Crow's Thread

"Did you forget this?"

Dennis continues. "I've taken it upon myself to catalog every single fire starter in this prison and a single match taken from my lab is the only one out of place. This means the murderer must have lit the gunpowder with said match."

A look of realization dawns upon Sylvia. "And you kept the matches right there in your lab, didn't you? That place!"

"This will prove my point."

Claus takes out an image of the spilled gunpowder in the Pyrotechnics Lab with footprints in it. "These footprints must depict whoever it is that went to the Ultimate Pyrotechnics Lab and stole the match. And if what I know is correct...These footprints belong to Vivian!"



Vivian lets out a scared gasp as the platform she stands on moves into the center, putting everyone's attention on her. "N-No, it's not..."

"That's right. These footprints match your sneakers perfectly. I remember from this morning while I was doing the laundry. The dimensions on it are perfect. They could only fit you."

"B-But it isn't me, I swear! I would never hurt Tucker!"

Axel shouts over Vivian. "Don't be ridiculous! Vivian would never do such a thing!"

Ashley throws her a skeptical glare. "The timing is too perfect..."



Mass Panic Debate!

(In this section, you must place the conversations together before you can fire any Truth Bullets! Put the three different ongoing conversations together in order from first line said to last. Once you've correctly ordered the conversations, you can shoot your Truth Bullets at any Contradiction Points or Consent Points you see. But keep in mind that you'll be working with one other player. You may not have the correct Truth Bullets or you may both have the right Truth Bullets. Be careful when selecting what to shoot!)

A. Axel yells at Claus. "Would you seriously accuse someone of something so horrible!?"

B. Vivian tries to defend herself. "I didn't even know that would happen! Why would I even want Tucker to get hurt?"

C. Aki tries to explain. "Axel, I'm afraid we have to find the culprit. It has to be one of us. So we must figure out whether it could have been Vivian."

D. Ashley continues. "I mean, just look at when Vivian showed up. She was the first to find Tucker's body."

E. Dennis accuses Vivian. "If you didn't kill him, what were you doing in my lab?"

F. Vicky shakes her head. "But that doesn't mean she killed him."

G. Axel continues to yell. "No! Suspecting my friends is wrong! That cat must be pulling something! There's no way!"

H. Dennis continues. "There wasn't a mess before the party and there is after Tucker's death. A mess you walked through! How do you explain that?"

I. Claus responds with annoyance. "Be silent! Do you not realize we're trying to have a discussion?"

J. Spy attempts to calm things down. "Let us not be so hasty in deciding the verdict quite yet. There are still some unsolved mysteries related to the case."

K. Sylvia sighs. "We need to consider every possibility. She could have just set off the explosive and run to see him first, pretending she was surprised."

L. Erika crosses her arms. "Claus is right. I can't think with all this noise..."

M. Ashley laughs a bit. "That reminds me of a role I played once. A widow that would murder her husband and pretend to be the victim all so she could get his money!"

N. Vicky throws Ashley a skeptical look. "Is that...really relevant?"

Mass Panic Debate!

(In this section, you must place the conversations together before you can fire any Truth Bullets! Put the three different ongoing conversations together in order from first line said to last. Once you've correctly ordered the conversations, you can shoot your Truth Bullets at any Contradiction Points or Consent Points you see. But keep in mind that you'll be working with one other player. You may not have the correct Truth Bullets or you may both have the right Truth Bullets. Be careful when selecting what to shoot!)

Axel yells at Claus. "Would you seriously accuse someone of something so horrible!?"

Vivian tries to defend herself. "I didn't even know that would happen! Why would I even want Tucker to get hurt?"

Aki tries to explain. "Axel, I'm afraid we have to find the culprit. It has to be one of us. So we must figure out whether it could have been Vivian."

Ashley continues. "I mean, just look at when Vivian showed up. She was the first to find Tucker's body."

Dennis accuses Vivian. "If you didn't kill him, what were you doing in my lab?"

Vicky shakes her head. "But that doesn't mean she killed him."

Axel continues to yell. "No! Suspecting my friends is wrong! That cat must be pulling something! There's no way!"

