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[[The Neopets Team]] is yet again in peril as one of their own is killing them off one by one.
[[Image:Ski_lodge_death_7.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The murderer's sixteenth victim: [[Monster Boy]] meets his end.]]
The '''Ski Lodge Murder Mystery''' was a murder mystery [[plot]], much like [[Sacrificers]], that was started on 2nd February 2001. In it, [[The Neopets Team]], stranded on the top of [[Terror Mountain]], were being picked off one by one by an unknown murderer in their midst.  


==Plot==
Users were required to guess who was the killer, and could move through the rooms of the Ski Lodge the team were trapped in and interview some of staff members.


{{spoiler}}
==Summary==
[[image:Ski lodge clue2.gif|frame|left|TNT arrives at the Lodge.]]
The Neopets Team were holidaying in an old, abandoned lodge at the top of [[Terror Mountain]]. Trapped in by a storm, the idyllic retreat became a catalogue of gruesome crime scenes as the vacation turned into a nightmare - an unknown murderer began picking off the members of the team one by one over the course of sixteen weeks.


The original idea for the plot has long since been lost to time, but it served as a very interesting, rather dark, and fairly egotistical outing, as many plots were back in the earlier days. TNT wished to vacation at the Terror Mountain Ski Lodge around the time Terror Mountain was originally created (rather, around the time the peak became available to the public; it was possibly this plot that gave rise to the name, or this name that gave rise to the plot). However, the idyllic mountain retreat soon proved to be the scene of many gruesome murders as the staff members found themselves dropping like flies in varied and somewhat disturbing modes of murder.
As the murders continued, often becoming more elaborate over time, the staff members became more and more suspicious of each other. In week nine, it appeared as though the horribly series of crimes may have reached an end when [[J. Boogie]], in his dying words, claimed the murderer to be [[Monster Boy]]. Monster Boy's own swift destruction shortly after seemed to ruin this theory, and the slaughtering continued.


Over the course of sixteen weeks, the Neopets staff were murdered, on average of two per week, until the final stand off came when the only two remaining were [[Beader]] and [[Maverick]]; Beader, having found Maverick's hidden laboratory below the Ski Lodge, watched as [[Number Six]] was killed by being dropped off of a cliff, whereupon Maverick planned on killing Beader to finish his plans. Beader happened upon a lever which conveniently dropped a cage on Maverick, ending his reign of terror far too late.
The finale came when only [[Beader]] and [[Maverick]] were left. [[Beader]] witnessed the murder of [[Number Six]] at the hands of Maverick in the laboratory carved into the mountain beneath the lodge. Before Maverick could kill off Beader and complete his plans, the potential victim found salvation in the form of a lever that trapped Maverick under a conveniently placed cage.  


Maverick was carried away by the police Chia force, but unexpectedly exploded, revealing himself to be a robot duplicate. The command was issued by a green skinned figure (no doubt [[Dr. Sloth]], and this plot may have been one of the earliest uses of this particular villain)
The storm outside finally subdued, [[Chia]] police arrested Maverick to have him explode - he was, in fact, a robotic doppelgänger placed there by a mysterious, green-skinned villain - perhaps [[Dr. Sloth]].


==Murders==
==Murders==
The murder victims, in order of death:
At each murder, a picture of the crime scene and a brief description of the events were supplied. The deaths, in chronological order, were:
*[[Electric Blue Monkey]]: Week one, Thursday; pushed down stairs.
 
