A Replicated Quest

**A Replicated Quest** is a case featured in *Criminal Case*. It takes place in the *A Look At Medusa* of Graecita.

## Plot

**You are now experiencing the story in third-person view**

After a long and busy day, Kaleb was glad to finally get some rest but before he could open his door handle, Shirley Kennedy ran to him with a feeling of distress. Kaleb asked the maid what’s troubling her and she started crying about how Marionette is seriously ill and wants to see him, fearing she won’t have another chance. Hearing that Marionette is in a grave state terrified Kaleb, who wasted no second to coming to her room and barged into the door, only to see Marionette laying on the bed in her lingerie, pushing out her hip and giving a seductive smirk to Kaleb. All the worry in Kaleb’s heart was gone and he turned into a chuckle, realizing that he was led into trap. Feeling aroused now, Kaleb took off his armor, and jumped into the bed like a dog waiting for Marionette to give him his “treat”. 10 minutes has passed through the intercourse and the two decided to have a little break before they continue to talk dirty to each other. But instead of whispering her naughtiest thoughts into Kaleb’s ear, she revealed that she set up this whole thing in order to ask him for a favor. Kaleb didn’t like this, but he was willing to hear Marionette out until she asked him when was he going to dispose of Yvette’s body. This question shocked Kaleb who from worried, attracted to being angry at Marionette for making such a “selfish” suggestion. But Marionette stood her ground and told Kaleb she sees no reason why he can’t provide Yvette with the respect she deserved now that he found a new girl (referring to herself) to take her place, in which Kaleb responded by making it clear that he and Marionette aren’t “dating”. When Kaleb said that, Marionette’s expression went from desperation to anger, and Kaleb tried to get himself out of the whole he dug by whispering sweet nothings to Marionette. Eventually, the scene switches to Kaleb being thrown out of the room with his stuff, and he tried knocking the door to make up with Marionette but she told him to get lost. Kaleb sighed, tied his toga around his waist and starting kicking up his stuff, but realized that his wrist cuffs were still in the room. Wanting to get in the room and talk with Marionette, Kaleb told her he forgot his cuffs inside and she opened the door for him, but inside of letting him in, she threw a wrist cuff which barely missed Kaleb before shutting the door. Kaleb was going to say she forgot the other wrist cuff, but before he could complete his sentence, Marionette opened the door and threw the other cuff which hit Kaleb straight to the balls this time.

Meanwhile at the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge*, the crew, the pirates and the soldiers were close to arriving to *Sarpedon*, and to their surprise they spotted not only one, but TWO ships were parked on the shore, from a distance. One of the ships looked like it came from Ancient Africa, however the other was strangely modern and it appeared to be a Spanish bred. When Anne Bonny saw these two ships, she was infuriated, believing someone has come to hunt down Medusa before she could and an argument started between her and Mary. While the two pirates were arguing, the soldiers expressed excitement on facing Medusa, but Zachary bummed them out when he told them that they have to stay in the ship as he received instructions that all of them should be brought back alive. The crew then started talking about *Sarpedon* and expressed worries on who the new arrivers were. This is when Natalie, from the sea, suggested that she could go and explore the island to find out who the ships’ owners are before the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* could land. The crew agreed to this idea, but Zachary was worried that harm may come to Natalie and decided he must come too. However, his frame was too large for him to ride on Natalie’s back and using a rowing boat in order to follow her to shore would take them too long, so instead the group agreed that Mia should accompany Natalie in exploring the island, making Zachary sigh and wish the two girls a safe journey. Once Natalie and Mia were gone, George Turbot came to the main deck to tell everyone that lunch was ready and they all headed to the kitchen, except Niilo who was staring at the ocean, disappointed over not being allowed participation in the Medusa hunt. Ophelia notices that the boy looked troubled and went to ask him what’s wrong. Niilo was shocked that Ophelia wanted to talk with him, but eventually he opened up about how sick he was of his fellow soldiers referring as a weakling and a coward, and how he hoped that fighting Medusa would an opportunity for him to showcase his bravery, but now it is gone. Ophelia sighed and told Niilo she understand his frustration and that she had a friend who was just like him. She went on to talking about Renée Diouf and how in order to prove to everyone she was a “real huntress”, she went on to fight Orion but before she arrived to the part of her death, she was cut off by Yoyo, who asked her if she was coming. Ophelia excused herself from Niilo, who was left with risky ideas on his head.

