You slowly open your eyes. You find yourself in a dark room, sitting in a chair.

You notice two others sitting in the room as well.

Beatrice the Golden Witch and Clair.

"Welcome Anon." Clair greets you.

"We noticed the game you are playing. And it appears you are in need of our assistance. Using my magic I will revive the pieces allowing you to question them one last time."

"And I will allow you to revisit locations on Rokkenjima at set periods of time."

"However," Beatrice starts with a stern tone. "Our magic is not unlimited, we can only grant you these gifts for a limited amount of time."

"Yes, so please use this time to gather more clues and evidence for the final battle against Mira."

"W-what happened, Where is Bernkastel? Is she still with Mira and Lambdadelta?"

"A-anyways, How do this work? If I choose to talk with someone, will they have knowlogement about all the things that person lived during the gameboard? And how about inspecting a location, can I choose the exact time of the inspect?"

>>3300
"Yes, she is. Currently Bernkastel is stalling Mira and Lambdadelta by keeping them busy."

"That is correct. They will have all the knowledge they knew before the gameboard and up until the point in which they died. However they can't blurt out the truth, for giving you the answer outright would be against the rules.
"

"That is correct, you can chose the exact time you want to visit the location. Though I can only recreate time periods on Rokkenjima."

"Alright, I would like to talk with Rosa.
I might get some information about that letter she got."

>>3349
Beatrice waves her pipe and golden butterfly flies through the wall and lands on the floor. In a flash of bright light, the butterfly turns into the form of Rosa Ushiromiya.

Surprised by Beatrice magic, anon welcomes Rosa.
"... Welcome back Rosa-sama.
There's something we must talk about, and there's not a lot of time avaliable, you see I got in the middle of a witch fight.
Do you remember the letter you got? Do you think you can show it to me? It's important, I believe there could be an important hint in it about the terrible murders that happened in Rokkenjima ...".

>>3351
"I don't have letter on me, so I'm afraid I can't show it to you. But I remember its contents."

Rosa lets out a sigh.

"It was a bank statement. It was regarding the join account we started together. I had just wanted to forget the account, so I had completely forgotten about it, nor did I pay attention to it. But this statement says that a large amount has been charged to it, an insane amount. But only the two of us could do anything to that account. But he should be dead. He should have died! Yet, this. He is still alive and is continuing to use me. I'll never be free."

"T-that's impossible Rosa, he died. Someone had to had access to that account as well. You know I was thinking in something ... this is a mere conjecture but ... What if that man wasn't liying to you? Maybe that nasty prank was actually a work of his friends and not of him. I don't see any reason why he would he have not resisted when you ... well when you did kill him."

>>3353
"Is he really dead..."

"At this point I'm not sure anymore. The day after I received the letter I drove up to the cemetery I thought he was buried in. I looked around for hours, but I couldn't find his grave anywhere. I don't know what to believe... Maybe it was all a just a big hoax."

"Then there's something important we need to understand. Did you know any of his friends? Maybe someone you know who was friend with him or he used to meet?"

>>3355
"I don't know who his friends directly are by name, or even what they looked like. I just know they were players, that is what others told me. "They are just a bunch of players, you shouldn't get involved with them." Other than that, I no nothing about them. I never met them even. He would always change the subject or tell me it wouldn't be a good idea if I brought up the idea."

waiting for canadian coach to help me decide what to do now

So, is my turn with Rosa done? if it is I want to talk with Maria now.

>>3444
I told you, you can talk to any person for as long as you want, however the longer you talk to one person the less time you can talk to others. You have enough magic to ask 3 questions to people. If want to use more then 3 on one person go right ahead, but that means you will only be able to ask someone less then 3 questions.

For example, if you asked Rosa 4 questions instead of 3. And then asked the other remaining people the standard amount (3), the last person you could only ask 2, since you used that question on Rosa.

"Alright, thank you Rosa."
anon now look at Beatrice and say to her
"Well, I think I'm finished with Rosa, could you please summon Maria-chan now?"

