MURDER MOST FOUL GAMEPLAY THREAD

Apr 16, 2026 8:40 am
This is where Gameplay will take place.
Apr 17, 2026 2:20 am
You have all been invited to meet your mutual friend Tier-99-Professor (known fondly to you as Tierny) at Analog Cafe, a popular watering hole in downgrid Striving.
[ +- ] INVITATION
Apr 17, 2026 2:27 am
Air pumps exhale swirls of sickly fog that cling to the feet of skyscrapers and rub against windows like affectionate squoxes. The silhouettes of floating towers are dimly visible through the fog, hovering ponderously over busy thoroughfares as they parade across the megaplex cities, circling the planet’s surface in a monotonously predictable path. Agile maintenance bots skitter up and down skyscrapers’ slick angular surfaces, gleaming silver in the faltering sunlight. Crowded into a niche on the first two floors of one of dozens of lofty towers lining the streets of downgrid Striving, Analog is a boxy cafe with an overhanging roof and a two-story patio constantly shrouded in thick, swirling gases.
OOC:
Introduce your character, describing their method of transportation, appearance, and behavior as they explore the cafe and settle in at the appointed table.
Apr 17, 2026 5:43 am
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As They Arrive to the City, Striving, Coming From Ice Wells Through Aballon's Forest, They Haven't hear and haven't came about Aballon For Very, Very Long Time.
They are Old-Growth Wildfire a Khizar Soldier, their appearance is they have dry Green/(with little bit of brown) Vine Body, with Many (not to many) Spiky Vines over their Body, They have Bright Yellow Flower on their Head like a Transparent Lamp, Bought Machine Gun with them In Case Something goes Wrong (they Doesn't know how they have Machine Gun, Because They didn't want to talk about their past), and They're older that Dirt.
As Wildfire Explore the City of Striving, They Remember Why they Came Here for, 2 Reasons Actually.
First, Wildfire want to know what's New To the Aballon, Whichever Good News, Bad News, Something New, Whatever.
Second, a person(s?), Tier-99-Professor, or Tierny (but Wildfire didn't know that AFAIK) sent a (rather Important) Message, They want Wildfire to meet them at Analog Café at downgrid Striving. Though They Can't see, They can Sense Heat and Light in their surrounding. With the Help of their Sense they Arrive To the Analog Cafe, though they Suspicious because Tier-99-Professor Mention "Expect Company". after Looking around, Old-Grownth Enter the place.....
OOC:
Nice, This is Gonna be Exiting for my First Game! Sorry for Typos, Grammars and weird wording, this is my first time to the pbp😅. GM, can i use Aballon Lore check on the place? Im gonna roll for now.

Rolls

Want to know what's Is Analog Cafe - (1d20+3)

(7) + 3 = 10

Apr 17, 2026 7:01 am
OOC:
Old-Growth: On that Lore Knowledge Skill Check of 10, you see the Analog Cafe. Analog’s interior is tastefully shrouded behind panes of frosted glass the color of a sky at late dusk. It would seem that wait time on average is about 10 minutes. This is what you see of it on the outside and what you discover through some observation.
Apr 17, 2026 7:23 am
OOC:
how about My Surrounding? May i use Perception check to use my sense (AFAIK, khizar don't have eyes?) on the surrounding. Is some people here? Am i only one here? Is there hidden details my sense telling?

Edit: Omg Natural 20, at my first game😂
Last edited April 17, 2026 7:25 am

Rolls

Perception check - (1d20+5)

(20) + 5 = 25

Apr 17, 2026 8:31 am
OOC:
Old-Growth:On that nat. 20, you discover that "Downgrid" generally means south of Central Circuit, which is located exactly in the middle of the city. Likewise, "upgrid" is another popular term referring to the region north of this landmark. Blocks are usually called "circuits," a trend popularized by organic residents as more of them moved to the metal city. Striving’s weather and the day/night cycle are unique, and often catch visitors and new residents by surprise. "Fullbright" indicates midday, the period from cycle 4 to 6 when the sun shines brightest; most organics avoid the outdoors during this time, remaining in the shade of orbital plates, roofed buildings, and underground complexes.

