week 9 - trial

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week nine trial



victim



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[hollowheart]

A recipe is also scribbled on the end. "Safe Desserts", which I imagine means the vault, as well.

[godwhisperer]

Hmm, yes. It must be a clue...

[inthebones]

[Some time after Gundam and Annie have explained the significance of the 'recipe', Susan suddenly exclaims, apropos of nothing:]

Pigment.

Pork is pig's meat. Peppermint is a type of herb grown in the garden - you remove the spice, or the pepper. Pig mint.

Oil pigments - it's a type of paint. And another word for comb is 'brush'. Oil paint, pigments, and a brush.

[humanic]

[He stares at the recipe. Stares at Susan. Then groans.]

Is this seriously just a series of puns? Oh my god, I think I'd rather have the body parts back.

[inthebones]

Don't be so insensitive to the spirit of Belarus.

[Says Susan in her snottily insensitive manner.]

It might not all be puns. Perhaps they'll judge us on our painting skills of old kings.

[humanic]

I just can't believe that the key to catching the mastermind and ending this whole game might lie in puns. Talk about your anticlimaxes.

Okay, so if this really is painting related, then...an intentional scapegoat would be a frame, right? And a destitute characteristic would be...my complete lack of art skills.

[inthebones]

...The third line is obviously canvase. ...I mean, canvas. We have everything we need for a painting now.

A destitute characteristic is... poor? Someone poor? A painting of a beggar? ...That's too simple.

[humanic]

I'm betting it's another pun. What's another word for characteristic? Poor...feature? Poor attribute? Poor aspect, poor personality, poor tr--

--oh, you've got to be kidding me.

[inthebones]

What?

A poor tragedy that we've come to using puns?

[humanic]

I don't even want to say it. This Mordswell guy had a terrible sense of humor.

[inthebones]

So would you call his sense of humor a poor tra --

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This house is a blight upon the face of the world.

[humanic]

Seriously, the constant murder and death wasn't enough? They have to make us suffer through puns now?

Maybe this evil revenge spirit wasn't haunting Mordswell because of vague sins or whatever. Maybe he just couldn't take the guy's jokes anymore.

[inthebones]

It does have some lines about making the spirit into what he was. Perhaps it wasn't mad science so much as it was mad linguistics.

[humanic]

I wouldn't be surprised. I'd definitely go mad if I had constantly solve these terrible riddles.

Ugh, so we're looking for a portrait of a somnolent aged king...? Maybe it's Spain's portrait. He's old as hell, he's had kings, and he's always sleeping.

[throe]

You could say it's... deadly.

[humanic]

[LOUD GROAN]

Oh god, my ears. I think I'm bleeding through them out of my brain.

[throe]

Puns are the lowest form of humor, I'd have to agree. They're so... ordinary.

[humanic]

They're just so terrible. I can't even pinpoint the specific reason they're terrible because there's just so many. It's like how clowns are terrible and nobody has ever found them funny, yet they keep showing up in circuses anyway.

[throe]

Some clowns are entertaining. [ Clowns like PIZZAZZ. Haha ZING. ]

Either way, if this guy was trying to defer some kind of spirit from trying to figure out where his safe is... I don't really think puns would do the trick. Unless they were laced with some sort of secret incantation to ward off evil spirits.

[humanic]

You think it's fake? It does seem kind of stupid to hide the location of your safe with a bunch of lame puns.

[throe]

Why not? Everything else here has been so deliberate and the diary was mysteriously found at the last moment, wasn't it? For all we know, it could bean elaborate illusion.

Or maybe his spirit put it there, hoping we would hear his pleas for help! His body no longer remains here physically, but spiritually he is desperately seeking a way out of this mansion once and for all. His greatest fear to always be stuck in this mansion and realize his greatest sins consume him and he's hoping that we finally break the spell!