Dennis continues. "There wasn't a mess before the party and there is after Tucker's death. A mess you walked through! How do you explain that?"

Claus responds with annoyance. "Be silent! Do you not realize we're trying to have a discussion?"

Spy attempts to calm things down. "Let us not be so hasty in deciding the verdict quite yet. There are still some unsolved mysteries-"

"Could you all just shut up for a second?"

"There it is!"



You continue. "Something's weird with that gunpowder. The way it fell is... weird. Like something was in the way, but I don't have the slightest idea what it could have been. Maybe it's not important, but..."

Leanne interjects. "No, you're right. Look at the way the gunpowder was spilled." Leanne pulls up an image of the gunpowder on her student handbook.

"NYAAAAH WRONG!" Everyone looks to Nekoshi. "That's way too small! How could the lovely folks at home see? NYA!" He produces a remote control from somewhere and pushes a button as a large television screen descends from above for everyone to look at. Leanne's image of the gunpowder is displayed.

"Huh. Convenient." Vicky nods.

Leanne continues. "Take a look at the shape here. The gunpowder is specifically missing in this area right here." Leanne points out an odd edge where the gunpowder curves around, evading a particular spot on the floor. "The way it fell here...it looks almost as if something were standing in the way. Or rather someone." Leanne clears her throat. "If you take a look here, it wouldn't be too strange for this shape to be made by someone standing in the way when the gunpowder fell. If you were holding the container and happened to drop it by accident...It makes perfect sense that it would fall around you like this."

Sato gives Leanne a confused look. "...What does that have to do with murder?"

Vivian's spirits are lifted as she responds. "It means that someone else could have taken the match-"

“I’ll shoot right zrough zat contradiction!”



Amelia's platform moves in next to Vivian's as the two stand face to face dramatically. "Zere is no way anyone else took zat match! Because I saw you wiz it!"

"Wh-What!?"

"Zat's right! When you returned to ze party, you 'ad zat match right in your 'ands!"

Sylvia looks pensive. "Come to think of it...I think she's right. When I saw you and Tucker talking...You had a match in your hands!"



Rebuttal Showdown

(In this section, you and another student in the class trial will face off in an intense duel! Your opponent's sentences will be sent your way one at a time and you must choose to either cut through their words or slash them with a Truth Blade! Once you've advanced, you'll be able to make your own argument in which your opponent will cut through your words. Be careful! You'll lose influence if you cut the wrong words or miss the contradiction point! Try and slash the right contradiction point with the right blade to take your opponent down!)

Amelia Vs. Vivian

Amelia presses onward. "Zere's no way anyone else took ze match if only one match was missing and you 'ad it!"

"There weren't even any ozer fire starting materials missing. Dennis said so 'imself!"

"Silent? Per'aps I 'it ze bullseye!"

ADVANCE!

Vivian shakes her head. "You've got it all wrong. I-I didn't kill Tucker! He was my friend!"

"How would I even kill him with a little match?"

ADVANCE!

Amelia scoffs at Vivian. "Are you seriously so stupid? You took ze match..."

"And you used it to light ze explosives-"

"I'll cut your words!"



"I couldn't have used the match to light the explosives that killed Tucker! Don't you remember how the explosives were lit? There was a burned gunpowder trail that led to the window. That's what lit the fireworks and caused them to explode in Tucker's room! There was a very good reason why it couldn't have been me. Think about it. The whole trail was lit all the way back from the dining hall."

Vivian couldn't have lit the entire gunpowder trail. But...why is that?

Present Evidence!

"This is irrefutable!"

Leanne crosses her arms. "If you'll recall, Vivian couldn't have lit the gunpowder trail. She went with Tucker to his dorm room before the powder was lit. And she had been there the entire time. Specifically right when the explosion happened. She couldn't hear us or the body discovery announcement because the explosion had left her temporarily deaf. That's why she didn't respond to any of us until a few minutes after we were there. Not only does this mean she was close to the explosion, but that she couldn't have lit the entire gunpowder trail like that. By the time she'd have run all the way back to Tucker's dorm after lighting the trail, the explosives would have already gone off and we would have seen her running with us."

