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Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:49 pm

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"What..." Dr. Uwem said after it was revealed that Sunny is alive. "How is Sunny alive?"

He turns to check on Sunny. "Sunny, are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?"

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:52 pm

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Sunny doesn't answer, he is just shaking, staring at the scene in front of him.....it's not every day that you see your own mother violently ending a man's life!

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:53 pm

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Wide-eyed, Juanli lets go of the scissors. “S-Sunny?” She gasps, he face a mess of tears and hair.

Like some unkempt ghoul, Juanli scrambles over the body on all fours, pushing Dr Uwem unceremoniously out of the way as she pulls Sunny close. “Oh my little baby! You’re all right! I thought I’d lost you forever!” She gasped between sobs.

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Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:59 pm

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Monk stayed on the floor as Juanli fucking killed a dude, unmoving. However, hearing Sunny awake, he slowly looked up. Seeing him alive, his eyes widened. He then saw Fujisaki's corpse. Looking back between the two, the realisation set in him. "Oh no..." He mouthed slowly. Oops!

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:00 pm

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"Mama....what happened with everyone-" it took a while but he finally registered the horrible bloody mess.

"Gh.... GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH" Sunny SCREAMED LOUDLY, instinctively trying to get away.

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:04 pm

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A cry of aguish followed when Juanli pushed Dr. Uwem aside. His cane clattered to the floor.

"Hey! What gives you the idea to push me aside?! At least show some respect for those who are trying to help!" The doctor complained in response.

The doctor took his time to process what have happened. Fujisaki died at the hand of Juanli... Sunny being alive outside the Dragon room...

"The vent have collapsed and the door is now a Afterlife Gate... Could... there be a third way into the Dragon room?" The doctor theorized.

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Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:12 pm

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Amethyst screamed and got as much distance between Juanli (plus Fujisaki's corpse) and herself as she could, probably realizing a good chunk of the reasons he was dead could apply to her. She hardly even seemed to notice the good news that Sunny was okay.

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:19 pm

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Over the various screams, Juanli caressed Sunny, trying to soothe him as best as she could. “Shh shh shh, it’s ok my little sunshine...he...he was trying to hurt you, he tried to kill you, Miss Amethyst too but I...I was protecting you yes, I stopped him.” She ran a bloodstained hand along the side of his face in a foolish attempt to calm him.

“But it’s ok now, none of that matters now you’re ok and we’re back together!” She gasped overjoyed as she rustled her son’s hair.

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Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:20 pm

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"The Dragon would not go through the afterlife gate unprompted as he knew as well as any other that it would be certain death. He sits in front of the gate as if he went through it, and yet Yang did not kill him. He was laying as though dead. There is no alternative entrance to the room. The Dragon must have left through the door here or the vent," X licks her teeth, facing the afterlife gate.

"The Rabbit has turned to vengeance in this moment of weakness," X's head bobs as she chuckles to herself. "Humans will kill to tide off their growing anguish. This place is not safe."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:24 pm

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Despite everything that had happened, Sun Taikong hadn't noticed, too caught up in his own grief. Hearing Sunny's anguished wails was finally enough to get through to him however, and he turned to numbly take in the new scene before him. "Dear god... Why is this happening? It didn't need to go like this...!" He pushed himself away from the door to the Dragon room, the space beyond haunting him and repelling his gaze. "Was... was it him? Did he... do that?" he asked, struggling to get the words out and pointing, without looking, towards the Dragon room. "Did we catch the killer? You punished the one who killed Mei?"

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:28 pm

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Over the various screams, Juanli caressed Sunny, trying to soothe him as best as she could. “Shh shh shh, it’s ok my little sunshine...he...he was trying to hurt you, he tried to kill you, Miss Amethyst too but I...I was protecting you yes, I stopped him.” She ran a bloodstained hand along the side of his face in a foolish attempt to calm him.

