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Nov 4, 2023 9:24:08 GMT -5
Post by Killix on Nov 4, 2023 9:24:08 GMT -5
On his way home from the theatre after a long night of ToT, CursedPirate!Riel hears a call for help off in the distant bloidverse and decides to search it out... stumbling right into an all-out haunted house! "Wow!" he says as he briefly looks around. "Varry nice decoration." He then notices there is some kind of investigation going on, and a lab coated creature tells him what's happened. "Oooh... ghosts are an annoying bunch, that's fer sure. Always so whiny about not being 'mongst the living." He pokes his head in the bathroom. "Anything out of the ordinary here? Other than the fact the toilet paper is being hung the wrong way." Welcome to my haunted house! My investigation has hit a bit of a roadblock. These ghosts are sneaky! But We won't let them get away with it! Halloween candy is meant to be shared with the world! Oh no!! Someone has hung the toilet paper... from the wall light. Something tells me this Halloween trick isn't related to our spooky thieves, but a mischievous guest. I'll get that down later. Here, please take a look at this! (Killix opens a big briefcase labelled "Court Record", and retrieves a piece of evidence.) So uh, bad news about the fruit punch... it's been cancelled. Or frozen solid, actually. I think one of the ghosts leaves freezing temperatures wherever it goes... It must've been in the Witch's Kitchen for a long time to freeze my punch solid. I'll leave this evidence with you. Maybe if you can't solve the mystery, you can try making paranormal popsicles out of it? |
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Post by Killix on Nov 4, 2023 9:30:42 GMT -5
Well, that's all of the clues I've collected. Now we just have to piece them together!
Once we solve this case, I'll be able to bust these ghosts and get all of the stolen candy back before the end of Halloween*!
*Shhhh!
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Nov 5, 2023 1:12:14 GMT -5
Post by Gelquie on Nov 5, 2023 1:12:14 GMT -5
Hmm, an interesting mystery! I'm not sure I'm fully ready to solve this mystery in the time we have, but I wanted to share my finding! (Putting my findings in a spoiler box just in case.) The findings in the Front Graveyard particularly stick out to me. Between the photograph and the ectoplasm, it seems a lot of obvious things happened there. Obvious things that would happen with non other but a Spirit! Who must've at least taken the sour candies and lollipops, since they were here and left ectoplasm!
(Which in turn, means that the Poltergeist was not responsible for the recording. Which was inside anyway.)
And by process of elimination, was the Poltergeist in the Witch Kitchen, and the Phantom in the Unliving Room? Which could mean that the Poltergeist stole the Bubblegum, and perhaps was responsible for the ghostwriting and icy punch? Perhaps the Poltergeist was a pro gamer.
However, the one responsible for the recording cried at bubblegum too. Which could either mean a guilty conscience or that they indeed don't like them. It we assume the latter, and knowing the recording was inside, then that would leave the Phantom responsible for the Recording! Maybe they like singing but are too shy to do so in front of people?
Narrowing it down further, it could mean that the Phantom is responsible for stealing one or more of: candycorn, lollipops, and potato chips. We already know the Spirit took the lollipops.
For the candy corn, scattering it around is hardly no trace of activity. And it was in a room. So perhaps the Poltergeist in the Kitchen attempted to take the candy corn out of some strange fondness for candy corn that I will never understand. (I mean, really, they can have it.)
That leaves the chocolates and potato chips. So far we have
Spirit: Front Graveyard: Lollipops, Sour Candy
Poltergeist: Witchen: Candycorn, Bubblegum
Phantom: Unliving Room:
Hmm, process of elimination would indicate that the phantom stole the chocolate and potato chips, if they each stole even amounts. But the Phantom cried at the chocolates; I don't think they wanted them. Maybe they took the potato chips, but...
Killix...
...Did you steal the chocolates? >>
Look, no judgement if you did, just. Let's talk about this. If I mixed up a deduction, it's totally a typo, totally not me realizing halfway that my starter deduction was based on a misreading and having to start over but not really starting over, nope, you can't prove anything, you don't have evidence! But we do! So let's see what the court has to say... |
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Post by Killix on Nov 5, 2023 5:54:09 GMT -5
Look at all of these guilty faces...  Spirit | Front GraveYard | Ghost Photograph | Ectoplasm | Lollipops & Sour Candies
 Poltergeist | Unliving Room | Disturbed Salt | Parabolic Recording | Potato Chips & Candycorn
 Phantom | Witch's Kitchen | Cryptic Ghostwriting | Icy Fruit Punch | Bubblegum & Chocolates I would've never caught these guys without your help, everyone! A fantastic effort, especially with that twelve-page report that ended up on my coffin room desk! Here's the full story!
I spent a long time looking at the Ghost Photograph, my strongest piece of evidence! I knew it couldn't be a Phantom in that photo, because Phantoms are extremely shy. One would never allow itself to be seen! That's also how I knew that the Recording I caught on the parabolic microphone couldn't have been from the Phantom, either.
The Salt was also a pretty hefty clue, because the Spirit could not have gone near it! My investigation was really picking up, and I already knew that the very destructive ghost was the one responsible for knocking it over, as well as all of the other rampant destruction going on in the Unliving Room. Poltergeists are known to be a bit touchy with objects in the world of the living... If that's our culprit, then it means the Polty wasn't responsible for taking the Bubblegum, as that very easily steal-able pack was left alone by the ghost who stomped through my salt.
Speaking of Bubblegum, the room with the strangest haunt was definitely the Witch's Kitchen. The ghost that was haunting in there left freezing temperatures behind, and iced over my entire bowl of fruit punch! I also happened to find some spooky ghost writing on a note in that same room. Two clues that were no doubt related to the same ghost.
I was staring between them when I realized that the Poltergeist couldn't have been the one haunting the Witch's Kitchen! The ghost who haunts there stole my Bubblegum, and our suspected Poltergeist who was throwin' my stuff around in the Unliving Room wouldn't touch the stuff!
I finally had some things to cross off my list, and it was all adding up! The destructive ghost was the Poltergeist for sure. Phantoms are stealthy, and the Spirit couldn't have stepped in the salt in the Unliving Room!
The Poltergeist was haunting the Unliving Room. It knocked over my Spirit-warding Salt, and was caught on the Parabolic Recording!
That means it also stole the Candycorn... and threw the orange corns into every crevice of the space.
With this information checked off, we had incidentally caught another ghost red-handed. The Spirit was now the only ghost who could've left the Ghost Photograph, and since two of the remaining three pieces of evidence were already linked together via the Witch's Kitchen, we know that the Spirit could not have left them as it must be haunting another area. Instead, it had to have left the Ectoplasm in the Front GraveYard. That's right, the Spirit is responsible for all of the activity out there around the Jack O' Lanterns!
The avalanche of conclusions falls down on our case!
The ghost who left the Ectoplasm made off with the Lollipops, and the Sour Candies were yoinked straight from the Front GraveYard as well. Spirit, how could you!?
The Phantom's whereabouts are now revealed, too. It had to the one making everything cold in the Witch's Kitchen, so that means it took the Bubblegum, too. The Poltergeist didn't fall for my Chocolates lure during the time I recorded its voice, so that means it could have only stolen the Potato Chips.
Our last item on the list are the Chocolates, and there's only one ghost left who hasn't been matched to a second stolen treat. Phantom, I hope you realize just how terrible it is to steal someone's Halloween chocolates!
Whew. What a case! Looks like the ghosts feel sorry and want to share the treats! I'm glad that they finally embraced the spirit of sharing, heeeheee. Let's enjoy these treats, and the rest of our Halloween togethe- What!? It's already November??? |
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