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The closed room could not be solved… the easiest solution seemed to be that Albrecht simply had a heart attack and died, but that did not explain how he got upstairs.
“You know… I bet that tomb was opened tonight." Ingrid said ominously. "Somehow it was opened and locked too."
“What makes you say that?” Cici asked, looking slightly frightened.
“Call it a sister’s intuition.”
Edna looked at Ingrid curiously, but kept her thoughts to herself.
~~Chapter 1 END~~
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~~Questions Arc~~
~~Chapter 2~~
Spoiler: May 1981
“Can you make us some coffee, Julia?” Fritz asked. “I think it’s going to be a late night. Dad has some assets we need to figure out the division of.”
“Why don’t you join us, Verrier?” Ingrid said with a friendly smile that almost certainly had no cunning beneath it. “I’m sure you understand this kind of thing better than we do.”
The group split up. The younger kids led the way to the guest house, deciding their minds would best be occupied away from reality with a game of Scotland Yard. Some adults join this activity as well. Edna is too exhausted to do anything and heads to bed.
Mansion Dining Room: Heinrich, Ingrid, Fritz, Harley, Cici, Mia, Verrier, Meta, Julia.
Mansion Master Bedroom: Edna.
Guest House: Lynde, Agnes, Erik, Juna, Raphael, Christof, Jolina.
Spoiler: Dining Room, 10:30 PM - 11:55 PM
[Everybody can post, just be mindful of where your character is and do not leave your rooms. This scene won’t last long at all and is just a buffer before the next mysteries]
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A large glass of wine was on the table as well. Given his situation, alcohol was perhaps not the most prudent choice, but this situation was exactly why he needed it.
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"Well... to be frank, I'm not sure if it feels right that my siblings and I get some of father's asserts..." He looks at his brother and sister. "Given that we have our fair share of... unpleasant memories with father. Right?"
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DING
The chime of the grandfather clock in the hallway went off. It was midnight, and the conversation had barely progressed. After the twelfth chime, there was silence in the room for a moment.
CLICK
Instinctively, everybody turned their heads to the dining room door upon hearing the sound of the lock. Slowly, it creaked open.
... there was nobody there.
[Scene Music]
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"Are we sure the door was actually locked when we began our discussion? If we're all here and the other folks are over at the guest house... Then w-who opened the door to the dining room?" Harley seems very much spooked out with a mixed expression of paranoid and fearful on his face.
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Hanzo Shimada wrote:
Harley seems spooked out when it was revealed that nobody opened the door to the dining room.
"Are we sure the door was actually locked when we began our discussion? If we're all here and the other folks are over at the guest house... Then w-who opened the door to the dining room?" Harley seems very much spooked out with a mixed expression of paranoid and fearful on his face.
"Are we sure the door was actually locked when we began our discussion? If we're all here and the other folks are over at the guest house... Then w-who opened the door to the dining room?" Harley seems very much spooked out with a mixed expression of paranoid and fearful on his face.
"... Calm down Harley. It could be Edna, or just someone coming back from the guesthouse."
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"I-I don't think I'll be able to get some actual s-sleep tonight." The mechanic muttered to himself.
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"oh hi! sorry it took me awhile, I apparently misplaced the game, and once i found it I figured I may as well double check that Grandpa Albrecht wasn't anywhere in the house. No sign of him I'm afraid. Do you want to play here instead? Do you think Raphael may want to play?" Lynde said, hand fidgeting between going to undo his scarf and keeping it on to go and ask Raphael about joining the game.
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Hanzo Shimada wrote:
"Well... to be frank, I'm not sure if it feels right that my siblings and I get some of father's asserts..." He looks at his brother and sister. "Given that we have our fair share of... unpleasant memories with father. Right?"
"We had to take his abuse longer than anyone else," Fritz replied, "If anything, we deserve some financial compensation."
After the group got demonically ding-dong ditched, he turned to the door and raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, what the hell is it now?"
He slowly rose from the table and followed Ingrid out of the dining hall, running his gaze along the hallway.
"Hmm...we should probably check on Edna," Fritz said, sounding a little concerned. "She's the only other person in the mansion, after all...though I don't see why she would pull a stunt like this."
Fritz made his way up the stairs and to the Master Bedroom, then knocked on the door.
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He joined Fritz in checking on Edna as well. "You've been in here this whole time?" he asked.
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Hanzo Shimada wrote:
Harley seems spooked out when it was revealed that nobody opened the door to the dining room.
"Are we sure the door was actually locked when we began our discussion?"
"Are we sure the door was actually locked when we began our discussion?"
"We all heard Julia lock it." She said, as she finished her cup of coffee. "There's no mistaking that noise for anything else."
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As the conversation came to an end, she went back into her room, closing the door behind her.
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"Nothing much," Verrier replied, in what he hoped was a reassuring tone. He then quickly summarised what had happened downstairs. "Normally I wouldn't think anything of it, but with all that's happened, well..."
"Well, if it wasn't Edna, we'll know who it was as soon as we talk to someone from the guesthouse." Ingrid, who was also there, said. "Surely they'd notice someone leaving for long enough to be here at midnight."
Before Edna closed the door, she was looking intently around the master bedroom while speaking. Occasionally the suspicious gaze would stop on Edna for a few seconds.
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HonestIago wrote:
Lynde was fully bundled up against the snow with the game of Scotland Yard tucked under his arm, when the door outside opened and showed him the others coming to the guest house.
"oh hi! sorry it took me awhile, I apparently misplaced the game, and once i found it I figured I may as well double check that Grandpa Albrecht wasn't anywhere in the house. No sign of him I'm afraid. Do you want to play here instead? Do you think Raphael may want to play?" Lynde said, hand fidgeting between going to undo his scarf and keeping it on to go and ask Raphael about joining the game.
