Re: The Murder and the Psychic

[Atlas]

Because I'm dead...

...and I'm haunting you ppl.

[cya6]

Is there a rule about how many times a person can talk/post after they've been killed?

cause I'm about 85% sure that may have had something to do with when I was voted off last time, and I'd really hate for that to happen again.

[aelitaxwilliam]

Generally, if you've been killed off, you're allowed one last final post, and then you're not supposed to be posting in this thread or really talking about it elsewhere. Of course, in general, no one is supposed to be making M&P predictions and have discussions about who the murderer is outside of this thread, whether they're alive or not, but that's a bit harder to enforce.

Good point about killing Atlas though. Now that you brought it up, I have no idea why the murderer killed Atlas. It would've made a lot more sense to keep him alive, since he got my vote at least once. Maybe he was getting too close to the truth though?

[Snickie]

I no vote because I has not analysed text and I IS SLEEPY!!!!!

I have some random free time tomorrow morning, so I'll see if I can post. Even though I'm late again. -_-

[cya6]

just vote, please Snickie. you don't have to analyze, just pick a random name

worst case scenario, you vote off the psychic.

[Snickie]

Alright, here goes with the random name picking -_-

[cya6]

KAAAAAAAYYY

you were supposed to update toniiiiiight!!!!

[Koneko on lyoko]

(A day late, but when have I ever been on time? At least it's a smaller gap than last time. Well, enjoy)
Snickie 2
Shadows
Soul 1
Cats 1
Cya 1
Kitty
Kelly
Kay
Enzo
Stella
Y2k

The inmates gazed at the door in the corner. Silence fell upon them yet again and everyone seemed to silently make the decision to make their way over to the door.
“I don't think we should be doing this,” Kelly whispered, “I mean maybe we should just stay put, and then we should be ok...”
“I don't think we have a choice Kelly,” Cats said, peering in through a glass square on the door.
“Don't do that!” Kay shouted as loud as she could in a whisper, “that's always the moment in a horror when something appears behind the glass.”
Cats just rolled his eyes, “I think I've seen worse.”
“Why are we whispering?” Snickie sighed and tried the door handle, “locked.”
“I'll get it,” Shadows said and came through the crowd with a key and with a click the door unlocked and gently swung open.
“Enzo, shine your torch in there,” Y2k asked and the other did so.
The room was pretty empty, save for a desk, a filing cabinet, a small book filled shelf and a poster with a big, red XANA symbol on it.
“Huh I thought there'd be more in here than this,” Shadows muttered to herself.
“Yea, this seems just as boring as the rest of this place,” Enzo sighed and walked into the room, “is there really no way to get any other light in here?”
Shadows shook her head, “not while the powers out.”
“What about the drawers?” Kitty suggested.
“Yea! Maybe there's a torch in one of them,” Cya said and went over to the filing cabinet.
“And why would there be a torch in here?” Cats asked with a sigh.
“Well, everything has to be turned off for maintenance, so you'd need a torch to get around,” Soul said and joined Cya at the filing cabinet.
“I'll look in the desk,” Snickie said.
Everyone nodded and went to various parts of the room in search of a torch, as they seemed to forget about the fact that the murderer was still amongst them. After a few minutes of searching, Snickie sighed and sat down on the chair at the desk, her hands still flicking up pieces of paper in drawers, hoping to find something under them.
“Well this isn't going anywhere,” Kay stated, her hand running across the shelf that was now void of books; said books were now splayed across the floor, open on various pages.
A certain book suddenly caught Stellas attention, “Enzo could you shine the torch over here, Alice in Wonder land...” she trailed off picking the book up and started reading the page it was one, “well that's strange...hey guys listen to this.”
Everyone looked at her, “this page is weird, it's like it's been stuck in,” she flicked the page and looked at the number, “it has, the numbers skip.”
“Well what is it?” Soul asked impatiently.
“It's a load of quotes from the Chesire Cat...” she explained and read some of them out.
'Everyone here is mad. I'm mad. You're mad. It's only by chance n' careful planning if you're not!'
'Somehow you strayed and lost your way, and now there'll be no time to play, no time for joy, no time for friends - not even time to make amends. You are too naïve if you do believe life is innocent laughter and fun.'
'How fine you look when dressed in rage. Your enemies are fortunate your condition is not permanent. You're lucky, too. Red eyes suit so few.'
'To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.'
“Now isn't the time for quoting classic literature,” Enzo said and moved the torch away to point to an empty chair, “I want to know where Snickie is.”
“But-” Stella began, but was interrupted by everyone turning to the desk.
Most of the group of inmates walked over to the desk and looked downwards at the chair, only to see a hole in the floor leading down to a strange looking place.
“A trap door?” Cya sighed, “really?”
“Just why?” Kelly sighed, “why?”
“That's a very good question,” Y2k said and glanced at Soul, “any ideas?”
“Guys I think this is really important...” Stella persisted, but everyone was too preoccupied with the hole in the floor.
“Yea, you should know about this, right Soul?” Cats asked, peering over the hole.
Soul shook her head, “I have no idea, how about you Shadows?” she looked around the circle and didn't see Shadows anywhere, “wait, where is Shadows?”
Everyone looked around the circle and realised she was the only inmate not there.
“Not again...” Cya whispered and joined everyone in slowly turning to look around the room, Enzo instinctively moving the torch around.
It wasn't hard to miss, Shadows body lying next to the filing cabinet, a pair of scissors protruding from her neck. Blood pooled around her and covered the wall behind her.
Even though it was too late to do anything, everyone bolted over to Shadows. They all looked at here, ignoring the blood beneath their feet.
“Again?” Kitty muttered.
“How could we not notice?” Stella asked, the book dropped and forgotten about.
More questions would've been asked, but static suddenly came from the computer speakers sat on the desk. It crackled for a moment before a muffled almost inaudible voice began speaking:
"As far back as I can remember, I've been living here in this dark asylum. Why, is it my fate? Destined to be here forever?"