>>3446
Beatrice waves her pipe and the form of Rosa fades away, as if she was never there in the first place.

"Alright; you can always summon the same person over again if you realize you there was something you missed. Come now Maria, remember the form you had."

As Beatrice chants and waves her pipe the form of Maria begins to appear in front of you.

"Maria, a while ago I noticed you said something interesting, but we barely had time to talk about it.
You said than Beatrice died but ... isn't Beatrice the golden witch? Who killed her Maria? And when did you noticed she was dead?"

>>3448
"Beato, died. Uu-! Beatrice was killed by some. She is gone now. A black witch killed her. Maria figured it out in the bathroom. Beatrice was no more, a black witch killed her."

Maria goes back to your first statement and loses some of the sadness her tone held.

"Uu~! Beatrice is a powerful witch, can do cool things with magic. Beatrice is amazing!"

>>3449
And how did you notice she was dead? I thought she was alive all of this time!

>>3465
"Maria saw that she had been killed by a black witch. Maria saw that Beatrice had been eaten by the witch."

>>3467
"And another question, Do you like Shannon-san Maria? Do you play with her or with someone else when you come to Rokkenjima?"

>>3471
"Uu-! Shannon spends time with Battler, not Maria."

Alright, this is starting to make sense.
Since Shannon mind didn't break she didn't become into Beatrice. That could also explain why Kanon doesn't exist.
So who would be Beatrice? Oh damn it, I will ask one more question.

"I see, well let me ask you one more question Maria. How long have you been playing with Beatrice? When was the first time you meet her?""

>>3476
"Uu-! A few years. Maria always plays with Beatrice on Rokkenjima."

"Thank you Maria, I think I got a hint thanks to you"
anon now look again at Beatrice and ask to her
"I think I need to talk with Gohda now, could you summon him, please?"

>>3524
"Uu~!"

Maria smiles as her form vanishes from sight.

"Come Gohda remember the form you had. You were a chef on Rokkenjima." Beatrice chants as she waves her pipe.

Soon the form of Gohda appears in the room.

"Welcome back Gohda. I would like to have time to have a pleasant chat with you, but I don't have that blessing.
Please, remember the conversation we had in the dinner. I did ask you about Ange incident and you told me some interesting things about your first days working in Rokkenjime. However I believe there was a subject we didn't talk about, I think it was about your work before joining Rokkenjima. Do you think you could please elaborate about it? I remember you were kinda nervous at that time."

>>3526
"Well.. as you remember I mentioned when I first started working here I tried to avoid the servants. As I briefly mentioned at the time, that was because I had bad experiences with co-workers on my other job."

Gohda stops and thinks over how to say the things coming to mind.

"Work was a hostile environment. It was a dog eat dog world in that hotel. If someone made a mistake, you would blame it on someone else, and even try and make them mess up. I'm ashamed to say that I also acted in this manner. After doing it for a while, it just became a routine and soon one of the things I would try to do is get others fired."

Gohda lets out sigh.

>>3527
"I see, but why did you get so nervous with my question at that time? Did something bad happened?"

"I'm ashamed at that part of my life when I look back at it. Because of my skills as a chef my word was always believed over my co-workers. Because of my cruelty I cost lots of people jobs at that hotel. And lots of them I didn't even talk to, when they were hired I would just target them. It became a sort of game, we who survived played. If you got hired, you had to live through a nightmare as all the older staff would try to get you fired by any means necessary. We probably ruined tons of peoples lives that way, but at the time that didn't matter. Nothing matter. Whether if they were young or old, man or woman, it didn't matter."

A tear begins to appear in Gohda's eye.

"About that. I just realized the depths of my mistakes. I can't say for sure I ruined someone's life, but I can't prove that I didn't. I cost them a job, and possibly more. So when that letter appeared I thought for sure it was targeting me. And I realized how much pain I might have caused to someone, and how much pain I am still causing to the Ushiromiya family now."

