[Birthweek 2017] Moogle Murder Mystery - Game Thread.

Kira Frazer makes her way to the Ancient Cultures room and checks out the garbage bin.
 
Shaissa heads into the art gallery room and examins the picture of what looks like a moogle
 
Gerry Adams makes his way to the library room, while loudly singing Thin Lizzy's cover of "Whisky in the Jar"!

"AYEEEEEEE FACK BRITAIN AYE UVF AND DUP AYE"

Gerry said, happily as he skipped towards the bookshelf directly in front of the room.
 
Dirk shook himself from his torpor, the melody was mesmerizing and had lulled him into a state that boarded catatonic. This brightly lit museum with all its noise and panic didn't do his cuddly head any good at all :sadpanda:. He moved carefully away from the tricksie Mog-dovian statue and advanced slowly but surely on the imitation volcanic structure at the rear of the room. He peered at the drawings within - what, (if anything) would they reveal?
 
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Round 9:

Maps:
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Ground Floor:

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First Floor:

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Entertainment Suite:

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Particulars:

Dr. Fistbeard investigates the enclosure of Timmy the Turtle.

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Alongside Timmy is a cabbage called Chloe. This item can be picked up by Dr. Fistbeard at the beginning of next turn if he wishes (it will not count as part of a turn).

The water in the enclosure remains unexplored this turn.

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Maybot examines Cait Sith's giant moogle doll.

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Cait Sith's megaphone is with the correct exhibit, but it appears to have been moved recently. Maybot can pick up this item at the beginning of her next turn if she wishes (it will not count as part of her turn).


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Vivian fondles Toby the Tree hoping to find some baubles...

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Vivian finds a bauble! Vivian has discovered a Fran in a Santa-hat bauble. It is added to Vivian's inventory and may have some use in the future.

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Sam inspects the trashcan in the aquarium and finds a blood-stained sack.

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The label on the sack reads thus:

Use this sack to carry the alien egg away from the corner of our space exhibition. Handle with care!

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Kira Frazer inspects the trashcan in the Ancient Culture wing of the museum.

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Kira Frazer picks out a rat. Kira can choose to pick up and keep the rat item for use at a later time, or discard it / kill it, etc. Interacting with the rat will not count as part of Kira Frazer's turn.


Camera activities:
Kira's camera snapped this photograph during this turn.

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Shaisse examines Pomcasso's Self-Portrait.

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It is a lovely painting, but it doesn't reveal a clue on its own.

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Gerry Adams inspects a bookshelf and picks out a book titled The Mystery of Frogs.

In reading even only a small part of this book Gerry is finding himself consumed by an urge to hop into a pond.

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What is happening?! Uh-oh!

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Gerry Adams is a toad... But now he has turned into a frog as well!

Gerry can move (hop) and play as normal, but if he would like to be turned back into a human being then only the appropriate items can save him!


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Dirk ♥ investigates the remains of an ancient moogle house.

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In addition to learning about the exhibit itself, Dirk ♥ also spots that somebody has sprayed graffiti on the floor fairly recently. The offending spray-can is found next to it and is added to Dirk ♥'s inventory.


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Elenaboko spies Grimnut's gysahl green shaped like a thingy and gobbles it down!

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Grimnut Kupocide is knocked over in shock.

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Vivian turns into a shadow and pops up in the bar. It's thirsty work pretending to flirt with holiday trees to get at their baubles!

Vivian asks the barman what his favourite drink is, while staring into his eyes somehow. "How do you keep your hair so soft and cotton candy-like?", she asks. "Mine is naturally much more luxuriant but yours seems ever so...blue!".

Hoping that the barman has been won over, Vivian then leans over the bar and asks if he has heard about any strange goings on. Our Vivian is getting strange vibes from this museum after all!

Of course, it would be a waste if our Vivian didn't ask for a French martini to help make the men of the museum more attractive. Of course :monocle:.
 
"Mr. Jingles!" Kira Frazer exclaims. "You're coming with me!" She says, as she decides to keep the rat. It can sit on her shoulder or something.

Kira Frazer checks out the display stand next to the stone figure where a man... is pulling something out of the chocobo's (?) butt (???). The tiny green (?) object catches her eye and she inspects it.
 
Sam examines the aquarium on the left, noting the body.
 
"WHEY AYE RIBBIT!"

