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It was a dark and stormy night, there was a loud pop that came from this big mansion in the middle of nowhere and some screams could be heard from the distance, but it was rather... happy screams. Apparently, it was a champagne being popped open by a newcomer named Lester.
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"Alright, who wants some?" He circles around the giant living room to pour everyone some in their glass.
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One is an old man sitting in his wheelchair named Harold, a guard named Cole who simply joins along with everything that's going on, and of course, the two little rascals, Rupert and Elliot. Standing nearby a giant window.
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"Ahh, nothing like a good drink for the night!" Rupert commented. "Despite the occasion."
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"I like parties, I'll take anything." Elliot added.
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"What if it was my birthday?"
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"Well, you'll receive a hair clipper."
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"Why?"
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"For that sweet bushy unibrow of yours."
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"Hey, don't you dare insult my unibrow!"
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"You can say that to me eye to eye but you can't, 'cause I don't see any eyes."
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On the other end of the living room, Harold was lighting up some candles on the cake that is being held by Veronica, just waiting for it to be done.
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"And that's the third and last candle, it's all done!" Harold said. "Thank you so much for the assist, young lady."
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Veronica gave him a reassuring smile while still holding the cake.
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"Quite a dope mansion here." Lester commented.
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"Why thank you, my dear boy. But it's not as cool as this button." Harold pulls out a small button
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"What does that do?"
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"In case you're too tired to close all the lights throughout the whole place, you can use this to close it yourself without going anywhere."
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Harold clicked the button for demonstration and the lights from the living room went out and then turns it back on again.
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"Wow, that's sick!"
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"If any of you needs it, it's with me."
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"Uh oh, here comes the birthday boy!" Lester exclaimed.
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Billy enters the living room, he knows about the party but he was still happy to celebrate his birthday. Veronica walked towards him and lift the cake closer to him as everyone sang him a happy birthday, except for Rupert and Elliot who were just mocking the entire song.
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After Billy blew his candles, we immediately shift to him opening some presents while sitting on a large chair that almost looks like a thrown.
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The first present he got was two baseball bats, which came from an old man, apparently.
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"How'd you like a good old-fashioned sports game, huh?" Harold asked. "I think you're gonna like it."
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Billy gave him a smile of appreciation for what he got.
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"Aww, ain't that just an adorable grandfather and grandson bonding?" Lester commented.
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"Oh no, he's not my grandson, mine's dead."
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Whoops, Lester's smile fade away immediately.
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"You know, you could play with those bats however you want, my dear boy. Even when I'm dead." Harold strolled away with the help of Veronica.
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"Okayy, creepy grandpa is being creepy now." Lester muttered. "Hey, what else you got?"
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Billy continues unwrapping his presents, the first one he got was this envelope with really cute designs. Billy opened it and inside was a little note. Confused by this, he takes a look to see what it says.
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"Happy birthday! Seems like you're down with another year of your life, great! You're a special one, you like puzzles. Wanna play one? you seem to be very happy growing old, it's like going up in numbers is a great thing for you. But what if it counts down instead of up? Would you be able to stop it? Only one way to find out, starting with a big loud boom!"
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Billy finished reading and Lester got curious about it.
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"What does the note say?" Lester read the note himself. "What big loud boom?"
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Suddenly, a loud thunderstorm flashed before their eyes and all the lights went out.
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"Hey, what happened?!" Rupert exclaimed.
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"Everybody open your flashlights!" Lester shouted.
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Everyone pulls out their phones to open their lights, except for Rupert and Elliot cause they don't have phones.
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"Really? Just us?" Rupert groaned.
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"Hey, what happened to the lights?" Lester asked Cole.
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"There was a blackout."
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"Yyyeah, I knew that, but why did it happen?"
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"The storm."
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"I hate that you're very straightforward about this, I was literally trying to set up a spooky tension here!"
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Billy and Veronica were looking around the room separately to see if there was anything to see around the living room. He looked at Harold who was facing away, he slowly walk towards him and turn his wheelchair around only to see him as a skeleton.
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"Hey, was that-... *Gasp* Grandpi Harold's dead!!" Lester screamed.
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"What?!" Rupert asked frighteningly.