“But it’s ok now, none of that matters now you’re ok and we’re back together!” She gasped overjoyed as she rustled her son’s hair.

Sunny's eyes welled up with tears and he started scream-crying this time. He tried saying something but it was incomprehensible through his sobbing....

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:31 pm

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Despite everything that had happened, Sun Taikong hadn't noticed, too caught up in his own grief. Hearing Sunny's anguished wails was finally enough to get through to him however, and he turned to numbly take in the new scene before him. "Dear god... Why is this happening? It didn't need to go like this...!" He pushed himself away from the door to the Dragon room, the space beyond haunting him and repelling his gaze. "Was... was it him? Did he... do that?" he asked, struggling to get the words out and pointing, without looking, towards the Dragon room. "Did we catch the killer? You punished the one who killed Mei?"

"No! He didn't do anything! None of us did anything, we were all in the server room!" Amethyst yelled. "And now someone else is dead for nothing! That's what happened!"

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:35 pm

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Juanli continued to gently stroke Sunny’s hair with her very bloody hands “There there my little sunshine, it’s ok to cry, let it all out. We’re safe now. Everything is going to be ok. I won’t let anyone hurt you. Not these people, not mean ol’ Cat man. No one.”

She pulled her hand back slightly to pull the Wood Key from her dress “And look at this...the Wood key! It means we can go home! We can get you ice cream, and cake, ~~and therapy,~~ and we can forget all of this ever happened!”

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Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:44 pm

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DootDootDoot wrote:

"No! He didn't do anything! None of us did anything, we were all in the server room!" Amethyst yelled. "And now someone else is dead for nothing! That's what happened!"

"Then who?" Sun Taikong suddenly screamed. "Who killed Mei? Are you going to tell me Sunny did it?" He glared at her for a moment, and then his eyes narrowed. "None of this would have even happened if you'd just gone with the plan! You good as killed her!"

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Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:52 pm

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X keeps a good distance from the others, having good sense not to taunt them too much. She can't help but open her mouth again, "So the Rat is not content to pursue peace. He will have us miserable for the sake of the Horse. At least nobody here will do such a thing for the Ox."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:01 pm

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"Then who?" Sun Taikong suddenly screamed. "Who killed Mei? Are you going to tell me Sunny did it?" He glared at her for a moment, and then his eyes narrowed. "None of this would have even happened if you'd just gone with the plan! You good as killed her!"

"I... I did..." Amethyst answered weakly. "It was my decision, not even the rest of my group wanted it. I don't even know why the hell I did that, but I did. And four people died because of that..."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:11 pm

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“If I only I could examine the bodies to discover what killed them...” Amandi mumbles, ignoring the chaos around him. “But all of them are behind the door. How bothersome.”

Amandi glances into the room and notices Suyin’s body lying just behind the gate. He gets and idea.

“X!” he shouts, “Come help me out here! I think one of us can reach Suyin with their bracelet-free arm and pull her out!”

X sighs and steps over, kneeling on the floor. She reaches in and pulls Suyin’s body out.

“Excellent. Now I can get to work.”

Amandi conducts a thorough examination of Suyin’s body.

“Hmm...How curious,” he mumbles, “Her legs are broken, and she has massive bruises all over her body. It appears to me that she fell from a great height.”

“What the fuck?” Amethyst replies, “How? Are we looking at the same room right now?”

“It’s truly puzzling, I’ll admit. However, the evidence is clear. Additionally, I’ve noticed some marks on her wrists similar to strangulation marks. Of course, they are non-fatal. Additionally, her dress appears to be a little loose...”

“Well then...we’ll need to figure this out!” someone shouts, “There’s no way I’m letting the killer get away!”

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Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:16 pm

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DootDootDoot wrote:

"I... I did..." Amethyst answered weakly. "It was my decision, not even the rest of my group wanted it. I don't even know why the hell I did that, but I did. And four people died because of that..."

