Whodunnit?: The Final Game

Chapter Two: Launch Party

Once Giles was able to calm everyone down enough to explain what was going on, all hell broke loose again. Obviously, being told that they were fighting for their lives didn't go over too well with the remaining 13 guests, but then again, who would it go over well with?

"Are you fucking crazy?!" Alex screamed, face red in anger and frustration.

"You can't just keep us here, that's against the law!" Maddie said, glaring daggers at Giles.

"You're free to leave the estate if you'd like, you just won't be leaving it alive." Giles said before explaining the security system that the killer had set up. There was no escape for the guests, the only way out was death or winning.

"That's bullshit!" Wendell said, starting to run towards the gates before being stopped by his older brother, Roark.

"Bro, I don't think that's a good idea." Roark said, trying to calm his brother down.

"Daddy, I'm scared..." Holly said, clinging to her father's side, extremely unnerved by the entire situation that was unfolding around her. All of the guests were displaying some sign of panic, whether it be through anger or fear.

"It's going to be fine, I think." Wyatt said to his daughter in an attempt to calm her down.

"Hey, Giles!" Blake said, getting ahold of the butlers attention.

"Yes, Mr. Clarke?" Giles asked.

"You said something about an investigation right? That we'd have the choice between three areas to investigate in order to solve this 'murder'." Blake said, not quite believing that all of this was real. He thought that all of this was part of the movie, the denial had set in and he wasn't accepting that Delilah was actually dead.

"Everyone, I need your attention!" Giles yelled, getting everyone's attention after a sharp whistle. "As Mr. Clarke reminded me, there is an investigation to start."

"If you'd like to investigate the crime scene, which in this case is the second floor hallway, please gather around Maylene." Giles said as two maids walked out onto the lawn.

"Where did they come from?" Trinity asked, confused by their entrance, the other guests staring as well, also puzzled by the maids sudden appearance.

Reluctantly, Trinity, Roark, Beth, Max and Holly all walked over to Maylene, the maid on the right of Giles.

Wyatt wanted to go with Holly to watch out for her, but they had agreed that they needed more information so both of them going to the same area wouldn't serve them any good. The two brothers also came to the same deduction, which is why Wendell wasn't going to the crime scene with Roark.

"If you'd like to investigate the last know whereabouts, or in this case is Delilah's bedroom, please join Candace." Giles said.

Wendell, Lilly, Blake, Camila and Benjamin joined Candace, choosing to investigate the area they figured would be the least horrible, not wanting to see too much gore or blood.

"That means that Alex, Maddison and Wyatt would all like to go to the morgue with me." Giles said, before gesturing at Candace and Maylene. The two maids led their groups to their scenes while he took the three in his charge to the morgue.

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The Crime Scene: The five guests were pleasantly surprised at first glance of the crime scene. Contrary to their expectations, the hallways wasn't flooded with blood, there wasn't body parts all over the walls and most importantly, the hallways wasn't on fire like the deceased Delilah.

"Well, that's a huge relief." Holly sighed, vocalizing everyone's thoughts for them.

Everybody was unsure of what to do, none of them have ever investigated a murder before, with them all being regular citizens.

Not one to fool around, Beth decided to just wing it. There had to be some sort of clue here, there's no way the killer would just have a useless area of investigation, right?

While Beth walked up and down the halls looking for some sort of clue, Max and Holly went off to the side, opting to talk about the situation instead of investigating.

"Can you believe this is actually happening?" Holly asked, exasperated.

"I know right? It's unbelievable..." Max said, running his hands through his hair.

Trinity shot the two young guests a look, shocked that they were chatting at a time like this. The librarian scoffed and started to investigate on her own. Roark and Beth were doing their own thing, so she decided to do her own thing as well.

Trinity was the first to find a clue, after quite literally staring at it for a minute, not sure what she was looking at.

"Oh, why does Delilah's room have a nameplate on it but none of the other rooms do? Giles told us to pick a room, he never said we had rooms assigned to us..." Trinity mumbled to herself.

"I thought that was weird, too." Roark said from behind her, startling the young woman.

"Oh, I didn't see you there." Trinity said, catching her breath after being startled.

"I didn't mean to scare you, I apologize." Roark said, genuinely feeling bad for startling the girl.

"It's fine, no worries." Trinity said, not wanting to get distracted by the muscular man.

Meanwhile, Holly and Max decided to start investigating together and both decided to start at the broken window that Delilah took a fall from.

"Look at all of this glass..." Holly said, being careful not to step in any of the shards.

"Yeah, it's a lot." Max said. "She did fall out of a window, though. It's expected that there be some shards."

"Oh shit, what's this?" Holly asked, seeing an odd groove in the floor in front of the window.

"Hold on, don't touch that!" Max said, realizing what it was. He grabbed Holly before she could step on it.

"Huh, what was that for?" Holly asked, shooting Max a dirty look.

"Hold on, Holly." Max said, looking around before seeing something he could use. Walking over to a potted plant, he picked it up and set it on top of the floor in front of the broken window.

WHOOSH! Once the plant was put on the ground, the tile catapulted it out of the window, crashing as it hit the lawn below them.

"Oh, fuck!" Max said, shocked.

"So that's how Delilah crashed out of the window." Beth said, having walked over to the two after hearing all of the commotion. Shortly after that, Roark and Trinity made there way over to the young pair, having also heard the swearing and noise.

"That's wicked cruel.." Roark shook his head. "This Killer is seriously fucked up. Who lights an old woman on fire and then launches her out of a window onto the ground beneath?"

"Someone seriously deranged, that's who." Trinity said, scowling. "I'm going to unmask this bitch, they will pay for this. I'll make sure of it."

Before anyone else could add onto that statement, the estate bell rang signifying that their investigation time was over.

AN: I'll splitting the chapters up into investigation areas, either one or two per chapter, then it will be sharing, riddle and then state your case with the death being at the end of the chapter. Each 'episode' will probably be split into like 4/5 chapters each.