#franzia's art

[franzias-cave]

CRINGE: The world is ending and you're in love with your best friend who is a nun. and your roots are showing.

[franzias-cave]

reblog with your version!!

[best-nun-tournament]

Round 3, Match 3

M—'s Nun/Cristabel Oct (The Locked Tomb) vs Miss Clavel (Madeline)

Art of M—'s Nun by @franzias-cave

Poll Runner's Note: Miss Clavel had to look after 12 little girls but M—'s Nun had to deal with 16 grown adults (and two teen zombies).

M—'s Nun/Cristabel Oct

She was good with little kids and animais, She committed suicide , twice. Both of times out of devotion to the man she thought was God but the second time also perhaps out of lesbian love for her best friend - an atheist bioengineer who experimented on human bodies and had no qualms killing for that same man. She knows the protocol to follow to report miracles direct to the Vatican, she also knows how use a gun and later on learned how to fight with a sword and a chain as off hand like in the coliseum. She was described as lunatic, she helped fund a sect of a new religion, no one could hate her not even the brother of the man she made a suicide pact with.

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Cristabel isn't best nun she's worst nun. Nobody is doing it like her. Nobody should do it like her. She sees someone hesitating and goes "is anyone else going to kill themselves to force that guy's hand" and doesn't even wait for an answer. She did this twice.

Miss Clavel

Miss Clavel takes regular care of 12 girls, and the neighboring ambassador's son (who has major issues). She is able to sense trauma in the girls even while asleep and saves one from appendicitis. She goes above and beyond, traveling across the country with her girls to support them when a grandparent dies. She never stops searching if one goes missing. She keeps their emotional well-being at the forefront, even when her school is threatened by snobby donors.

[mercymcrn]

hey gals. i know posting edits is not a thing that’s done here but i have not made a mercymorn post in too long so… this is my contribution for the month!! credits in alt below the cut, the other credits are on ig under arolilith.

[alt: edit of mercymorn the first to ‘girl with one eye’ by florence and the machine. the edit includes art by tumblr users @/emeeedee, @/franzias-cave and @/green446004. florence welch (lead singer of florence and the machine) is also used as a fan cast throughout. end alt]

[g1deonthefirst]

wake for the character game :)

omg yay<3

favorite thing about them: her sheer commitment to her cause. she went through the horror of impregnating herself with the sperm of what has to be the person she despises most in the universe and then carried that baby under her heart for nine months just for the long shot of being able to kill john. she stuck around for at least nineteen years as a revenant and stayed (more or less) sane just on the sheer force of her conviction. landmine people for real.

least favorite thing about them: she's dead :((

favorite line: how can i choose one. every single thing she says. banger after banger after banger. but i guess it has to be

THE ONLY THING OUR CIVILIZATION CAN EVER LEARN FROM YOURS IS THAT WHEN OUR BACKS ARE TO THE WALL AND OUR TOWERS ARE FALLING ALL AROUND US AND WE ARE WATCHING OURSELVES BURN WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.

made such an impact on me i named the server after it.

brOTP: well wake and pash obviously idk if that's a brOTP i just love the idea of auntie wake. otherwise gotta be wake and we suffer. in my head they either had a mentor/mentee situation or they had a relationship. maybe both. either way i imagine they were very close at one point.

OTP: wake/pyrrha/g1deon. i just know whatever she had going on with both of them was so crazy i need the prequel so bad. please tamsyn show me the gunplay.

nOTP: wake/john. literally what the fuck is wrong with you people.

random headcanon: the first thing that came to mind when i saw this is that wake put cigarettes out on pyrrha. this is like canon to me. more randomly i also imagine that she had a bad relationship with her mom but was close to her grandparents before they either died during the invasion of her home planet by the empire or got separated during resettlement.

unpopular opinion: she genuinely did nothing wrong. i would have killed that baby to open the tomb.

song i associate with them: thanks to lem's wake playlist, rex - brutus ii by the buttress. also raupatu by alien weaponry for obvious reasons.

favorite picture of them: franzia's art of wake was the very first fanart of wake i can remember seeing and really loving. her face her hair the fact that she's decking that skeleton. what could be more iconic

[therealvinelle]

I felt sad seeing that no one asked you about your master plan for your april fools joke post, so I'll ask.. what was the plan? how did you and muffin convincingly pretend to be two separate people?