Voting ends Friday 5th October 1pm BST, 8am EST...or whatever it was I put before.

[aelitaxwilliam]

My personal theory is that Shadows is all that remains of the bloody aftermath of a rock-paper-scissors game.

The literature could reference most of the people remaining, I think. For the most part, we've all written fanfiction at some point in time. Writers tend to be readers also, and looking through the list again, I have to say I think everyone on there writes (except for y2k, which I'm not sure if he does or not o.o). And the Cheshire Cat is from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is a really well-known book. I would almost say it's Snickie at this point because she loves cats, but she's gone now, and the murders are still happening!

[Snickie]

Snickie's ghost rises from the trapdoor, cries at the people who voted her off, and fades away into the air, leaving nothing but a faint echo of a wail. Soon enough, even that fades into the emptiness.

(P.S. I am so totally hosting the next available M&P. )

[cya6]

(Nuh uh, snickie's ghost, I'm hosting next round. I was gonna host this one, but couldn't, cause of camp. I'm next in line. You can do it after, kay?)

It's Kitty. Quotes from the Chesire Cat equals Kitty. Plus the line at the end, about being here so long...

Kitty was the second person to join the new XL, and everyone knows she was here waaaaay back in the old XL.

Just saying that this post hints towards her. Also Cats is under suspicion, due to the Chesire Cat.

Just sayin...

[aelitaxwilliam]

...omg. How did I not get that cat reference? I seriously had this typed-up theory about it being Soul too, and then I couldn't figure out how to word it and I wanted to go read. And somewhere in-between there, that theory just never got posted.

This makes me really excited for the next two M&Ps, guys.

[Soul Jelly]

Aw, I wanted to hear your theory Kelly.

Ah well. XD Cya's hit the nail on the head, methinks. It makes sense enough to me!

