[Birthweek 2017] Moogle Murder Mystery - Game Thread.

"Well someone knows a sexy lady when they see one!". Vivian kisses Psy-Mog on the cheek before turning into a shadow and reappearing in the entertainment entrance. "Doors are for nerds!", she exclaims to the weird pin cushion who is now in front of her.

Vivian slaps Quina. Repeatedly. With her hands and other possible appendages. Vivian isn't like other girls, you see. She loves frogs so she can't see that weird Irish specimen just be gobbled up, causing her to miss out on some fancy frog legs!

P.S. Vivian moves as a shadow in Paper Mario :s.
 
Kira Frazer decides to also check out locker #2 after that delightful purple surprise.
 
Round 12:

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 examines the security room trashcan.

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There is a note which reads thus:

Servants of Kuporius,

Hello again, dear and wonderful servants. May I remind you to pay no heed to
Pomas Pomson. It would appear that he has returned to the area, and I really would be very much annoyed if any of you have something to do with it.

Remember who pays your bills?

Kind regards,

Kuporius.

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Maybot interviews Mogsam the receptionist about possible suspicious characters and entry points to the museum.

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Mogsam has this to say:

This is the only entrance and exit to the museum, kupo... Well, unless you include the windows, kupo, but then who is counting them?! Or perhaps the killer came in through a secret portal, kupo! It's not impossible as I have seen it in video games and movies, kupo!

All people who enter this museum are suspicious characters to me, kupo. I have to keep an eye on everyone. I have to say I did notice a peculiar naked moogle wearing dutch clogs, and an
old man who gave me a look of disgust, kupo. Oh, and let us not forget about Kuporius' nemesis too - he's been poking around, kupo... I've not seen any of them leave since, kupo...


Maybot's moogle doll pom-scalps the Mog Doe like a trophy hunting savage.

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Whilst committing this desecration of the deceased the moogle doll dislodges quite a distinctive pair of glasses from the Mog Doe's hair. It would appear that the Mog Doe used to wear these, and that they had been lost or deliberately hidden.

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Sam further questions Mogabod, this time regarding the markings on the lobby floor.

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Mogabod has the following to say:

%$!&*%! THAT STUFF?! That is a vestige of when this place used to be Mogton Manor, kupo. We don't use it these days, but to activate it I believe someone needs to stand within the markings while another person presses something... I believe it is a button to the right of the stairs, near the bin, kupo. Or it could be the Solheim platform button in this room, or even the moogle death god statue in the moogle history exhibition, kupo... My memory is only fuzzy on this coz we never use this mechanism, kupo! WHY WOULD WE USE SUCH A THING $%"!% KUPO!!!!

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Vivian slaps Quina with all of her appendages in an attempt to free Gerry Adams.

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Unfortunately this slapping only acts as a passionate massage which aids Quina in sliding the hapless leprechaun down its throat.

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Gerry Adams has been eaten! Gerry Adams is not fully digested yet, so he can contemplate his demise or figure out some clues for one more turn before the digestive juices dissolve him.

Beyond that, unfortunately this is the end for Gerry Adams.

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Kira Frazer inspects locker #2.

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A rose is found within. A note is tied to the romantic gesture which reads thus:

Oh, Nutalie! Your beautiful hair is like a pair of chocobo wings, flapping against your delicate face. Oh, Nutalie! When you giggle your pom-pom wiggles like a flower in a gentle breeze. That is why I bought this gift for you, my love!
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Camera activities:
Kira's camera snapped this photograph during this turn.

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You may all now post your next moves!
@Soulcorruptor @Linnaete @Six @Shace is Great @Mitsuki @Galadín @Paddy McGee @Daredevil @sly @greeny



EDIT - Make sure that someone is standing near the Mog Doe corpse within the markings when the 'button' is pressed if you want to activate the device.