In order to make it to the island quickly, Natalie decided to dive into the water with Mia holding on her waist. Natalie tried to start a conversation with Mia, but the latter wouldn’t respond and when Natalie decided to check on her, she was horrified when she noticed Mia’s face was going white. Natalie rose quickly to the surface where Mia started coughing water as Natalie was apologizing to her for being inconsiderate. After Mia was done coughing, she noticed a red trail on the water and pointed it out to Natalie who swam them both toward the source of the blood. They were horrified to see a dead woman tied up to a rock with half her body eaten off by what’s presumably is a sea monster.

**You are now playing as Mia Loukas**

It didn’t take Mia long to notice the strong resemblance between the victim and their friend, Rozetta Pierre so when the two girls saw the body, they initially assumed the girl IS Rozetta. They agreed that the victim’s death is no accident but before they could move the body, an angry bird lady showed up and tried to attack the girls. But instead of flying, she lost balance and went into the rocks. Natalie tried to approach the bird lady, but the creature had become terrified and quickly covered herself with her wings. Natalie noticed that one of her wings is injured and she assured the poor creature that they won’t hurt her and offered to take her to their ship and have Hasuro heal her wound, which the creature hesitantly agreed to. After the creature’s wing was mended, the duo decided to speak with her where they learned that the bird lady was actually a siren whose her name is Parthenope and she explained how she ended up in the island. Natalie asked the siren if she witnesses the murder under the team’s command, which Parthenope denied however she spoke on an old and “dangerous” hermit she met near a plane crash and how she is sure he must’ve committed it. Natalie and Mia went to explore the island again until they found the crash Parthenope spoke about and there they met the hermit, Allen Muir, who turned out to be an American soldier whose been lost in action for several decades. They suspected him for the murder and during the investigation they met the legendary Greek hero, Perseus who was resurrected and sailed from Ethiopia to *Sarpedon* in order to fight his archenemy, Medusa once again. While Natalie and Mia were recapping the case, they were shocked to see their friend Rozetta practicing yoga, looking very much alive.

Speechless, Natalie and Mia went to confront Rozetta and asked her what she was doing here. Rozetta explained that she likes to remain flexible and had come to *Sarpedon* to practice yoga in peace. Natalie then decided to drop the bombshell and asked Rozetta how she is still alive, which confused the poor woman. Natalie and Mia explained what had happened and when Rozetta asked if the victim was the only soul they saw in the island, they told her about the hermit, the siren and Natalie gushed about meeting Perseus. Rozetta sighed and explain that her “mortal disguise” isn’t of some random woman, but she took inspiration from an Ethiopian person by the nameof Andromeda when it came to her physical appearance and that same princess is the wife of none other than Perseus. Natalie and Mia were shocked as they put pieces together and realized that the dead body they found was of Perseus’ wife and they rushed to inform him of the sad news, which infuriated him. The hero swore that whoever killed his wife will pay and gave the two girls permission to inspect his temporal camp where they suspected the victim’s mother, Kassiopeia. They also learned that Andromeda met Allen, starting a friendship with him and he was really sad when he heard that she died. During the investigation, Rozetta came to them screaming, revealing that Perseus is trying to kidnap her.