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"He's dead, look at him! He's literally a full-blown skeleton!"
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"Oh my mother of mama, he's dead!" Rupert jumped onto Elliot in fear.
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"Who would do this?" Lester asked.
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Veronica walked back to Billy's chair to grab the note that he left and give it to him again. Billy reads it again and now he realized what's going on.
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"Wait, the note! It had something to do with it, right?" Lester pointed out.
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"A note? What note?" Rupert asked.
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"It was randomly gifted to him, and it said something about a big loud boom and it might be referring to the storm, right?"
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"How did the person who made the note know when the thunderstorm is coming?" Elliot asked.
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"Huh, you're right. I mean how would he know that it will lead to a blackout?"
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Lester looked at Harold's body again and suddenly noticed something, the light switch button that Harold mentioned earlier is not on his hand.
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"Wait, his light switch button is gone!"
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Billy was confused by this because he never saw that moment.
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"The what now?" Rupert asked.
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"The button! He showed that to us earlier and he said if we needed it, it was with him. Which means there was no blackout and one of us stole it and turned off all the lights!"
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Everyone slowly nodded their head because it kind of makes sense.
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"Oh my goodness, do you know what this means?" Lester looked at Billy. "We're doing the classic murder mystery investigation! Oh, this is gonna be so much fun!"
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"Yeah, not as fun when you're the next target!" Rupert exclaimed, nervous.
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"Oh yeah, speaking of which, who's next?"
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Everyone in the room starts looking at each other.
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"Nobody looks at me, I hate that, stop looking at me." Rupert said.
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"Alright, let me look at the note again." Lester reads the note again. "...Counts instead of up. That's gotta mean something, right?"
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"Yeah, there's six of us now! You count from six to one, we're all done for!" Rupert exclaimed again.
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"Yeah, but... my question is why did the mysterious killer go after Harold first?"
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"Maybe because it's easy? He's an old decrepit man in a wheelchair!"
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"Hmm... counting down... Harold was got first... maybe what the killer means by counting down is they're gonna get us from oldest to youngest?"
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"I'm sorry what?"
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"Oldest to youngest! Harold was the first one to go because he's the oldest one in the group! So that means after that, the next one to go would beee..." Lester looked at Rupert and Elliot.
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"Woah woah hey, I'm not about getting killed off here! I'm not old, Elliot is!"
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"Me?? No! You're older!"
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"No, you're older! Look at that old man stache you have!"
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"My stache is nothing compared to your crusty unibrow! Oh, I'm so gonna trim it!"
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"You leave my unibrow out of this!"
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"Woah, hey, calm down you two." Lester interfered. "No one's gonna trim each other's facial hair. if anything, that's the killer's job 'cause I'm still locked in that you two are gonna be next."
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Billy and Veronica chuckled.
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"Oh no, I'm not gonna be next here." Rupert said. "I'll be staying with birthday boy over here so that I could use him as bait if the killer shows up."
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"Yeah, me too." Elliot joined along.
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Billy rolled his eyes at the two as they both clammed onto his legs and not letting go.
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"So what are we gonna do now, big genius?" Rupert asked.
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"Well, I guess I should let the birthday boy take the lead cause... I'm sure this is supposed to be his task."
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Billy thinks about it for a bit, but a reassuring shoulder pat from Veronica gave him a little encouragement so he takes the mantle now.
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"Great! What are we gonna do next?" Lester asked.
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Veronica grabbed Billy's two baseball bats as a weapon for the both of them and stand back to back.
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"Okay, it seems like we're gonna do the classic splitting up thing, I'll go with Veronica then." Lester walks up to her.
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"We're still staying here with him." Rupert said.
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"Yeah." Elliot added both are still clambering onto Billy's leg.
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"Look at us holding onto his legs, we're not old, we're still babies!"
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Veronica pulled her phone out to show Billy that they should call each other in case something happens, Billy agreed before both of them walk away separately.
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"Hey Cole, wanna come with us?" Lester asked.
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"Sure." He walks along with Veronica and Lester while Billy, Rupert, and Elliot go the opposite way.
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Veronica, Lester, and Cole ended up in a storage room, perhaps trying to look for something.
