The FATED #mystery_improv 6/9/2017

DiscoDude: **---BEGIN SESSION---**
DiscoDude: **Session logging commenced**
GM: So! A person has been murdered! Who wants to provide the first piece of their profile?
Pirrue: you can
GM: Alright, but first... Let's make this a Floraverse murder. Twin Luxuries?
GM: Does that sound good?
GM: Forgot that we needed to establish an agreed upon setting, first.
Pirrue: sounds good, sounds good
Shadowhunt: The Floraverse would be that setting.
GM: Alrighty! Since I put forward the idea for our setting, my first detail will be minor; the victim's name, which shall be Tobias Grim!
GM: Who's next?
GM: Details can include occupation, age, place of residence, and in this setting, species.
Shadowhunt: I'll go next
GM: Other details are also acceptable, as long as they don't pertain to the murder directly.
GM: We're looking to profile the victim, first.
Shadowhunt: Tobais Grim was not a resident of the region, but had traveled there recently for what seemed to be a vacation.
Shadowhunt: Someone should probably be putting this down on a google doc or something.
GM: Right. On it.
GM: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19lnJ2zHIOw90KjuVDjNEzTTaNqTjxihkG84219oO24U
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Pirrue: Tobias Grim had recently come into a surprising amount of money, which allowed him to take the vacation in the first place.
GM: (I think that's a clue, not part of his profile.)
Pirrue: how's that a clue-not-part-of-profile if Shadowhunt's is/isn't?
GM: "Tourist" is a simple roll that isn't likely to be related to the crime.
Pirrue: what about "nouveau-riche"?
GM: Not sure what that means. Anyways, I still think "came into a lot of money" sounds like a clue, right?
GM: We're looking for the stuff you'd fill out on an ID form.
GM: <@!Pirrue>?
Pirrue: i'm drawing blanks for anything interesting to add
Shadowhunt: Age, family, occupation
GM: It doesn't have to be interesting.
Pirrue: *fine.* He was a janitor.
GM: Alright.
Shadowhunt: Pets, race, ability, yeah that works
Pirrue: on a vacation to the Twin Luxuries so *zing,* I got my clue in anyway
GM: I'll say he was a Rock Candies.
GM: (BTW, once everyone has gone once, they can choose to drop out. Once everyone has dropped out, the phase ends, and we move on to the next one.)
GM:
Shadowhunt: Then I'll say that he has a wife and child, both of which have accompnied him.
GM: Alright. Ryusui? Have you got anything more to add, or are you dropping out?
GM: <@!Pirrue>?
Pirrue: dropping
GM: Alright... I'm gonna say that whatever the age scale is for candies, he was somewhere in the "middle aged" range.
Shadowhunt: Hmm... would saying, that as a rock candies he was weak to hypnosis, count a clue or profile?
GM: Well, it wouldn't need to be stated, then?
GM: You can deduce that in the main phase if you feel it's important.
GM: So are you dropping, or do you still have more to add?
Shadowhunt: Rock Candies are either paticularly weak or resistant to hypnosis, and if that isn't a profile bit then...
GM: <@!Pirrue>: Do *you* think this is a profile bit, or a clue?
Shadowhunt: Clue
GM: Ah, okay.
GM: And while it *is* an intangible clue, it should be fairly simple to explain how the police found out about it; medical conditions, common or no, aren't exactly immune from the law's intrusion.
GM: So... dropping? Or is there something else?
Shadowhunt: Ok, instead, His gems are all a rather lovely ruby hue, and his tail has several well shaped hexaginal crystals
GM: And I'll be dropping.
Shadowhunt: Same, I am satisfied with his state.
GM: Alright, now we move on to phase 2; the briefing of the crime.
GM: Time and cause of death, the location and condition of the body, the circumstances surrounding it all. We start with <@!Pirrue>, then me, then <@Shadowhunt>: From the first to drop, to the last.
Pirrue: Found on the concrete near the pool at a fancy hotel, directly under an open window, with all the accoutrements you'd expect from a twenty-floor drop.
GM: (Hm... That's stretching the boundary between "location" and "state"...)
Pirrue: oh, i thought you were listing those as one thing
Shadowhunt: I was worried you would swing for a more specific kill, it is pretty ambiguous actually
GM: Nope.
