This post was last modified: Apr 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM by Atua.

Pohatu
Alright, now we're talking! This is a real chance to make you remember me!

Deathborn
It seems the true purpose of our game has finally made itself known.

Momoyo Himemushi
I feel all squished, now.

Atua
Heh. It is good to have the ghosts back. Tonight will surely be one to remember, for I give a motive to all ghosts. Ripped away from the living through the violence of the Killing Game, do you not wish you could make a return?

I will allow it. If tonight's ghost killer gets away with it, they will be restored to life, and granted a new role.

Hollywood Bowl
As if it wasn't chaotic enough already...

Agent Evangeline
What about the living? Somehow I can't imagine you intend to ignore them.

Atua
Of course not. To the living, I direct this motive. Those of you who do not attempt murder tonight will receive a second Forbidden Action. And I will make certain that others can activate it.

Honoka Kosakatua
Awfully quick to make yourself at home, aren't you.

Atua
And why would I not be? You have done an excellent job, you and your conspirators, but My presence is what this game deserves.

We shall see a glorious spectacle tonight - a double murder, a holy tribute to the name of Atua!

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Tonight is Ghost Night! The spirits of the dead have been all granted life - and what's more, the ability to kill!

A list of the Ghost Night functions is as follows:
-All ghosts are able to submit freely. Unlike wraiths, they act as full players, being able to submit murders and counting for trials when killed.
-Double Murder will be fixed at 1 living victim, and 1 ghost victim. Additionally, there will be 1 living killer, and 1 ghost killer.
-The victims will be able to investigate, though they will not receive accounts.
-Ghosts possess their roles and Forbidden Actions, identical to as they were in life.
-All ghosts will start in their dorms, rather than the Cemetery.
-The Night 6 motive means that the following people start in the Jail Cell: Roland, Madame Zalsarona, Akira Kogami, Ace Ventura, Elster, Bud, Lynne, Nico Yazawa, Ranger, Hollywood Bowl, and Agent Evangeline.

Tonight's weather is Twister. A funnel cloud has touched down between the Cemetery and the Red Building. Making contact with it will KO you and scatter your inventory. The cloud does not move and will remain in that location all night.

THE MAP (Credit to Yap for the centipede graphic!)

First Floor: Show

Purple Building
Desert Sage Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of desert flowers.
Sheriff's Office: The office of the one lawman in the town. Contains an officer's desk, several guns, and the Jail Cell.
Jail Cell: A jail cell, to, unsurprisingly, jail people. Anyone who starts their night in the jail cell is inflicted with Jailbird upon exiting.
General Store: A store stocked with all sorts of dry goods. The destination for all items you could want in the Wild West that aren't stocked elsewhere! There's a locked trapdoor in the floor.
Army Post: A well-equipped military depot, with everything from rations to weapons that a handful of soldiers might need.

Blue Building
Lobby: This building is fully modern, unlike the old-timey other five buildings. The glass-walled lobby full of plush chairs to sit in is a great example.
Theater: An old fashioned movie theater with modern projection equipment. Perfect for screening Wild West films after making them!
Archives: A large number of filing cabinets sit in this room, full of information on past Wild West film shoots that took place in Silver Junction. The door is locked.
Executive Office: A fancy, plush office with a large chair and larger desk, for whoever's in charge of the current movie productions.

Green Building
Prickly Pear Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of cacti.
Chapel: A non-denominational chapel to pray to whatever you may choose to pray to. We don't judge.
Newspaper: A room to run off the day's paper, complete with a printing press and a few desks for the newshounds.
Bank: A fancy, well-equipped bank, complete with a manager's office and plenty of tellers - as well as some money lying around. The back has a large vault door.
Vault: A locked vault behind a large vault door in the bank. It looks very complex to open, and it's marked High Security.

Yellow Building
Saloon: The big bar of Silver Junction. Lots of booze behind a bar, a piano with curtains on the side, plenty of tables, and of course every door is the swinging saloon doors.
Gun Store: A store selling all kinds of guns, from pistols to shotguns to rifles. Free to take and use to all customers!
Farrier: A small shop containing everything one could need to take care of a horse properly.
Stable: A stable currently inhabited by four horses. Whoever stocked them was cheeky enough to pick a red horse, a black horse, a white horse, and a pale gray horse.