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"Okay, I'm assuming our next move is to find a second possible note, right?" Lester asked. "If my theory is correct that maybe one of us is the killer, that person must have some kind of lightning speed if he... OR she..." He looks at Veronica when he said that and got an eye roll from her. "...managed to put all the clues in different places in just a short amount of time. Or maybe this was all set up the entire time? The clues were all here and none of us know it! It's something I would've done, I could be a great killer! Just finding clues and..."
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Lester keeps going on and on while Veronica searches on her own, she discovered a random hallway in the storage room that leads somewhere else and she wanted to go herself. She looks back at the two guys she's with, one is still blabbering, and the other was just standing by the wall not doing anything.
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She's a little creeped out by the way Cole was looking at her while standing still. She figured she didn't need their permission and decided to check the hallway by herself, Cole is still looking at her suspiciously while Lester keeps talking while looking through some boxes, completely minding his own business.
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Meanwhile, Billy and his short stacks crew on his leg went upstairs and there were just as many hallways as downstairs.
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"We're still babies... why would you even say that?" Elliot asked, mocking what Rupert just said earlier.
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"Look, you're the one who started pointing at me for being older!"
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"Me? You started it!"
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"No, you started it!"
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"You started it, you're the one who pointed out about my mustache!"
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"Well, I'm sorry about pointing out a blatant fact that you're aging!"
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"You're the one with grey hair, you crooked uniwitch!"
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"Don't you dare talk to someone younger than you!"
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"That's it!"
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Both let go of Billy who has been rolling his eyes at them and start fighting each other, this goes on for a long while until they realized they lost track of Billy and they had no idea where he go.
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"Uh oh, where'd he go?" Rupert asked.
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"I don't know."
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"Um... HEY, BIRTHDAY BOY!!"
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"He apparently left us."
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"How could he do that? Why would he leave us here? Wait, what if he's the killer??"
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"How would you know that?"
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"Or maybe there's no killer this whole time, it was all a sham! I mean, we never saw what he looks like, right?"
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"Huh, good point."
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"Maybe everyone was just saying there is so they could freak us out."
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"That makes sense."
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"So that means we shouldn't be worrying about a thing, right?"
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"Right."
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Rupert immediately runs.
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"I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE QUICK!!"
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"HEY, DON'T LEAVE ME BEHIND!!"
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"YEAH, ONLY OLD MEN THINK SLOWLY!!"
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When they take a right, they ran into a dark brown robe that blocks their way. When they look up, a brown figure with a white Halloween mask was standing in front of them and raising his knife up in the air.
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The two screamed at the top of their lungs and ran back to where they were while the anonymous killer chases after them. They're both going places until they found one room that is unlocked and decided to hide there in the pitch darkness.
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"Where are we?" Elliot whispered.
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"I don't know."
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"I can't see anything."
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"Neither do I."
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"What are we gonna do now?"
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"Well, we can't really do anything right now, it's very dark."
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"What if we just attack the killer when he enters ."
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"What?"
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"C'mon, we don't have any other choice."
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They suddenly heard a noise coming through the door, someone was trying to open it.
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"Well, it's now or never."
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"Fine."
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"Okay, on three... one, two..."
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The door slowly opens.
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"THREE!"
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The two charged at... nobody, they instead ran into the wall. Billy was the one who opened the door and the others are already with him, the two got up all confused.
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"What? Where is he?" Rupert asked.
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"Where's who? The killer? You've seen him?" Lester asked excitedly.
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"He was chasing us the whole time! That wouldn't have happened if Mr. Birthday Boy here didn't leave us behind!"
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Billy crossed his arms.
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"Did you really see the killer?"
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"Yes! He has a dark brown robe and a Halloween mask!"
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"Maybe you just saw a robe." Cole added.
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"No, we did not! We saw it with our own eyes!"
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"Well, this could go on for a while but we need to move now." Lester said. "We found a hallway and we need you guys to check it out."
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All of them went back to the storage room and go into this said hallway to see if they could find anything. There was one door with a note attached to it, Billy take a look at it and see what it says.
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"You found the second note, good for you! The numbers are still ticking down though, wanna play a new game? It's a treasure hunt of some sort, the game will only start if you open this door to see what you can get."