 
After carrying Mitsindy downstairs and posing her in hilarious fashion next to the Mog Doe, Sam searches by the stairs near the trash bin for the button, with the intent to push it.

 
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Maybot wanders over to Mog Doe's corpse, bearing witness to the Moogle doll's fresh act of desecration on the victim. Terrible. He looked like a very smart, middle-class Moogle who probably would have definitely voted for her, unlike that deceased foreigner Moogle across the hall who should deservedly be mutilated by her monstrous minion instead. She claims the pompom and distinctive pair of glasses from the doll and scans them for a straight five minutes, pausing intermittently because her ageing CPU is chugging about as hard as a regular student's cheap laptop attempting to run ten intensive graphics programs at once.

If Kuporius's nemesis is still skulking around these parts, he must be tracked down. But she will have to overcome her physical limits and ascend those blasted stairs, because this museum for some inexplicable reason does not have lifts. It's not very disabled-friendly, but then Maybot's data banks recall that her government cut public spending across the board, including on disability allowances, so mayhap she should not suddenly develop sparks of human empathy for them!

She err, mounts the Moogle doll as if she's some kind of...bipedal cartoon robot cat or something (which is a strangely specific description and I cannot fathom from where she got that from) and orders the clumsy brute to escort her upstairs. It is once on the first floor that she dismounts the doll.

"Brute. You unthinking hulk of wanton carnage," she says to the Moogle doll, returning poor Mog Doe's pompom and glasses to it, "return downstairs and return these to where you found them. I meanwhile have an old man in the paleontology and natural history room to question. I shan't be too brutal on the poor old man. I require the grey vote if I am ever foolish enough to gamble my party through another general election, because young Moogles in this country insist on voting for a virulently anti-pompom man who hates our nation!"
 
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(My curious mind won't leave these lockers alone!!!)

Kira Frazer decides that now that she's there, she may as well check another locker out... She attempts to open locker #4 .
 
"DAR DE LAR DE LAR!!! "


Gerry frantically tries to escape the stomach, kicking wildly. He needed some more bombs to plant and some more political claims to make which he won't carry out as he won't get elected.


"" HARLP MAI AYE LADS!!! "
 
Dirk leaves the Moogle History exhibit room, it is clear that if he is to assist in this investigation at all then whoever is negotiating his movements had better stop getting caught up with whatever they're doing and get posting, as well as the compelling fact that he had better stop investigating Moogle History in general and start focusing on an individual's history instead - predominantly the one laying dead in the hallway.

Dirk inches his cute little self away from the Ancient Moogle House exhibit but as he is about to leave the room he overhears Mogabod's dulcet tones. A switch by the Moogle Death God Statue? Since he's close to one of the three options outlined by the grumpy nuts across the hallway, he decides to investigate around the small brown statue which Dirk considers to look the most "Death Godly". Is there possibly a switch here that could help the detective outside and maybe even blow this whole investigation out in the open?
 
Fistbeard examines the trashcan in the entertainment suite.
 
Round 13:

Maps:
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Ground Floor:

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First Floor:

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Entertainment Suite:

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Particulars:


Sam moves the sleeping Mitsindy to be close to the Mog Doe corpse.

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Sam then checks out the stairs to find the secret button, but there is unfortunately nothing there. Either Mogabod had incorrectly remembered, or the button is not here anymore.

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Maybot interviews the old man in the natural history wing.

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Sir Mogathon Pomcroft, 9th Earl of Mogton, has this to say:

Pom-poms above, kup-O! I am a lifelong Tory, of course. I was rather sad when the Moomba hunt was outlawed, kup-O. Moog-elites used to pay to use my land as a hunting ground. Running out those pests on a sunny day really helped to sharpen one's mind, kup-O! Alas, I had to sell my acreage and my estate to those upstart middlings, Kuporius and Pomson. One can rue the day, kup-O!

Maybot's moogle doll puts the glasses and pom-pom back where he found them... Where he thinks he found them!

