Scioly Assassination 160: A Puppet's Strings

[Piplup7575]

THEATRICAL STAGE - AUDITORIUM

A theater, ravaged by fire and flame. A scorching blaze surrounds the failing stage, flames teasing the cloaked figure huddled in its midst.
She knew this would be how it’d end. The knowledge doesn’t make it hurt any less.

LITTLEMISSNYAN
(haltingly) Fire races ‘cross the ceiling... shadows dance along the floor...

A wall molding collapses into the sea of fire, sending a wave of heat across the stage.

LITTLEMISSNYAN
...pawns and puppets of a story, cycling forevermore—

Lightbulbs shatter, sending glass raining down on the puppeteer. She cries out in pain as the shards dig into her back, sinking in between the hilts of knives driven deep into her body.

LITTLEMISSNYAN
(louder) Pass the torch aloft again; a new beginning from each end!

Smoke billows across the stage, sending the puppeteer into a coughing fit.

LITTLEMISSNYAN
(shouting) Give me your hands, if we be friends!

The rafters groan and tremble.

LITTLEMISSNYAN
And Nyan! Shall! Restore! AMENDS!

The ceiling gives way. Flaming timbers crash to the ground as a fireball blossoms outward, consuming all. The conflagration peaks, then slowly fades away, into darkness.

[LittleMissNyan]

bwahahaAHAHa ohhh my god I am absolutely loSING iT- this is what I get for making stuff vague again isn’t it lmaooo

Thank you everyone for playing! I admittedly dumped all the ID clues at the end to try and get you guys to accuse me before we had to leave for vacation haha. Might not have been the best timing to start this game activity-wise but everything worked out in the end.
A lot of pre-planning definitely went into this (setting up Discord, speed-watching musicals, cherry picking the coherent plot points out of 146 and setting the rest on fire-) but there’s a few specific people I need to thank:

- Bernard was the main point of contact for all the Discord setup, so a lot of this couldn’t be done without his help! Discord sassy was pretty fun and I hope future sassies will take full advantage of the new playstyle. (he also decided to act super sus and draw an accusation, and then helped me hint to you guys who I was because I was panicking over having to leave the next day :heartbean:)
- Benny told me via PM who Mx. Space and Time were and also gave me a mini heart attack when it turned out he was one of them sorry!
- Piplup for the Discord access workarounds and nudging the game in the right direction with a clue or two (like the bacon one, because I still apparently have issues with overcomplicating my clues >2 years later)
- and the previous sassy gave me play recommendations for the early clues! You know who you are Ɛ>

Here’s the clue workshop, stress-induced ramblings and all. Not sure what would be an effective way of archiving the Discord thread discussion for non-discord users to see, but I’ll figure that out eventually.
Banexet, PM me on the forums with your next pick for sassy. The actual account handoff might have to wait a week due to vacation and also due to the fact that Bernard needs to be online to click the ‘new login location detected’ email for the Discord account, but the new sassy can brainstorm in the meantime. for the sake of your sleep schedule please don’t put this much effort into your game I’m just an overachiever :')

[LittleMissNyan]

oh no! our game number continuity! it's broken!!
While we wait for our new sassy to finish, uh, whatever they're up to, I've managed to record all the messages in the Discord thread for non-Discord users to read through.
Discord log: https://pastebin.pl/view/ee0d8b74. Download it as a .txt file and load it into the viewer: https://dht.chylex.com/browser-only/build/viewer.html. The sites also work in Wayback Machine if your school filters are borked don't worry

Enjoy! Might be a helpful resource for future game posterity, though maybe not so easily for me because it doesn't work on my device but idk. I'd encourage the next set of officers to use/update the forums thread more because not everyone has consistent Discord access, if at all (and if it weren't for recent circumstances that would easily be me >.<). Don't lock the Div B kids out!