by Hawkwing425 » Sat Jun 15, 2019 1:07 am
Here's how the locked room went:
Pre-night: When "Santa" fell onto Merk, he told Merk to meet him in Merk's room A2. Merk complied with this, like a sucker.
A1: Murderer and accomplice meeting.
A2: Merk, who is waiting in his room for Santa, is met by Simon instead. Stabby stabby. If ANY OF Y'ALL would have pointed out that there was a knife at the crime scene, and only 2 people were confirmed to have knives... this would have been a very different outcome. Meanwhile, Santa tells Steve to go to Merk's room A4.
A3: Simon turns the lights off and takes Merk's key. He promptly books it to go get an alibi. Santa grabs the Spear of Friendship from Santa's office.
A4: Steve goes to Merk's room, as instructed. He sets the chain lock (as instructed) and turns on the lights to find Merk's body. Meanwhile, Santa leaves the spear in the dorm hallway.
A5: Simon runs into the dorm hallway, grabs the spear, and attempts to open Merk's room door. Of course, it's chainlocked, which is exactly as intended. He then stabs Steve through the opening that he DOES have, killing the lucky elf immediately. He then sticks Merk's room key into the lock and closes the door. This is why William, when he used his ability, saw an elf standing in the hallway- that was Simon's second kill in action.
A6: Yeet the spear into Manon's room. Tada, murder finished!
BDA: Santa, being an accomplice, pretends Merk's door is locked. Everyone breaks down the door, finds the two bodies, and no one is the wiser.
I... REALLY thought you guys would have suspected Simon at all. But nope. Pretty sure the "U" that Merk wrote was the start of an S, so there's that. Or how about the fact that Simon disappeared for A2 and A5, both possible or confirmed murder actions, and everyone knew accomplices were a thing? And the person Simon claimed to have spent the most time with was the guy that everyone knew was the Grinch? Segaco even asked me to drop hints about the case, so I brought up the murder weapon, but NOPE. No one thought about the knife or the spear. *sigh*