as Kayana, Hobbie and Luc walked through the doors of TF arguing amicably about which came first: Iain or the server. As all three SCS passed through the hallowed halls of Gondor er, OTF, little did they know of the horrors about to greet their eyes.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" all three screamed in unison. A rumble of thunder sounded and a strike of lightning split the sky outside TF's windows.

"Wait a second," Hobbie mumbled, "How can you have lightning in spa- ouch!"

Hobbie trailed off as Kayana stomped viciously on his foot.

Moving on with the plot of the storyline, Kayana took a step forward and gasped.

"Guys look!" She pointed to the floor in front of them. "What happened to CT???"

There lay CT in a puddle of off-brand ketchup made to look like blood, one stone-dead hand pointing towards Guinan's bar, the other at his hips, forever frozen in John Travolta's immortal Disco Fever pose.

Luc frowned. "Didn't we have April's Fools already?" Both Kayana and Hobbie shuddered instinctively.

"Don't remind me of that." Kayana snapped. "I’m still making payments on the therapy I had to go through after that. If only I had that extra 20 cents to buy that voodoo Iain doll..."

Kayana cried a little, or made little wooden stakes mumbling quotes from Scarface, you choose, while Hobbie and Luc walked towards CT to inspect the situation.

Luc asked, "Who do you think had it in for poor old CT?!"

Hobbie replied, "You do the math: 2000 members, 45% of them with dreams of world domination, 25% of them with phasers, 35% of them self-believing ninjas and… Well, let's just say oh, 99.9% of them insane, who wouldn't have it in for the old man?"

Luc counted on his fingers, "Erm, Hobbie.."

Hobbie swirled his cloak: "There is no math"

Luc sighed in disgust: "You PROMISED you wouldn't do that Obi-Wan thing again…"

Hobbie replied smugly: "I lied."

Shaking his head, Luc walked to the other side of CT's deathly figure."Wait a second..." He leaned in, "Do you see this…"

The lights cut off, thunder clashed and again, Hobbie screamed and jumped in Kayana’s arms. Kayana struggled under the weight while trying to regain her own calm. Kayana looked up and pointed as Hobbie landed in a thud on the floor, “Look!”

There, faintly illuminated by the fading glow of the lightning, was a cloaked masked figure in the doorway of TF. Across TF, their eyes met.

With a swirl of his cloak, the figure was gone. The lights returned, but Luc was gone. In his place, was a neatly pinned note to the floor saying, "Mrs. Plum in the Conservatory with the monkey wrench."

"Well, that's just…" Hobbie didn't get to finish his sentence as Kayana sent a glare his way and picked up the note. Both shared a look of shock over what had just happened as they read over the silly verse again. They had a feeling this was only the beginning if the OTF members didn't get to the bottom of this. Who did this to CT? Who would want Luc? Who would be next?

• Figure out who OTF's masked murderers are! While chatting, you may notice your fellow chatters mysteriously L1'd in chat. When a murder happens, the phrase "MURDER! CREWMAN SO AND SO HAS BEEN MURDERED AT..." will flash in RED across the chats. These murderers are your very own fellow chatters. When a murder happens, take note of all the chatters in the room. One of them is the murderer! If you pay attention, over time you will notice the murders only happen with a certain someone in the room. This could be one of the murderers!

• But to make your life easier, mysterious masked chatters will appear in chat at various times to give you clues as to who OTF's masked murderers are. Don't confuse these savant chatters with the murderers however; they're just masked so as to protect their true identies. Ask them questions, use your suspicions and their clues to figure out who the murderers are!

• In case you miss these visits from our masked friends, the hints will be posted through regular updates on the Updates Board.

Get cracking, my young sleuths! You have until July 9th to figure out OTF's Murder Mystery and we only have so many Sector Commanders.

You may submit your guesses to the murderers' identies HERE.

All questions, comments, and concerns please address them here.

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