Orange Building
Century Agave Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of low-growing desert plants.
Blacksmith: With a furnace at full blast, this blacksmith's shop is fantastic for making metal tools.
Carpenter: This room is full of woodworking tools and wood to work with for those tools.
Ruined Mine: The collapsed remains of a mineshaft, creating a deep hole in the middle of the building. Plenty of rocks to poke at if you want.
Mineral Storage: A place to store whatever minerals were dredged up from the mine when it was active. It's full of pyrite.
Mining Equipment: A large room, full of shovels, pickaxes, and any other non-explosive mining equipment your heart could possibly desire.
Explosives Storage: A room with plenty of dynamite, blasting caps, and whatever else you'd need for a big boom. The door is locked.

Red Building
Train Platform: An open-air platform for people to wait for the train. Contains a few clocks and a few benches.
Passenger Lounge: A comfortable waiting area and ticket counter for people to relax while waiting for the train.
Post Office: A small station to store, sort, and receive letters, of which there are currently a blizzard's worth.
Telegraph Office: An office to send and receive telegrams up and down the line. The door is locked.
Locomotive: A full-sized steam locomotive with a tender, three passenger cars, and a caboose attached. Several necessary parts of the engine have been removed, so it's not going anywhere.

Exterior Locations
Cemetery: A graveyard. It's currently devoid of graves beyond a few old headstones, but that could very well change here.
Livestock Corral: A small pen, holding several cattle. There's also a few chickens, for some reason.
Water Tower: An elevated water tower. It contains, surprise, water.
Plot: A roped off and well-tilled plot of land. Community garden in progress.
Outhouses: A pair of new outhouses constructed by Reginald Fikwerther in a more useful location.
Outhouse Crater: There was a bathroom here. It's gone now.
Canal: A small stream of water running along a pre-dug ditch, starting from a spring in the rocks.

Second Floor: Show

Purple Building
Officer's Club: A fancy bar meant for army officers. With the lack of those in the vicinity, it's become open to all.
Schoolhouse: A small, one-room school. Well equipped for general lessons, less well equipped for specialized.
Mayor's Office: The office of the Mayor of Silver Junction, holding all kinds of documents and records relating to the old town.
Courthouse: The judicial location of the county, back in the day. Contains a judge's bench, witness stand, desks for attorneys, and a jury box.
Hallway: An ordinary hallway to connect the 2F rooms in the purple building. There's some paintings on the walls, at least.

Blue Building
Soundstage: A big soundstage, perfectly designed for filming. There's a few different backdrops available to choose from, all fitting the Wild West theme.
Film Equipment: A storage room for the movie set building, holding the camera equipment and plenty of props for any Western you care to film.
Recording: A soundproof room for recording voice. Full of recording equipment, ranging from the gramophone to the modern systems.
Breakroom: A comfortable room to relax in during all the filming. Has several couches and tables, a coffee machine, and a fridge.

Green Building
Tailor: Plenty of clothing lies around in this store, all of it befitting the Wild West aesthetic on display.
Laundry: A hand-wash laundry, with everything you need to wash 'em and dry 'em both.
Barbershop: A fancy barbershop, equipped well for both haircuts and dentistry as necessary.
Law Office: The office of the town's only lawyer. Contains difficult-looking legal books in a row, a nice desk, and far too many papers.
Tobacconist: A tobacco shop, full of plenty of cigars, cigarettes, and chewing tobacco to imitate whatever noir or western trope you desire.

Yellow Building
Restaurant: A nice restaurant, complete with a small kitchen. Unimpressive compared to the OCGA Central Facility.
Gambling Parlor: A smoke-filled room set up for all sorts of games of chance and luck.
Brewery: A room set up for the easy production of moonshine. Saloon's gotta stay supplied, right?
Hotel: A small hotel with a few beds set up for sleeping. Perfect for quick layovers.

Orange Building
Doctor's Office: A basic doctor's office, for taking care of injuries in the West. Contains various doctor's tools, a cot, and a locked medicine cabinet.
Funeral Home: An undertaker's room, to work on laying to rest the deceased. When there's not a constant supply of them you can't keep up with, that is.
Pharmacy: With plenty of cheap drugs, nothing here is as good as the medicine in the Doctor's Office, but it can still come in handy.
Target Range: A shooting gallery set up to practice your gunplay. If you didn't bring your own, it's got plenty of guns and ammo ready to go.
Trading Post: A small trading post that caters specifically to selling to the miners, rather than the open nature of the general store.

