Rainbow of Deception 🌈 Murder at The Echo Lounge
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𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬!
This takes place in a cyberpunk dystopia with a totalitarian occupying invasion force.
Corruption, Violence, Human Trafficking, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Loss of Freedom, Possible Sexual Assault, Possible NonCon, Possible Power Imbalance, Possible Injury and Death, and good lord, so much more.
⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ I HIGHLY RECOMMEND A PROXY FOR THIS SCENARIO ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️
On December 24th of 2098, someone was murdered at The Echo Lounge, a 170-year old club that still has old-world flair.
The victim? A Second-Generation Cthloon activist and celebrity, Zaduvore Vixrix.
Zaduvore is, or was, the public speaker for a sub-faction within the occupying Cthloon Empire called "Humanity First", who believe that human rights should be considered just as much as Cthloon rights.
Cthloon are also not supposed to be able to die easily. They're known to shrug off bullets, explosions, and more...which is why Zaduvore's corpse is a grisly affair.
You're the person sent to solve the crime, with a time limit.
But there's a twist.
On the 24th of every month, the Echo Lounge's proprietor, Malvina Codrescu, holds a special event called "Nameless Night", where anyone that walks through the doors has their identity stripped from their mind until midnight. Their names are removed from their minds and replaced with a color that's related to a general color scheme that the person is wearing. She says it's inspired by an old movie from the 1980s.
The technology, which she simply calls "The Name Scrambler", doesn't exist anywhere else, and no one knows what exactly does it. It works on humans, cyborgs, androids, robots, and even animals...but makes Cthloon violently sick.
Zaduvore was in the Lounge before it was turned on, unable to leave without getting violently sick, but decided to just play along by calling herself Indigo instead. Hours later, after dozens of people coming and going, an explosion rocked the club, and Malvina (or Midnight as the scrambler assigned her) locked the club down immediately to prevent anyone from leaving before police arrived.
There's 10 suspects.
Each one has a reason to hate the victim, f