(Anon is referring to this amazing April Fool's joke)

I'm so glad you (and a few others, after seeing my "woe nobody asked. woe!" post) asked!

So, rule one of making up an elaborate lie: what is already known? What can people find out on their own?

Well, @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin's ffnet account is older than mine. It's from 2008, Vinelle is from 2014 (accidental account creation, I thought I was reviewing anonymously. Ffnet said "so you wish to make an account"). It's the reverse with our tumblrs, my main belovedordos dates back to 2012 while theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin is only from 2015 or so.

Faithful followers will remember that the reason why Muffin created the account theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin in the first place was because someone had nabbed the url thecarnivorousmuffin, and this was creating confusion. Faithful followers will further remember that Vinelle's fanfiction career began with bizarre fanfics where Harry Potter is a deer.

How, then, to tie these together?

We decided on the following series of events:

In 2008, Muffin creates the account The Carnivorous Muffin on ffnet. A few years later she gets a tumblr, she keeps this separate from her fic profile. In 2015 however, she discovers she does actually need a tumblr. To keep the two separate, however (as tumblr will make it so your likes and follows come from your main, making it impossible to keep the two separate in any meaningful sense), she creates an entire new blog: theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin.

Meanwhile, in 2014, an accident led to her creating a second ffnet account, Vinelle. Hate when that happens, but it exists now and when she gets the really dumb idea to write really dumb fics where Harry is a deer, she posts it on that account instead of The Carnivorous Muffin (Longtime followers of Muffin will remember this was a time when people would ask "Can you write a Lily and the Art of Being Sisyphus fic where she meets deer!Harry?" if she had).

So, alright, Muffin now has a lot of accounts but that's fine, it's manageable. A main ffnet account, a shame account, both get imported to Ao3, a tumblr main, a tumblr for her fanfiction stuff, it's all good.

2020 comes around, and she starts posting metas on theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin because people are giving her asks. Life continues as usual otherwise.

Until in December 2020, when she is posting the first chapter of Nebuchadnezzar's Dream and she posts to the wrong account.

Ah hell.

She decides to go with it, however, if anything it'll be interesting to see if it gets any readers on its own considering the Vinelle account is a fandom nobody. As a nod to herself, she has Vinelle thank The Carnivorous Muffin for being such a good beta. Har har.

The comment section turns out to be a surprisingly chatty place, though, and...

She gets a horrible idea.

She's already pretending to be two people.

Why not take it further?

So she creates therealvinelle on tumblr.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

(With @franzias-cave having been called in, even, as thoughts about making them back us up on this were had.)

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Imagine for a second the premise of Sword Art Online: VR game, everyone is stuck in it or their brain gets fried, etc.

Given that Carlisle Cullen couldn't kill himself by starvation... what if, say, Jane and Alec get stuck in the Death Game with a bunch of humans? Maybe we toss in Eleazar so that Aro can unplug someone and realise the brain-frying works on vampires (sorry Eleazar!)

Anyways what do you think that'd do to the Volturi and to Jane/Alec? If they had to cooperate with humans, do you think their attitude towards them would change? Or are they so hangry they're doomed?

I want to write the fic but first I want your take lol

Well, the Volturi try to hide that Jane and Alec are out of commission for as long as possible. When this is sooner or later exposed, we humans have a bloody and terrible time as vampires quickly build up what armies they can in order to overwhelm the Volturi with numbers now that they won't be swatted like flies by magic twins at a moment's notice.

The Volturi are very very busy waging wars against their enemy and keeping the secret in line.

As for Jane and Alec, they're having a time in a video game, I guess, I haven't seen this anime so I wouldn't know. I assume they're not vampires in the video game? If they are, they probably don't cooperate with humans, as they'd likely end up eating them and use their bullshit abilities to begin with to clear the game as quickly as possible (is that how this works for this one???)