Red Building
Railworker Quarters: A small sleeping area for employees of the railroad. It's got beds and not much else.
Station Storage: A storage room located in the train station. Contains various parts for the track and gear for employees.

Exterior Locations
Water Tower: An elevated water tower. It contains, surprise, water.

Basement Floor: Show

Purple Building
Storeroom: The storeroom underneath the General Store. Everything in the General Store? There's even more of it here. Contains a locked tunnel to the Rectory and a passcode door to the rest of the Purple Building's basement.
Construction Garage: A large underground garage, with an excavator, bulldozer, and drill tank. It also has a large shutter in the west wall.
Liturgic Silver Processing: A room designed to drain Liturgic Esotera out of the silver in Silver Junction, after it was saturated with the stuff by whatever happened in the past.
Crimson Eye Storage Facility: A storage facility for the Crimson Eye. Contains body armor, modern guns, and other normal high-end equipment necessary for suiting up.

Blue Building
Sacristy: The room to prepare for services in the church. Notably, despite the church starting as Protestant Christianity, the materials available in the church reflect a completely different religion, that of Atuaism.
Rectory: The room and board provided with the church, and thus the room where Spencer Edwards lived during the early 1870s.
Church Records: A room holding archives of church documents from Silver Junction's original time.
Crypt: An old, moldy crypt. Contains a few skeletons. Spooky.
Shrine to Atua: A small shrine specifically dedicated to Atua, the God of Killing Games.

Green Building
Crimson Eye Liturgic Research Laboratory: A complex lab designed to study the nature of Liturgic Esotera, the magic of faith. Set up by the paranormal crime gang, the Crimson Eye. The staircase heads up to the Vault.
Liturgic Study Records: Years' worth of records on the Crimson Eye's experiments in Silver Junction.
Liturgic Equipment Room: A room full of the high-tech experimental equipment developed based on the Liturgic experiments. Contains a locked tunnel to the Rectory.
Liturgic Testing Range: A room with a sealed chamber and an observation area, designed to test equipment in relative safety.

Orange Building
Paranormal Division Headquarters: The headquarters of the Union Army Paranormal Division, roughly carved from the rock. Contains a whole lot of information about their mission and the Silver Junction 1873 Incident, though the last part of that incident was sealed by the President's order.
Union Army Barracks: A sleeping place for the Paranormal Division soldiers during 1873. You can use it, though it's a little unmaintained.
Army Supply Depot: An old supply depot. Full of rotten food and old materials, though the latter still works.
Occultic Weaponry Storage: The Union Army's storage of Occultic-empowered weaponry.
Mineshaft: The mineshaft that connects the Ruined Mine room to the underground Mine itself. Contains a hidden door to the Paranormal Division HQ.

LIVING PLAYERS
Ghosts will be added to this list at the Day Phase, to indicate which ones submitted.
Desert Sage Dorm
-@North Star
-@Bud
-@Madame Zalsarona
-@Hifumi
-@Elster
-@Hollywood Bowl (NPC)
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC Ghost)

Prickly Pear Dorm
-@Partitio Yellowil
-@Akira Kogami
-@Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
-@Lynne
-@Agent Evangeline (NPC)
-@Deathborn (NPC Ghost)

Century Agave Dorm
-@Ranger
-@Roland
-@Kroos the Keen Glint
-@Nico Yazawa
-@McJango
-@Honoka Kosakatua (NPC)
-@Pohatu (NPC Ghost)

???
-@Atua (NPC)

Submissions are due in 72 hours, at 9 PM EDT on April 3rd.

Oh, hey Deathborn, I never got to ask you if you enjoyed the present I prepared for you



I made it with love and gratitude for the hospitality you showed us as the face of this whole scheme

This post was last modified: Apr 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM by Neil Marshall.

Marshall
Breathin' again sure is nice. Don't know how much you miss it till yer gone.

Marshall
Good to see ya'... Partitio.

Marshall
Made a doggone mess of the place though, didn't ya'? This god in gold is partly yer doin', I've heard? Tsk. Meddlin' in things ya' don't understand, without a set game plan... That gets ya' shot on patrol.

Marshall
Ain't mad at ya'. Killin' Games do strange things to ya'. Just givin' ya' a word of advice for if ya' get outta this damned place.

Marshall
You know the drill, cowpoke. Ya' need me, come find me. I'll always be a lawman for the people, especially on a night like tonight. Who knows what'll happen with all of us ghosts runnin' around, and a god in our midst.

