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Let's Play Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 2 Chapter 9
Episode 2 Chapter 9 – I Knew Jack Skellington, and You, Ma'am, Are No Jack Skellington
Let's see who survived the night!
This guy sure did. And he's not stepping a goddamn foot out of his study this time, not until the Tenth Twilight. Dying early is for suckers and people he personally conspired to offer up as sacrifices for a demonic ritual (i.e. suckers). It's Golden Land or bust for Kinzo.
The only other people who get up this early are the servants.
Hey, she did Not Kill Him First this time!
That's Genji, Shannon and Kanon safe too.
She finds a note on the table.
Hm. There is a chapel on the island, behind the mansion. Kinzo had it built less because the family is religious or because it has ever to anyone's knowledge been actually used than because old-fashioned churches look totally western and badass. Kinzo is very responsible with his infinite amount of money.
Elsewhere, more people wake up.
Add Rosa to the non-deceased list.
Welp. Better go check it out.
Gosh, I wonder what's in the chapel.
There's something else written there that renders Rosa especially terrified, and a little pre-emptively furious.
Uh oh.
Say. If Genji didn't notice the bit about Maria, why is Rosa the only one he summoned? Where are the older siblings?
Incidentally, they can't check inside the chapel easily.
Where the hell is the key?
...Envelope.
All the kids are fine. On a related note, you may now be making some headway with the process of elimination.
Rosa pilfers the envelope, which indeed has a key inside it, from Maria's purse without waking anyone up. Back to the chapel.
Oh boy. The door opens.
There's no light except that coming in through the windows, and of course it's still storming like somebody pissed off Zeus. Rosa and the servants can only vaguely make out a dining table set up at the altar.
AAAND THE LOSERS ARE
Candy!
Aw, now that's just a mess. And also not even remotely what it actually is.
[BGM: Red Dread]
Man, Beatrice doesn't fuck around when it comes to Halloween decorations. I mean, she could have gone to one of those high-end holiday stores and spent a few hundred dollars on one of those obnoxious animatronic displays, with a jumping ghoul or a werewolf that plays a shitty MIDI of a howl, but she went for frugality and authenticity. You've gotta respect that, in a way.
Oh, right, dead people.
Rosa has a lot of traumatic memories. Guess this is a new one.
There is, of course, much screaming. Some vomiting, too. Oh god Rosa stepped in it OH MAN OH GOD PUKING AGAIN
That's no use, Gohda. Of course communications will be down again.
Rosa is now the oldest living family member who at least occasionally seems relatively sane. She's gotta take charge. Everybody needs to get out of this fucking place.
The cousins are up, and noticing that nobody's around. Maria throws a good, prolonged fit over her letter being missing, and Battler vaguely remembers almost waking up and seeing Rosa while most of the way asleep.
Gohda fetches a phone while Kanon fetches Nanjo. Shannon is off informing Kinzo.
So, unwisely, the kids head to the chapel.
07th Expansion's gore is a lot like Type-Moon's porn; goofy as fuck and mostly there to satisfy a niche.
Nanjo and Rosa can't get the kids to leave.
PAUSE.
COME ON LADY THIS IS JUST FUCKING GROSS
It's true; the faces are fine this time. In other words, there's no room to quibble about who's actually dead. In this game, corpse=alibi. Period. Countering the moves he made last time is just Beatrice exercising common sense.
[SFX: ahaha.wav]
UNPAUSE.
Come on, bro, let's be realistic here, you'll cry plenty.
Jessica's automatic response to grief is rage, and this time she has an obvious target to take it out on. She bolts for the honored guest room to kick some ass. Kanon and Gohda run after her to try and make sure nothing stupid happens. They... can't... technically be sure Beatrice is the culprit yet.
Right now, nobody present quite blames her.
Envelope.
Aside from “To those that remain,” it's the same as the first letter from the first game.
There's one more significant thing on the table.
That's not just the one ingot Krauss keeps in a locked room, it's three of them. In other words, the culprit already knows where the gold is. All of it. This isn't some scheme to make them solve the epitaph and lead the way to the stash. And the gold is certainly real. This is another helpful message like leaving the faces alone: focus on the epitaph.