As Rozetta was speaking, Perseus suddenly appeared and he asked her why she was running away from her, addressing her as “Andromeda”, believing her to be his late wife. Rozetta yelled at him, telling him that she is not Andromeda, that her name is Rozetta of Xerda and if he doesn’t leave her alone, he’ll end up headless like Medusa. After turning Perseus away, Rozetta decided she jo longer wanted to practice yoga and will be heading back to Xerda before another freak tries to kidnap her. Natalie and Mia went back to the investigation where they discovered that Andromeda was sick of her mother parading her like a trophy for her beauty and bragging about her match with Perseus to other mothers. Additionally, they found out that Andromeda was the one who injured Parthenope by throwing a spear at her while she and the other sirens were attacking Perseus’ ship, causing her to get separated from her sisters. Suddenly, Natalie and Mia heard celebration coming from the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* and when they came to check what it is about, they saw a giant sea creature being pulled into the ship, with several spears impaling its body. Natalie recognized the creature as “Cetus”, and she was on the verge of crying seeing a fellow sea deity in this state. But eventually she calmed down and in order to find more pieces of evidence against Andromeda’s killer, she and Mia investigated the inside of Cetus’ mouth. And after finding all the clues they needed, they went to confront Kassiopeia for murdering her own daughter.

This revelation made Natalie’s hairs curl as she could not believe anyone could murder their own child. Kassiopeia tried to deny comitting the murder, claiming she would never hurt her dearest daughter but when presented the evidence, she cried claiming it was either her or Andromeda. When questioned about what she meant, Kassiopeia revealed that many centuries ago, she had once boasted how Andromeda was more beautiful than the nereids, which of course angered the nymph who begged the god Poseidon to punish Kassiopeia and her beautiful daughter. Because of that Poseidon flooded Ethiopa and sent the monster Cetus to taunt their kingdom, only agreeing to make him go away if they sacrificed Andromeda. Andromeda agreed to being sacrificed, but luckily to her Perseus passed by and saved the princess and the kingdom by killing the monster and too her as his wife. Kassiopeia thought everything would be fine from now on, but instead the nereids she insulted kept dwelling in her nightmares which taunted her with after her resurrection. Kassiopeia tried to brush them off, but they started scaring her and she feared something bad might actually happen to her and when she spotted Cetus again following them as they sail to *Sarpedon*, she panicked. This when Kassiopeia figured out that Poseidon wanted her to Andromeda and as much as she didn’t want to do it, she went on a walk with her daughter and when she was not looking, she knocked her out and tied her up to a rock on the sea. It didn’t take long for Cetus to emerge and chop off half of Andromeda’s body with his teeth. Natalie and Mia took Kassiopeia to Perseus who was furious at his mother-in-law but did not have the heart to kill her, so instead he decided to exile her from her own kingdom, by leaving her in *Sarpedon* with the gorgons once he is done with killing Medusa.

Once Natalie and Mia were done with the investigation, they returned back to their precent where Ophelia asked if she could talk with Mia. Mia greed to talk and Ophelia took this as an opportunity to apologize to Mia for hitting her a few days ago and blaming her over Madelina’s departure. While the girls were making up, Hasuro and Natalie were checking Parthenope’s wing, glad to see that it was healed and Natalie asked Mia if she’d like to watch them help the siren fly again. Suddenly, two screaming soldiers, Jorge & Agwé, came to the ship, alerting everyone inside and Anne demanded to know what’s making them “scream like wenches”. One of the two stuttered and revealed that they just survived an encounter with a “nutter”, a topic that interested Ophelia and Mia who decided to speak with the two.