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Billy followed and opened the door. It's just a bunch of cleaning materials and a singular window but he immediately spots a very shiny key hanging from the wall, and also another note attached to it.
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"This key is the only key that could save you some trouble, it can also be a hint to who I am as well. I'll never tell you where or what the gold is but I can assure you it's already right in front of you. If you find it, one of you will be spared."
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"It's already right in front of us?" Lester asked, reading along with Billy. "This went from a murder mystery to a random treasure hunt suddenly. What do we need the gold for and what do they mean by 'right in front of us'?"
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Billy looked at the window in front of him and thought maybe this gold the note was referring to could be outside this huge backyard, and there was a random trunk in the middle of the lawn so that really gives it away.
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"Woah, that's the hidden gold we need?" Lester asked.
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Billy nodded, he took the note with him and heads off the room, with Veronica, Rupert, and Elliot coming along.
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"We're still following along!" Rupert said. "As stupid as this is, you're still our bait so we can't lose you!"
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They ended up in this small kitchen with a rectangular window that shows the whole backyard, on its right side was the door they could head out.
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Veronica stayed inside to see a bird's eye view with her baseball bat still in her hand while Billy, Rupert, and Elliot are the ones to check the trunk. The whole place seems empty and quiet so far.
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"Okay, so does anyone still not buy that we saw the killer with our own eyes?" Rupert complained. "He was very tall and wielded a knife, he even raised it up in the air right in front of us!"
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Billy is annoyed but chose to ignore him.
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Meanwhile, Lester and Cole stayed at a dinner table, just across from the living room.
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"So, first time on a murder hunt?" Lester tries to start a conversation.
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"Yes." Cole responded.
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"Really? Considering you're a cop and everything? I expect you to have at least experienced something like this, right?"
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"I'm just a guard, we rarely do anything."
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"Okayyy...
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Well, nice talking to you I suppose. Sooo... Imma head out just to see what the guys are doing, I'll be back in a minute."
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Lester walks out, leaving Cole by himself for a while.
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Back to the three, Rupert is still rambling about the killer while Billy gets increasingly confused by the lack of a keyhole around the trunk. He's been spinning it around the entire time but he found nothing.
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"Why's the trunk still not open? What's taking you so long?"
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"There's no keyhole." Elliot answered.
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"What keyhole? Do you need a key for that if the trunk doesn't have a keyhole, to begin with?"
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Billy decided to give it a try by simply opening the trunk himself. Veronica was still watching through the window in case the killer comes out while Billy was surprised that the trunk just opened without the need for the key, but the only thing inside there was yet another note.
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"Trap!"
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Billy is confused again, he looked at the note from earlier to see what he got wrong.
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"I'm telling you, it's not some random figure we saw!" Rupert continued to ramble. "What kind of figure has the ability to move around and chase us from place to place? If it was, it could've just been standing theeeeerrree..."
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Rupert lost his train of thought when he turned around and saw something horrifying. He dragged Elliot to his side so he could see, and then did it again to Billy.
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"THERE HE IS!!"
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Billy's eyes widened as he saw the killer Rupert has been talking about right behind Veronica. She noticed them staring so she quickly turns around to see the killer right in front of her.
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Before anything happened, the lights went out again. Billy rushed to the door but it was locked, but Rupert and Elliot are not gonna let him do that.
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"Are you crazy?? You're just gonna let the killer run after us?! No, thank you!"
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Billy stopped opening the door but instead, decided to run around the mansion to get to the front door. While he does, he calls Veronica on the phone to see if she can answer but she didn't.
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However, when the three arrived at the front, Veronica bursts out of the door with a ringing phone and a broken bat. She really put that bat to good use which led to her escaping. She points at the kitchen for Billy to catch to killer himself while Rupert and Elliot decided to stay.
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"Okay, you know what? We're not gonna follow you anymore! Because before we even know it, you'll be the cause of our death! You know we're too young to die!!"
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Veronica crossed her arms at them.
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"What are you looking at? You got lucky!"
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She walks away to the dinner table, leaving the two behind on their own.
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Billy makes his way to the kitchen until he suddenly bumps into Lester who has been looking for them.
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"Hey, what's going on? Did you see the killer?"
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Billy nodded.
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"Awesome! Where was he?"