Frog Gerry Adams hops away from the bookshelf, deciding to head out to the main lobby area. Following this, he heads down the multicoloured stairs.
 
Dr.Fistbeard picks up the cabbage shaped head wondering why it's shaped as such and then examines the water enclosure.
 
Museum Etiquette Protocol disabled.

The Maybot bends down to pick up the suspicious yellow megaphone, but the feat is proving to be difficult when she only has two claws for hands. Even Futurama's Bender has more utility with an extra finger on his hands - not that Maybot here will know what Futurama even is.

The closest thing to good old-fashioned fun for her was when someone craftily snipped a wire and sent her rolling through a field of wheat, flattening some farmer's hard-grown rye in the process. Suffice to say, that farmer was cross; Maybot never did submit a formal apology to him until two weeks later, and it was not even delivered in person. She promised to "launch a full and robust enquiry into what had happened to his field" while assuring that she was "doing everything possible to ensure that your crops of chaos will be resolved."

Running analysis. Analysis Complete. This would appear to be a type of cone instrument that enhances the volume of one's voice.

This is vital information. Maybot would never have worked out what this object is otherwise. Now...what to do with it?

She then activates her vocal functions and starts to yell through the megaphone, naturally! She aims the megaphone at the stuffed Moogle and screams:

"BREXIT MEANS BREXIT. PEOPLE TALK ABOUT A HARD OR A SOFT BREXIT. A BLACK OR WHITE BREXIT. NO, I WANT A BREXIT THAT IS RIGHT FOR ALL OF US. I WANT THE RIGHT BREXIT FOR BRITAIN. A RED, WHITE AND BLUE BREXIT. YOU CANNOT TRUST MY OPPONENTS TO DELIVER BREXIT TO YOU BECAUSE THEY WILL BE A COALITION OF CHAOS WITH JEREMY CORBYN AS PRIME MINISTER. I COMMAND YOU TO HELP WORK WITH ME FOR A STRONG MAJORITY AND TO DELIVER THE RIGHT BREXIT FOR THE PEzOzazzzzzzzz...."

At that moment her vocal functions catastrophically fail, which is probably for the best, because the next town overhead can probably hear her.
 
Round 10:

Maps:
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Ground Floor:

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First Floor:


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Entertainment Suite:

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Particulars:


Vivian orders a French Martini and interviews Kupa Skiphop.

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Kupa Skiphop has this to say....

WHAT?! ONE THOUSAND NUTS UPON YOUR FACE, KUPO!!!! How dare you say I am a man, kupo! Men don't own the colour blue, kupo!
But thank you for the compliment - I know my hair is fabulous. I knitted it myself, kupo!
Strange goings on? If you've spent more than 5 minutes in this madhouse of a museum you will see some strange goings on, kupo... It has been more strange recently with
rumours that Pomson is back in town. Phew, boy! Kuporius sure did sweat a lot about that, kupo!

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Kira Frazer examines the oglop bead necklace.

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It is a fairly large necklace, but it is wearable and may have a special effect. Kira can pick up the oglop beads if she wishes (it will not count as part of the turn).

Camera activities:
Kira's camera snapped this photograph during this turn.

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Sam investigates the left aquarium tank.

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On this side of the glass there isn't much that Sam can do except observe that the corpse of Aerith has been placed inside the tank as a form of macabre decoration.


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Gerry Adams hops to the Entertainment Suite....

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Dr. Fistbeard examines Timmy the Turtle's water enclosure.

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Without any items which allow for aquatic capabilities, Dr. Fistbeard can only wade through the shallow section of the enclosure. Despite these limitations he is able to retrieve a discarded mop.
(This is both an item and a clue and can be used as an item elsewhere).

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Maybot uses Cait Sith's megaphone on Cait Sith's giant moogle doll...

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The moogle doll suddenly animates and becomes a Tory.

The doll is compliant and shall act on Maybot's commands to the best of its ability (according to its interpretation of Maybot's words).

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Kira Frazer decides to pick up the necklace.

"Hmm... What a disturbing selfie!" She rushed out of the room and makes her way into the Cloakroom, opening up locker #6. "I wonder what's in here?"
 
Saving data. Restarting systems. Please do not manually switch off the system. System successfully restarted. Welcome, system administrator. Please enter your password.