Let's see who survived the night!
This guy sure did. And he's not stepping a goddamn foot out of his study this time, not until the Tenth Twilight. Dying early is for suckers and people he personally conspired to offer up as sacrifices for a demonic ritual (i.e. suckers). It's Golden Land or bust for Kinzo.
The only other people who get up this early are the servants.
Hey, she did Not Kill Him First this time!
That's Genji, Shannon and Kanon safe too.
She finds a note on the table.
Hm. There is a chapel on the island, behind the mansion. Kinzo had it built less because the family is religious or because it has ever to anyone's knowledge been actually used than because old-fashioned churches look totally western and badass. Kinzo is very responsible with his infinite amount of money.
Elsewhere, more people wake up.
Add Rosa to the non-deceased list.
Welp. Better go check it out.
Gosh, I wonder what's in the chapel.
There's something else written there that renders Rosa especially terrified, and a little pre-emptively furious.
Uh oh.
Say. If Genji didn't notice the bit about Maria, why is Rosa the only one he summoned? Where are the older siblings?
Incidentally, they can't check inside the chapel easily.
Where the hell is the key?
...Envelope.
All the kids are fine. On a related note, you may now be making some headway with the process of elimination.
Rosa pilfers the envelope, which indeed has a key inside it, from Maria's purse without waking anyone up. Back to the chapel.
Oh boy. The door opens.
There's no light except that coming in through the windows, and of course it's still storming like somebody pissed off Zeus. Rosa and the servants can only vaguely make out a dining table set up at the altar.
AAAND THE LOSERS ARE
Candy!
Aw, now that's just a mess. And also not even remotely what it actually is.
[BGM: Red Dread]
Man, Beatrice doesn't fuck around when it comes to Halloween decorations. I mean, she could have gone to one of those high-end holiday stores and spent a few hundred dollars on one of those obnoxious animatronic displays, with a jumping ghoul or a werewolf that plays a shitty MIDI of a howl, but she went for frugality and authenticity. You've gotta respect that, in a way.
Oh, right, dead people.
Rosa has a lot of traumatic memories. Guess this is a new one.
There is, of course, much screaming. Some vomiting, too. Oh god Rosa stepped in it OH MAN OH GOD PUKING AGAIN
That's no use, Gohda. Of course communications will be down again.
Rosa is now the oldest living family member who at least occasionally seems relatively sane. She's gotta take charge. Everybody needs to get out of this fucking place.
The cousins are up, and noticing that nobody's around. Maria throws a good, prolonged fit over her letter being missing, and Battler vaguely remembers almost waking up and seeing Rosa while most of the way asleep.
Gohda fetches a phone while Kanon fetches Nanjo. Shannon is off informing Kinzo.
So, unwisely, the kids head to the chapel.
07th Expansion's gore is a lot like Type-Moon's porn; goofy as fuck and mostly there to satisfy a niche.
Nanjo and Rosa can't get the kids to leave.
PAUSE.
COME ON LADY THIS IS JUST FUCKING GROSS
It's true; the faces are fine this time. In other words, there's no room to quibble about who's actually dead. In this game, corpse=alibi. Period. Countering the moves he made last time is just Beatrice exercising common sense.
[SFX: ahaha.wav]
UNPAUSE.
Come on, bro, let's be realistic here, you'll cry plenty.
Jessica's automatic response to grief is rage, and this time she has an obvious target to take it out on. She bolts for the honored guest room to kick some ass. Kanon and Gohda run after her to try and make sure nothing stupid happens. They... can't... technically be sure Beatrice is the culprit yet.
Right now, nobody present quite blames her.
Envelope.
Aside from “To those that remain,” it's the same as the first letter from the first game.
There's one more significant thing on the table.
That's not just the one ingot Krauss keeps in a locked room, it's three of them. In other words, the culprit already knows where the gold is. All of it. This isn't some scheme to make them solve the epitaph and lead the way to the stash. And the gold is certainly real. This is another helpful message like leaving the faces alone: focus on the epitaph.