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Billy pointed at the kitchen but it was now empty.
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"So, did you find this 'gold' the note was talking about?"
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Billy shakes his head.
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"Then where could that be? You have the key, right? Did it do anything?"
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Billy still has no idea what the key is for, Lester grabbed it and sees what it does. He tried to use it to the door that Billy and the two rascals were locked in and it actually fits.
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"Woah, Billy! Look, the key fits into the door perfectly!"
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Billy was surprised, he could've used that to enter the kitchen much earlier. He looked at the note again and realized that they were referring to Veronica as the gold, which makes sense considering that the note says something about the gold being right in front of him.
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"Hey, man. I gotta go, there are so many places to check out. This is a big mansion and there are so many things you could find! But if you need me, just call!"
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Lester left but Billy stayed in the kitchen for a while.
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As for Rupert and Elliot, they stayed in the living room, if it means keeping themselves safe.
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"Alright, we're both just gonna stay here and not go anywhere!" Rupert said.
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"Just here? In this big living room?"
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"Yes! And it's even better that it's big! Because we could just stand by the window, far away from the shenanigans that are occurring, and when the killer comes in, we'll know immediately because it's far away and we have time to escape!"
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"Or we could just leave now?"
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"Nope! The rain is already coming and I'm not about slipping on their tiles every five seconds and also it'll ruin my suit. Besides, we have all the gifts to ourselves!"
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"Except, it's not ours."
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"Doesn't matter! The point is we have a lot of things here in case we're bored, now ain't that gonna be fun?"
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Back to Billy, he went out again to see the trunk, maybe he might get something useful out of that, but it was just an empty note that only says 'trap'. However, what he did not notice was a shiny silver mirror taped under the handle of the trunk and now he can see his own reflection. Then a small beam of light shines through the mirror, it's coming from the wall where Veronica was nearly caught by the killer, it's another silver mirror taped onto it. And then more beams of light came in from place to place thanks to all the mirrors hiding in plain sight from the entire lawn.
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The light leads Billy to this shed which he assumed he needed to enter for a possible new note to find, he goes in and immediately finds a note on the table so he immediately grabs it.
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In the living room, Rupert is still talking about what he and Elliot could do in their free time whilst circling around.
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"Don't you see? Nice gifts, nice drinks, nice comfy chairs, we have all these things to relax while everyone deals with the trouble themselves. I'm sure they can handle it, it's not our problem anyway..."
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Elliot was just staying in his place nearby the front door listening to everything, completely oblivious about the person's hand slowly going towards him.
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"AHH!! NO! NO, DON'T GET ME!! HEEELP!!"
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Rupert turns around and saw Elliot screaming and being dragged away by the killer.
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"NO! ELLI, I'M COMING! DON'T WORRY, I'LL GET YOU!!"
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He didn't get him, he was dragged into the basement and the door was shut. Billy heard the commotion and immediately runs back inside to see what was going on, not knowing it was too late.
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"Hey, where have you been all night?!" Rupert shouted. "The killer just got Elliot! I ran up to him but I didn't catch him, now he's in the basement! Probably chewing his own guts by now!"
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Billy shows him the next note.
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"Oh great, a new one. This is just not gonna end, is it?"
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Cut back to the living room, Billy gives Cole the note and lets him read it for everyone to hear.
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"Clock is still ticking down, but I'll you all more time to figure out who I am. Everything that happened before did not just happen at random, everything you've seen or touched are all hints. Your next task is to go back into those things you all have seen before and think long and hard about who's behind the mask. If not, then more of you are gonna be dragged in with me just like the others, wish you all good luck."
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"So this is it?" Rupert asked. "This is the part where we're all gonna be finished?"
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"It seems so, what happened to your little friend?" Cole asked.
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"The killer got him! He got him before I do! He's the first one to go, I told you I was younger than him!"
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Billy and Veronica rolled their eyes.
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"By the way, where were you when that happened?" Rupert asked.
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"I left to go get a slice of cake."
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"Then what is that red stain on your suit?"
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"It was a strawberry cake."
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"Are you sure it's not someone's BLOOD??"
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"I'm very certain about it, yes."
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"Oh yeah? can you prove it, big guy?"
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Cole leaned closer to him intimidatingly.