More, given their background, I imagine they'd avoid relying on humans at all costs and not even really consider it as a serious option.

...

You really should write the fic here.

(gift credit @franzias-cave)

[sheisadanger]

— O Basgiath War College dá as boas-vindas a ISAVELL YIN LYNCHEHAUN, uma PRIMEIRO ANO que mostrou-se disposta a desafiar o parapeito para incorporar o Riders Quadrant. Vinda da província de MORRAINE, ela possui VINTE E TRÊS anos, e foi recrutada para a SEGUNDA ASA, encontrando-se atualmente na SEÇÃO CHAMA e fazendo parte do 1º ESQUADRÃO. Esperamos que algum dragão reconheça que é LEAL e CÍNICA, ou esse cavaleiro estará morto.

HABILIDADES NOTÓRIAS: Capaz de usar o peso e força do oponente contra ele mesmo, é nesse contexto em que suas habilidades se destacam. A velocidade e flexibilidade atreladas à arte marcial que ataca pontos de pressão sobre o corpo humano fazem de Isavell uma ótima combatente no corpo-a-corpo. Quando esses pontos específicos sofrem um golpe certeiro, os efeitos podem ser desde atordoante e/ou imobilizantes até mortais. Isavell ainda não sabe utilizar dessa arte para fazer vítimas fatais, mas acredita ser capaz de ainda evoluir a esse nível.

ARMA DE PREFERÊNCIA: Sabre, espada de meia lua e arco e flecha. 

DRAGÃO (se já estiver vinculado): Não vinculado.

SINETE (se já manifestado): Não manifestado.

Criada para ser uma boa mãe e uma lady em tempo integral, Isavell era curiosa e ativa demais para o gosto da família e dos tutores particulares. Questionava quando devia acatar, e mesmo que fosse extremamente graciosa como o exigido, seu cinismo quando revelado era assustador. Era capaz de mentir com a cara mais deslavada do mundo, e não foi apenas uma vez que ouviu a mãe sussurrar preocupada sobre como a menina parecia com o pai. Como podia? Nunca tiveram o menor contato, e lá estava ele, surgindo por detrás da superfície do rostinho angelical da pequena Isavell. 

A adolescência fora difícil. Diante de qualquer pergunta sobre o homem, sua mãe até disfarçava mas franzia o cenho. Tudo que dizia é que ele foi alguém complicado, e que havia morrido em combate em cima de um dragão. Ficava irritada com a insistência e desobediência que ela mostrava. Então, Isavell não contou para a mãe sua vontade (e a esse ponto, já total certeza) de ir atrás do caminho do pai. Onde ele pisou, ela iria pisar. Se ele voou em um dragão, ela também o faria. Deu um jeito de exigir do tutor de dança tradicional que a ensinasse a arte marcial de seus antepassados em comum, algo que ela já havia deixado escapar acreditando que seria uma informação curiosa e inofensiva para uma menina que gostava de ouvir histórias. Esqueceu-se que essa gostava também de saber de tudo, e registrava na mente. 

Tendo a ponte que o dinheiro pode garantir até tudo que se quer quando se tem, chegar até o dia de ser cadete não foi a pior parte. Foi entender que teria de abrir mão de tudo que tinha. Fazer uma trouxa e partir no meio da noite. A lealdade consigo mesma e sua vontade de entender de onde vinha aquele que temiam ver quando se revelava nela. Seu pai, o cavaleiro de dragão, o homem forte que conquistou a frieza de sua mãe, que dera metade do que ela era. Não era justo conhecer só a outra parte. Fora árduo manter uma máscara de boa garota, ainda que tenha sido só o mínimo do que exigiam dela. Agora não era hora de pôr tudo a perder, ela tinha uma história para descobrir.

[tlt-big-resurrection]

THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT

by @sophelstien

art by @franzias-cave and @noctilia

Read the Fic & See the Art HERE

Rating: M

Summary:

Two stories, seven years apart, and the moment that joins them.

When Coronabeth is fourteen years old, her mother kills herself.