Marshall
... That's not to say I'm without my plans, though.

Howdy, Deathborn. Mind if we have a little rendezvous, out by the ol' saloon? You and me, I think we've got some unfinished business to attend to.

This post was last modified: Apr 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM by Marisa Kirisame.

Wait... the saloon? Is now a bad time to mention I was gonna do a dance show at the saloon? You know, I have a contract apparently but I haven't danced yet, so might as well

MARTY WHAT IN TARNATION IS GOIN' ON

Don't look at me, I'm just a dead country singer

That feller that showed up's gotta be some real bad news, but he ain't red

He looks like he's all covered in butter or somethin'

Marty

MARTY

HE'S TEXAS TOAST MARTY!!!

Is it time for breakfast already?

Now listen here Texas Toast, you can make yer fancy lil' stars, you can hang out with Spence Redwards or whatever, you can even bring Texas Red back to life somehow, but you ain't gonna win here 'cause I've got a big iron on my hip and it's got all yer names on it dagnabbit!

...

Can someone let me outta jail though, it's kinda crowded in here

Pohatu
Alright, now we're talking! This is a real chance to make you remember me!

Hey, folks. New Sheriff here. Sorry to hear about your last Sheriff - I hear he was one of the best. I know we've got a lot of catching up to do, but don't worry about me... I'm just a little guy.

Wait a sec, Cousin McJango? Is that you? Wow! I haven't seen you since you skipped out on my funeral.

This game has been long... many indignities I have suffered...

The follies and madness of the youth... Drink water contamination... and toilet headed men...

But there are things that go too far.

Pushed to this limit, I am standing depleted.

Something must be done.




I will only go so far.












PUT ON CLOTHING, YOU LONG-HAIRED BOMB SETTER!!!

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Life is Borvattka...

Wait a sec, Cousin McJango? Is that you? Wow! I haven't seen you since you skipped out on my funeral.

Guess who's back! That's right, the one, and only, and definitely NOT dead, Theodore Noise! Here and ready to finally reclaim the lead role in this production!



...Alright, let's get real for a second here, folks.

Y'all got some real issues with me for some reason, and I don't get it. All I did that first day was get ready for my starring role in Mr. Toilet's film, and what did you all do? You messed with my plants, you stuck bullets into my potatoes, you made like a Bostonian and shotgun jumped up to a second story window - just to kill me! While I was cooking everyone some food, at that! And for what? Because I didn't blab immediately? There's some people who'd think I'd be in the right for wanting to get some payback tonight.



But y'know what? Let's have bygones be bygones! I'm a reformed pizza mascot! Sure, you might have murderers in your midst, my own murderer included, but I'm sure for the sake of this production we can bury the hatchet.

Spoiler: Show

Post Music - Domino Effect, Pizza Tower Lap 3 Deluxe OST

Is what I would say if I didn't intend to get some payback. You might want to keep an eye out tonight, Salsaroni!

I've been speaking with Agent Evangeline about some of your findings around the Junction lately. I have to say, I'm impressed with all your progress so far... in spite of this Atua figure arriving. I've never heard of him before.

That man Spencer Edwards has been living under a rock for far too long now. Everyone knows you can summon demons with a computer these days... he really could have saved himself quite a bit of effort. I don't think the modern Demon Summoning Program even requires an internet connection.

Though, I suppose its rude of me to expect a 150 year old man to understand how to use a smartphone.

Quite a shame the only other Devil Summoner here is dead and buried. If I had a proper team I might have been able to take on Atua more confidently.

Summoning demons with "smartphones"? I guess Kourin wasn't kidding that these things were like shikigami you can put in your pocket. Can you show me how you do it after all this?"

I guess Kourin wasn't kidding that these things were like shikigami you can put in your pocket.

Oh yes. Even before modern technology I would have at least expected any competent occultist to carry a few Kuzunoha Tubes. I would love to demonstrate, but... I've had little need to learn the art considering my "condition."

He's quite the enigma, that man. Not the sort of fight to pick unprepared.

But y'know what? Let's have bygones be bygones! I'm a reformed pizza mascot! Sure, you might have murderers in your midst, my own murderer included, but I'm sure for the sake of this production we can bury the hatchet.



Is what I would say if I didn't intend to get some payback. You might want to keep an eye out tonight, Salsaroni!

Hm? Oh.
Apologies. I did not see you there.