Maybot jolts back to erm...life(?) after a necessary system reboot in order to reactivate her vocal functions application. It had strangely crashed while she screamed into the megaphone, as if the sheer intensity of the empty buzzwords being yelled out had grievously short-circuited half her transistors. Luckily, a prompt system reboot (and cancelling the notification of a lack of anti-virus installed) has seemingly fixed the application and it is once again in good order.

"This murder is a horrific event and I strongly condemn it", Maybot announces to the Moogle doll, with the megaphone in one claw, "I want a full and frank enquiry into what has transpired. It shall be a comprehensive review, fully impartial and independent. I would therefore like you to ensure that we have a robust and fully-costed review of this situation that is full and thorough, but also within a reasonable budget. We cannot allow the murderer to run rampant and endanger this strong and stable museum. For every clue you find, you will strengthen my hand in this investigatory process and we shall provide security to this museum once more instead of the chaos it currently is. I would like you to intercept that rather impoverished-looking Moogle carrying the large sack in the Ancient Cultures room and discern what he is carrying around."

With the Moogle doll plodding off to obey the whims of its strong and stable robotic mistress, Maybot activates her data banks to determine what her next step shall be. There appears to be a weeping Moogle in the library a floor above. Maybot contemplates meeting this individual. Her software is not advanced enough yet to allow her to properly converse with another human - or Moogle rather - but that would never have stopped Margatron Thatchercron, so why would it deter her?

She prepares to head upstairs, but there is one simple issue: her rollers are not exactly conducive to ascending stairs. Quite why she was not built to walk up and down stairs like a regular human being is a mystery, so after some preliminary scanning and minute-long calculations, there is but one conclusion: she would have to forgo making any trip to the upper floors. She would be confined to the ground floor as a result, drastically and physically limiting what she can interact with at close quarters. It is fortunate therefore that she now possesses a minion then.

For the time being, Maybot wheels into the gift show and right up to the woman behind the counter at the far side of the room.

"GrEeTiNgS, cItiZen oF thIs fIne aNd pRoUd coUNtRy," she says, attempting to sound as human-like as she possibly can, "thErE hAs beEn a vicIoUs mUrdEr of anOthEr fIne, upStAndiNG citIzeN vEry rEcEntly in hEre. HAve yOu hAd anY pecUliaR cUstoMers thIs evEnIng bUyiNg aNythIng of nOte thAt cOulD be tO bE usEd fOr mUrdErs?"
 
Despite the rumors. Now so inclined to disagree, Aerith indeed, does not live.

Now to make my way out of this dead end...


Sam heads over to the ancient cultures wing. He notes several things. Most important being the ancient but obvious "What's up chicken butt?" joke. Second being that he hates Oglops... He really hates Oglops.

I REALLY hate Oglops.


Then
he engages Mogbod in a conversation regarding the nature of his job. "Who tells you to move things/where do you move them to/who do you give them to?"

Where the hell is Al anyway?... And why am I holding this sword?


As if being a time-traveling crime-fighter in the body of a woodpecker didn't warrant enough questions.
 
"How rude! Someone's got their fake boobs in a knot!", Vivian shouts out loud as she walks away from the bar, swaying her hips as she moves. She could feel the shocked look coming from Kupa but she didn't care. She's way too good looking to care about the opinions of bartenders.

Right, time to relax. A good dance will remove the stress that might lead to wrinkles!

Vivian stumbles a little from her bit of alcy hol. The dance floor is nice and bright though so there's no way she could miss it.

Vivian feels the music. Vivian vividly vibes to it. Vivian sees that she's dancing with a stranger. Vivian asks the stranger for a good partnership of the sashay variety!

Vivian will need to remember to check out this Kuporias woman sometime. If she remembers after her night at the pub though, it'll be a bloody miracle :sir:.
 
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Round 11:

Maps:
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Ground Floor:

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First Floor:

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Entertainment Suite:

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Particulars:


Kira Frazer opens up locker #6...

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Something unbelievably and quite impossibly purple shines from within. Only Kira's eyes are able to see what it is.

Camera activities:
Kira's camera snapped this photograph during this turn.

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Maybot interviews the gift shop lady, Nutalie Selz.


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Nutalie has this to say:

You can use anything as a murder weapon if you put your mind to it, kupo... Have you looked at the body to see if anything here fits the picture, kupo?

Saying that.... It was strange when that
kid bought the antidote on behalf of an old man, kupo. That usually suggests that someone expects to be around poison, kupo!