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Kira Frazer opens up locker #4

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An abomination with a serious self-esteem issue had been locked in the locker. It bursts out of the locker and now seeks emotional support from Kira.

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

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Gerry Adams has been digested and is dead... Quina burps out Gerry's inventory (the magic crystals) and leaves them on the floor in the Entertainment Suite.

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Dirk ♥ examines the statue of the moogle death god in an attempt to activate the lobby mechanism.

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The death god statue tilts backward upon being examined, and then snaps back into place.

It works.

There is a rumble underneath the floor of the lobby. The floor opens up at the markings and three walls rise upwards, enclosing and trapping Mitsindy and the moogle doll within the scene of the crime. The wall where there had also been markings shudders and slides into a chasm. As the wall drops away a Demon Wall is revealed. The mechanism in motion, the Demon Wall instantly begins to creep forward, clanking loudly.

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A phoenix down drops from the ceiling, as if deliberately released by this twisted death-machine.

Mitsindy and the moogle doll are trapped within the Demon Wall enclosure. They must stop the mechanism if they want to survive.


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Dr. Fistbeard searches the trashcan in the Entertainment Suite.

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He finds some softening perfume. This perfume is well regarded for softening even the hardest of hearts, and for making any man break free of his stony countenance.


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You may all now post your next moves!
@Soulcorruptor @Linnaete @Six @Shace is Great @Mitsuki @Galadín @Daredevil @sly @greeny

 
Kira Frazer lightly pats the abomination on the head. "There there, aren't you a cutie?!"

Wondering if it speaks, she asks "Who did that to you?" hoping for some information that she quite honestly might not even need.
 
Now, readers. You're probably thinking: Maybot can't be that cold-blooded. Despite being a robot and bereft of human emotions or a capacity to talk to other living creatures like any normal Moogle would, there has to be a sliver of munificence in that moving casket of copper, silicon, steel, aluminium, titanium and Kuponium?

Of course the answer is no, Maybot could not care less that there is a Demon Wall about to crush that brute. For all she knows, the doll has outlived its usefulness and if its time has come for it to be permanently scrapped, who is she to interfere? She is here to solve a murder, not play Good Samaritan. As such, she discards the megaphone there and then. This old man here may derive some amusement out of it, but it is no longer of use to her.

Maybot trundles across to the library. The downside of leaving the Moogle doll to its gruesome fate is that she no longer has a mount to safely navigate up or down the stairs, so she may be eternally stuck on this floor, which elicits the same kind of horrible sinking feeling as the thought of being in a room full of bureaucrats from the Kupopean Union. No matter. At least she can engage in some light reading in this library. She immediately sets upon scanning the shelves for any interesting book. Could there be any suspicious notes or anything concealed within these pages, forgotten and accidentally left behind instead of being properly disposed of? How about an interesting diary or book chronicling the story of this museum and its founders? Somewhat unlikely, but it's worth a consideration. Who knows, maybe the answer to why there is a literal death trap downstairs in the form of a demon wall lays somewhere in here, like the restricted section of a Hogwarts library.
 
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Vivian decides that all that slapping with her appendages got her nowhere. "That's the last time I try to help anyone out! Good gravy!".

Vivian heads on over to the 1st floor and enters the space and astronomy room. She loves how her purple skin absolutely glows in there!

As soon as Vivian enters the room, she notices a telescope staring out into the distance (or maybe it's looking at a circle on the wall? I guess we'll find out soon!). Anyways, as she smooshes over to the telescope, she thinks to herself in an ever so refreshingly honest way, "I wish I were a star". "I could sparkle and get out of my dull, rundown town...".

Vivian sighs and gazes at the stars...or wall.
 
Grabbing the crystal balls that mysteriously now appeared in the suite Dr.Fistbeard grabs them then heads to the dico floor looking room and speaks to the bartender to see of they might know where to find the keys yo the store stairs on the first floor, or who might actually have the keys.
 
