RE: Murder III: Deep, Dark Cavern: Day 3 Ends 5/8
(wall tiem! Can't use quotes as I'm on the Wii so I'll try and point out stuff best I can...)
Night fell again. In her dreams, Maelstra could make out the faint words...'the calm before the...' Sui...Suicune?! She questioned, but the image of the ghost fled quickly from her mind. She awoke with a start, floating in an odd position as she quickly noticed it was daytime in the cavern. An uneasy feeling gathering in her stomach (Did the murderer strike again...?! she thought to herself), she immediately swam off towards the action.
And, unfortunately, her gut feeling was right; now Kyogre laid dead before the creatures. There was a shocked sort of silence as the remaining Pokemon gathered.
Almost at once, the bickering began. The overly zealous Piplup pointed to her and the other Vaporeon, claiming it was them. "They are suspects! Maybe Kingdra was right!" he exclaimed. Before he could continue, another chimed in.
"Lapras may be our best lead, with water and ice."
"But what about calm before the storm?" yet another queried. "That could point to Lanturn very well!"
"You're very suspicious for being so quick to pin the blame on someone, Piplup..."
"Maybe it's someone that hasn't been as talkative and helpful as we have been in trying to solve this murder rampage, like Psyduck..."
The pointless accusations just kept flying. They just kept taking shots in the dark. Yet there were so many clues just WAITING in front of them! Were there only a few Pokemon using their heads? Maelstra shook her head, before she finally couldn't take it anymore.
"You guys! Stop it! Stop it right now! Don't you see what you're doing here? We have so many clues, but you're only looking at one or two! We're basing all of this on theories that can't be backed up by PROOF! If we're going to catch the murder, we need SOLID evidence to pin the blame on someone. It has to be solid, else we're going to keep losing more and more Pokemon."
Once again she brought out the notes on the subject. After quickly going over the newest note and scribbling 'the calm before the _____', she gave only a brief glance over what she had nearly memorized and began her statement.
"Now, I think it's fair if we look over ALL evidence on ALL players here, be it true evidence or potential evidence. I'll start from the beginning: Suicune."
The picture of the ghost, in his majestic form before his brutal murder, flooded her mind. Don't worry, Suicune...I'll help as much as I can...
"Suicune was murdered a few nights ago; he was the first of us to go. Suicune is a bulky Pokemon with incredibly high Special Defense, and yet he was taken down by Hidden Power Fire. Many burns cover his body. While it seems impossible that Suicune would be so easily felled by HP Fire, it COULD be possible by way of another burning move. Maybe the Pokemon weakened it more, although I'm sure that we would have been told that in the description. The fact that the bulkiness of Suicune should have protected him, yet he was the first to go concerns me. The murderer is flaunting his or her ability to kill someone so easily.
"Next one that died was Mudkip; he was too quick to try and find evidence, and thus Darkrai got to him. I'm not sure of how much evidence we can find in a modkill...
"After that, Luvdisc perished in the same manner as Suicune- with Hidden Power Fire. While there's nothing really new to gain from the death itself, we can't ignore the fact that Luvdisc brought up the theories of a Pokemon using a Surf-type move to drag the mighty Suicune up to the surface. Another factor behind that was the fact we could change our Hidden Power by his suggested theory, which might not have sounded great to the murderer. He was killed very quickly, so there might be some sort of blame to put on the murderer for that.
"Next one, we killed Kingdra. While Kingdra's known for its assortment of moves and its dragon-likeliness, perhaps we weren't looking close enough. While Kingdra can learn many moves, it still partially dislikes ice attacks used against it. Unfortunately it's too late to bring him back from the dead...
"Lastly for the murdered, we have Kyogre, perhaps the strongest of us all. Once again, Hidden Fire was used. Kyogre was very suspicious with his posts, stating what he had for moves. For some reason, the murderer killed him off. Perhaps the murderer is toying with us again, trying to make our lives harder, or maybe there was some reason why he or she wanted to kill him. I'm unsure at this point...
"That leaves those alive. I think it fair enough to go down the list and...well, list all accusing evidence against ALL parties." She hesitated, gathering her wits. "We cannot knock anyone out of this so soon. No, not even myself..." Without a moment's hesitation, though, she began.
"First, I'll start with evidence on myself. Maelstra, Vaporeon. Vaporeons are known for melting into the water, which would give plenty of camoflage when striking for a murder. As Mudkip mentioned, 'M' could stand for Maelstra, although I claimed my name long before the game began. Since the Murderer did not specify what M is, it still points the blame to me in that aspect. Also of note is that Vaporeon do have paws as the original murder stated. Yet, unless we go by Luvdisc's theory that Surf was used, I could not lift up Suicune OR Kyogre in order to kill them. The paws and surf theory overlap too much, the way I see it. Also of note is the fact that I would never make such common spelling mistakes as seen in the notes: quite, iciness and future were all spelt wrong by the murderer. Feel free to add evidence to this if you wish...
"Next, we have my fellow Vaporeon (sonicyellow). Many of the above reasons apply to him, besides the fact that he potentially could have spelt the words wrong on accident. It was also slightly suspicious that he immediately claimed that he didn't have Acid Armor, and got defensive when a finger was pointed his way. Feel free to add to this...
"Next, we have Piplup (Joeypals). Piplup is a penguin Pokemon, thus immediately framing him in the water-and-ice department. His actions are extremely suspicious in game, as he often plays a lot while an investigation is underway. He also has a good motive for killing off Luvdisc; he has fins, and thus may not have liked that theory at all. He was also very quick to blame another Pokemon as soon as the day began, with little reasoning behind it. However, I'm not so sure he'd be capable of killing off Suicune and Kyogre with ease. He IS just a little Piplup...
"...yet along that same note, we have Empoleon (mammaluigi). Again, being a penguin and having a motive immediately frame him as a potential murderer. With evolution comes great power, and he could potentially have the power to kill Suicune or Kyogre. He hasn't said too much in the game either, posting maybe once or twice since it started. Whether his inactivity in the game frames him for trying to stay as innocent-seeming as possible (for we could forget about him that way) or if it's because he's not the murderer and thus is losing interest, this has yet to be seen. We need more clues first.
"Next we have Feraligatr (Shoyru). Feraligatr is a massive Pokemon, who would be able to at least lift Suicune to the surface. Of interest is the fact that in his picture, Feraligatr is using Ice Punch. That would cover the water and ice parts quite nicely. Although they're not 100% paws, he does have hands, which would be ample enough to fit the classification of 'paws'. Yet the thing I'm stumped on is the fact that he is more of an attack-based Pokemon, not a special-attack-based attacker. So, this remains up in the air...
"Lapras (Guy) is next. Immediately we can frame him because of water and ice types. Lapras, like Kingdra, can learn a wide movepool of moves as well. He's also very large, allowing him potentially the ability to use one of his horn-like structures on his back to drag a Pokemon up to the surface (like Suicune). Blizzard seems to be a popular choice to use with Lapras, given how it can use it in conjuncture with Hail, hence 'calm before the storm' possibly, given Lapras is seen as a calm Pokemon. Feel free to add to this...
(...and unfortunately I have to stop there for now. Work calls... I'll finish with my theories after work.)
