalis with Fuu. Hawk will be looking for anything that seems out of place, anything that might give them hints as to what people might have been doing before they vanished or general patterns of behaviour and variations, anything left behind. Also whether there's anything odd in the kitchen/food preparation/staff area, in case of poisons or other oddities.

Xion needs a partner for exploring the shops!

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