"Dammit!" Sun Taikong yelled, ignoring the others investigating in the background and drawing close to grab her roughly by the neck. "You planned this, didn't you? You knew betraying the others couldn't even benefit us in any way, and went ahead with it anyway! You wanted this to happen!"

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:22 pm

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KamiPanda wrote:

DootDootDoot wrote:

"I... I did..." Amethyst answered weakly. "It was my decision, not even the rest of my group wanted it. I don't even know why the hell I did that, but I did. And four people died because of that..."

"Dammit!" Sun Taikong yelled, ignoring the others investigating in the background and drawing close to grab her roughly by the neck. "You planned this, didn't you? You knew betraying the others couldn't even benefit us in any way, and went ahead with it anyway! You wanted this to happen!"

Amethyst grabbed at Sun Taikong's hands, but between just not being as strong as him and more than a little hysterical at the moment, it didn't really matter. "I-I didn't! I wanted to help!" she sobbed out. "I thought this would be better! It wasn't supposed to be worse! Suyin would...! She would...!"

There was an odd glint to her eyes. In the middle of her hysteria, it was like she was looking through Sun Taikong. "I wanted to help... I didn't want to die...!"

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:30 pm

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"We heard a thump when the Sheep yelled to her. We heard her die, we were all together," X begins coldly calculating what happened, staring at the corpse. Her calculations are thrown off by Amethyst's words.

She tilts her head to the side towards Amethyst, "Oh, you are comparing this outcome to the other outcome. You imagined you would die, but you have no reason to believe that."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:36 pm

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Sun Taikong glanced between Amethyst and X, though his grip remained steely. "What the fuck are you both talking about? Mei is dead! She's dead, and that's the only thing that matters now!" He focused entirely on Amethyst. "Give me one good reason I shouldn't kill you right here! Why do you get to live when Mei doesn't?" Years of army training powered him as he started to drag Amethyst closer and closer to the Afterlife Gate.

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:43 pm

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Sun Taikong glanced between Amethyst and X, though his grip remained steely. "What the fuck are you both talking about? Mei is dead! She's dead, and that's the only thing that matters now!" He focused entirely on Amethyst. "Give me one good reason I shouldn't kill you right here! Why do you get to live when Mei doesn't?" Years of army training powered him as he started to drag Amethyst closer and closer to the Afterlife Gate.

Amethyst could only limply struggle and scratch at Sun Taikong's hands as he dragged her closer to the gate. The only reasons she could give were sobs and some desperate cries of "I don't want to die! Please! Please!"

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:03 pm

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"s....STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!! PLEASE... L-LEAVE MISS AMETHYST ALONE...!!!" Sunny screamed loudly once again, not wanting to witness any more deaths.

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:14 pm

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The child screaming cut right through to Sun Taikong's subconscious, and he abruptly let go of Amethyst, stumbling back away from her and spinning around to focus on Sunny. The image of the small boy, bloodied from Juanli's touch, evoked memories he usually fought to keep buried, memories of the horrors he'd seen during his service. He abruptly dropped to his knees with a sob.

"So much death... When will it stop?" he mumbled, clenching his shaking hands. He looked up at Amethyst with a tormented expression. "I won't kill you. No more need to die today. I just hope you can live with what you've done... It's a curse that can drive you mad. Mei was the only thing keeping me sane after everything I've seen, everything I've done... I don't know how I'll be able to continue now."

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Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:35 pm

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Amethyst, in turn, fell backwards in a sitting position, hugging her knees. "... Thank you, I'm sorry... I don't know why I did that..."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:37 pm

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X smiles as Taikong collapses, "You've been broken. The war is a suitable explanation for that. That Ox called you a hero, disgusting."

She walks over to Amethyst, "You didn't kill them. This result is a part of Cat's plan. This game was a trap for you. The Cat designed the Dragon room to be very dangerous. The Cat wanted them to die. The violence is unexpected but there is much we don't understand. The Dragon must know something."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:54 pm

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She walks over to Amethyst, "You didn't kill them. This result is a part of Cat's plan. This game was a trap for you. The Cat designed the Dragon room to be very dangerous. The Cat wanted them to die. The violence is unexpected but there is much we don't understand. The Dragon must know something."

