November's Standing Mysteries

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Hiiii Austice ♥️ I've wanted to move to using the OOC comm more, and this is a great opportunity -- right now throughout the game, there's a whole host of standing questions being unveiled!

Following in this post is a list of what's new this month, or like, is still not quite answered.

I'm gonna make a top level for the major mysteries to discuss them. Please point out anything I've missed/feel free to add your own top levels!

So here's what we've got that I recall from this month:

- The coin pouch / six coins

- Some characters spawned into the game with special items in their acceptance posts 
- The newest NPC, Hamtaro, a young lad who can read things we can't and has a confirmed kill count!

- SOMETHING IN THE LAKE?
- the recent fires
- Jiro's death

- what's in the fog

- the gem smashing incident on the train & Ala's disappearance
- what the coffin wants

- the missing hearts in the stained glass window (what happens when we fill them all in??? sharp objects seem to be doing it..)
- various mysterious notes

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THE COINS

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Coins! So, after Bunny sacrificed the coin he found after being accepted to the game, the coffin returned his note with an added 1/6 on it. I thought originally this might be referring to the acceptance items and did a quick skim of everyone's apps to see how many items had been received and found that three roughly-hammered silver coins with no distinctive markings on either side had been given in acceptance notices.

When I mentioned this on discord, Din noted that Diluc received an identical coin when he sacrificed two mora. On combing all of the sacrifices that have been made so far this month, I found that three more coins were received in response to sacrifices made to the coffin. Two were given in exchange for other coins, while the last one was given as a reward to Andy on the sacrifice of his acceptance item. This brings our total to six silver coins available to the characters!

On sacrificing his silver coin (2/6), Andy received an empty coin pouch. Empty ur pockets people!!

HAMTARO

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did we feed him soup yet

THE COFFIN'S DESIRES

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where's that pic it gave albedo. I don't have it

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Because I happen to be sitting with the coffin sacrifices open in another tab right now...

ALA'S DISAPPEARANCE / THE SMASHED GEM

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it's fine tsukasa only merced some rando we don't care about

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The scooby doo gang of Austice (Barnaby, Anya, Rantaro, Kuja and Andy) are currently investigating the train to look for Ala. We'll update once we find something or all get horribly murdered, whichever comes first.

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Update:

- They find a blanket nest under the train!

- Andy almost gets decapitated by a train window

- Andy also almost breaks his neck because the super mega fucking haunted train has it out for him and is trying to murder him

- They find a dead body! It's Jay the Train Conductor, the Kenny of Austice

- Further along the train they find another body... nah, it's a new arrival called Tatsumi.

- Also Anya gets adopted (? held hostage?) by a bird

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& Tatsumi's spawned in with the final coin for the coffin!!!

THE FIRES

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im feeling a strong arson vibe here

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Dimos went naked unto that house fire trying to save the figure inside, got melted a lil for it, and found that the figure was...Not tangible. It tried to lure him in further, and then ended up under a bed protecting the box of gem shards he brought to the meeting.

So yeah. Sussy. fuck that shadow figure bro

ACCEPTANCE ITEMS

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:( Kuja got dirt in his eyes but that's it

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c/p'd from Wave's acceptance notice:

At some point after the dog attack if Wave returns to the train, she will find a smiley face drawn in the dust covering one of the windows of a passenger carriage. If she looks inside, she will find a small whistle on one of the seats that if she blows into it, doesn't appear to make a sound. It does cause a momentary "being watched" feeling, though.

She and Dainsleif have theorized that it may be similar to a magic artifact in that it can only be used for a specific purpose/at a specific time, but whether or not that's actually the case is a complete tossup, lmao. I kind of really hope it's a red herring but WHO KNOWS!!!! Not I!

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c/p'd from Andy's acceptance notice:

Andy opens his eyes to find himself standing in front of the church, hand raised as if about to knock on the front door. In his other hand is a sheet of paper, folded into quarters and when unfolded, reveals a letter written in illegible script. The paper is somewhat crumpled, as if he had been holding onto it for a very very long time.

We have no idea what the letter said because Andy stuck it in the coffin just to get rid of it. He got a coin in return.

JIRO'S DEATH

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Judai is also dying soon iirc so I am going to have update this post lmao

LAKE PRESENCE

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there's something. IN there

VARIOUS NOTES

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has someone been keeping the ransom notes with the smiley faces.. I think we should make an album

MISSING HEARTS WINDOW

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this probably could have gone under misc / coffin mystery but I'm really invested in this one. kokichi and ib dumped a bunch of sharp objects in the coffin and the hearts started filling in.

MISC MYSTERIES

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if I missed something.. no I didn't <3

WHAT WE UNDERSTAND ICLY ABOUT GEMS

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this came up in the latest meeting a bit and was talked about prettyyy publicly.. Kuja's figured out they can effect your feelings when stuff's done to them, Rinne had a lot more to say that i am too tired to word rn

THE FOG

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Kuja and Papyrus had a lil ill-fated adventure that ended in Kuja's temporary stint as a statue, but it DID reveal the fog enshrouding the town at night seems to be filled with very very broken down souls. The usual leering monsters of the night responded first with scrutiny and then with petrification to Kuja trying to bother the soul... smoothie.

Kuja proceeded to announce he was totally right about the fog being full of souls (just really broken down ones) at the next town meeting.

THE NATURE OF DEATH?

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People can't die here! Or can they? Rinne miraculously recovered from a fatal poisoning, but Jiro (and soon, Judai) has been found very, very dead, and was unable to be copied with exoflection, instead bringing back something.. wrong. Jay the conductor rose from his grave and wandered off into the night. And the graveyard is full of unquiet bones with a grudge...

...unquiet bones with a grudge that Lark can communicate with, apparently.