Every day at dawn and dusk, gas billows up from the streets as the atmosphere generators kick off their cycle. If it was a particularly hot day, or a temperature shift is occurring, the clouds condense into gentle rain that makes the city shine like glass.

At the moment only you has arrived at the cafe and are standing just outside the cafe as you look around.
Apr 17, 2026 8:42 am
OOC:
nice Info, though i roll Perception check, Not Recall Knowledge😅. Im asking if anybody at Outside of the CafĂ© using my Sense? Im gonna continue anyway
After Looking at the Weather, Old-Growth Wildfire look around the Outside of the Café their sense, Then Processed to the Café's Door and enter the Building.
Apr 18, 2026 9:37 am
OOC:
Yes. Thats it. There is nobody else outside. You are the first one to arrive.
Apr 18, 2026 9:43 am
OOC:
Ok Thanks, my character enter the Analog Café Through the front Door.
Apr 18, 2026 7:48 pm
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As you walk into the Analog Cafe, the Analog’s interior is tastefully shrouded behind panes of frosted glass the color of a sky at late dusk. Inside, a sleek silver console beeps with a friendly tone, inviting you to add your name to the wait-list, check the average wait time (10 minutes and 16 seconds), or claim your reservation.
Apr 19, 2026 5:50 am
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Lunar-17 glances at the onscreen clock on her reading kiosk at the Polytechnica's occult library and quickly logs out of her session, scooping her wide-brimmed hat up from where it hung on the back of her seat and pressing it on over her long, blue hair as she hurries out of the building. After checking the IA app for the best utilibus stop to take to make it to Analog on time, Lunar checks the pockets of her trench coat to make sure she left nothing behind in the library and, satisfied with her findings, begins to glide through the library's crowded lobby to make her appointment. She makes polite conversation on the utilibus ride to Analog, curious to hear what kinds of assignments the IA had given to others recently and what they thought of it. As the last few minutes of the trip pass in silence, a question returna to Lunar-17 that had first occurred to her when she received Tierny's message a few days ago: If Tierny's invitation did get intercepted like they said, won't the interceptor know our group's pass phrase as well?

As she arrives at Analog, Lunar-17 takes a brief look around to see if she recognizes anybody waiting outside and, if not, approaches the console to check into Tierny's reservation.
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Apr 19, 2026 11:24 pm
After a long Though, Old-Growth Wildfire decide to add their Name to the wait list and then Sit Somewhere there little bit of Plant And Sit there. They Think About how this Planet Developing since they did Come for a long time.
Apr 19, 2026 11:44 pm
Lunar-17, you walk in to the cafe and engage the beeping console by providing your name to the wait list.

https://i.imgur.com/oWrvQc3.pngLunar-17 sees that she is not the first to arrive. Looking over, she sees a khizar, its vines forming strong, malleable limbs. Two arms, two legs, a torso, and a large yellow seedpod where a head would be.

The khizar has just claimed the reservation just and green arrows in the floor faintly pulse in the direction of a reserved table. Lunar-17 decides to follow the wiry form. The arrows lead them through the glitzy front room; it’s packed with a mix of mostly organic customers and synthetic waitstaff. Guests eat and drink at tables crowded around a sculpted synthwood bar at the center of the room where the skilled android bartender, Ghellon, mixes cocktails and takes orders. The arrows turn and lead through a low archway into a smaller, quieter dining space sparsely populated by guests—mostly anacites engaged in intense but silent interactions over the digital communication network all anacites share. Most don’t have any food or drink on their tables. The reserved table sits in an alcove along the back wall, secluded enough to allow for private conversation but close enough to watch the people coming and going in the next room.

Outside, a moss-decked patio is surrounded by a cloud of vapor from two sources: the nearby gas pump and a congregation of barathus, many in business suits and luxury attire.


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Apr 20, 2026 5:45 am
You are both settled, and a customizable server hologram appears at the center of your reserved table, and their pleasant voice instructs the guests to complete their dining algorithm using a comm unit to let the chefs know about any allergies or other dietary needs. Food and drinks are delivered to tables by conveyor belts discreetly hidden in the walls. Each table contains a holoprojector at its center with three modes: ambience, off, and vid play.

