Day 17 - WHODUNNIT?

[pandatrash]

[It's that time again! The Great Detective has been killed, so put those little grey cells to work and find the culprit!]

[Most of the flooding has been stopped as well, though it's uncomfortably damp just about everywhere. Looks like the raccoons only half-assed their cleanup.]

[Speaking of half-assed, where's Tycoon? I mean, broken ones, sure, but has anybody seen him up and about? Looks like you guys might be flying blind this time around...]

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[purrtagonist]

[???]

A wild grapes chase doing what?

[loveandwillpower]

Puzzles, with all these rude notes, and there was this limerick about Tycoon giving birth -

That turned out to be about the Alien movie, which is totally unfair to Ulaz, because one he hasn't seen it and two now that I've had some time to think about, is totally racist. He doesn't even know any facehuggers!

[purrtagonist]

[wait]

[what???]

Puzzles? What kind of puzzles?

[#priorities]

[loveandwillpower]

"Win, rearranged, angered, stolen."

You're smart, but if you solve it right away I'm gonna be mad.

[purrtagonist]

[. . . uh]

[he says nothing and arches a brow at her, because. why this. why puzzles]

[loveandwillpower]

I know, right?

And there was this key in a hollow book we had to find to get there in the first place.

[purrtagonist]

[HE]

[ISN'T FOLLOWING]

[AT ALL]

What did you find at the end of all of these puzzles?

[loveandwillpower]

Fifth floor's open!

You should take the stairs from the fourth if you want to see it, the elevator is...

Dumb.

[purrtagonist]

[yeah, tell the injured guy to use the stairs]

What's on the fifth floor?

[loveandwillpower]

Just a locked door. Two keyholes and a cat door.

[purrtagonist]

[locked door?? keys??? he perks up]

You didn't happen to find any keys to said door, did you?

[loveandwillpower]

I wish. The orgasm key just unlocks the secret compartment in the white room.

[ Minako do you just like having an excuse to say orgasm? Spoilers the answer is yes ]

[purrtagonist]

[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

Why is it called the orgasm key?

[EVERYTHING SHE SAYS JUST. MAKE HIM HAVE SO MANY MORE QUESTIONS]

[loveandwillpower]

You have to delve into the mysteries of the female orgasm to get it.

[ This face is the face of someone with no regrets in life ]

[insurgeont]

[ minako you're always so helpful

(spoilers ulaz did most of the puzzle heavy-lifting) ]

They were mostly forms of wordplay.

[purrtagonist]

[ooooh, wordplay. Akira's favorite thing!]

What happened when you solved them?

[insurgeont]

...Nothing. But by coincidence we wound up in the kitchen, and there we discovered the small elevator now inside the oven.

[ read: there was a hint pointing them in that direction but they fucking missed it ]

[purrtagonist]

[YOU GUYS. . .]

[. . . also just going to. ignore the fact that's where Erika's head was HAHA. . .]

Was there anything in there when you found it?

[insurgeont]

Not in the oven itself. Minako traveled down it [ ulaz is too big to fit, whomp whomp ] and found that it leads to another elevator that goes up to the fifth floor.

[purrtagonist]

[ooooooh]

That's What she meant when she said the elevator was dumb.

[insurgeont]

It is not the most efficient of systems. [ dumb as hell, he agrees ] But thankfully it is not actually necessary to use it to access the fifth floor now that she has cut the tape blocking the way.

[purrtagonist]

Right. She told me there was a new stairwell leading up, and that there was a door at the top of the stairwell.

I think we need to find us some keys.

[insurgeont]

[ look man

you don't want to know what ulaz went through for the last key

...actually the briefest of grimaces does in fact cross his face at the thought ]

It is possible more riddles will appear next killing night.

[purrtagonist]

[I'm sorry]

Yeah.

[. . .]

But why? Are they trying to lead us towards the exit, or what?

[insurgeont]

It may be nothing more than further zuykrult chases. But there is not much else better to do at night regardless.

[ except maybe kill each other, I GUESS ]