Due to the ability of Rookie, the beneficent leader of BraindDen, to resurrect his citizens, many of those who had lost their lives in a rash of murders (a large number committed by the psychotic ThunderChicken) were breathing the fresh air of the last days of summer once again. With Labor Day weekend in the US fast approaching, some BrainDenizen friends decided to have one last vacation together to celebrate the Federal holiday.
While it was not directly related to Labor Day, the friends (PuzzleGirl, Frost, Yoruichi-san, Kat, Unreality, Dawh and ThunderChicken (recently released on probation yet again)) decided to visit a rebuilt Colonial Era frontier town made into a modern-day tourist attraction. ThunderChicken was tagging along largely because although everyone feared for their lives in his presence the friends found the thought of not knowing his whereabouts even more frightening.
They arrived at the rustic hotel late on Friday evening and went straight up to their rooms and stayed put till morning (not counting the rousing game of BANG! that extended into the wee hours of course! ;D) The next day was kicked off with a guided tour of the town which most of the party would have gladly skipped, but felt obliged to go since the tickets came free with their package deal and there was a promise of a free lunch at the end of the tour.
They started with a tour of the army barracks and the armory, which Frost had hoped would be interesting, but as was the gift of all guided tours, their guide could make even the most exciting battle sound excruciatingly dull. Trudging through the General Store and the Town Hall with the incessant drone of the guide beginning to put him to sleep, Frost was about to declare that no free lunch was worth the effort he was using to put one foot in front of the other. As he reached to tap Y-san on the shoulder, the party rounded the corner and entered the Town Square.
Immediately in front of them swayed the hangman's noose hanging from the gallows. The guide stopped next a man clamped in the stocks at the foot of the gallows and began to talk about public executions. Frost decided to stay and see if the guide could make even public executions sound humdrum.
"...so small crimes such as pickpocketing and petty theft would put the culprit in the stocks for a few days to be publically ridiculed and serve as a reminder not to steal again, while more serious crimes would result in a personal relationship with the hangman. For repeat offenders and murderers, the hangman's noose waited. However, those committing high treason received special treatment. First, they would be dragged into the square attached to a wooden hurdle, then the condemned would be hanged, drawn and quartered, and then they would have their entrails cut out and burned in front of them--"
At this point the guide was interrupted by a scream from his audience. A woman was pointing at the man in the stocks. "He-he's dead!" she managed to squeak before fainting. It was quickly established that the man was in fact no more and but for the stocks holding him in place, he'd have been pushing up the daisies. He had rope burns on his neck and it was little question that the hangman's noose had been the murder weapon. As for the murderer, the police rounded everyone up in the town square for questioning. Kat looked at TC suspiciously.
"Don't look at me!" TC replied in answer to her accusatory stare, "I've been with you guys the whole time!"
Frost, all thoughts of slumber banished from his mind, looked around the square and thinking back over the events of the day. He turned the officer in charge and said, "I know who killed the man!"
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Due to the ability of Rookie, the beneficent leader of BraindDen, to resurrect his citizens, many of those who had lost their lives in a rash of murders (a large number committed by the psychotic ThunderChicken) were breathing the fresh air of the last days of summer once again. With Labor Day weekend in the US fast approaching, some BrainDenizen friends decided to have one last vacation together to celebrate the Federal holiday.
While it was not directly related to Labor Day, the friends (PuzzleGirl, Frost, Yoruichi-san, Kat, Unreality, Dawh and ThunderChicken (recently released on probation yet again)) decided to visit a rebuilt Colonial Era frontier town made into a modern-day tourist attraction. ThunderChicken was tagging along largely because although everyone feared for their lives in his presence the friends found the thought of not knowing his whereabouts even more frightening.
They arrived at the rustic hotel late on Friday evening and went straight up to their rooms and stayed put till morning (not counting the rousing game of BANG! that extended into the wee hours of course! ;D) The next day was kicked off with a guided tour of the town which most of the party would have gladly skipped, but felt obliged to go since the tickets came free with their package deal and there was a promise of a free lunch at the end of the tour.
They started with a tour of the army barracks and the armory, which Frost had hoped would be interesting, but as was the gift of all guided tours, their guide could make even the most exciting battle sound excruciatingly dull. Trudging through the General Store and the Town Hall with the incessant drone of the guide beginning to put him to sleep, Frost was about to declare that no free lunch was worth the effort he was using to put one foot in front of the other. As he reached to tap Y-san on the shoulder, the party rounded the corner and entered the Town Square.
Immediately in front of them swayed the hangman's noose hanging from the gallows. The guide stopped next a man clamped in the stocks at the foot of the gallows and began to talk about public executions. Frost decided to stay and see if the guide could make even public executions sound humdrum.
"...so small crimes such as pickpocketing and petty theft would put the culprit in the stocks for a few days to be publically ridiculed and serve as a reminder not to steal again, while more serious crimes would result in a personal relationship with the hangman. For repeat offenders and murderers, the hangman's noose waited. However, those committing high treason received special treatment. First, they would be dragged into the square attached to a wooden hurdle, then the condemned would be hanged, drawn and quartered, and then they would have their entrails cut out and burned in front of them--"
At this point the guide was interrupted by a scream from his audience. A woman was pointing at the man in the stocks. "He-he's dead!" she managed to squeak before fainting. It was quickly established that the man was in fact no more and but for the stocks holding him in place, he'd have been pushing up the daisies. He had rope burns on his neck and it was little question that the hangman's noose had been the murder weapon. As for the murderer, the police rounded everyone up in the town square for questioning. Kat looked at TC suspiciously.
"Don't look at me!" TC replied in answer to her accusatory stare, "I've been with you guys the whole time!"
Frost, all thoughts of slumber banished from his mind, looked around the square and thinking back over the events of the day. He turned the officer in charge and said, "I know who killed the man!"
Who was the culprit and how did Frost know?
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