First and foremost, Sam has Al download the latest picture of Kira from her camera to his padd.

That's dirty baby.


Sam makes a mental note to get her digits before he leaps out. Then he makes his way upstairs and asks Sir Mogathon Pomcroft, 9th Earl of Mogton to help him deactivate the demon wall. He explains the situation of a damsel in distress and plays heavily on the honor and chivalry angle.

Might as well pick up this megaphone while im at it...
 
Oops! That worked a little too well! Hearing the grinding sound of wicked gears at work, Dirk looked around him for some inspiration on what could stop the impending disaster he had unwittingly unleashed. Mogabod walked into the room - what was he doing here? What if he had made the very suggestion that Dirk had acted upon with the intention of activating the Demon Wall; what was he playing at? Dirk was incredibly suspicious but had little time to waste. With the seconds ticking Dirk made an adorably cute but uncharacteristically quick, desperate lunge for the sword in the stone. Would this traditionally heroic monument stop the doomed gears of fate?

Dirk's glowing yellow eyes were still training on Mogabod the grumpy nuts...
 
Round 14:

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 attempts to console the abomination with self-esteem issues, and asks the question of who did this to the poor creature.

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The abomination responds thus:
Waaaah! My face? My mommy and daddy did my looks for me! My locked in here as there no abominasian policy in this house! Grumpy one put me here...
Abomomominashion sad...

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

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Maybot scans the bookshelves of the library and is drawn to The Adamantium Madam: The Life and Times of Mogeret Snatcher.

This delightful volume offers delicious information about Maybot's style-icon, and about how Mogeret dealt with the dissident dwarf strikes after she closed the mythril mines.

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Someone has used a note as a bookmark while reading this book. It reads thus:

I take serious offence with the dinosaur models... I mean they are the most inaccurate dinosaurs I have ever seen (since the last museum I visited anyway)... Where are the feathers? These are naked dinosaurs! If I wanted pornography and a strip tease I'd go upstairs and play with the Pomboy models. I can't do this though because I'm not 18 for another six years and Kuporius wouldn't let me borrow them. Still, here is a complaint letter. Please accept my complaint and act upon it very quickly or I'll complain again.

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Vivian looks out through the telescope into space.

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She zooms into Pluto and sees a face rather familiar. It is in fact the Space Paissa.

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It is a rather interesting thing to behold.

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Dr. Fistbeard interviews Kupa Skiphop about the keys to the store.

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Kupa has this to say:

Honey, I'm just a barmaid, kupo! I can mix up a cocktail that I've just made up on the spot called Keys to my Nut Store if you like, kupo... Let's see... Kupo nut juice, cider, lime cordial, and garnished with a natural liquorice stick? Hmmmhmmm, that sounds nice, kupo!
If you want actual keys to our actual store, then perhaps
Mogabod is the guy you need, kupo? He knows more about the store than I do, I mean it is his job. I doubt he'd willingly hand over his keys to anyone though, kupo!

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Sam picks up the megaphone and questions Sir Mogathon Pomcroft, 9th Earl of Mogton, regarding the activated mechanism.

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Sir Mogathon has the following to say:

He-he-heh!!!
Oh cripes, kup-O. The old wall trial is moving again? One would be quite silly activating that trap of Thanatos without knowing what one is doing, kup-O.
There is nothing one can do from outside the confines of the mechanism, for the
key to stopping the undead contraption lies within its boundaries, kup-O!
He-he-heh!!!

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Dirk ♥ examines the legendary sword.

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The sword of Pomskupobur can be taken at the beginning of the next round (without wasting a turn) if it deems Dirk ♥ to be a worthy wielder. The carved face on the wooden sword appears to wink at Dirk ♥, giving off the impression that it will accept Dirk ♥'s advances. Then again, it is an old sword and it might just have dust in its eye...

