Wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff
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“This is tough. I not sure this actually best choice, though I guess I should trust my gut. It never led me wrong before, ignoring all times it has.”
“Have we discussed the end of events in dream much yet?” Billy asked, “At the end we left with three people and at least one must be witch. Are there any conclusions we can draw from there?”
"I realize I'm suspicious, so draw your own conclusions. But allow me to offer you my shoes, so that you may walk the many miles I have." 'Mickey' said before offering his perspective.
"I gave my thoughts on this but I believe it's most likely that Uncle Zap and Luce were witches, but I also think it's possible Luce was working alone and won on a gamble." A dark cloud washed over 'Mickey's' face, creating a strange shadow. "I also got an insidious feeling that we're missing something huge. Every moment I think of who the witches could be, there's a detail that doesn't make sense. There's a fifth person that's absent. I don't know how to describe this besides a feeling in my gut so strong that I'm afraid I'll shit myself, but I think we're being manipulated somehow."
He turned to Zach specifically. "Uncle Zap, you are about to die. You are about to make your wife a widow. Being cooperative is not enough to stay your fate, you must be decisive. You believe your sister is a witch, but that's not enough. You have no choice but to think that, regardless of who you really are. If you are innocent, then your perspective is invaluable. Tell me about the nightmare--what you think happened."
"M-My perspective? Like, from the b-beginning?" Zachary asked, a bit surprised that he was being given this chance. He was not going to let it go to waste. He gave his wife's hand a quick squeeze and a quick kiss, then lowered it, released it, and stepped forward. He was on the podium. It was time to lay it all out on the table.

His heart was pounding, but he pressed forward, desperately attempting to recall the details of the nightmare.
"I'll be honest. I don't know why I chose to investigate Violet and myself. It was just a complete guess, and maybe I would catch her doing something to me. In hindsight, it would've been completely worthless, but I didn't know that at the time. Anyway, Twilip and Archer were found dead. Allister would die later, but obviously nobody tried to kill Wyn. If they had, Bertram would've noticed. And the witches obviously hadn't figured out the reverse psychology trick yet, so Wyn was also safe there.
"If Twilip's not a witch kill, then that leaves two kills unaccounted-for. It's very unlikely though, in my opinion, because we already have two outed killing powers, though they only work from Twilight 3 onward. Nobody's stepped forward with an earlier vigilante role, so I assume that all kills before T3 are witch kills. If someone has a contradiction to that, now's the time to come forward.
"Now why, I ask you, why is it important for us to know whether a kill was a witch kill or a mortal kill? I contend that it's not, because anyone who's killing for the witches will try to be as wildcard-y as possible, and until we have more information, mortal kills are just guesses, even if educated ones.
"So the most likely - simplest - explanation is that I was targeted and meant to die alongside Twilip to keep the mystery of who killed me at the end of the story ambiguous. Thanks to Mickey though, I survived. So the witches decided to let me be. I have noticed that the early kills from the nightmare are also the people who survived the longest in the story, except me. I guess I dodged a bullet in one way and ran right into one in another. I wonder how things would've been different had Mickey not protected me . . . .
"The next twilight, I visited Vincent and myself, because I wanted to corroborate Robin's theory. Of course, after finding Allister and seeing that Vincent didn't visit me, that theory was out the window. Yes, a lot of my checks are to check theories, but I honestly don't know how to be proactive with my role.
"I'm taking too long. Let me speed this up. I was suspicious of Briggs when Wyn revealed his stolen role. I thought stealing roles - being an agent of chaos - was a role more beneficial to a witch-aligned, let alone full-blown witch. I still contend that, especially if you're made unaware your power was stolen until you use your next action, and then you don't even know what sort of power you're stealing. It's a role that requires cooperation and truthfulness, lest it spread like wildfire.
"Speaking of cooperation, Wyn's difficulty was one of the main reasons I suspected her. I regret it now, especially after seeing her results and how she could probably easily find out witches if she lasted long enough to investigate them twice. Hence why I investigated Wyn against Maurice the first twilight of this time loop. I figured she'd be a prime target for the witches if her results are really that helpful.
"What drew my suspicion was also how long Wyn seemed to be lasting without being targeted/killed, though in hindsight the witches may be doing that to put more suspicion on Wyn. Prolonging scapegoats' lives seems to be a popular tactic with them - it's being used on me, though as I said earlier, I don't think the witches had planned that, if Mickey did actually save me. So I checked Basil and Wyn T3 and, even though the simplest answer for them not visiting each other was that Wyn wasn't the killing witch, I was still in denial.
"That's when the hard swing of four kills also happened - two of them Briggs' poison target, one Asher's kill, and one a witch kill. From this point, witch kills also had their jaws removed. I admit I still have no idea what that's all about.
"We as a group decided to lynch Briggs to stop our numbers from getting too low - we were seven then - but now I'm curious who Briggs would've poisoned and if that would've changed things. My guess is that it wouldn't have; it was already too late. After the carnage that was T3, I think there were three witches left: Maurice, Violet, and Lucine. We were already trapped. I think, at this point, Maurice - the only Golden Witch option I think is left - was planning to kill Bertram at the end of the nightmare.
"But back then I was still unsure, so I checked Mickey and Violet, and noticed that Violet had visited Mickey twice. I guess that's not important now since Violet's visits don't do anything, or maybe they did at that point, but nothing really seemed to have happened to Mickey.
"My dear nephew-who's-the-same-age-as-my-wife, I believe you were on to something targeting Maurice T4 and T5. However, I think you would've had to fake your death in order for the kill to have happened. Either that or Maurice was somehow able to avoid you.
"Now, T5 I checked Maurice and Violet and, instead of learning that my targets didn't visit each other for sure, I was told they had no interactions that I could tell. It's possible the Golden Witch is able to conceal their kills somehow, but of course there's no way to prove that.
"Billy had apparently tried to redirect Maurice onto him T2, but that didn't stop either of the kills. This, and Wyn not having visited Basil, make up the discrepancies for either of them being the Golden Witch, but since we've found no other workarounds, one of them - my money's on Maurice - has to be the Golden Witch.
"In summary, I think Lucine is responsible for the closed eye circle, Maurice killed both Bertram and Wyn, using both kills to obfuscate his death as coincidental, Twilip is the witch that killed me in the story, and Violet and Vincent are witches without roles. However, the last two seem too easy, so . . . I do suppose Jackie still hasn't been totally proven innocent, though it's hard to say because she didn't end up lasting that long. Vincent's definitely a witch-sympathizer if not an outright witch, and I feel like there could be one more: Briggs, perhaps. Allister's been pretty under the radar, and has a passive ability, so I can't really nail him down. The fact that Basil has a second part to his role piques my interest, but he's confirmed mortal so it's gotta be helpful to us. That leaves Archer, Mickey, Bertram, Basil, Asher, Billy, James, Wyn, and of course, my dear Robin, who I think are all doing pretty well at trying to sniff out the witches. I hope my rambling explanation has been helpful in the slightest. Thank you for listening."
Zachary takes a bow and a step back.
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