*[[Black Widow]]: Week two, Monday; asphyxiation/strangulation.
*'''Week One:''' [[Electric Blue Monkey]], in the Hallway, on Thursday. Died after falling down the stairs.  
*[[Bubbles]]: Week two, Thursday; blunt force trauma (beaten with a candlestick, a la the board game Clue).
*'''Week Two:''' [[Black Widow]], in the Hallway, on Monday. Death by [[wikipedia:strangling|strangulation]].
*[[Cookie]]: Week three; crushed by a loaded shelf of kitchen utensils.
*'''Week Two:''' [[Bubbles (TNT)|Bubbles]], in the Dining Room, on Thursday. Death by excessive [[wikipedia:blunt trauma|blunt trauma]] with a candlestick (a la the board game ''[[Wikipedia:Cluedo|Cluedo]]'').
*[[Cupcake]]: Week four, Monday; impaled by spears.
*'''Week Three:''' [[Cookie]], in the Kitchen, on Tuesday: Death by excessive trauma caused by a collapsing shelf of 200 lbs of cooking utensils.  
*[[Jasmine]]: Week four, Thursday; blunt trauma to the head.
*'''Week Four:''' [[Cupcake]], in the Kitchen, on Monday: Death after being impaled by spears.
*[[Scarlet O'Lara]]: Week five, Monday; drowned.
*'''Week Four:''' [[Jasmine]], in the Guest Bedroom, on Thursday: Death by blunt trauma to the cranium, potentially caused by and accidental fall.  
*[[Snowflake]]: Week five, Thursday; asphyxiation (stuffed head first in one of the pipes draining into the indoor pool; the image works as a fairly shocking contrast to the thus-far 'passive' death scenes).
*'''Week Five:''' [[Scarlet O'Lara]], in the Pool, on Monday: Death by [[wikipedia:asphyxiation|asphyxiation]] as a direct result of drowning.
*[[Pop Tart]]: Week six, Tuesday; incinerated (by Exploding Potions).
*'''Week Five:''' [[Snowflake]], in the Pool, on Thursday: Death by asphyxiation after being induced head-first into an ornamental fixture pouring water into the pool. The image is noted for working as a fairly shocking contrast to the thus-far 'passive' death scenes.
*[[Sweet]]: Week six, Thursday; crushed by a falling anvil (in the style of a cartoon).
*'''Week Six:''' [[Pop Tart]], in the Hallway, on Tuesday: Death by [[wikipedia:immolation|immolation]] by fire, through the use of Exploding [[Potions]].  
*[[Mr. Plaid]]: Week seven, Tuesday; assumed asphyxiation (his head was stuffed into a filled pot of food).
*'''Week Six:''' [[Sweet]], in the Dining Room, on Thursday: Death by excessive trauma post crushing with an anvil, a return to the more comical style of execution.
*[[Dr. Thor]]: Week seven, Friday; hypothermia.
*'''Week Seven:''' [[Mr. Plaid]], in the Kitchen, on Tuesday: Death potentially by asphyxiation, over-consumption, or after receiving heavy burns.
*[[Bye-Gon Jinx]]: Week eight, Tuesday; severed midway up the torso (presumably in a light sabre battle). This marks the start of the more 'gruesome' deaths (though the earlier deaths were fully illustrated, the only one noted to stand out before this as a particularly graphic death was Snowflake's demise).
*'''Week Seven:''' [[Dr. Thor]], in the Kitchen, on Friday: Death by [[wikipedia:hypothermia|hypothermia]].
*[[Snot]]: Week eight, Firday; consumed by a Utility Fish.
*'''Week Eight:''' [[Bye-Gon Jinx]], in the Pool, on Tuesday: Death by sever [[wikipedia:Dismemberment|dismemberment]], presumably after a light sabre battle. This marks the start of the more 'gruesome' deaths (though the earlier deaths were fully illustrated, the only one noted to stand out before this as a particularly graphic death was Snowflake's demise).
*[[J. Boogie]]: Week nine, Monday; impaled by a light sabre.
*'''Week Eight:''' [[Snot (TNT)|Snot]], in the Pool, on Friday: Death by consumption by a school of [[Utility Fish]].
*[[Monster Boy]]: Week nine, Friday; crushed by a large [[Mystery Island]] tiki head statue.
*'''Week Nine:''' [[J. Boogie]], in the Library, on Monday: Death after being impaled on a light sabre.  
*[[Wolverine]]: Week ten, Monday; hanged.
*'''Week Nine:''' [[Monster Boy]], in the Library, on Friday: Death by excessive [[wikipedia:trauma|trauma]] post crushing by a large [[Mystery Island]] tiki head statue.
*[[Mr. Insane]]: Week ten, Thursday; poisoned.
*'''Week Ten:''' [[Wolverine]], in the Library, on Monday: Death by hanging.
*[[Lazarus]]: Week eleven, Monday; hyperthermia.
*'''Week Ten:''' [[Mr. Insane]], in the Library, on Thursday: Death by poisoning.
*[[Mister Pickles]]: Week eleven, Thursday; decapitated.
*'''Week Eleven:''' [[Lazarus]], in the Pool, on Monday: Death by [[wikipedia:hyperthermia|hyperthermia]].
*[[Dom]]: Week twelve, Monday; electrocuted and preserved in formaldehyde.
*'''Week Eleven:''' [[Mister Pickles]], in the Wine Cellar, on Thursday: Death by [[wikipedia:decapitation|decapitation]].  
*[[Dave Scorcheski]]: Week twelve, Thursday; cleaved through the cranium.
*'''Week Twelve:''' [[Dom]], in the Master Bedroom, on Monday: Death by [[wikipedia:electrocution|electrocution]], with the body later preserved in [[wikipedia:Formaldehyde|formaldehyde]].  
*[[Mr. Roboto]]: Week thirteen, Monday; trisected.
*'''Week Twelve:''' [[Dave Scorcheski]], in the Kitchen, on Thursday: Death by fission of the brain after being cleaved through the cranium.
*[[Rhiannon]]: Week thirteen, Thursday; fell from a cliff.
*'''Week Thirteen:''' [[Mr. Roboto]], in the Kitchen, on Monday: Death after [[wikipedia:trisection|trisection]].
*[[Tiger Catcher]]: Week fourteen, Monday; sucked down the drain.
*'''Week Thirteen:''' [[Rhiannon]], in the Underground Lab, on Thursday: Death following a fall over a cliff.
*[[Jimmy James]]: Week fourteen, Thursday; crushed by a shelf stacked with wine.
*'''Week Fourteen:''' [[Tiger Catcher]], in the Swimming Pool, on Monday: Death following being somehow sucked down the drain.
*[[Mr. Black]]: Week fifteen, Monday; assumed beating (although it's not quite clear).
*'''Week Fourteen:''' [[Jimmy James]], in the Wine Cellar, on Thursday: Death following extensive trauma due to being crushed by a shelf stacked with wine.
*[[The Big Spender]]: Week fifteen, Thursday; unknown (possible strangulation, but this is purely conjecture based on the presence of the bow near the white chalk outline).
*'''Week Fifteen:''' [[Mr. Black]], in the Guest Bedroom, on Monday: Death after an assumed beating.
*[[Mr. Shankly]]: Week sixteen; cooked alive.
*'''Week Fifteen:''' [[The Big Spender]], in the Kitchen, on Thursday: Death undefined.
*[[Number Six]]: 'Cliffhanger' and 'Finale'; dropped from cliff.
*'''Week Sixteen:''' [[Mr. Shankly]], in the Kitchen (discovered in the Dining Room), on Thursday: Death by presumed [[wikipedia:hyperthermia|hyperthermia]] following being cooked alive.
*[[Maverick]]: 'Finale'; explosion triggered by [[Dr Sloth]].  
*'''Week Sixteen:''' [[Number Six]], in the Underground Lab, on Thursday: Death following a fall over  a cliff.
*'''Week Sixteen:'''[[Maverick]], in the Underground Lab, on Friday: Self-destruction of robotic form triggered by an off-site villain, presumably [[Dr. Sloth]].  