"I see, thank you very much Gohda. And worry not, you weren't the target the letter was talking about."
"Beatrice, if you wish I would like to talk with Jessica again".

>>3530
Gohda lets of a sigh and some of his saddened expression eases as he fades away.

Jessica's form replaces Gohda's after he is gone.

"Welcome back Jessica, I'm sorry to trouble you but I need your help.
See, looking at the crimes objectively, they were some nice done closed rooms. This however have a negative effect, Shannon who is a murder mystery fanatic seems kinda suspicious. I have some problems imagining Shannon making something like that, but you know her better.
Did you ever notice a malicious intent in her? Maybe with the problems she had with George, did she ever look over stressed or said something suspicious?"

>>3532
"Well there were times when Shannon would vanish for hours, that was always weird I felt. And there were times for a while she kept to herself and would lock herself in rooms for hours. But other than that, I can't think of anything. She seemed so happy being with Battler I can't imagine something dark behind her eyes."

"I see, then let me ask you something different.
The Witch Epitaph. Do you know if someone has been close to solve it? Or if someone has been trying to find the Witch's gold?"

>>3587
"Not that I know of. But I know basically all the servants tried at some point. I tried to solve it myself, way to complicated for me."

"Nobody tried hard enough? That's weird you know, considering how much gold is supposed to be hiding there.
Anyways, a last question. Why did you suddenly leave when we failed to contact Eva and Hideyoshi? I thought your relationship with them wasn't so good. Maybe you had an idea of who was the culprit?

>>3589
"I don't know."

"I see, well thank you Jessica."
Genji, I would like to talk with Genji.

>>3673
With a wave of her pipe Jessica's form vanishes and Genji's takes her place.

"Welcome Genji-san. I''l try to keep this short.
Yesterday you told me about Kinzo daugther but, I believe you did not tell me the full story.
The time matches, and I think her tattoo on her right left it's giving it away. Tell me, is Shannon Kinzo daugther?"

>>3675
"Shannon? Shannon is not Kinjo's daughter."

>>3676
*Kinzo

"She's not? Don't take this wrong, but this doesn't make sense. Then did you never see Kinzo daugther again? She was never hired as a servant in Rokkenjima?"

>>3687
"Yes, she was hired to work here. I set that because I wanted her future to be secure. And if there was a chance the family could accept her, and also the gold that belongs rightfully to her I feel. However, she got hurt a few days before the conference, and so you were hired to take her place."

"Alright, I'm confused as hell right now. I think I found something important, but I still can't see the general idea."

"... I see. That's a bit confusing, but it might help me to understand this tragedy.
Please answer this to me, When was Shannon contrated to work in Rokkenjima? And what kind of relationship Kinzo's daugther had with Battler and Shannon?"

>>3707
"Shannon and Kinzo's daughter started the same year. I'm afraid I don't really know the answer to the other question. I believe Shannon and her got along."

Thanking Genji with a simple gesture, anon ask Beatrice to summon Kumasawa this time.

"Welcome back Kumasawa, sorry to bother your rest but I need to ask you something.
I understand than Kinzo's daugther got injuried before I started working here, but there's something I would like to know. Do you know if she was a close friend with Battler and Shannon? Also, I think I still don't know how is she called."

>>3709
"It is alright. I believe her name was Lion Yasuda. Shannon and her didn't exactly get along. You see she also loved Battler-sama."

"Some sort of love triangle? Were they good friends before falling in love with Battler? Did Battler show any affection for her? "

>>3711
"Yes I believe they were. The day she told me she was going to confess her feelings to him, was the same day Shannon told me they had become a couple. I'm afraid however I don't know what all happened."

"A last question. That phone call you had with your son. It worried me a bit, your son voice sounded a bit nervous. Did he call you to inform you about something bad?"

