Flamelord

The Truth Behind the Project

@Flamelord

But...the others haven't seen Chiyo use a knife. Only her revolver.

@TheWindel

Mami turned ribbons into muskets. It's not impossible for her to have another weapon.

@Flamelord That's just a lot of metagaming in my opinion. Specially since Chiyo was supposed to be in Mitakihara by now. I bet she can go there and come back by bus in one night, so she might as well have an alibi.

Also she might must say, "Ask the Contractor if I wasn't with him last night?" Kyubey never lies, but he also never tells more than he's asked, to, so she would have a good cover.

Anyway, a new mysterious girl who indeed uses a stabbing weapon will arrive in the city. So you have at least another suspect, not excluding the possibility of yet an unknown girl existing.

SI yeah all that was metagame based theory. In my view and I find it hard that@TheWindel or @MarsAdept would disagree with me.

@KoL

While it's a stretch, it isn't that metagamey in my opinion. It follows on a reasonable deduction of facts that the characters in game would know. Is there any part in there that the characters in game would have no knowledge of?

For example, I can't take into account the possibility of a new MG showing up who uses a bladed weapon in these deductions, when I don't know she exists, even if it's out of character. Which still wouldn't explain how they managed to get the jump on her in her own home, without any sign of a struggle or a chance to fight back. Unless Emiri really was just that trusting of complete and total strangers.

While I admit that Chiyo may not be the prime suspect, she would certainly be up there on the list, if only for the reasons I described and akame's own in game distrust of her.

The Truth Behind the Project

<Snipped quote by Flamelord>

When did Chiyo broke her disguise? The only one who knows about her is dead.

@KoL

Process of elimination, primarily.

1. It wasn't a primordial. If it was, she would have been a lot more murderized, and everyone would have sensed it. Thus, it had to have been a magical girl
2. Rose, Izumi, and Elise were all together, so they have alibis.
3. Nanako doesn't use a stabbing weapon, so it couldn't have been her. As well, she and Miyako were together for part of the night and Miyako delivered her home, so she has part of an alibi.
4. Akame doesn't have a motive to kill Emiri.
5. Miyako doesn't have the motive.
6. If there were another magical girl in the city, she would have been found earlier. And the way she was killed suggests the element of surprise, which an unknown girl wouldn't have.

That leaves the logical conclusion as Chiyo, the girl none of us known anything about and the one Akame already suspects of being up to something fishy.

Which doesn't change the fact that I will not be crying over this, because I'm emotionally indifferent to it from an out of character perspective.

The Truth Behind the Project

I can also argue that this was the point. The newbies weren't supposed to feel impacted by Emiri's death and so would probably not understand why Akame and Rose would spill tears over someone that was supposed to only be seen as a comrade at arms. Plus it was a way to get Emiri out of the story. As for Chiyo's shocking betrayal, that wasn't intended either since we (the players) all saw her being obviously evil a few posts ago.

@TheWindel

Well, obviously when taken out of character. But in character it isn't all that shocking either because there hasn't been any time to get to trust Chiyo outside of that one mission, which not everyone was at in the first place. It's just 'Hey, turns out she's actually a bad guy', and we just roll with it. What was the point of even having her pretend to be on their side if she's going to blow her cover this early?

And while it does get Emiri out of the story, it just doesn't have any real emotional impact for me as a reader, coming so close after the other two technically character's dying. That's why I don't find myself any closer to real tears than before it.

Will there be impacts in character? Sure. But for the most part, I'm looking at it from an Out of Character perspective, and I wasn't that affected, and that's all I'm saying.

The Truth Behind the Project

@Flamelord Say what's on your mind, then.

@KoL

Okay then.

To be honest, not that impacting for me. Specifically because we just had characters with emotional bonds (Even if they weren't PC's) on the last page. None of the newcomers really got the chance to become attached to Emiri, and Chiyo's betrayal isn't all that shocking either, both because of what happened on the last page, and the fact that IC, there's been no real chance for them to develop trust or actual bonds with her.

So, while it was a nice moment, my reaction is more leaning towards the "Meh" side.

The Truth Behind the Project

Ok, my part is done too, everyone is free to cry now.

@KoL

Would you like my honest opinion, or my pretend one?

Massive Multiversal Crossover

Cinder Fall, Museum

Nearby, the Beowolf tried to dodge, but sadly with there only being one for the new threat to focus on it was quickly killed by lightning. That left Cinder alone, excepting her comrade currently getting beat across the room by the yelling Inquisitor. Well, she wasn't overly worried on the whole, since she was still better than her opponent.

"Not my problem," Cinder replied with a shrug to the news that her counterpart had lost whatever fight she had instigated in this other universe. It was sad, but not something she could control, nor something she wished to influence either. After all, she doubted that her counterpart had reached the level of enlightenment and clarity that she had, so she had no reason to care. For now, she had to focus on the fight she was faced with.

So she fought on, noting the switch to long range and humoring Blake as she fired off volleys of arrows and shards of Dust at the Faunus. It wasn't the most successful, thanks to those clones of hers, but she was very good at making sure that Cinder herself couldn't really get in melee range. Well, with the fire raging it was only a matter of time.

She reacted to the foolhardy charge with due grace, spinning out of the way as a black blade deflected the oncoming plate, and her other hand sending out a puff of Dust that would crystallize into ice in midair, to prove at least an annoyance if it didn't get on him and begin to freeze his skin, which would do more than it could against Blake with his presumed lack of Aura. Even if it did earn a wince from her plasma burns.

Of more concern was Blake coming in once more, the trick she employed successful this time as Cinder went down. The woman reacted quickly, of course, rolling back to her feet and striking with her blades now that she had the opportunity, not ready to give up just yet. She was using a lot of Dust for this, but for the foe in question it was worth it. Shards of elemental glass and arrows whipped out at the two, Cinder more than ready to take the both of them down as she divided her attention accordingly. Let them come, as she countered what they came up with and pushed back in the burning building. She had faced monsters, and she could face them.

Massive Multiversal Crossover

EDIT: OK, museum post is up, I'll reply for Subaru when I have a little more time.

@Minder

Thankee. At this point I figure Cinder will give up once Dlanor comes around, which should be in the next few posts.

Massive Multiversal Crossover

Hey Toad, you could have Morgan in the place that the Museum fight is currently happening (Which she might notice due to the fact that the museum is currently on fire)

The Truth Behind the Project

Is the person who killed Kyouko that same one who killed Sayaka?

@KoL

Well, given that she flat out said she was.....

Anyways, I choose to be in denial that this was anyone but a clone generated by illusion magic, due to my mostly agreement with Ariamis where this whole thing is concerned.

Now then, excuse me while I try to figure out what shenanigans the GM's are up to.

Massive Multiversal Crossover

.
BTW, isn't somebody using Gilgamesh in this RP?

@Willy Vereb

Final Fantasy Gilgamesh, not F/SN Gilgamesh