"... There's still someone else. There's someone who killed them directly, you're right." Amethyst nodded, wobblingly getting back on her feet. "There's a culprit more important than me."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:15 pm

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"Amethyst's right, for one thing." Dr. Uwem said.

"However... Suyin fell from a great height... Sunny being outside the Dragon room... I doubt that Sunny will tell us anything useful... If only... If only we could understand what happened here..." The doctor explains. "We can't afford to make a mistake here..."

"Perhaps if we can access the Morphogenetic Field... Then maybe we could obtain some information in order to better understand what happened here." The doctor mumbles to himself.

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:18 pm

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"..."

Monk finally had got back on his feet. Now that Sunny was alive, he seemed to have more or less regained his composure, though the sight of the other bodies had made him a bit pale. As discussion returned to the murders, he cleared his throat.

"So if the doctor is correct and the justice minister died from falling from a great height, then... What does that mean, exactly? They couldn't have been taken out of the room by any means, I presume. Could there be some secret to the room that allows some falling through? It seems far-fetched, but... There has to be for that death to happen, right? Though someone had to have strangled two of them to death and bludgeoned the good general too... Perhaps that was before we all gathered in the Monkey room?" He suggested. "Our killer killed the general and the nurse with the hammer and their hands respectively, and strangled the minister but not to the point of death and then left. Then when we were in the server room, the minister died of... The height thing. Somehow. Right?"

"'Course, we still have no goddamn idea how the killer entered and left so successfully... X, do you have any clue?" He asked. "You got the bomb out of the room and all, right? How did you manage that? Perhaps you can tell us something we don't know."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:21 pm

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[Addendum: The marks on Mei’s neck were not made by bare hands. They were made by a rope-like object, though nothing of that sort has been found on the scene.]

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Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:27 pm

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Overwhelmed, Sunny managed to scramble away from his mother. His breathing was agitated.

"I-I don't... I only remember s-someone with a syringe....! It looked like a demon!!!- gah..." he sat, looking down and hugging his knees

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Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:37 pm

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"I took the bomb out of the room, but that was during the game. At that time I got the Ox and the Horse to help. Everyone was alive. Of course you knew that as there would be no reason to hide that I saw someone dead," X gives a curious smile.

"Dr. Uwem, are you begging the morphogenetic field for answers? Your mind would be better spent helping us."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:49 pm

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"Well... This is even more puzzling than it looks..." Dr. Uwem said as he mulls over the information that they have available... "Sunny mentioned that he saw someone with a syringe... To be fair, Mei's the only one with all the syringes..."

"Hmmm... And Mei's bag looks like someone searched it thoroughly... Perhaps it might be related to how Sunny got out of the Dragon room without dying...? But what if... The Afterlife Gate couldn't tell that Sunny is alive? That the Gate thought Sunny was dead?" The doctor mulls over it. "Am I even on the right track here? There's still too many variations and not enough information..."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:50 pm

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"A syringe... hold on, kid", Monk grimaced, hearing Sunny. "Mei had a bunch of those in her bag. I remember them from when I searched her... So if someone used that to knock you out, there's a good chance it was the nurse... though someone else could have just got it from her bag after killing her, perhaps. This demon stuff is suspicious, too. Who would look like that from here?" He glanced at the others. "It just doesn't add up..."

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Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:54 pm

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"Right, right! We can still find the fucker who killed Mei!" Sun Taikong snarled, coming back to life with a feverish energy. Ignoring the others, he marched over to Suyin's body to examine it. Unlike some of the other deaths, this one didn't seem to faze him at all, and he performed his checks with mechanical efficiency.