I have been chef for many decades, little diach.
So if you want to step to me, hear a little advice.




Give me everything you have got.
If your attempt is lacking, I will grill you like insolent cock.

Music: Show

Well would you lookie there! The man himself, finally rolled into town! You're one punctual man, Atua, but, hoo, you ain't easy to get a hold of, are ya? You reckon you'd consider droppin' a letter in the post with instructions next time? There ain't too many places these days that have the facilities to put a star up in the sky where it don't belong. Between you 'n' me, I wasn't even expectin' to reach ya.

You're gonna have to 'scuse my lateness. Sure you can understand I was fixin' to have a little private reunion with Neil while he's back makin' his rounds, can't ya? Sure lifts a man's spirits to see his partner again, but as I understand it, ol' Neil ain't here to pour one back and flap his gums, so while I let him to it, why don't we make introductions all proper-like?

I reckon you already know all that I could spill just from watchin' us like a hawk, but I didn't get much o' a look at you in that, er, subspace-whatchama-call-it.

Straight from the shoulder… you're a good few feet shorter than I was expectin'. I s'pose beggars can't be choosers when it comes to possessin' a body, huh? Thought a god might have more sense 'bout their garments, too. Madame Zee's got this one right - you're gonna get yourself a nasty burn out in this sun. I'd let you borrow some sunscreen if I hadn't left mine back home, but you slap some mud on yourself and it'll keep the sun off ya. If there's one thing I can hand you, it's that color you're wearing. Mighty fine choice, if I do say so myself. A man'll be hard-pressed to go wrong with a tasteful shinin' yellow on top of neutral accents.

Unfortunately, that's 'bout the long and short of what I can hand ya. Everything else… Well, I could give you a dozen reasons why what you're doin' here's lower than a mole tunnelin' in hell, then throw in another dozen for free, but I ain't gonna make myself part of the choir. There's one reason above all else you're a scoundrel.

You're preyin' on the desperation of folks, fleecin' 'em by takin' what's most valuable and holdin' it hostage! Look at the spirits you've pulled from their rests! You think you're doin' 'em a favor by promisin' a shot at revival? That ain't mercy - it's a scam, is what it is. You've made sure their lives were taken from 'em, and now you're dangling those lives like carrots in front o' a horse, actin' like you're handin' them a ticket to paradise. But what are they really gettin' 'cept tossed right back into your ritual to have their lives yanked away again?

If I yank a hundred crisp bills out of a man's pocket 'n' offer it back to him for breakin' his back workin' for me, that ain't mercy, 'specially not if I'm fixin' to pick his pocket again the next day.

Mr. Atua, what you're doin' here, I can't abide it. It goes deeper than the killin', deeper than what Deathborn or your daughter had in mind. Extortin' the restless dead, denying them the dignity of a peaceful sleep in the good dirt, promisin' freedom to the very ones you're trappin' in your ritual as enforcers…

'Fore all's said and done here, you and I'll have some business to tend to.

But don't get me wrong, now. I don't regret reachin' out none. Fact is, I'm mighty glad you saw fit to grace Silver Junction with your presence. This woulda been one tough transaction from a distance - the post's not nearly as well-suited to these kinds of trades as bare knuckles.

Bud in jail...

Somewhere in the Arizonian desert a young woman enters a phone booth. She reaches her arm out toward the handset, but is interrupted.

*ring* *ring* *ring*

Surprised, she quickly picks it up.

"The dark bulb, please. You never know who could be watching and I suspect somebody else is."

*click*

She reaches into her bag and rummages through an assortment of items. After a solid couple of minutes searching she finally pulls out an angular box and lets out a sigh of relief.



Her feeling of relief is quickly extinguished as she touches the bulb above her head. She recoils in pain from the heat. Grimacing, she grabs onto the bulb again and quickly unscrews it as her fingers burn. She pulls a dark bulb out of the box and installs it in the empty socket.



Finally back on task, she reaches for the handset once again and dials a number. After a few rings, somebody answers but doesn't speak.

"S-Senpai? Is that actually you? The boss told me you were back up but I couldn't believe it. These Killing Games are so strange... Listen, the bounty has changed. There are only three targets now but the prices on their heads have gone way up! Got a pen? Here are the names: Akira Kogami, Madame Zalsarona, and-"



A golden light suddenly blinds your vision and causes your ears to ring.

"Enough of this voyeurism."