[EVENT] MYSTERY GAMES

[ironwood]

Hello, Chelonauts, and welcome to Keeliai’s fortnight of mayhem and mystery! To account for the delay, the event will ICly run from 15th to 29th of August, with the final party/awards log posted on the 31th.

The list of characters who signed up, which teams they’re in and which crimes they’ll be assigned, are as follows.

Crime #1: Abduction
China Sorrows
Midii Une
Zelgadis
Hiro Hamada

Crime #2: Theft
Jack Frost
Raine Sage
Pepper Potts
Klaus Reinherz

Crime #3: Murder
Aya
Gene Khan
Valdis
Arno Dorian

As the games are sponsored by the Merchant’s Guild, IC sign-ups sheets will have been available at specific storefronts all across Keeliai. Feel free to assume your character applied at one such branch. Keep in mind, however, that these games are Keeliai wide. Not only Foreigners are playing -- there are as many as a dozen ‘crimes’ occurring at any given time, and kedanese teams will be pursuing your crimes as well!

In the body of the post just below is an IC overview of each crime, but the clues and ‘scripts’ will be in threads in this post. Be sure to track your team’s thread, since OOC crime updates will be posted on the 19th and 25th. These threads will also be where team plotting can occur!

A log for all IC murder-related threading will be posted on the 15th.


Crime #1: The Case of the Mother’s Empty Nest
The first crime is an abduction! The IC information given to the team is as follows. OOC information will be given in the Crime #1 thread here.

Congratulations! The crime your team has been selected to solve is The Case of the Mother's Empty Nest. Your contact will be the distraught mother Mesul (when she remembers that she's supposed to be acting distraught) who will beg you to find her abducted daughter, Juhino. (She will make it a point of drawing the investigators aside and reassuring them that her daughter is indeed quite fine, because this is just a game and she and her daughter are participating together!)

But when she gets down to it, she will confidently relay that her daughter has been kidnapped, and their task is twofold: recover the girl, and find the culprit.

Crime #2: The Theft of the Smithy’s Prize
The second crime is a theft! The IC information given to the team is as follows. OOC information will be given in the Crime #2 thread here.

Congratulations! The crime your team has been selected to solve is The Theft of the Smithy’s Prize. Your clients are Xinhi and Oyora, a smithing-business couple whose long-term anniversary project has been snatched out of their shop. Although they won’t object to the culprit being apprehended, they are more concerned with the return of the project.

This project is a motorcycle, built by Xinhi using parts for which Oyora has traded, and represents their collective talents and interests. Your goal will be to recover the motorcycle in its entirety, with a bonus if your team also succeeds in apprehending the culprit!

The winner for this crime will be chosen on a points-basis, with points offered for speed, thoroughness and of course the bonus. Points will be deducted for undue damages in the pursuit of the case.

Crime #3: The Case of the Serpent’s Demise
The third crime is a good old-fashioned murder! The IC information given to the team is as follows. OOC information will be given in the Crime #3 thread here.

Congratulations! The crime your team has been selected to solve is the Case of the Serpent’s Demise. Your client is a low-level Snake named Lien, who will introduce himself as a member of the task force investigating Meisheng’s murder. He and the task force have specific instructions not to involve anyone else in the investigation because they’re trying not to announce the murder to the public at large until they have someone behind bars; this is why the average citizen of Keeliai will have no idea what you’re talking about if you ask them for details! Lien, however, has gone to your team for help because the investigation is at a standstill. He privately suspects that his superiors are trying to cover for whoever committed the foul deed.

It’s up to your team to try and find the killer. You will be competing against three other teams. The winning team will be the one who successfully accuses the real killer first. Please note that once your team makes an accusation, they cannot take it back, and if the accusation is wrong then your team will automatically be disqualified. We also take sportsmanship very seriously; if your team sabotages another team, that is also grounds for immediate disqualification.

Once your team is ready, Lien will be waiting for you in the back courtyard of the Snakes’ mansion!

Comments

[unetrustworthy]

Okay, after finally having the chance to read everything:

(1) I absolutely love the idea of Hiro and Midii trying to cute their way into answers. Though Midii has no idea how to be that manipulative on her own--whenever she's being "cute", it's by accident--so that would be hilarious if Hiro tries to teach her a few tricks of the trade.

(2) Because the whole thing is really an act, she's going to be frustrated that body language tells her nothing (or almost nothing); she's going to be a big believer in asking all the questions she can and will be writing everything down in a small notebook. Taking it very seriously.

(3) she might encourage a way to find proof that other teams are cheating to get them disqualified and rule out some competition.

(4) she is...not going to be pleased about the Love Thing. Not because she's worried about getting caught cheating but because she doesn't understand how it works, and that makes her nervous.

[inkulcation]

re: point 4: are you personally okay with dealing with it?

and re: what Ruddy said, I... it occurs to me now that only a few people, mostly her canonmates, actually know that she is doing something concrete and she herself wouldn't exactly care or... try to avoid it. :x

if they can find proof of other teams cheating that would be a nice thing.

[unetrustworthy]

Oh, yeah! Sorry; ooc, I'm cool with pretty much anything. Even IC, Midii would voice her uncertainties and maybe even say that she doesn't want to be around when it gets "activated", but she's not going to actively try to stop her if she's determined to try it. I just wanted to make sure you were aware that she won't be happy about it. She might even get a little scared. Magic scares her more than guns.

I have no idea if something like the cheating teams could come to light, but it would definitely be an angle she'd go for. So IC, the discussion will be brought up once realizations are made.

[inkulcation]

Yeah, thanks for the headsup, I appreciate it. c: I just want to make sure to step carefully with China, since it's... basically magical mental influence. :x

China can't actually turn it off, nor would she advertise it, but she probably won't "push" noticeably, given that that would be exceptionally hard to explain and she's, mm, toeing a line. Or pretending to.

[unetrustworthy]

Of course. And yeah, I totally get that. Fortunately (considering I play Zatanna, even if it's a watered down, younger version), none of that stuff bothers me in RP at all. So you're totally in the clear on that end.

Would she explain any of this IC? Or would she just go ahead without discussing the details with the rest of the group?

[inkulcation]

She will explain absolutely zero of this IC, I'm afraid, mostly because that trick works better when no one's prepared for it and she doesn't like giving away her secrets. If you want Midii to know, there are a couple of people who do know what's the what with her and miiiiight be willing to warn someone who's about to have to work with China? idk.

It may be swingable, is the thing. and it's legit if you want Midii to notice that this is entirely irrational and cannot in fact be her own emotions?

[unetrustworthy]

Mmm...nah, we can have it be a total surprise type of thing.

But yes, Midii will probably suspect something's not right with her emotions. She usually keeps a tight reign on those things, so while she won't have any idea what's happening, she'll have a minor freakout in the background while things are happening. Sound good to you?

[inkulcation]

Sounds fun! \o/ I'm on board.