The Beader was the only remaining staff member after the ordeal was complete.
The Beader was the only remaining staff member after the ordeal was complete.


==Prizes==
==Prizes==
 
Prizes were awarded depending on how early the user correctly guessed who the killer was; guessing on the first week would net you a much higher prize than guessing on the fifteenth. However, the nature of these prizes and their exact correlation to the game of guesswork are unknown.  
Prizes were awarded depending on how early you guessed who the killer was; guessing on the first week would net you a much higher prize than guessing on the fifteenth. However, the nature of these prizes and their exact correlation to the game of guesswork are unknown.  


Issue 20 of [[Neopets: The Official Magazine]] notes the [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_1.gif Mutant Kacheek Plushie] as one of the prizes, and several photographs ([http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_2.gif 1], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_3.gif 2], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_4.gif 3], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_5.gif 4]), books ([http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_6.gif 1], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_7.gif 2], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_8.gif 3]) and items featuring Maverick (
Issue 20 of [[Neopets: The Official Magazine]] notes the [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_1.gif Mutant Kacheek Plushie] as one of the prizes, and several photographs ([http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_2.gif 1], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_3.gif 2], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_4.gif 3], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_5.gif 4]), books ([http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_6.gif 1], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_7.gif 2], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_8.gif 3]) and items featuring Maverick (
[http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_9.gif 1], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_10.gif 2], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_11.gif 3], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_12.gif 4]) share similar URLs and were likely prizes also.  
[http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_9.gif 1], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_10.gif 2],
[http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_11.gif 3], [http://images.neopets.com/items/skilodge_12.gif 4]) share similar URLs and were likely prizes also. Three trophies were awarded to users' lookups ([http://images.neopets.com/trophies/110_1.gif 1], [http://images.neopets.com/trophies/110_2.gif 2], [http://images.neopets.com/trophies/110_3.gif 3]).