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"I could. Let's see where your blood is gonna splatter."
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Now Rupert is getting nervous.
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"UuUmM... okay, we're done here now, buh-bye!" Rupert quickly hides behind Billy.
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"By the way, where did the other guy go?" Cole asked.
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The three suddenly realized that Lester was not there with them, they look around and there was no sign of him.
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"Oh yeah, where is that guy who talks a lot?"
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"I thought he was with all of you?"
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"Well, he's not! He was never with us the entire time!"
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"He used to be active in all of these, didn't he?"
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"Wasn't he the one who started all the oldest to youngest thing? The killer came after us the whole time!"
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"He even jokes about being a great killer in this scenario."
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"And he led us to the storage room which is where this whole trunk shenanigans happen, but it was all a trap!"
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They all suddenly heard footsteps from the dinner table. Billy immediately arms himself with his own bat, Veronica wanted to come along but Billy insisted to stay in the living room to be safe, but not Rupert though.
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"Oh no, staying here used to be my idea but it cost me an old man so I'm staying with you again!"
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Both Billy and Rupert walk away, leaving Veronica with Cole, once again standing still in his place. She's already feeling uncomfortable but Cole tries his best to make her trust him.
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"It's just strawberry."
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Yeah, Veronica ain't having it so she decided to follow Billy instead. Cole watches her go trying to search for Lester with the other two. With him alone, he walks away in a different direction.
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Veronica checked the dinner table to look for Billy and Rupert but they were actually not there. She searches elsewhere just in case, not knowing that the two just walked in from another door just mere seconds before she left.
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Billy and Rupert looked around the room, they circle around a bit and even checked under the table to see if Lester was hiding under there, but he was nowhere to be found. But they did find a random door that leads to somewhere, they both walk towards it very slowly and then opens it quickly and it was just the pantry room.
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A big pantry actually, they could walk around like it was just another room to explore into. There were so many tall cabinets that maybe Lester could be hiding in one of them so they figured that they should check them out one by one.
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But before they could do that, Lester actually comes back coming from the dinner table and seeing the pantry room randomly opened.
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"Hey, where have you guys been?" Lester asked.
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"I don't know, we could ask you the same question here!"
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"I was upstairs checking some things out!"
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"You expect us to believe that? Murderer!!"
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"No really! I stayed up there the whole time, I even saw these beaming lights through the window! Did anyone see that?"
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Billy nodded.
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"Maybe we could take that as a clue of some sort? To guess who the killer is? I swear it's not me! You guys trust me, right?"
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Billy and Rupert took a step back just in case.
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"C'mon, you trust me! I'm completely innocent!"
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The two's eyes suddenly widened at what they were seeing right now.
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"W-what?" Lester asked.
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Billy pointed behind him, Lester turned around and saw the killer behind him, and then the lights went out again.
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"OH C'MON, NOT AGAIN!!" Rupert screamed in the darkness.
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When the lights opened again, Lester was nowhere to be found, but another note was found on the floor.
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"Another body down, but you still have time to find me and call me out. So go take your time all you want. But just to warn you all, I won't go easy this time."
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After reading it, Billy heard a random noise from the front door hallway. He walked towards the stairs and Rupert just climb onto his back in case he gets in trouble.
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"Okay, in case you've forgotten, you're still my killer bait so I'll be here on your shoulder."
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Billy slowly walks up the stairs, assuming the noise came from up there, not knowing the killer is already sneaking up on him from behind as they go up. The two are completely unaware as they kept going until they're finally upstairs.
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"So, about this whole clues thing... what does that sweater guy mean by taking clues from just a beaming light again?"
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Billy thought about it. Obviously, Lester was referring to the mirrors from the backyard. But he was sure that there were more clues around the place as mentioned in the previous notes that everything was a hint, so he looked back at the beginning of their investigation to see if he missed something.
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He got the first note coming from a very well-designed envelope, then he got the key that leads to the door that locked them out, And then the mirrors around the background that are all very shiny and fancy. So far, Billy's main takeaway was that they're all shiny, maybe he'll get somewhere from this.
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"I've never even seen the beaming lights, where exactly is that? Do we need to go to a certain place to see that orrr..."