Maybot's moogle doll harasses Mogabod to determine the contents of his sack.

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The clumsy moogle has emptied Mogabod's sack, revealing a (now broken) jade figure of Syldra.

Mogabod is very angry.

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Mogabod's bad day does not get any better as Sam decides to quiz him about the nature of his work.

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Mogabod says the following:

THAT %$!&*% MOOGLE DOLL! WHO CONTROLS YOU NOW $%£!FACE?!! KUPOOO!!!
HUH?! MY JOB, KUPO?!! I
answer to Kuporius as we all do, kupo. I carry things from our exhibits and put them into store, and I move things from our store and set them out as exhibits, kupo.... AT LEAST I WOULD IF $%£"! TOY MOOGLES DIDN'T SMASH 'EM!!!
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help deliver new items to our museum, when our source has a new item for us, kupo. Heavy work, but the money is worth it for my daughter, kupo...
There's nothing I don't know about this museum. If I see anything out of place, I tend to put it back, kupo.
NOW LET ME DO MY JOB AND STOP WRECKING THIS PLACE, $$%"!* KUPO!

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Vivian dances with Psy-Mog.

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Psy-Mog has this to say.

Heeeeeeyyyyy, sexy lady! Kup-kup-kup-kup kupo pom-pom style!

I hear rumours that the
walls can move in this house, kupo! I certainly get the sensation of that happening just looking at you, kupo! Uhh!

It has turned out to be a great evening.

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For some, anyway... Gerry Adams is either too frightened or too lazy to move...

Uh-oh!

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Quina has caught up with Gerry and has decided to snack on the delicious frog!

Gerry can no longer move. If Gerry isn't saved soon in the appropriate way then he shall be gobbled up!

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Pepe falls asleep after reading and re-reading the Book of Kelly.

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Mitsindy falls asleep and dreams of her pal PuPu.

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Dr.Fistbeard examines the trashcan in the security room
 
Having detected the commotion from across the museum, Maybot briskly trollies herself across the hall and past the corpse to the Ancient Cultures room to be met with the highly disgruntled face of one of these unsightly northern working-class Moogles, a man in a bird costume holding a sword (if he weren't a fellow detective, he'd be an instant suspect...) and that fat Moogle minion with a broken jade figure of what she can only describe as a pagan sea serpent deity by their feet. Wonderful. This furious Moogle will undoubtedly blame her for this and ask for more handouts. Maybot is not going to tolerate this. With a slightly updated verbal communication software installed in the process between wheeling from the gift shop over to this room, she confronts Mogbod:

"It is an unfortunate outcome that this un-Christian pagan statue has been damaged, but under this government, real wages have actually increased in the long-term, we have ring-fenced spending in areas which matter while carefully cutting down waste and unneeded expenditure, all to create a far more stable and stronger economy that works for all Moogles, not just for the Kuporiuses. But we are determined to ensure that businesses receive the right deal as this country looks set to exit the Kupopean Union, which does mean a robust re-evaluation of current legislation that imposes far too many red-tape and roadblocks on business owners. If your employer seeks to fire you for this broken exhibit, it is very unfortunate, but understand what this government has delivered for this country, which is a strong and stable economy instead of chaos from our opponents who insist that there is a magic Yggdrasil money tree out there..."

so she rambles on for a good ten more minutes before her user interface warns her that her battery has reached below 50%. She turns to face the clumsy Moogle robot and aims the megaphone at it once more.

"Go and inspect the corpse once again. The corpse of the first victim that is, not the dead foreign Moogle who was probably here to claim benefits and just protest all day like the socialist he was. Retrieve the victim's pompom if you must. I want his identification, as the inhabitants of this run-down establishment inexplicably appear to not know who he was. Be as thorough as you can for more clues. Is there anything on him, like a note?"

With that done, Maybot wheels out of the room and heads down towards the exit of the museum, only to be hindered by the barrier.

"You there, Moogle at the information desk", she cries out, "Prior to the murder, have you admitted any suspicious characters into this museum? I understand a lot of your clientele appear to be...poor people, meaning they must all look suspicious, but it is usually not too hard to spot a potential murderous Moogle amongst them. And if you have not admitted any suspicious characters through of late, do you know of any other entrance and exit to this museum that may potentially be accessible?"
 
Sam continues talking to Mogabod, asking him about the markings on the floor outside the door, and to help him operate the mechanism.
 
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