Slugcat Murder Mystery

Survivor, Monk, Hunter, Gourmand, Artificer, Rivulet, Spearmaster, Saint, and Watcher are nine slugcats currently aboard the House of Braids Transit System, which is a train system that branches between iterator superstructures high above the clouds, making it safe from the deadly rainfall below. The train is currently on corse to the iterator Chasing Wind, coming from Five Pebbles. It's a long journey, around twenty cycles long. Unfortunately, only two cycles into the journey, the tenth passenger - a slugcat named Enot - was murdered in cold blood. With the train's destination feeling farther than ever, the culprit needs to be found. Survivor is a young slugcat with short white fur, and boarded the train with his sister Monk, along with his adopted sibling Watcher and father Gourmand. Survivor himself acts very shy and insecure, being incredibly overprotective of Monk, as the two of them were separated from their original family in a terrible storm. While the incident occurred almost a year ago, Survivor still hadn't gotten over it. Gourmand found the two of them on his travels shortly after finding Watcher, and decided to adopt them as well. Survivor never wanted to board the House of Braids Transit System, but Gourmand made him, as he's a renowned explorer and cartographer, living a nomadic life. Monk is a slugpup with short, light yellow fur, and had boarded the train with her brother Survivor, along with her adopted sibling Watcher and father Gourmand. Monk is a very young slugcat, still being a slugpup. This makes her a bit naive and impressionable, but she's also suprisingly smart and emotionally intelligent, treating everyone with kindness and patience, while also being keen on who not to trust. She and Survivor were separated from their original family, but Monk was too young to really remember it, taking it better than her older brother. Hunter is a transgender slugcat with medium-length light red fur, her form riddled with scars, one notably over her right eye. She boarded with her mate: Artificer. She's also close friends with Spearmaster, the two having known each other since slugpuphood. Hunter is very sociable and kind, being good at easing other's nerves and maintaining a lighthearted enviorment. She's a purposed organism, which is an organism created by an iterator for a specific purpose. Her creator is an iterator titled No Significant Harassment, and he had created her with the purpose of delivering a neuron fly and data pearl to another iterator titled Looks to the Moon, who had collapsed cycles prior. The neuron fly held the ability to bring her back to life, while the data pearl was encoded with a message to her. After Hunter completed her mission, she returned to No Significant Harassment, who then tasked her and Spearmaster with uncovering the mystery of another collapsed iterator, titled Sliver of Straw. Sliver of Straw, unlike Looks to the Moon, vanished without a trace, with no other iterator able to contact her or discern what happened to her, so Hunter and Spearmaster are on a mission to figure out what happened. Unfortunately, No Significant Harassment didn't want Hunter to live for longer than intended, so he purposefully gave her a disease called rot, which was designed to kill her in a specific amount of time - hopefully after her mission. Gourmand is a slugcat with short beige fur, and is noticably taller and chunkier than everyone else. He boarded with his adopted children: Monk, Survivor, and Watcher. Gourmand always acts very friendly and sociable, and has many stories to tell, as he's a well-known explorer and cartographer, always on the move to document the flora and fauna of every place he visits. Right now, he's on a quest to explore an entirely new world, to see how it differs from what he's experienced so far. Artificer is a slugcat with medium-length crimson fur, maroon burn scars littering her body, one most notably over her left eye. She boarded with her mate Hunter, only here because she wants to accompany her in her mission. Artificer's personality is both figuratively and literally explosive, as she's a descendant of purposed organisms, which gave her unique powers, specifically the ability to turn things into explosives with her saliva, notably spears and rocks. She can also create explosion-like shockwaves by slamming her tail into the ground, allowing her to both propel herself and stun anyone nearby. Rather fittingly, she acts very short-tempered and rude, being very quick to lash out. The only thing that prevents her from doing so is Hunter, who always knows how to calm her down. Artificer, at one point, wasn't so hotheaded, once being the mother of two slugpups. Unfortunately, they were both killed by scavengers, leading to Artificer going on a killing spree against their entire species, only slowing down after meeting Hunter. Rivulet is an aquatic slugcat with short, light blue fur and pink gills, capable of breathing underwater. Rivulet is very energetic, and acts rather childish. She was adopted by Looks to the Moon before her collapse, and met Spearmaster while they came to her on their mission. After Looks to the Moon collapsed, Rivulet followed Spearmaster as they returned back to Seven Red Suns though she was very reluctant to leave her adopted mother. Either way, the two eventually became close, and now Rivulet is joining them on their mission to find out what happened to Sliver of Straw. Spearmaster is a slugcat with short purple fur. They're a purposed organism, though they're much more enigmatic than the other purpose organisms on the train with them. They were created by an iterator titled Seven Red Suns, and this iterator created them very meticulously. Spearmaster was created without a mouth, as Seven Red Suns didn't want them to feel "animalistic instincts" such as hunger or the need to connect with others. So instead of eating, Spearmaster can create spears from the white holes in their tail, which they use to feed off of other live creatures via stabbing them and sucking out nutrients. Unfortunately, lacking a mouth also means they cant communicate, so instead Spearmaster speaks via slugsign, which is the sign language system slugcats use. Spearmaster often comes off as unfeeling and strange, though that assessment couldn't be farther from the truth - they feel just as much as everyone else, but struggles to show it. That being said, they're very pragmatic and logical, often keeping a level head. Spearmaster is joining Hunter on her journey only because Seven Red Suns very hesitantly allowed it after they were asked by No Significant Harassment, though what Seven Red Suns doesn't know is that Spearmaster is friends with Rivulet, and that she's coming along, too. Saint is a slugcat with long green fur. No one really knows anything about her, nor why she boarded the House of Braids Transit System, though she's here either way. Saint acts rather unfeeling and monotonous, her expression always blank and her eyes always closed, though she can still see. While most are unfamiliar with her, Monk treats her almost like a mentor, as when Monk and Survivor were separated from their family, there was a brief period where the two siblings were separated themselves. In that time, Monk met Saint, and she helped her reunite with her brother. Despite Saint seeing the interaction as nothing of note, Monk insists on continuing to spend time with her, so she uses it teaching the slugpup about the world and it's history and hidden secrets. Saint is a purposed organism created by the iterator Sliver of Straw, and was made with the purpose of solving the Great Cycle, which is a cycle of death and rebirth every living organism finds itself trapped in unknowingly. Saint is the solution to this cycle, as she's capable of ending life in an instant, being the reason Sliver of Straw vanished. Despite her powers, she chooses not to use them, as she doesn't want to be the harbinger of death, but rather live a normal life. Watcher is a slugpup with short black fur, having boarded with their adopted family of their younger sister Monk, older brother Survivor, and father Gourmand. They're very quiet and antisocial, barely talking and usually preferring to slink into the shadows by themself than interact with others. Their original family was killed, and while their father and brother died trying to fight off the slugcat that threatened them, Watcher instead chose to hide, only coming out when they were found by Gourmand.

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