Koneko, the writing/story continues to be awesome. Mad props to you

[Stella Luce 333]

I was starting to think I had an idea about who the killer was…but the Alice in Wonderland reference is making me doubt my logic…

[SMARTAgentKC]

So how exactly does the line order go?

[cya6]

what kc?

EDIT: Wait, you're not even playing! Why are you posting here?

[Koneko on lyoko]

Ok, no more voting, I'll write the next one over the course of the weekend

[Koneko on lyoko]

(YUSH! My files were not lost and I was able to finish the next part of M&P without writing it all over again )

Kitty 3
Enzo
Stella
Soul
Cats
Cya
Kelly
Kay
Y2k

“What's with all these cryptic messages?” Kay asked as the static crackled for a moment before fading away into silence.
“I don't know,” Kelly replied, “they have to mean something don't they?”
“...well they happen after all of the murders,” Enzo stated and thought back to the various things that had appeared after the murders, “clues maybe?”
“They could be,” Y2k said, “did anything happen after Legend was murdered?”
“Nothing did,” Cya answered after a second of thinking, “there was no weird message after Legend was murdered.”
“Maybe they aren't clues then,” Enzo sighed, “is there anything relating to who the murderer is?”
The inmates all thought for a while before they were interrupted by Souls voice.
“Enzo could you shine the torch to where Snickie was please?” her voice came from the area of the room where the hole in floor was.
Enzo did as he was asked and moved the torch. Everyone turned around with the movement of the torch to see what Soul was looking at.
Soul sighed, “I'm gonna need you to come over here, I can't see with the light all the way over there.”
The group followed Enzo to the other end of the room behind the desk, where Soul was stood looking at the hole.
“Shine the torch down there please,” she asked and motioned her hand for Enzo to shine the torch beam into the hole.
“What's down there?” Cats asked looking into the darkness.
“I don't know, that's why I need Enzo to shine the torch down there,” Soul answered as Enzo did that.
The beam of light illuminated a small ladder that led downwards, even with the torch, it was still hard to see what was at the bottom.
“Why do I get the feeling we're going to go down there,” Stella sighed.
“Because there's nowhere else to go,” Soul answered
“This asylum is pretty big,” Kitty said, “are you sure there's nowhere else to go?”
“Of course there are other places to go, but this is the most interesting,” Enzo said and watched as the other inmates began to slowly make their way down the ladder.
Kitty hesitated but with a sigh of defeat, she made her way down the ladder. After a small thud was heard the second of the inmates made their way down there. They all followed each other down there and Enzo was the last to go down the ladder since he was the one with the torch.
Enzo jumped off the end of the ladder and his feet hit the metal grate floor with a small thud. He then shone the torch around wherever it was they were.
“Oooh I know where this is,” Soul said in realisation.
“And where would that be?” Kay asked.
“This is the inner workings of the asylum, we should be able to switch the power back on from in here,” Soul answered.
“That's great and all,” Enzo said, “but why did Rai have a trap door leading down here in the office?”
Everyone just shook their heads, no one really knowing why the trap door was there.
“Cya did you see where Kitty was when you got down here?” Kelly asked looking around.
“She wasn't here when I came down...” Cya trailed off looking around too.
“But you were the second person to come down,” Y2k said.
“Disappearing people, murders, cryptic messages?” Stella sighed, “what's with this place.”
“I'm starting to think it would've been better to stay up there,” Kay muttered looking up the ladder she'd just come down.
“If this place can give us a chance to get the power back then I think we should go for it,” Enzo said getting tired of carrying the torch around.
“Definitely,” Cats said nodding in agreement.
“Where to Soul?” Cya asked, “where do we need to go to switch the power back on?”
“Well...” Souls voice trailed off as she looked around, “I think we need to go that way,” Soul started walking and the others quickly followed.
“Does Soul really know where we're going?” Y2k whispered to Stella after a while.
“I don't know,” Stella shrugged, “but she'd the best chance we've got.”
Cya, who was stood behind Enzo, looked around and grimaced, “this place is horrible, I mean look at all this broken glass...where's that even from anyway?”
“No idea,” Soul said, “I've only been down here once, so I really wouldn't know.”
The group stopped as Soul suddenly stopped walking, “really?” Soul sighed.
“What's wrong?” Kays voice came from the back of the group.
“There's a computer here and I think we need to do something to open this door,” Soul answered.
“Seriously,” Kelly whined, “how's that even going to work anyway? We need to get through that door to turn on the electricity but we have to open the door by using a computer that uses electricity?!”
“This is ridiculous,” Stella said.
“Let me have a look,” Enzo said and knelt down to look at the wiring underneath the computer screen. The inmates were put in darkness as Enzo used the torch beam to look at the wires.
It seemed like an eternity to the group as Enzo continued examining and changing the wires.
“YES!” Enzo shouted and stood up as the screen flickered into life, “I knew it, there's a second generator that powers the security system down here.”
“Awesome,” Cya said, “but why isn't the door opening.”
“Obviously something needs to be put into the computer in order for the door to open,” Enzo stated, “Soul should know what that is, right Soul? …Soul?”
Everyone froze as the same thought ran through their minds, 'this is exactly what happens before someone turns up dead...'
“Soul please tell me you're just playing some cruel prank on us...” Kay said but the only noise that followed was the breathing of the others.
Enzo, for what felt like the millionth time, moved the torch around to find Soul and yet again the sight was unmissable. Body slumped against the metal wall; a putrid, red substance covering her clothes, the wall and surrounding floor, Soul lay there, bloodied pieces of shattered glass covering her body. The biggest piece of glass being the one sitting there in her lap, it's use was obvious, the shard had been used to slash across Souls neck.
“I swear these murders are getting more and more grusome,” Kay said when her eyes fell upong the sight of Souls body.
“But what are we going to do now?” Cats asked, “Soul was our only hope of being able to turn the power back on.”
“We'll just have to try and do it ourselves,” Enzo said and turned to the now bright screen.
He was about to start attempting different things to see if they would open the door when static began to cloud the screen, just as it had before Atlas' death. Words began to float on the screen:
"It all starts with this...”
The words then dissolved into the pixels and a picture appeared on the screen. It was a brilliant red diamond, spinning around the nothingness that was the screen, a non-existent light shining on it adding a brilliant glow to the jewel. Everyone looked in awe at the diamond and almost missed the words forming below it:
“...a jewel containing the ultimate power!"
Cats suddenly stopped, almost shocked, “no way...that's a...Chaos Emerald!”