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The Demon Wall continues to move closer to Mitsindy and the moogle doll. Their time is running out!


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You may all now post your next moves!
@Soulcorruptor @Linnaete @Six @Shace is Great @Mitsuki @Galadín @Daredevil @sly @greeny
 
Dr.Fistbeard goes to Mogabod and asks about the keys to the store as well as the sack he saw him carrying on the video to see if he knew what was in the sack, he further ask mogabod if he can have the keys or if mogabod will unlock the door so they can solve this mystery.
 
For a brief few seconds, sparks emit from below Maybot's neckline, followed by a short convulsion. It is almost as if Maybot has discovered how to run the emotions.exe file somewhere in her systems and has nearly blown her own fuse as a result of frustration at having virtually nothing of note (at least so it would seem) from this godsforsaken library. Just a barely eligible scrawl by a 12-year old disrespectfully stuck in the middle of the greatest biography ever to be written about the greatest Iron Moogle to have ever lived. And about dinosaurs? Pfft. She has to put up with Arlene Mogster to stay in power, and her political party does not even believe in dinosaurs!

She is about to raise her megaphone and bark further orders at the Moogle doll until that brief jolt boots her memory banks back into action and she recalls that she discarded the megaphone in the other room and has left the doll to die an excruciating death downstairs. Alas, this is inconvenient. And a needless loss, but hey, so was calling a snap election!

Sure, she cannot climb stairs like a normal Moogle can, but that doesn't mean she cannot try. She is to have a word with Kuporius if it's the last thing she can do before her CPU breaks down for good. There are questions to be asked to the head of this museum regarding Pomas Pomson and everything that has already transpired here tonight. If anyone besides Mogabod has answers, is it him. Maybot trundles towards the stairs leading to the bizarrely out-of-place entertainment suite on the museum's second floor. As suspected, she is like a Dalek, unable to climb the stairs but unlike a Dalek, she can't exactly exterminate a nearby opponent to make up for such a major shortcoming.

Oh well, you do what you have to do. Deactivating bipedal mobility functions.

With one simple function, power to Maybot's legs are cut off and she is hurled forward towards the stairs with arms outstretched. With only her arms and her clawed hands, Maybot reroutes all main and auxiliary power reserves to the top half of her body and slowly begins to crawl her way up the stairs, dragging the now-useless lower half of the body with her. It is an arduous task that is pushing her motor functions and her ancient hardware to the limit. It is also rather humiliating, which is usually a feeling foreign to robots, but this would be Maybot's second exposure to the sensation since she called a snap general election that didn't end up as a commanding victory.

After what probably must have been hours later, Maybot manages to crawl up to the top floor and all the way through a couple of doors (somehow) to reach the coveted hot tub room. There, Kuporius himself is having a jolly old soak with his two Mogmaidens. Clamping her claw hands to the floor, Maybot reactivates her bipedal mobility functions and manages to stabilise herself on four limbs before detaching her hands from the floor and returning to an upright position and on her wheel feet again. Ha! A Dalek can't do that, can they?

"Kuporius, I presume!" barks Maybot imperiously, "Putting aside how much I disapprove of your very un-Christian activities at this very juncture, I demand to know what you know of a certain Pomas Pomson. I believe you are intimately familiar with that name. I also believe that Mr Pomson has been here of late, perhaps he's still in this very museum tonight if what the filthy proletariat at the front desk told me is true. What say you, Kuporius. I do not wish to antagonise you, because I recognise what good service entrepreneurs and business owners like you do for the prosperity of our country. You should be aware that this government has cut corporation tax, moved ahead to cut red tape and free businesses from more regulations from ever, carried ahead legal reforms to ward off spurious employment-related claims..."
 
had to drive 10miles to civilization to make this turn..

Sam uses the megaphone to order the robot to pick up the Phoenix down and the search the area for a way to stop the creeping death.

OK back to camping.
 
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