Clue: The Mystery At Marni Manor 2
Written By Kenneth Hand
May 21, 2001

Here's part two of the Clue at Marni Manor saga. Again, the characters are based 
on my friends, but you can still read the story and determine whom killed whom.

Just to let you know, the character descriptions are as follows:
Ms. Scarlet is a slut;
Mrs. Peacock (Daina) is a proper old lady;
Mrs. White (Ann) is the maid;
Mr. Green (Ken) is the business person;
Col. Mustard (Yoru/Ashley) is the military man;
Prof. Plum (Nick) is an absent-minded professor;
Mr. Boddy (Marni) is the one everyone's trying to kill.

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It was a sunny day at the Manor. Marni Boddy, Ann White, and their guests
were all outside playing croquet.

"FOUR!" Ann cried and swung her mallet like a golf club, smacking the wooden
ball through a window of the Conservatory, which had just been fixed from Ann's 
last game of croquet. Marni shuddered.

"Ann, how many times have I told you this is croquet, NOT GOLF!" Marni boomed,
and waddled over to give Ann a super-stupid slap on the shoulder. Ann shrieked, 
wanting to conk Marni on the head with her weapon. The rest of the guests rolled
their eyes.

"Too bad you passed out last night before you had the chance to kill Marni," Ken 
Green whispered to Daina Peacock as Kendra Scarlet took her turn. "Now one of *us*
 will have to do it."

"Shut up!" Daina yelled. Everyone turned around, and she laughed. "I have this 
stupid arm strap thing now from landing on that big hunk of raw flesh! And the 
bitch doesn't even remember a thing. I still have a chance. I *will* kill Marni!" 
She laughed again.

Ken was up next. As he hit his green ball, he noticed Yoru Mustard on the other 
side of the lawn where his ball was, stealing a weapon from Nick Plum, who stupidly 
thought Yoru was coming on to him. Ken could see the weapon was blunt, but could not 
clearly make out whether it was the Wrench, Lead Pipe, or Candlestick.

Marni cackled. "Good shot, Ken! But you'll never be as good as me! Never! Mwahaha."

Ken rolled his eyes at Marni and was about say something, when suddenly his contact 
popped out. Ann shrieked! "SWEETIE-PIE! Let me help you!"

"No, no, I'm fine," Ken said, half-blind. "I'll just run in the Manor while Yoru 
and Nick take their turns."

So Ken went in, and while he was in there, Nick winked at Yoru and said, "Hey there, 
good-lookin. Whatcha doin tonight?"

Yoru blasted his yellow ball through one of the hoops, and considered blasting Nick's 
balls with the mallet as well. "Not much. You know, killing Marni. The usual."

"Well, if you need some help in killing Marni, I can be the one," Nick said, and 
flared out his chest. Unfortunately, as he thrust his bust, he also fell forward and 
knocked his purple ball slightly backward with his mallet. Yoru laughed.

"That was your turn!" Yoru said.

"No! Wait! But..." Nick pouted, snatched up his ball, and marched in the house. 
Marni tried to run after him, but tripped and fell on the Candlestick she had in her 
pocket. "Ouch! Darn! Nick! Where are you going?"

He didn't respond.

Meanwhile, Kendra was getting sick of waiting around. So while Ann took her next turn 
and smashed another window, Kendra slipped the Rope out of Daina's purse and into her 
own.

Suddenly Marni and Ann began shrieking at one another. Yoru, Kendra, and Daina all 
threw their mallets to ground and marched inside, since it was getting cloudy out 
anyway. Marni and Ann kept shrieking, and weren't in until later.

[ LATER THAT AFTERNOON ]

Yoru, Kendra, and Daina were all sitting in the Lounge watching "Mission Impossible 
2". Kendra insisted they watch it because she so loved Tom Cruise. Daina had noticed 
earlier that the Rope was missing from her purse, so as Yoru was putting the tape in 
the VCR, she stole the weapon Yoru had stolen from Nick.

Meanwhile, a guest (Guest Two) had found another guest (Guest One) in the Study and 
stole into the room and locked the door.

One whirled around. "What are you doing here? We shouldn't be found alone in the 
same room."

Two ignored One and advanced. "Have you found a weapon yet? Tonight's the night Marni 
will die." One nodded.

"I've had a weapon since this morning. What about you?"

Two pulled out the Revolver. "That bitch Yoru stole my other weapon, but when I came 
in I picked this baby up off the mantle in the Library." He made a fake pose with it, 
and One frowned.

"Let's not be corny, please," said One.

"No, of course not," said Two, embracing One. "Anything for you."