"oh hi! sorry it took me awhile, I apparently misplaced the game, and once i found it I figured I may as well double check that Grandpa Albrecht wasn't anywhere in the house. No sign of him I'm afraid. Do you want to play here instead? Do you think Raphael may want to play?" Lynde said, hand fidgeting between going to undo his scarf and keeping it on to go and ask Raphael about joining the game.
"I think we should offer, at least." Agnes nods. "We used to play a lot when we were younger... It would be a shame if he had to spent this snowy night alone."
"It would be wrong of us to not at least ask."
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The servant furrowed a brow, then gave a heavy shrug in response, "He struck me as one of the least affected by the recent events, but that might be because of the mask."
It was hard to hide the forming smirk, but Juna suppressed it.
"... anyway, you should ask."
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Datamatt wrote:
"He struck me as one of the least affected by the recent events, but that might be because of the mask."
It was hard to hide the forming smirk, but Juna suppressed it.
"... anyway, you should ask."
It was hard to hide the forming smirk, but Juna suppressed it.
"... anyway, you should ask."
"Recent events? Is the Detektive's presence that unnerving to him?" Lynde, who had not been in the manor house when Albrecht had been discovered and thus was totally unaware of Albrechts passing, or it's status as a locked room mystery.
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HonestIago wrote:
"Recent events? Is the Detektive's presence that unnerving to him?" Lynde, who had not been in the manor house when Albrecht had been discovered and thus was totally unaware of Albrechts passing, or it's status as a locked room mystery.
Molina, who had been tending to the guest house during this time speaks up. "Ah, you haven't been told yet... I regret to inform you that Sir Albrecht has passed. Some suspect foul play, but so the scene has been sealed off by the Detekive." She puts rather plainly.
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HonestIago wrote:
Datamatt wrote:
"He struck me as one of the least affected by the recent events, but that might be because of the mask."
It was hard to hide the forming smirk, but Juna suppressed it.
"... anyway, you should ask."
It was hard to hide the forming smirk, but Juna suppressed it.
"... anyway, you should ask."
"Recent events? Is the Detektive's presence that unnerving to him?" Lynde, who had not been in the manor house when Albrecht had been discovered and thus was totally unaware of Albrechts passing, or it's status as a locked room mystery.
Juna looked taken aback.
"Did... nobody tell you?"
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Everybody goes to bed after some time (and Lynde is properly filled in on everything).
Harley heads into his bedroom, trying to keep the thought of ghosts invading his family home out of his head. He goes to lock the door, and stops.
[Scene Music]
… would that actually make him safer? Or is that the exact kind of thing that would entice Gideon to kill him? For now, he left it unlocked and sat on the end of his bed, watching the snow outside.
The only safe way to survive… was getting as far from this island as possible.
…
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4:00 AM
Spoiler: Guest House
Spoiler: Mansion
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She is dressing up when she hears someone in the central hall outside her room.
She peeks her head out of her room and calls to Ingrid, "Oh, what's the matter, Ingrid? There isn't something strange, is there?"
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In a feverish pace, she ran out of the manor and towards the guest house, leaving the door wide open behind her.
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Ingrid and Meta rushed to the guest house. Meta struggled to keep up with Ingrid due to her old age, but tried to focus on the snow and her footprints.
... were those tire tracks?
Meta shook the thought away and continued to follow Ingrid.
They arrived at the guest house more or less the same time. Erik and Juna were still up, and were surprised to see the two women burst through the doors. Ingrid didn't take the time to explain, but the look of panic on her face was enough for Erik and Juna to follow them downstairs. Ingrid decisively stuck the key into the door and twisted-
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“N-no...”
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When someone came rushing down the stairs, he ran to the foyer to check what was going on. He seemed almost disappointed to find that it was just Ingrid getting one of her wild ideas again. He didn't get a chance to say anything before she was already outside. He initially felt little desire to follow after her, but a short while later curiosity got the better of him and he followed after them, using the posts as guidance. By the time he arrived, the body had already been discovered, and he recoiled in horror. At the very least his medical training kept him from throwing up like poor Agnes, but even he was horrified by the sight.
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"Oh, god... Oh my fucking... fuck... Julia..."
He forcibly shut his eyes and turned away from the body, unable to look at it any longer.
"... W-Who could do this...?" he whimpered, tears welling in his eyes. He didn't want to believe there was a killer after Albrecht's death, but this... this was evidence of murder. There was no mistaking it.
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It wasn't the cozy manor, her father's relatively clean corpse and the closed room he was found in that did it. It was in this wine cellar, cold and exhausted and staring at the carnage, that Ingrid von Brandauer really understood the kind of situation she was in.
"... Agnes! Don't look!" she snapped, after finally noticing her niece right behind them.
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"Another murder! Stand back please, everyone!" he exclaims, as he produces a new roll of crime scene tape from his case and strings it up all over the cellar. He also grabs a few dozen evidence markers and starts marking everything in sight, taking careful notes on his pad.
"Dr. Verrier, would you please examine the body? The cause of death is quite clear, but perhaps there are some subtleties the untrained eye may miss?"
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"You, uh, trust a civilian with that?" Verrier said in surprise, wondering just how professional this detective really was. Still, maybe it would be best to examine the body sooner, while it was fresh. "Very well. Do you have any disposable gloves in that briefcase of yours?"
“Of course! No crime kit would be complete without... this!” the detektiv produces a smaller metallic briefcase with a flourish. “The medical examiner’s kit! It should have everything you’ll need.”
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