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Rupert turned his head around and gasped when he saw the killer raising his knife up. Rupert's screaming caught Billy's attention and turns around and quickly dodged the killer's knife, but he fell on his back in the process and dropped his baseball bat.
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Rupert fell straight to the floor just right in front of the killer, he looks up to see him picking him up using the collar of his tiny suit.
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"Oh no no no! Please don't kill me! Please put me down! You're not gonna hurt a poor old man are you?!"
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Rupert's pleading gave Billy some time to get back up and tackle the killer and they all tumble down the stairs until they reached the first floor. Both Billy and Rupert hit their head on the front door while the killer was about to get up and then grabbed the knife on the floor.
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Billy was still down but he saw his phone that fell out of his pocket right beside him now. Rupert is in a very vulnerable position as he's laying his back on the door upside down and can't move a lot.
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"Welp, that's it. We're dead, we're stuck here. It's the end of the line, we're finished."
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The killer raised his knife, but before he could kill them, he heard something ringing that caught him off guard. Billy apparently called him through the phone as a distraction and then trips him over with his leg until he was down and dropped his knife.
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Billy gets back up while Rupert managed to himself, surprised that Billy got him.
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"Woah, you got him?"
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The killer gets back up again but Billy isn't afraid because he had already guessed who it is. The killer takes off the mask to reveal that it was non-other than Veronica herself.
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Rupert gasped.
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"I knew it was you! I had an inkling feeling that it might be you and I was right! I knew girls like you are rotten!!"
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Veronica rolled her eyes. She pulled out her phone, congratulating Billy for doing quite a clever move on calling her considering that's what they were doing when one of them is in trouble.
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"So what now? You're just gonna stand there and not tell us where the bodies are? I want to know what happened to Elliot!"
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She rolled her eyes again, she walked up to the door where Elliot was dragged in and unlocked to reveal Harold, Lester, and Elliot just chilling in there the whole time.
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"Oh, it's over already? That was fast." Lester commented.
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They all come out of the basement, including Elliot who has a lollipop with him.
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"Oh, thank goodness you're okay tha-... where'd you get that?" Rupert asked.
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"Harold gave me the lollipop, if it means it will shut me up and not ruin the game he'll give it to me, so I take it."
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"Uhh sure. So what and how exactly this all happened again?" Rupert asked everyone.
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"Oh, I'm actually the only one who knew about the murder mystery." Harold answered. "It's a classic game so I went with it, I even gave you all lots of hints for everything before my tragic death."
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"How exactly did you pull off your death?" Lester asked.
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"Oh, it was easy. After I gave the birthday boy the baseball bats, Veronica helped me stroll away while you were all busy doing something else."
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"Oooh, so you're the one who gave Veronica the light switch?"
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"Yes, I did. After that, We went straight to this basement where I would hide and then replace me with a skeleton. This clever young lady waited for the perfect time to shut all the lights when the storm came in before placing my dead body into position where everybody could see."
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"Cool!"
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"But wait, if she's the killer, who was the one behind her in the kitchen?" Rupert asked.
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"Well, it was very simple. The plan was for one of you are supposed to be going outside while Veronica stays inside to see the action. While you're all busy, she locks the door herself and used the coat hanger to disguise itself as the killer. And once you all see, she would just play along and pretend there was a killer behind her and then shuts the light off where no one can suspect anything."
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"Aw man, I wish I couldn've witnessed that moment." Lester said.
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"It was quite brilliant! This young lady was the one who orchestrated all of this and I was just playing along! Everything about this is genius!"
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"Seems like my theory of oldest to youngest is completely useless, considering I get to go before this little guy does."
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"Yeah, but I'll give you points for that, my boy. That does seem like a good guess, we have a monitor in our basement where we could see all of you."
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"True."
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Now that Billy knows it was Veronica who did all this for his birthday, he appreciated all of it. Both he and Veronica shook hands for a job well-done, Billy practically won cause he guessed it was her.
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Then Cole randomly popped up with a fork and cake on his plate, everyone saw him standing in the distance.
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"Want some strawberry birthday cake?" Cole asked.
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Everyone was just looking in silence.
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"Is it just me, or did I literally forget that he was here?" Rupert asked.
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The end.