Voting ends Friday 12th October 1pm BST, 8am EST. The usual drill.

[cya6]

I'm almost happy that I was wrong. i hate it when M&P ends too soon.

On the other hand, I'm now fairly stumped. WTF is a chaos emerald?

So sad Snickie was voted off. We could use her monster analysis about now

[Koneko on lyoko]

Someone gets voted off because everyone thinks they're the murderer, and someone gets killed off because the murderer wanted to

[cya6]

Soul! You can't point fingers at people once you die!!!!!

And you know how this is played. Two people leave per round. the voted off, and the killed.

It's fortunate your finger pointing isn't gonna change who I would have voted for, though.

[Soul Jelly]

I really had no idea of the rules Cya, I've just kind of been picking them up as I went along. Also Kelly helped a bit, but yeah. That makes sense. Thanks for filling me in both of you~

I also thought we got one last 'back from the dead ghost-post' after we were killed...
I shall delete my other one and make this my last post.

*GHOSTLY HAUNTING NOISES*

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


/fades away

[Snickie]

/Ghost Snickie helps transport Ghost Soul to the afterlife where they have ghost cake and ice cream and tea.

[VGCats_Rocks]

by the way, 14th October is a Sunday

[Koneko on lyoko]

So it is...thanks Cats I'll change that.

Voting ends on the 12th not the 14th ^^;

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