Sam has a lightbulb moment. "Why didn't anyone mention that before? It's really important! I was assuming people who were at the party had an alibi, but really Axel and Amelia's Account of who left shows who couldn't have done it!" Sam exclaims this as the screen changes to a list of people and times they left and returned to the party. The only ones to have left were Ashley, Tucker, Vivian, Spy, Leanne, Sylvia, and Erika. Vivian, Erika, and Tucker never returned before the body was found. "And it would have had to be someone who knew when Tucker left, so we can eliminate Vivian and Erika, and Claus and myself since we were in the kitchen..."

Axel cuts in. "Wait a minute! If they had to be at the party, when did they set up all this stuff? Breaking the window, placing the gunpowder...Where was the time for this stuff?"

Claus nods. "Axel is right. Before we can progress, we need to make sure we understand when the murder was set up. Perhaps that can narrow our suspect list a bit further."

Find the Truth!

Sato thinks very hard. "So the killer needed to set everything up before the murder..."

Ashley scoffs at him. "No shit. Of course they needed to set it up before. You can't kill them with the explosion before the explosion."

Axel shakes his head. "I think we're looking at this wrong. We can't think about the time of the murder. We need to think about the time of the setup!"

Erika looks up in thought. "Who's to say the scene wasn't set up in advance? It could have been done days ago-"

"That is incorrect!"



Spy shakes his head. "The trap has to have been set up today. Tucker has been keeping an eye on everyone's actions on his wall, with nothing listed there for today." The screen shows a picture of Tucker's notes written on his wall with everyone's actions. There's nothing written down about anyone setting up a trap, anyone gathering gunpowder, or anything even remotely resembling fireworks. "Plus, I'm sure he would have noticed explosives in his room."

James nods. "That means it had to be set up sometime today. But it couldn't possibly have been during the day. We would have noticed it."

Sato continues. "And it can't be before brother got fireworks because he would know."

Claus looks to the screen and then back to everyone else. "The time frame of setting up the murder is suddenly becoming very clear."

Erika stares at Claus a moment. "Time frame..."



Logic Dive

(In this section, you have to answer a series of multiple choice questions in order to reach the proper conclusion. Find the solution using your wits and intuition!)

Question 1!

When was the window broken and the gunpowder set up?
A. Before the Murder
B. After the Murder
C. During the Murder

Before the Murder

Question 2!

What Time of Day was the Murder Set Up?
A. Morning
B. Afternoon
C. Night

Night

Question 3!

Where was the Murderer?
A. At the Party
B. Outside
C. Both

Both

"This is the solution you're looking for."



Erika snaps her fingers as she finds the solution. "That's it! The murderer wasn't just at the party or outside. The murderer had been to both places."

Claus gives her a puzzled look. "What do you mean?"

She continues. "The murderer set everything up during the party. That's the only time that makes sense. If they had to set it up today, they couldn't have done it when it was light out or we would have seen the gunpowder. The only reason we didn't notice it earlier was because it was dark out."

James pauses. "So what you're saying is..."

"The murderer had to have left the party to set up the explosives and then returned to light them!"

Axel looks shocked. "That's like...two people!"

Leanne turns to Sam. "Put that list of people leaving and entering up again." The list appears on the screen. Leanne studies it carefully. "Just as I thought. The only ones that ever left and returned...were Spy, Ashley, Sylvia, and myself."

A panicked look comes across Ashley. "What!? What are you talking about!? Why would I ever get my hands dirty with some filthy gunpowder!?"

Vicky sighs. "Is having dirty hands really what you're worried we're accusing you of...?"

Sato points dramatically at Leanne. "That means you could be the killer!"

Leanne turns a little pale, but holds her composure. "Let's not point any fingers just yet. There's an important piece we're missing to this murder. Why did Tucker return to his room?"

Present Evidence!

Also, mechanics question about Disguise. Is it limited to the other human characters, or could he disguise as, say, the monster Ashley was fighting in that movie? Just for shits and giggles?

'...Where'd Sam go? Where'd this guard plant come from?'