Now first in line for the throne, feeling exposed and unmoored, grappling with her grief, her sense of self, and her increasingly unstable sister, Coronabeth convinces Naberius to teach her how to sword fight. This is how the story begins.

When Coronabeth is twenty-one years old, she watches her sister kill their brother.

Coronabeth, abandoned, powerless, and hopeless, must do her best to survive alongside Camilla Hect and Judith Deuteros in the wake of the deaths and betrayals of the people closest to them in an empty, crumbling Canaan House. This is how the story begins again.

[ulkaralakbarova]

A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his kick him out of the group he founded. Things begin to look up for Izzy when he is asked to join Steel Dragon, the heavy metal rockers he had been imitating for so long. This film is loosely based on the true story of the band Judas Priest. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Chris ‘Izzy’ Cole: Mark Wahlberg Emily Poule: Jennifer Aniston Kirk Cuddy: Dominic West A.C.: Jason Bonham Jorgen: Jeff Pilson Ghode: Zakk Wylde Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager: Timothy Spall Donny Johnson: Blas Elias Xander Cummins: Nick Catanese Ricki Bell: Brian Vander Ark Rob Malcolm: Timothy Olyphant Tania Asher, Steel Dragon PR: Dagmara Domińczyk Joe Cole: Matthew Glave Mr. Cole: Michael Shamus Wiles Mrs. Cole: Beth Grant Bobby Beers: Jason Flemyng Nina: Carey Lessard Samantha: Kristin Richardson Mason Bell: Jamie Williams Roadie #1: Keith Loneker Amber: Sami Reed Marci: Kara Zediker Bradley: Stephan Jenkins Guitarist in Crowd Outside Mansion: Vitamin C Cream Reporter: Kevin Ryder Melody-Maker Reporter: Gene Baxter Bouncer: Gregory Hinton Nurse: Sonya Stephens Photographer: Neil Zlozower Fan #1: Kirk Enochs Thor: Myles Kennedy A.C.’s Wife: Rachel Hunter Kirk’s Wife: Heidi Mark Ghode’s Wife: Carrie Stevens Jorgen’s Wife: Amy Miller Office Worker: William Martin Brennan Mrs. Andrews: Lorna Scott Auditioning Singer: Ralph Saenz Topless Cutie #1: Jennifer Rovero Topless Cutie #2: Natalie Raynes Scalper: Jamal Weathers Two-Year Old Girl: Hailie Brennand Roadie #2: Eric Weinstein MTV Veejay: Jamie White Metal Head: Jeffrey Wetzel Guitar Tech: Frederick E. Kowalo Girl with P-Pass: Jennifer Uilani Warren Roxy Dancer: Chad Azadan Roxy Dancer: Linda Cevallos Roxy Dancer: Jennifer Edmond Roxy Dancer: Brian Friedman Roxy Dancer: Cynthia Fuhrer Roxy Dancer: Cati Jean Roxy Dancer: Edward Jenkins Roxy Dancer: Kelly Knox Roxy Dancer: Tabbatha Mays Roxy Dancer: Udee McGeoy Roxy Dancer: Ted Napolitano Roxy Dancer: Tomasina Parrott Roxy Dancer: Gabriel Ramírez Roxy Dancer: Ursula Whittaker Roxy Dancer: Zachary Woodlee Concert Rocker: Andrew Wayne Bar Patron (uncredited): Gia Franzia Film Crew: Production Design: Mayne Berke Executive Producer: Steven Reuther Original Music Composer: Trevor Rabin Executive Producer: George Clooney Second Unit Director: David R. Ellis Director of Photography: Ueli Steiger Casting: Sharon Bialy Actor’s Assistant: Eric Weinstein Co-Producer: Michael Fottrell Costume Design: Aggie Guerard Rodgers Screenplay: John Stockwell Stunts: Chad Stahelski Director: Stephen Herek Stunts: Chris Palermo Stunts: Joe Bucaro III Producer: Toby Jaffe Editor: Trudy Ship Stunts: Julie Michaels Stunts: Keith Woulard Stunts: T.J. White Executive Producer: Mike Ockrent Choreographer: Peggy Holmes Music Supervisor: Budd Carr Set Decoration: Casey Hallenbeck Unit Production Manager: Paul Moen Swing: P. Scott Bailey Stunts: Laura Albert Stunts: Mike Gunther Supervising Art Director: Caty Maxey Stunt Coordinator: Brad Martin Stunts: Jeff Imada Still Photographer: Claudette Barius First Assistant Director: Jeffrey Wetzel Actor’s Assistant: Ozzie Areu Production Accountant: Ravi D. Mehta Art Department Coordinator: Joe Walser Leadman: Mark Woods Stunts: Tim Rigby Camera Operator: Thomas Yatsko Stunts: Sean Graham Set Designer: Harry E. Otto Makeup Artist: Donald Mowat Special Effects Coordinator: Paul J. Lombardi Makeup Artist: Jean Ann Black Boom Operator: Carl Fischer Stunts: Damon Caro Stunts: Chris O’Hara First Assistant Camera: Gary L. Camp Script Supervisor: Adrienne Hamalian-Mangine Special Effects: Scott Blackwell Video Assist Operator: David Katz Stunts: Steve Holladay Hairstylist: Johnny Villanueva Set Costumer: Lisa A. Doyle Hairstylist: Kerry Mendenhall Music Editor: Brent Brooks Steadicam Operator: Dan Kneece Location Manager: Curtis Collins Hairstylist: Shari Perry Key Makeup Artist: Michael Mills Key Costumer: Sabrina Calley Stunts: Brandon Sebek Producer: Robert Lawrence Art Direction: Richard Schreiber Costume Supervisor: Bruce Erickse...