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The light sabres, used twice as a murder weapon, are identical to [[Wikipedia:Lightsaber|Star Wars' Lightsabers]].
*The [[Mystery Island]] Tiki head, used to murder Monster Boy, may be a reference to [[Sacrificers]] which was set on the Island.
*In the finale movie, Maverick is transported strapped to a trolley wearing a hockey mask, as the psychopath Hannibal was in ''[[Wikipedia:The Silence of the Lambs|The Silence of the Lambs]]''.
*The Ski Lodge is one of the hotels available at the [[Neolodge]].


*The light sabres, used twice as a murder weapon, resemble [[Wikipedia:Lightsaber|Star Wars' Lightsabers]] very closely.
==External links==
 
*'''Plot Info:''' [http://www.neopets.com/winter/skilodge.phtml Ski Lodge Murder Mystery]
==External Links==
*'''Editorial:''' {{ed|538}}
 
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*Plot Info: [http://www.neopets.com/winter/skilodge.phtml Ski Lodge Murder Mystery]
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Latest revision as of 17:52, 30 November 2013

The murderer's sixteenth victim: Monster Boy meets his end.

The Ski Lodge Murder Mystery was a murder mystery plot, much like Sacrificers, that was started on 2nd February 2001. In it, The Neopets Team, stranded on the top of Terror Mountain, were being picked off one by one by an unknown murderer in their midst.

Users were required to guess who was the killer, and could move through the rooms of the Ski Lodge the team were trapped in and interview some of staff members.

Summary[edit]

TNT arrives at the Lodge.

The Neopets Team were holidaying in an old, abandoned lodge at the top of Terror Mountain. Trapped in by a storm, the idyllic retreat became a catalogue of gruesome crime scenes as the vacation turned into a nightmare - an unknown murderer began picking off the members of the team one by one over the course of sixteen weeks.

As the murders continued, often becoming more elaborate over time, the staff members became more and more suspicious of each other. In week nine, it appeared as though the horribly series of crimes may have reached an end when J. Boogie, in his dying words, claimed the murderer to be Monster Boy. Monster Boy's own swift destruction shortly after seemed to ruin this theory, and the slaughtering continued.

The finale came when only Beader and Maverick were left. Beader witnessed the murder of Number Six at the hands of Maverick in the laboratory carved into the mountain beneath the lodge. Before Maverick could kill off Beader and complete his plans, the potential victim found salvation in the form of a lever that trapped Maverick under a conveniently placed cage.

The storm outside finally subdued, Chia police arrested Maverick to have him explode - he was, in fact, a robotic doppelgänger placed there by a mysterious, green-skinned villain - perhaps Dr. Sloth.

Murders[edit]

At each murder, a picture of the crime scene and a brief description of the events were supplied. The deaths, in chronological order, were:

  • Week One: Electric Blue Monkey, in the Hallway, on Thursday. Died after falling down the stairs.
  • Week Two: Black Widow, in the Hallway, on Monday. Death by strangulation.
  • Week Two: Bubbles, in the Dining Room, on Thursday. Death by excessive blunt trauma with a candlestick (a la the board game Cluedo).
  • Week Three: Cookie, in the Kitchen, on Tuesday: Death by excessive trauma caused by a collapsing shelf of 200 lbs of cooking utensils.
  • Week Four: Cupcake, in the Kitchen, on Monday: Death after being impaled by spears.
  • Week Four: Jasmine, in the Guest Bedroom, on Thursday: Death by blunt trauma to the cranium, potentially caused by and accidental fall.
  • Week Five: Scarlet O'Lara, in the Pool, on Monday: Death by asphyxiation as a direct result of drowning.
  • Week Five: Snowflake, in the Pool, on Thursday: Death by asphyxiation after being induced head-first into an ornamental fixture pouring water into the pool. The image is noted for working as a fairly shocking contrast to the thus-far 'passive' death scenes.
  • Week Six: Pop Tart, in the Hallway, on Tuesday: Death by immolation by fire, through the use of Exploding Potions.
  • Week Six: Sweet, in the Dining Room, on Thursday: Death by excessive trauma post crushing with an anvil, a return to the more comical style of execution.
  • Week Seven: Mr. Plaid, in the Kitchen, on Tuesday: Death potentially by asphyxiation, over-consumption, or after receiving heavy burns.
  • Week Seven: Dr. Thor, in the Kitchen, on Friday: Death by hypothermia.
  • Week Eight: Bye-Gon Jinx, in the Pool, on Tuesday: Death by sever dismemberment, presumably after a light sabre battle. This marks the start of the more 'gruesome' deaths (though the earlier deaths were fully illustrated, the only one noted to stand out before this as a particularly graphic death was Snowflake's demise).
  • Week Eight: Snot, in the Pool, on Friday: Death by consumption by a school of Utility Fish.
  • Week Nine: J. Boogie, in the Library, on Monday: Death after being impaled on a light sabre.
  • Week Nine: Monster Boy, in the Library, on Friday: Death by excessive trauma post crushing by a large Mystery Island tiki head statue.
  • Week Ten: Wolverine, in the Library, on Monday: Death by hanging.
  • Week Ten: Mr. Insane, in the Library, on Thursday: Death by poisoning.
  • Week Eleven: Lazarus, in the Pool, on Monday: Death by hyperthermia.
  • Week Eleven: Mister Pickles, in the Wine Cellar, on Thursday: Death by decapitation.
  • Week Twelve: Dom, in the Master Bedroom, on Monday: Death by electrocution, with the body later preserved in formaldehyde.
  • Week Twelve: Dave Scorcheski, in the Kitchen, on Thursday: Death by fission of the brain after being cleaved through the cranium.
  • Week Thirteen: Mr. Roboto, in the Kitchen, on Monday: Death after trisection.
  • Week Thirteen: Rhiannon, in the Underground Lab, on Thursday: Death following a fall over a cliff.
  • Week Fourteen: Tiger Catcher, in the Swimming Pool, on Monday: Death following being somehow sucked down the drain.
  • Week Fourteen: Jimmy James, in the Wine Cellar, on Thursday: Death following extensive trauma due to being crushed by a shelf stacked with wine.
  • Week Fifteen: Mr. Black, in the Guest Bedroom, on Monday: Death after an assumed beating.
  • Week Fifteen: The Big Spender, in the Kitchen, on Thursday: Death undefined.
  • Week Sixteen: Mr. Shankly, in the Kitchen (discovered in the Dining Room), on Thursday: Death by presumed hyperthermia following being cooked alive.
  • Week Sixteen: Number Six, in the Underground Lab, on Thursday: Death following a fall over a cliff.
  • Week Sixteen:Maverick, in the Underground Lab, on Friday: Self-destruction of robotic form triggered by an off-site villain, presumably Dr. Sloth.

The Beader was the only remaining staff member after the ordeal was complete.

Prizes[edit]

Prizes were awarded depending on how early the user correctly guessed who the killer was; guessing on the first week would net you a much higher prize than guessing on the fifteenth. However, the nature of these prizes and their exact correlation to the game of guesswork are unknown.

Issue 20 of Neopets: The Official Magazine notes the Mutant Kacheek Plushie as one of the prizes, and several photographs (1, 2, 3, 4), books (1, 2, 3) and items featuring Maverick ( 1, 2, 3, 4) share similar URLs and were likely prizes also. Three trophies were awarded to users' lookups (1, 2, 3).

Trivia[edit]

  • The light sabres, used twice as a murder weapon, are identical to Star Wars' Lightsabers.
  • The Mystery Island Tiki head, used to murder Monster Boy, may be a reference to Sacrificers which was set on the Island.
  • In the finale movie, Maverick is transported strapped to a trolley wearing a hockey mask, as the psychopath Hannibal was in The Silence of the Lambs.
  • The Ski Lodge is one of the hotels available at the Neolodge.

External links[edit]