"Everything about this murder is impossible," he mumbled, standing up once he was done. "We were all accounted for, the room was perfectly sealed, and Suyin's death is just... plain impossible, given the circumstances. Maybe... is it possible the Suyin we saw was an imposter? The real Suyin was already dead before this game even began. While inside the Dragon room, the fake Suyin killed all the others, left this body behind too, then escaped! If no-one outside could have killed them, it must have been one of the ones inside, right?" He was still mumbling, so thankfully the others didn't hear his raving, or could at least pretend not to.

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Sat Dec 19, 2020 9:05 pm

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"The real problem is why they died. The killer would have enough CDP to use the door," X flicks out an index finger towards the sealed door with the 12 on it. "As far as we can tell though, the killer had no aspiration to leave. I would suspect those who insisted they would stay here."

"Rat, there is nobody else. There are only the twelve animals. We were forced into our respective rooms so the Sheep could not have been in the wrong place. You are still acting with haste and malice."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 9:06 pm

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Monk sprung to life, suddenly conveniently remembering something from earlier. "That's it!"

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Spoiler: DEFCON 1

Explaining to the others what he had recalled, he nodded. "That computer thing had something about emergency protocols, yeah? So before we all came in, the killer activated that thing and made this place descend underground. That's gotta have something to do with how the minister fell and died. Still leaves a lot to be questioned though... when did this happen? How come only the minister had these wounds on her? How did the rest of us not experience the descent as well? It's some strange shit right here." He spat. "But it's a start, I suppose, yeah?"

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 9:08 pm

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Monk sprung to life, suddenly conveniently remembering something from earlier. "That's it!"

Planetbox wrote:

Spoiler: DEFCON 1

Explaining to the others what he had recalled, he nodded. "That computer thing had something about emergency protocols, yeah? So before we all came in, the killer activated that thing and made this place descend underground. That's gotta have something to do with how the minister fell and died. Still leaves a lot to be questioned though... when did this happen? How come only the minister had these wounds on her? How did the rest of us not experience the descent as well? It's some strange shit right here." He spat. "But it's a start, I suppose, yeah?"

"It might not necessarily have been activated on purpose." Amethyst spoke up. "It said detonating weapons near the bunker could trigger the emergency protocol. And we detonated a bomb at the door..."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 9:14 pm

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Sun Taikong ignored X - he was ignoring a lot of people lately - and focused on what Monk and Amethyst had said. "Of course! The bomb! X detonated the bomb right outside the Dragon room - probably a bunker, given all the steel plating - which initiated the emergency protocols. The Dragon room dropped deep into the ground, causing Suyin to be crushed as though falling from a great height."

His wild eyes quickly scanned the area around them. "Sunny... was knocked out beforehand, like the good doctor suggested. I'm not sure why, but one of the others inside the room injected him with something that made the Afterlife Gate not realise he was still alive, so he could pass through it. Then I suppose Mao killed Mei, Suyin killed Mao, and the emergency protocols killed Suyin!" He didn't even consider the possibility that Mei had killed anyone. "The other bodies might show signs of falling too, we just can't go inside to check. We couldn't tell Suyin had those injuries until we pulled her out, after all."

Re: (NGX) The Zodiac Game (White Timeline B)

Sat Dec 19, 2020 9:19 pm

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"W-W-What's the problem honey?" Juanli stammered as she shakily rose to her feet and moved over to stand by Sunny's shoulder. She looked down at the corpse of Suyin who had been dragged out. "Oh my p-p-poor sister...this is such a shame." she said with an empty vacant tone. Lifting her head she mechanically scanned the room.

"B-but why are we still here?" she fixed Taikong with a skewed look "N-none of us c-could have done this. The culprit, whoever it is, is surely dead. Died in that room. Figuring out the 'w-why' is pointless." she sways uncertainly on her feet her head listing back towards the exit. "W-we could just go and rest assured knowing whatever happened that M-Miss Mei was a-a-avenged."

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