Sorry for the late close, got caught up in the day. So, there's some bad news, and the-universe-laughs-at-you news.
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You're still reeling over the loss of the final lookout, Gerri. When the others leave, you decide to take it upon yourself to examine the scenes of murder, in hopes of finding some clues lying around. You first examine Albert's murder scene, only to find a piece of chewing gum near the ground. You wonder whose it could be, as you place it in a small bag as evidence and take it with you.
Next, you make your way to Elliot's body, and notice a strand of hair near the fireplace. You pick it up and put it in a different plastic bag, as you make your way to Gerri's scene. Near the grate, you notice a small, pink and sequined press on nail, as you pick it up and place it in a third bag.
As you're contemplating each piece of evidence, you decide that the piece of hair is the most interesting, possibly the most crucial thing to lead you to the murderer(s). You decide to see if you can match it to one of the suspects, only learning that none of them match.
You then decide to pull out your comb, looking at it and noticing hair from your previous combing stuck to it. You sigh as you learn that the strand of hair is identical, realizing that it's your own hair. You reach down to examine the other pieces of evidence, only to find that they've mysteriously vanished.
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"Welcome, Lauren. We'd like to play a bit of a game, if you don't mind." A distorted voice says, as a disoriented Lauren looks around the small room. The walls are sleek and metallic, the room almost resembling a small, well-sealed cell with no windows and a sealed door.
"What kind of game?" Lauren asks, as the voice continues.
"Your game is to figure out the password before you die. If you do, we'll grant you your freedom. Simple as that." The distorted voice explains as a small part of the metallic wall near the door opens up and reveals a keypad.
"That shouldn't be too difficult." Lauren states, as she looks at the keypad, which is prompting her to enter a 16 digit code. Her eyes widen at this thought, as the voice continues.
"You may begin...now." The voice commands.
Lauren types in the first set of numbers, as the keypad gives the beep of an incorrect code. Reacting to the wrong code, a small part of the wall opens up, as a small swarm of bees flies into the small room, buzzing around. Lauren doesn't notice as she types in a second code, with it also being wrong. Another small opening appears in the wall, as more bees fly out, larger in number this time.
Lauren notices this time as she begins to panic slightly, trying to figure out the code before pressing it again.
Another small opening appears, this time as larger, poisonous spiders make their way out and crawl around the walls. Lauren begins freaking out as she enters more codes, also wrong as more openings appear...sending out more bees, spiders, and other manners of dangerous insects.
The bees proceed to attack her as she tries to swipe them away and focus on the keypad, as the spiders begin to crawl up her and bite her, injecting her with their venom. More and more openings appear until the room is almost flooded with spiders and swarming bees, as Lauren is overtaken completely.
"Pity...if only she'd tried 0000000000000000" the voice says as the bugs instinctively go back to where they came from and the openings in the wall close up, leaving only a dead Lauren with a few dead bugs coming out of her mouth.
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"Hey, everything okay?" Saphira asks as Lauren turns towards her. "What? Yeah, I'm fine, I just need to check something out really quick...I'll be right back, alright?" Lauren asks, as Saphira nods. "Sure, fine, go do your nerd thing. I'll be waiting here." Saphira replies as Lauren smiles faintly and walks out of the lodge.
An hour later, Saphira paces around the living room. "I hope nothing happened to her..." she says as she makes her way outside.
"Hey Lauren!" She yells out, a crow flies by, scaring her a little bit. "Stupid birds." She says, as a figure runs by the front of her. "Lauren? Was that you?" Saphira asks, as she follows.
The figure leads her into the woods, as Saphira looks around and calls Lauren's name again.
She shines her light around, looking out as she stops, seeing something on the ground some distance away. "Lauren? This isn't funny." She says as she walks closer, the light staying on the approaching object as Saphira stops, her phone dropping to the ground.
Laying in front of her is the dead Lauren, her mouth wide open with dead bugs coming out of it.
Saphira begins to back up in terror as she hits something. She lets out a piercing scream that echoes across the mountains...the last sound that she ever makes.
The friends make it to where they heard the screams, only to find the corpse of Saphira stabbed to death near Lauren's corpse.
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Lauren Tyrius, aka Colberius X, the Nerdy Lookout/Seer, was killed during the night by an unknown assailant.
Saphira Elron, aka Gerrick, a Friend was killed during the night by an unknown assailant.
Because of choosing the Neutral path, the Player has discovered nothing.
Alright folks, it's time to get together for another Team Discussion! Right now, it's down to the Player, Stranger, Friends, and your killers: the Psychopaths and Wendigo. Looks like you'll have to hope the Stranger and/or Player can save you now from the wrath of the bad guys...or pray that you can figure out who is behind everything before it's too late!
We'll end this discussion on Sunday, March 6th at 4AM (since I have work on Saturday at night).