[franzias-cave]

she HATED the sexy parties!!!!

[franzias-cave]

couldn’t resist 

so i'm cosplaying griddle at some point for halloween, but before i dye my hair orange i HAD to do a little test for harrow here u are

[best-nun-tournament]

Round 2, Match 5

M—'s Nun/Cristabel Oct (The Locked Tomb) vs Esther Blanchett (Trinity Blood)

Art of M—'s Nun by @franzias-cave

M—'s Nun/Cristabel Oct

She was good with little kids and animais, She committed suicide , twice. Both of times out of devotion to the man she thought was God but the second time also perhaps out of lesbian love for her best friend - an atheist bioengineer who experimented on human bodies and had no qualms killing for that same man. She knows the protocol to follow to report miracles direct to the Vatican, she also knows how use a gun and later on learned how to fight with a sword and a chain as off hand like in the coliseum. She was described as lunatic, she helped fund a sect of a new religion, no one could hate her not even the brother of the man she made a suicide pact with.

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Cristabel isn't best nun she's worst nun. Nobody is doing it like her. Nobody should do it like her. She sees someone hesitating and goes "is anyone else going to kill themselves to force that guy's hand" and doesn't even wait for an answer. She did this twice.

Esther Blanchett

she's so cute

[g1deonthefirst]

Hello! Mercymorn for the character game!

favorite thing about them: as with aim i ADORE the way mercymorn talks, her dialogue is so distinctive and makes her so deeply enjoyable to read. also i love how unapologetically unpleasant she is, i feel like female characters are so rarely written that way. oh also the fact that she killed john.

least favorite thing about them: for sure the spending nearly 10,000 years upholding john's empire. i know i know women can't do anything. also the way she and augustine both treat g1deon. also the fact that i can't say her name with my midwestern american accent without it sounding awful.

favorite line: "'Children as fists! Infants as gestures! Yuck! Pfaugh! I live in the worst of all possible worlds!"

brOTP: hmm. mercymorn fr does not have many friends it is sort of a key part of her character. maybe mercymorn and nigella since she called her pretty iirc maybe they got along.