One pushed Two off. "After tonight Marni will be dead and we'll have the Manor and 
everything in it. I got the lawyer to alter Marni's will; it took some... convincing, 
though."

One smiled. "Now I have to run, I'll see you soon. I just remembered I forgot to do 
something."

[ AN HOUR LATER ]

Ken came in the front door just as Mission Impossible 2 was ending. He walked into 
the Lounge, where Yoru and Kendra were giggling under a blanket as Daina rolled her 
eyes. Ken sighed.

"Is this Marni Manor, or the Love Shack?" Ken asked as he came in and sat down next 
to Daina. Yoru and Kendra sat up and looked at him. "Look, have any of you guys seen 
Ann or Nick?"

"We haven't left this room since we got in," Kendra said truthfully. "They haven't been 
in here. Why?"

Ken looked out the window with a puzzled look on his face. "I can't find them anywhere 
since I came in. And Marni seems to be missing, too. I mean, not that SHE matters, 
but... what about Nick and Ann?"

"It looks like we'll have to have a search party!" Yoru said and stood up. As soon as 
he did, Kendra stood up with him. "Let's split up into pairs."

Kendra squealed. "Yoru, I'm going with yooouu!" she purred, and squealed as Yoru 
tickled her. Daina rolled her eyes.

"Kendra and I will search the Hall, Lounge, Dining Room, and Kitchen," Yoru said. 
"You guys search the Ball Room, Conservatory, Billiard Room, Library, and Study."

Ken stood up. "Okay, let's all meet back here in half an hour."

They left in pairs.

Little did any of them know that Nick had Marni and Ann tied up in the Ball Room. 
He had stolen the Wrench from Ann and the Candlestick from Marni. He also had Revolver, 
and was guarding them with it. 

Ann kicked and kicked and tried to shriek through her gag, but in vain. Marni 
whimpered and shook as though she had just been kissed by a woman.

"Soon you'll all be dead," Nick said. "As soon as my partner gets back."

Marni said something through her gag, but it came out an mmmhhh. Suddenly they all 
heard giggling in the corridor outside the Ball Room, and realized Kendra was just 
outside the door. Ann frantically tried to shriek, but it kept getting muffled by 
the gag around her mouth.

Suddenly the door opened, and Ken appeared. He held the weapon he had stolen from 
Daina, plus his own.

"Daina's unconscious in the cellar," Ken said. "Yoru and Kendra will never think 
to look there."

"Sweetheart, whatever will we do with these two?" Nick asked, but just then Yoru 
was showing off his karate kick to Kendra, and blasted the other Ball Room door open. 
Ken and Nick whirled around.

"What the fuck's going on here?" Yoru demanded.

"Just a little systematic killing," Ken said.

"Close the door and lock it," said Nick, who had the Revolver pointed at Kendra. 
Kendra shut it obediently, and Yoru nearly exploded.

"You idiot!" Yoru told her. "We could have run away!"

"We still can!" said Kendra, and tried to open the door, but it was stuck shut. 
Ken laughed. "Looks like the game's up for you!" He said, and when he realized how 
stupid that sounded, he rolled his eyes. Unfortunately for him, his contact popped out 
when he rolled them, and he cried out. Nick turned to him.

"What's the matter, pumpkin?"

Just then Ann managed to struggle free of her gag and nearly deafened everyone with 
her shriek. "AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYEEEEE!!!!!!" she called like a banshee. Nick 
whirled around, and right then the lights went out. Because of the overcast sky, the 
window offered no source of light.

"Shit!" Nick blurted out.

"Who's on me? Don't you touch me! My eye, my eye!" Ken hollered as he felt a man (not 
Nick) jump on him and knock him over. The weapon Ken had stolen from Daina fell under 
the grand piano, and Ken's attacker stole Ken's remaining weapon.

"MMMMMMHHHHHHH!!!!" Marni groaned because she still had the gag on.

Meanwhile, Ann had managed to get up and run around, but accidentally fell into Nick. 
The Revolver went off but lucky for Ann the bullet struck the ceiling, not her. Ann, 
Nick, and Kendra all fainted at the sound of the gunshot. The Revolver slid to the other 
end of the room.

"Get off me!" Ken cried. "*I* want to kill Marni!"

"Forget it!" said the other man. They struggled, and finally one of them managed to knock 
the other out and steal his weapon back.

The lights came back on, and the guest who remained surveyed the room. Kendra lay 
unconscious on one side of the room, her bulging purse clutched in hand. The 
Revolver was on another side, the weapon Ken had stolen from Daina was under the piano, 
and Nick had two others. Everyone was unconscious except the remaining guest and Marni.

Marni mmmfffed one final time as she was killed.

WHO KILLED MARNI? WHERE? WITH WHAT?