Curious on who the “nutter” they were talking about was, Ophelia and Mia went to question Jorge and Agwé together. The couple explained that while they were collecting wood for campfire in case it gets dark during the hunt, they encountered an angry hermit who yelled at them for passing his part of the woods. They tried to calm the old man down, but then they realized he was holding a human eye on his hand and they ran away in fear. While the pirates were joking on how it could be Rags’ lost eye, Mia informed Ophelia that she and Natalie met an ex-soldier called Allen Muir who may be the hermit Jorge and Agwé were talking about. Ophelia and Mia went to confront the hermit over him “supposedly” murdering someone, but the old man denied it and ordered the duo away from his forest. But Mia and Ophelia refused to do so and demanded for the hermit to let them investigate his plane crash where they found a jar enclosed with chains and a lock. The duo unlocked the chains and were horrified when they saw as Jorge and Agwé has told them: A human eye in the jar. Ophelia opened the jar and took out the eye with disgust where suddenly Allen came yelling at them, demanding that they leave the eye where it is as he “found it first”. Ophelia argued with him, and questioned him on where he “found” the eye, where the hermit revealed that he was looking for a fishie friend on the lake but instead of a fish, the eye got into his jar and he decided to keep it as his “friend”. Ophelia got frustrated with the man, she ended up squeezing the eye, which was starting to redden and the pupils were getting smaller from pain. When Ophelia realized what the eye was doing, she screamed and dropped it on the floor. She looked at Mia, who was just as confused as she is on how the eye is still, seemingly alive, and so they decided to take it to the ship to see if Hasuro has an explanation on what was going on with it. Unfortunately, Hasuro had no biological explanation on why the eye was alive, so instead he brought Captain Zhāngjié to his cabin, who according to Hasuro has an idea on what’s up with the eye. When asked to explain, Captain revealed that the eye they have found may not be human, but probably belongs to The Grey Sisters. He further explained that “The Grey Sisters” is a nickname for The Graeae, who are three sisters who share one tooth and one eye. He then revealed that he heard about them when studying about Perseus who stole their eye from them to force them into giving away the location of their sisters, the Gorgons and after they spilled the beans, he threw their eye into the river, leaving them permanently blind. This made the team happy, because if the eye they found was indeed The Grey Sisters’, they could use it to find Medusa’s liar.

In order to see if her wing was fine, Hasuro and Mia took Parthenope to the crow’s nest while Natalie transformed into her naiad form in case the siren ends up drowning. Hasuro then dropped the siren to the air, and for a second it looked like she would fall flat into the water but Parthenope controlled her balance and managed to fly again. The three cheered for the siren, however Parthenope still looked like she was in distress. Worried for her, Natalie asked the siren what was wrong and when she gave her a reply, she turned to Hasuro and Mia to tell them that Parthenope doesn’t know how to find her sisters. The group promised the siren they’ll help her, but they asked her how she and her sisters usually found each other, where Parthenope revealed that they each have an instrument and hers was a harp she used to signal her sisters, but unfortunately it broke when she landed in *Sarpedon*. Natalie and Mia went to inspect the shore where they found the harp in a bad condition and managed to restore, but one thing they couldn’t fix were the strings. They eventually took the harp to Maverick, who burrowed Mia’s extra guitar strings to replace the damaged ones of the harp. Hoping that it’s functional now, they brought the harp back to Parthenope who played a beautiful yet sad tune on the instrument. The team waited for a couple of minutes and the poor siren was going to give up hope, until two bird ladies were spotted approaching the ship: Her sisters, Thelxiepeia and Aglaope. The two sirens were glad to finally reunite with their sister, thanked the team and promised them that if they ever encountered them on the sea, they’ll try not to attack their ship before flying away to look for other ships to haunt.

**You are now experiencing the story in third-person view**

After finding The Grey Sisters’ eye and helping Parthenope leave the island, the crew was ready to hunt for Medusa, but an argument started between Mary and Anne over who should stay and behind and guard the ship. While the two captains were sorting things out, Natalie whispered at Zachary to tell him that she can’t accompany them in their hunt any longer. Zachary chuckled asked her if she’s worried about turning into a stone statue, but Natalie shook her head and told him that she is worried for Madelina and wants to go and look for her. Even though Zachary enjoyed the peace in the ship with Madelina and her friends gone, he understood how Natalie was feeling and gave her his permission to leave, wishing her a safe journey. While they were talking, Mary and Anne were done arguing, where Mary agreed that Anne can stay behind in the ship however at least two of her men had to accompany them in which Anne chose for Jorge & Agwé to go with them. They were all ready to go, but before they left the ship, Vicci asked if anyone had seen Niilo. The ship passengers looked around but Niilo was no where to be found and they realized he must have went to fight Medusa, alone.

## Summary

* **Andromeda** (Tied up to a rock and left to be eaten by a sea creature)

## Suspects

Allen MuirParthenopePerseusRozetta PierreKassiopeia
## Quasi-suspects

Jorge & AgwéCaptain ZhāngjiéThelxiepeia & AglaopeNatalie
## Killer’s Profile

* The killer ties knots.
* The killer eats caterpillars.
* The killer speaks Arabic.
* The killer has B+ blood type.
* The killer wears nailpolish.