>>3713
"Ohoho~ So you noticed that. Well the truth is I discovered the gold. Kinzo's gold, I found it. And in fact, I'm been taking small amounts of it with me when I leave Rokkenjima. It is just to make sure my family is set for life. I believe Kinzo-sama wouldn't be mad. He wanted to make sure the servants were taken care of. But I decided that, this time would be my last. After that I would quit and my spend the rest of my remaining time with my son. He needs to find a good wife so I can get some grandchildren before I die. Ohohoho~"

I looked down at Shannon. She was currently sleeping. It seemed the events of today had worn her out.

I was exhausted as well. Today had been a tiresome day.....

...................................

Ange had gotten killed. Murdered by someone in this very house. It was frustrating.

Why would someone kill Ange. She was just a little girl. Why would someone do something so cruel.

Today... had been a nightmare. First we are losing the mansion, and then Ange gets murdered.

Why did something like this happen. And why today of all days. Ever since the boat ride I've had a bad feeling.

Kumasawa's story about the shrine which kept the demons at bay. It was just a story, a fairy tale, and yet it give me a bad
feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Today was supposed to be a happy day, so why was it turning so sour.

I had wanted everything to go perfectly. I even asked for Natsuhi Oba-san, Rosa Oba-san, Kumasawa baa-chan's, and Jessica's advice on the
best way to propose to Shannon. And it had gone smoothly. Everything went exactly as we planned. Natsuhi Oba-san suggested the idea of putting
the ring inside the pie. Rosa Oba-san told me what I should say, and Jessica brought up the white horse comment I made 6 years ago. And then
Kumasawa Baa-chan came up with the great idea to use it for the pie. And while everyone was inside the dining room. Kumasawa and I quietly crept
into the kitchen and decorated a pie after placing the ring inside.

Everything went well. Shannon seemed so happy. Yes it was all for Shannon, the girl I love. I would do anything for her.

It was all for the girl I had fallen in love with.

Those letters were certainly an interesting way to fall for someone. I remember finding them and thinking that Jessica wrote them. Boy was that silly.
And I would even say all those cheesy lines to Shannon. Who would have thought that she was the one actually writing them. I guess it makes sense though.
If it wasn't Jessica it had to be Shannon.

Was this a mistake? I mean I had even gotten into a violent fight with Aniki over Shannon. I wonder if he and I would be good friends right now if not for that.

No it wasn't a mistake. I love Shannon. And no matter what happens I will protect her.

I wrapped my arms around Shannon and gave her a quick kiss, before falling asleep.

>>3715
>If it wasn't Jessica it had to be Shannon.
anon rule #2
Battler will be played by the GM as a fool every single time is possible to do it.

Kumasawa's form suddenly faded away.

Beatrice waved her pipe trying to restore it, but to no avail.

"It seems someone is interfering with my magic. I'm afraid that is all I can assist with. My magic is being blocked."

>>3717
To clarify you have found all the pieces you can get.

There are still some pieces missing, but the characters would only lie about such things so. It would be pointless to continue with questions.

Though, don't fear it is still possible to get reason theses pieces out from other in game points.

"Do not worry Beatrice ... I think I was fooled all this time. Your magic allowed me to understand it, thank you."
anon looks again at his last token, and he finally find a good use for it.
"Please, give me a complete list of the people alive on the island before the first twilight."

>>3735
Right before the first twilight occurred not counting Anon there existed 15 living people on Rokkenjima.

12 are members/going to be, of the Ushiromiya family, either by birth or by marrige.

3 are servants.

Also;

The number of people on Rokkenjima counting the living and the dead never exceeded 17.

"Is that so? Geez I should hurry then, Bernkastel is probably having a tough time.
Claire, do you think you can allow me to visit the Kinzo room? I would like to go there in the first day, some minutes before I went and talked with Genji."

Claire nods and a glowing white light fills the room. It completely blinds your vision causing you to shut your eyes tight at the sight.

When you reopen your eyes you find yourself in the mitts of Kinzo's study.

Genji is sitting down in a chair in the room he seems deep in thought.

How many minutes until you knock on the door is something you don't know. Your sense of time seems slightly distorted.

