[FINISHED] KLOE THE MURDERER MAFIA

author=pianotm
And...nobody noticed that NeverSilent made a first day role drop.

I have no way of proving what I'm saying now, and it's especially ironic considering I had my doubts about Ratty for his Highlander "roleclaim" as well. But the simple truth is that this judge persona was purely roleplaying and has no actual gameplay-related significance. I came up with the idea because of my avatar with the noose in it (which, like LockeZ, I had picked before the start of the game proper already), and introduced it once Kloe had convinced me to at least try and stay in-character for a while (which I then gave up soon after LockeZ explained his views on the RP element).

As far as my views on fearful go, I honestly have no idea. I've never seen him post outside of the forums, and I couldn't tell if his seemingly random behaviour is a planned act or just innocent onfusion.


Either way, there is something else I'd like to bring to your attention. Yesterday, I was very confused about the bit of my hair that appeared on the crime scene. Then, Ratty made this post:

author=Ratty524
So guys I'm pretty sure one of the mafia is LockeZ, based on the clues provided, and the entire logic behind it is 100% meta:

1) LockeZ is known for being into lolis. He made a collab game with Craze that involved lolis. He made battledome characters loosely based on lolis, he is even somewhat of a loli in the Highlander's Realm RP. This ties into the dirty books collection under the bed.

2) The real Kloe's body was "badly bruised, whipped, cuts and scrapes all over her. In the Highlander's Realm RP, the main weapon of choice for LockeZ's character is a Garrote-Whip. Kloe herself even participates in that game.

3) This one can be interpreted in many ways, but does anyone think that Frogge's mention to lynch LockeZ is purely coincidental, considering all the possible information he could have access to in dead chat?

#lynch LockeZ

I hope I'm wrong, here, if only because using clues that are based around information that basically requires out-of-game knowledge is such a bad decision.

At first, I thought Ratty's reasoning here was completely ridiculous, to be frank. But it reminded me of the cannibalism references Kloe had given us earlier in the game, and I started to do some digging around.
In the part where rabitZ's death was described, we did not only find the element of cannibalism, which clearly incriminated Shinan. Frogge had made this post just a short while before:

author=Frogge
Before we leave and go to the forest, there is one last thing I would like to do. Find a rope or something else like a wire which we can use to tye something on.

And this is from Kloe's description of rabitZ's corpse:

author=Kloe
LockeZ inspects the body infront of everyone, since everyone is watching, it is revealed to all that he was strangled with a thin but strong piece of rope/wire designed for strangling.

Then, at the beginning of day 2, we found Yellow Magic's corpse dressed up as a scarecrow:

author=Kloe
The corpse has a straw farmers hat on it, similar to the one that the Farmer had on him when he died, you can take it if you wish.

If you remember, InfectionFiles had taken the dead farmer's straw hat and had shown something of an obesssion with it before.

To me, it seems like these bits of evidence were designed to implicitly point towards specific players. Also notice that all three of the people who had evidence against them turned out to be innocent. Now, despite the fact that parts of the whole investigation aspect of this game have felt rather illogical, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that Kloe did this on purpose.

Right now, I can see two more pieces of evidence that can be connected to individual players: Obviously, there is the bit of hair that incriminates me. And we have the bloody knife, which could be interpreted as a reference to LockeZ's avatar. (I know this seems like a stretch, but there's been a lot of discussion about that avatar in this game.) If we look through the thread in more detail, I'm pretty sure we could find more of these kinds of hints.

The problem I have now - apart from the fact that I don't know whether I'm possibly overinterpreting things - is that I'm not sure how much we can trust these bits of evidence. On one hand, after all that's happened it seems reasonable to suspect LockeZ, on the other hand the knife might be a total red herring like the other things before. We've pretty much neglected searching for evidence since the beginning of day 2, so I'm not sure if otherwise we could have established some pattern, either.

I feel extremely unsure about this whole theory, but I wanted to at least put it out there to see if anyone else thinks this all makes sense.