Shadowhunt: The fall could conceal alot
GM: Location and condition are separate. Sorry for confusing you.
GM: So, want to try that again?
GM: (And yes, time and cause are meant to be separate, too.)
Pirrue: Fine. On the concrete by the pool at a fancy hotel, directly under an open window twenty floors up.
GM: Cause of death is massive blunt force trauma. Likely falling, but not confirmed.
Shadowhunt: The open window isn't to a regular room but a lobby, in this case one of several small free breakfast areas with a good view.
GM: (Um... That's a clue. And Ryusui already said the window was 20 stories up.)
GM: (Eh, I'll strike that part, too, to be fair. What floor the window was on doesn't have much to do with where the body was.)
Shadowhunt: Yeah, I just figured he never specified the room.
GM: ... Okay. That's still a clue, though.
GM: We've yet to conclude that he actually fell from the window, so where that window is has no bearing on the initial setup.
GM: (Unless it ties in with how the body was discovered.)
GM: (Also, why the hell would there be a lobby on the twentieth floor? XD)
Shadowhunt: (I can think of at least a few excuses, not the least of which is for the view)
GM: (Alright, I concede that. But still, as it is, this is too clue-like...?)
GM: (In case you guys haven't guessed, now is not the time for meta-gaming. XD)
Shadowhunt: Anyway, the estimated death is some time between 1:30 A.M. and 2:00 A.M.
GM: Alright. <@!Pirrue>?
Shadowhunt: (Yeah, I was already coming up with something different, I just wanted to point out that it wasn't crazy)
Pirrue: uhhhhhhhh
Pirrue: i drop
GM: Oh, okay. My turn, then.
GM: The body had broken bones in several places, and several lacerations caused by what seems to be broken glass. His face is contorted in fear.
GM: (Is that too much? I figured this is sort of what I meant by "the condition of the body".)
Shadowhunt: (I kinda figured that was in line with what seemed to kill them)
GM: (Anyways, your turn.)
Shadowhunt: Drop
GM: Okay.
Shadowhunt: wait
GM: ?
Shadowhunt: Yeah, actually drop.
GM: Alright.
Shadowhunt: I was thinking of specifing east or west luxury
GM: The body was discovered by a woman as she went out to bathe in the pool, at around 6:30 a.m.
GM: And drop.
Shadowhunt: Ok, then I'm gonna guess the suspect order starts with me then Pirrue then finally you?
GM: Pirrue, then you, then me. The order in which we dropped. Honestly, it doesn't matter here. Just name your suspect, and their (non-hidden) relevance to the crime.
GM: <@!Pirrue>, you start; who is your suspect, and how are they related to the victim or his death?
Pirrue: Fine. Della Grim, victim's wife.
GM: Alright, now for <@Shadowhunt>.
Shadowhunt: Ebbot Mitrij, stayed in the same hotel, and tried to leave in quite a hurry later that same night.
GM: (Curious; what species is he? I have a better time visualizing flora characters when I know their species.)
Shadowhunt: Rock Candies
GM: (Maybe species is a required field in this setting?)
GM: Oh. So someone who could have definitely known the victim from back home. :3
Shadowhunt: Could have.
GM: This vanguard/candies mix only has the name Shia, and she was the one that discovered the body when she went out for her morning swim.
Shadowhunt: (Huh, that is a wierd mix...)
GM: (So, question; should we hold off at this point, and wait for another night to continue?)
Shadowhunt: (Vanguard are mimics of everything aquatic, and Rock Candies are known for disliking water if I remember right?)"
GM: (We are approaching antimagic hour real soon.)
GM: (Also, I admit it; she's an Imp.)
Shadowhunt: (Don't change it on account of me, I said it was wierd, not impossible.)
GM: (Oh, alright.)
Shadowhunt: (Also, antimagic? I you mean dangerously close to sanity lose by sleep deprivation, then yeah, I guess so.)
GM: (Uhuh. We're not there yet, but this is a much better place to cut it short than in the middle of the main game.)
GM: (You good with that, <@!Pirrue>?)
Pirrue: (sure)
GM: (Then for now, let us...)
GM: !end