"Genji seems to troubled by something, I wonder if I was right with my choice."
anon will now inspect Kinzo study, checking the bedroom, the kitchen, the bathroom and any other room he see around

>>3816
You see the bed is completely made ready to allow someone to sleep in it. It was made expertly and looks very well done.

You notice suits of armor, they seem to be made of iron, or possibly steel. For just a glance you can't tell. You feel around inside them, but you don't find anything inside.

Kinzo's desk, what would probably be messy is neat and tidy. It was probably kept clean after Kinzo's death. You feel around the drawers inside the desk, but they appear to have nothing inside.

The nightstand is also clean, and only has a small lamp on it. The drawer appears to only have some paper and a pencil in it.

You see lines of lines of books on the bookshelves; The Grimore of Black Magic, Witchcraft Advanced Spells, Revival, The Key to Resurrection. Black Magic for Dummies. They appear to all be books about magic and witchcraft. However you can't tell their contents since you can't open them.

You don't find anything of value in the kitchen or in the bathroom.

anon will inspect the fridge, and the cabinets inside of the kitchen, in the bathroom anon will check if the shower/bath looks wet or if it show any sign of use

>>3818
The fridge and cabinets are empty, they probably were no longer stocked once Kinzo died.

The shower and bathtub look clean and sparkly however they don't appear to have been used for a long time.

Confused to don't find what he was looking for, anon now ask Claire to transport to somewhere else.
Teleport to the dinning room, at the first day, at the time the family was gathering to eat.

A bright light blinds you and you close your eyes. When you re-open them you are inside the dining room.

All the family are gathered around the table eating currently.

Shannon and Kumasawa are passing out the current course, it looks to be the course right before dessert. Gohda is standing near the serving cart while explaining the current dish. Genji is standing by the wall.

"Right, I need to find this person."
anon will now use his zombie ghost powers, and will start to inspect the ceiling of the dinning room. He will also inspect the dessert Ange get and the spoon/fork Ange uses to eat her dessert.

>>3823
While looking around the ceiling you notice something attached to the chandelier. Upon closer inspection you notice it is a firecracker and an envelope. You don't need to see its contents to guess that it is the same one found later. They appear to be attached to the chandelier via a piece of tape.

There is a piece of string attached to the firework, which is tied around the bulb of the chandelier.

You don't notice anything weird about Ange's fork.

You sense using your meta powers that something is wrong with Ange's piece of pie.

>>3823
Flying ghost anon? Be careful Rosa, he may just be the zero on your roulette.

"Poor Ange ... I can't do a thing to help her ... then the least I can do it's to find the culprit.
Claire, please send me to the Hall, at the first day at 11:55 pm."

>>3826
You find yourself now in the hall. Bottles and bottles of liquor are on the table Ikuko is sitting at.

Out of curiosity, anon will look and try to smell the liqours, baka ghost can't do anything right.
Anyways, anon will stay around of the room, checking outside and waiting for the inevitable.

>>3828
You smell bottle after bottle. And you begin to wish you weren't a ghost so you could have a small drink.

You head out into the hallway and wait.

5 min pass

10 min pass

After about 15 minutes you hear the sound of footsteps approaching.

You turn around just in time to watch them pass through you and knock on the door.

You watch as Ikuko opens the door, and she looks strangely at the person in front of her. After blinking a few times she realizes that yes this person is in front of her. And it isn't that she is just drunk.

Then she takes notice what he is holding in his hands. Horror fills her face as she realizes what he is about to do.

He takes the gun in his hand and points it straight at head. The barrel of the gun is almost touching her head. And he pulls the trigger.

Her head explodes and blood and brain chucks splatter his face and clothes. But Battler's face remains passive. He turns and walks down the hallway and goes out the door into the courtyard.

"Battler huh ... well that's one culprit less."
anon will way for a few minutes here until Battler or someone else come.

You wait 5 minutes but no one shows up.

"No, I should wait a bit more."
Since the dinning room is in front of the parlor, anon will keep a keen eye at the both of them for another ten minutes.

