MURDER MOST FOUL GAMEPLAY THREAD

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May 16, 2026 6:14 am
You all decide to check out the Downtown Charging Platform.

When you arrive you see a massive, 2,036-foot Y-shaped building that towers over the street, piercing the swirling atmospheric gases and casting deep, cool shade on the street below it at fullbright, or darkness at night.

In the daytime, its silver panelled surface turns white hot, and at night it glistens with a cosmos of multicoloured twinkling lights. Occasionally, several sets of metal doors in the base of the tower slide open and anacites scurry in or out, flocking to and from the nearby street. It’s easy to enter through any of the building’s automated doors. A few yards inside, a metal elevator zooms to and from the charging platforms high above at precise 1-minute intervals.
May 16, 2026 3:49 pm
Old-Growth hesitates as they enter, his flower turning slowly from one side of the structure to the other. This artificial environment is curious and interesting, with many sources of light and other radiation, but his senses are not able to make much of it. Surely there is some order to this garden to indicate which patch would have belonged to the Professor, but he will let his teammates forge the path to it and follow.
May 16, 2026 7:19 pm
MinMin says:
Old-Growth hesitates as they enter, his flower turning slowly from one side of the structure to the other. This artificial environment is curious and interesting, with many sources of light and other radiation, but his senses are not able to make much of it. Surely there is some order to this garden to indicate which patch would have belonged to the Professor, but he will let his teammates forge the path to it and follow.
OOC:
Um ... what garden? There is no mention of a garden! You are currently at the bottom of a very large building and there is no mention of a garden. Maybe you have read ahead in the Adventure and your post is premature???
May 16, 2026 9:36 pm
OOC:
Oh, sorry, there is none. That's Old-Growth thinking in confusing, non-anthropomorphic plant terms.
May 18, 2026 6:12 am
As they enter together, Lunar-17 can't help but gawk at the sheer scope of the structure they have come to and the massive breadth of the population that it serves, "Isn't this remarkable? These charging platform buildings are the site of extremely crucial, shared dependence and connection for the Anacites here but they also highlight and foster facilitate a great deal of independence. I won't keep droning on though, shall we head up to Tierny's station and see what we can find?"
May 18, 2026 6:28 am
Heading into the building through its front automatic doors, you see that you could take the elevator or head down a short corridor that leads past the elevator to another set of automatic doors.
May 18, 2026 1:21 pm
Old-Growth senses about, is there anyone directing visitors or anywhere people appear to be queuing up before heading deeper into the structure?
May 18, 2026 8:52 pm
OOC:
OLD-GROWTH:
Not at the moment!
May 19, 2026 11:47 am
Old-Growth begins moving toward the doors. Not knowing which floor the professor's station is located on, there must be someone who can assist them further inside the structure he figures.
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May 19, 2026 12:43 pm
OOC:
There is only one charging platform in whole city?
Jaedana fallowed Old-Growth also looking for some kind of assistance desk, map, or terminal with anacites' addresses.
May 19, 2026 10:58 pm
Entering the double doors, you see the building beyond contains a forest of petrified trees. A garden of statues is carved to resemble all sorts of creatures cavorting among the trees—anacites, graceful barathus, helpful skittermanders, magical beasts of lost Golarion, and creatures from planets at the other side of the galaxy.

Looking over across the garden of statues is a sheep like creature is going about its business.
May 19, 2026 11:56 pm
Old-Growth steps forward, investigating the new area. A garden afterall, but what does everything here seem dead? He moves toward the carving of an anacite, inspects it briefly, then turns to regard the sheep like creature--why this single living inhabitant? Old-Growth projects thoughts of greeting towards it to see if it is more than it seems.
May 20, 2026 2:09 am
The sheep like creature turns towards Old-Growth and seems to beckon you all over to her.

You move over to the creature and see that here the creature seems to have free reign over this area which seems like its chosen living space, which is decorated with sculptures created from polished minerals. Bins full of raw ore are stacked in untidy rows near a huge tumbler that constantly churns rough rocks in its belly and a potbellied stove heating a bubbling stewpot.

Nearby, a few rough obsidian boulders form basic pews around a computer terminal.

The creature turns to you all and says, "Hello! May I help you?"
May 20, 2026 4:02 am
OOC:
Clarifying question for the group: do we want to go to Tierny's charging port at the top of the platform, or their biometrically-locked storage cache somewhere down here at the base of the tower?
May 20, 2026 11:31 am
OOC:
I would go to Tierny's charging port first - let's check the "flat" first, then the "basement":)
May 20, 2026 9:37 pm
Jaedana, finding the location tied to Tier-99-Professor’s identity marker is a laborious process of scanning with a comm unit, datapad, or similar computer while Searching the area. You begin to search the area.
May 20, 2026 9:38 pm
The_Ecumenical_Antifa says:
OOC:
Clarifying question for the group: do we want to go to Tierny's charging port at the top of the platform, or their biometrically-locked storage cache somewhere down here at the base of the tower?
OOC:
The charging port is just that, a charging port. It will not give you access to anything.
May 21, 2026 1:21 am
Old-Growth projects an inquiry at the creature, "Seek Professor, place of energy." This last thought carries a strong mental impression of a flower basking in the sunligh.
May 21, 2026 5:23 am
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The creature says, "My name is Shalalamula. I have not heard that name in a little while, most unusual. I expect you mean Tier-99-Professor. You seek information by means of 'place of energy'. Yes! I can help you. I know exactly where he stores his data.

She says that she wasn't on close terms with Tier-99-Professor as Tierny was always either tired and in need of a recharge after a long day of work, or excited to begin a new workday and too busy to talk.

Still, I respected Tierny’s huge dedication, and have noted his prolonged absence."


She takes you to a place tied to Tier-99-Professor's identity marker and shows you which cell is currently synced to Tier-99-Professor.

Tier-99-Professor’s cache is an object of unusual beauty. It’s a 4-foot-tall plinth of smooth, dull opal carved with graceful concentric fractals. Tiny white flowers blossom in the moss growing over its base, which is lined with minute, capering sculptures of anacites with oddly proportioned bodies. The plinth stands beside a deep well, around which a lush and creeping garden of colourful ferns and fruited vines seeps into the floor’s metal tiles.

As you approach within 10 feet of the plinth, circuitry glows and swirls within the
fractals in time to some erratic pulse. Outwardly appearing to be a serene monument, the plinth is actually a locked container with a built-in computer that an anacite can link with wirelessly; any other creature must connect their personal computer to the cache.
May 21, 2026 5:39 am
"So who's gonna connect their datapad to this beautiful work of art - blending the technology and nature in perfect unison? I bet Tierny has set up the thing that it should recognizes his friends in there will be such need. " - Jaedana asks not hiding her amazement, with a heavenly smile.
OOC:
I don't think Jae even have a proper device for this? Besides with +3 in Computers - probably other team members will be better fitted for the task:)
How does "helping" in this system works, GM? For example: if Jae would have a computer, could she connect with other PC and help with "hacking"? How does it work mechanically ?

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