The chef’s organic special is a celebration of seasonal flavors sourced from the local Ice Well, served as a four- course meal consisting of snow cress salad, cave cricket bisque, moss-smoked albino eel, and frost berry strudel— all of which are painstakingly prepared, beautifully plated, and delicious. A vid about the Ice Wells plays at the table, projecting serene scenes of frozen underground forests. Synthetics may opt in to enjoy enhanced features of the vid that are transmitted directly into their minds, including sensations of cold temperature, the smells and textures of local flora, and images of habitats, as well as emotional data simulating the tranquility of the space. Organics can watch the vid but can’t directly partake in its special features without a datajack or similar augmentation. The rest of Analog’s holovid library is available to patrons who ask, and you can order just about anything on or off-menu on Tier-99-Professor’s generous tab.
Apr 20, 2026 12:13 pm
https://i.imgur.com/Fl7IoMZ.pngThe hover car - or rather it could be called hover van as it was a bigger unit - approached the narrow space between the towers where the Analog cafe was situated. But - surprisingly - it didn't lowered its flight to the level of the entrance, but stopped and hovered about 3 meters or so above the door, stoped in mid air for a brief moment. Then the back romp opened and young, lean kasatha stepped on it, out of the van with confident and well balanced step. She stoped for a second, turned back, made a fast gesture of farewell to whomever was still inside and just like that jumped on the floor below her. Landing with grace bending her long legs to cushion the fall and using her additional (from human perspective at least) hands to keep perfect balance, while keeping the fancy laser rifle in the main pair, ready to shoot at any time. At the same time the hover van flew away in a hurry, as if the driver wanted to spend as little time in that place as possible, and preferably to erase his presence from the memory of any potential observers. Jaedana - as that was the name of young, kasathas operative - after looking around and not noticing anything suspicious, put back her rifle to some handle attached to her back under her purple jacket. Then - trying to look as normal as possible - she entered the cafe and fallowed the path to reserved table.

When she arrived at the table, her first thought was: "Oh... great... there are only two of them. Was afraid I would find a little family of small anacities (disgusting, ever changing, little creepers... ) at the table and it would be some kind of 'old family friends' meeting, rather than something important." - she joked to herself - "But those two don't look like they would waste their time only for some exotic cuisines."

Jaedana sat next to the table without any way of saying hallo or introducing herself, seaming to barely noticing other visitors and just said drily, as she would be asking for something unimportant: "What kind of static are they serving here?"
OOC:
GM, can you post Jaedana art here too? As I am assuming that you have one without surrounding text?
Apr 20, 2026 5:52 pm
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Vozra grumbles as he gets in the AstroCab, seeing the driver-bot, an older model that was in the news recently over some hit-and-runs. The parent company made promises to upgrade their firmware, as part of its litigation settlement, so the vesk wasn't entirely sure what to expect on the trip to Analog Cafe.

He mostly kept a tight grip on his pistol and a keen eye on the bot, in case he had to shoot it in the head and take control of the taxi. The vesk didn't make it this far in life without being prepared and aware of his surroundings. The bot's preprogrammed pleasantries were met with grunts.

Once (surprisingly, safely) at the cafe, his credstick auto-marked off, Vozra recentered himself and stepped in. He followed the glowing arrows and came to a table with three others. Tierney had some interesting friends his eyes gazing a second longer than intended at the Khizar. He had read up on them, but never worked with one before. Interesting indeed.

Clearing his throat, "This background music, what incredulous static."
Apr 20, 2026 9:57 pm
You all sit there in the relaxing environment of the Analog Cafe.
OOC:
Seems like a good opportunity to talk with each other and maybe share how you all know Tier-99-The Professor.
Apr 20, 2026 11:23 pm
As They Look at the Vid about Ice Wells plays on the Table, Old-Growth Realize that They have a Company. They Sense A Detective-looking Robot (Lunar-17), A Four-Arms Long Head (Jaedana), and A Lizard that they only see is Metals and Scaly Skin (Vozra). Old-Growth Look back at the Vesk, but they ignore him and look back at the Vid, They Surprise about The Scenes Of Ice Wells. And Wonder if What Just Changes In This City, and Aballon in General. While Waiting Other To Speak.
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