>>3878
Baka, anon you are in front of the hall, no where near the parlor.

Right, the guest was in the Hall, not in the parlor. Well then anon will keep checking the dinning room using the window from the courtyard and the Hall.

>>3894
Ten minutes pass, but nothing seems to be happening in the dinning room from what you can tell, nor around you.

"Alright, I have spend some time here to waste it now."

>>3896
After 5 minutes you see Genji come down the hallway. When he sees the corpse he leaves and comes back 10 minutes later with the serving cart and some cleaning supplies.

He dumps Ikuko's corpse in the cart and covers it with a sheet, before he begins to clean out the mess from her death.

"Alright, I don't like how this is getting, I'm out of here."
Please send me to Battler and Shannon room, at the first day at 11:55 pm. Tell me, who is there?"

>>3965
You see Battler and Shannon in the room. Shannon is sleeping in the bed, Battler appears to be heading towards the door.

"Alright, so she was asleep. But not for long I think."
Without thinking too much about it, anon ask Claire for his next destiny
Please teleport me to this room, but at 2:00AM in the second day.

>>3967
1st teleport: Kinzo's study
2nd teleport: Dinning room, Lunch time
3rd teleport: Hall, just before midnight
4th teleport: Battler and Shannon's room just before midnight
- 5th teleport: Battler and Shannon's room 2AM
6th teleport: ?
7th teleport: ?
8th teleport: ?
9th teleport: ?
10th teleport: ?

If you make this teleport you will have 5 left, not 6.

Still want to make the teleport?

>>3968
Oh sorry, I didn't count them, maybe I just remembered the number wrong from the msn chat we had to other day. Yes please do it.

>>3969
The time changes in the room, but it takes you a few seconds before you even notice it, for nothing appears to have changed. And then you notice the 1 change.

Battler is back in the room, sleeping next to Shannon.

Due to Anon's request the game is on hold until further notice.

However, when we start back up again Anon you better be prepared. For I was crush you. I'll rip you apart just like Maria's stuffed toy. You're going to need all the help you can get to win, when we reach the final battle!

Enjoy your pause~

Understood. I will try my best when that time comes.

As we already anounced it, the consummation of this game will be on 25th december, that's if Rosa is feeling better on that day.
As if awakening from a long trance, anon try to focus again.
"Clair, I need to ask you to teleport me again. Can you teleport me to the arbor where I talked with Rosa on the first day? About the time, five minutes since I left her should do fine."

>>4445
Clair looks at you confused, before moving time to the selected time and location.

The arbor is completely empty. No one is around.

20 minutes after alright.

____________________________________________


Clair turned page after page in the book she was holding. Suddenly a glow enveloped the book and the area all around.

When the light cleared Anon found himself in a different room.

The room looked like a fancy bedroom of sorts. A small stack of gold rested next to the bed in the room. It wasn't very big, or had all that many bars, but it was still impressive nonetheless.

"Fa-Father's gold." Rosa cried out. "I've found it." A pure smile rose to Rosa's face. "I can finally be free now. I can be happy now. My nightmare is over." Tears of joy streamed down Rosa's face.

"I see ... no wonder why she died as soon I left her alone near of those two..."

>>4515
You can go for the neck.
Teleport to one of the rooms a twilight took place while the murder is being carried out. You'll probably say it's not fair but if you want to win etc.

Thinking in other relevant events, anon announce his next destiny.
"Rokkenjima, some days ago. I wanna see the moment when Lion got hurt while working in the mansion."

>>4517
Two servants were both carrying food as they headed down the stairs.

The younger more frail servant lead the way upon the order of the older servant.

An in a flash everything changed, the younger servant tumbled down the stairs smacking her head over and over again as she fell stair after stair.

The older servant who stood behind held a pleased smirk for a moment before changing it into one of mock concern.

"Are you okay?" She cried out. "Hold on, I'll get the madame. Hang on." And with those words Shannon rushed off quickly to find someone to help.