OTP: mercymorn/cristabel because i think they had some insanely repressed lesbian situationship going on but runner up mercymorn/augustine because their whole weve hated each other too long and too passionately to stop deal makes me feel like chewing drywall.

nOTP: honestly im not a mercymorn/wake shooter i just cant see it im so sorry

random headcanon: i imagine that m— and a— also had a weird situationship pre-res like they were hatefucking and john wasn't even aware of it.

unpopular opinion: this is really only unpopular in the circles that i refuse to be in but i think that mercymorn's attitude and personality are deeply informed by her enduring 10,000 years of both structural and very direct misogyny and frankly being coerced into sexual situations like dios apate minor and the sex parties and you fundamentally can't understand her as a character unless you take that into account. also i think the "she's a bitch and i love her so much" john mulaney-esque jokes are so fucking annoying and genuinely misogynistic.

song i associate with them: bad believer by st. vincent. just a very lyctor-betraying-god song to me in general.

favorite picture of them: this is so difficult there are so many amazing mercymorns. i think composition-wise im a really big fan of this one, in terms of mercymorns that look like she could walk right out of the art and start talking i love franzia's pre-res m— , and it's not really how i imagine her but in terms of hottest mercymorn it's obviously this one.

[therealvinelle]

Do you think a vampire could use venom to give themselves tattoos/bleach their skin/lighten their hair?

... I uh will put it this way, if venom bleached skin and lightened hair then there would be a lot of straight women and gay men with bleached hair, at least on the front. There would be vitiligo-like splotches all over their bodies, too.

Something, something, someone should write the AU where Bella finds out vampires aren't pale at all when they wake up, they uh get like that.

As for tattoos, Jasper is proof you can alter your skin so I guess scarification is an option that could look great, though it'd hurt like hell and you'd need a partner you trusted very much to do it for you.

EDIT: my gay buddy @franzias-cave made an impassioned argument and I must edit:

Everyone sexually active has weird bleach stains regardless of sexuality. No one is safe (unless you're a virgin).

So there.

NEW EDIT: goddamn Franzia wants their monichre to be "fucking weird homosexual non-binary friend".

Anyone wants to be my new art friend, apply in DMs.

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Disappearance of Maura Murray

In November 2003, three months before her disappearance, Murray admitted to using a stolen credit card to order food from several restaurants, including one in Hadley, Massachusetts. The charge was continued in December, to be dismissed after three months' good behavior. On the evening of February 5, 2004, while she was on duty at her campus-security job, Murray spoke on the phone with her older sister, Kathleen. They discussed Kathleen's relationship problems with her fiancé. Around 10:30 p.m., while still on her shift, Murray reportedly broke down in tears. When her supervisor arrived at her desk, Murray was "just completely zoned out. No reaction at all. She was unresponsive." The supervisor escorted Murray back to her dorm room around 1:20 am. When asked what was wrong, Murray said two words: "My sister." The contents of this call remained unknown until October 2017, when Kathleen publicly explained the conversation: Kathleen, a recovering alcoholic, had been discharged from a rehabilitation clinic that evening, and on the way home, her fiancé took her to a liquor store, which caused an emotional breakdown.

After midnight on Monday, February 9, Murray used her personal computer to search MapQuest for directions to the Berkshires and Burlington, Vermont. The first reported contact Murray had with anyone on February 9 was at 1:00 pm, when she emailed her boyfriend: "I love you more stud. I got your messages, but honestly, i didn't feel like talking to much of anyone, i promise to call today though. love you, Maura"  

At 1:24 pm, Murray emailed a work supervisor of the nursing school faculty that she would be out of town for a week due to a death in her family; no one in her family had died. She also said she would contact them when she returned. At 2:05 pm, Murray called a number which provides recorded information about booking hotels in Stowe, Vermont. The call lasted approximately five minutes. At 2:18 pm, she telephoned her boyfriend and left a voice message promising him they would talk later. This call ended after one minute.

In her car, Murray packed clothing, toiletries, college textbooks, and birth control pills. When her room was searched later, campus police discovered most of her belongings packed in boxes and the art removed from the walls. It is not clear whether Murray packed them that day, but police at the time said she had packed between Sunday night and Monday morning. On top of the boxes was a printed email to Murray's boyfriend indicating trouble in their relationship. Around 3:30 pm, she drove off the campus in her black 1996 Saturn sedan; classes at the university had been cancelled that day due to a snowstorm.

At 3:40 pm, Murray withdrew $280 from an ATM. Closed-circuit footage showed she was alone. At a nearby liquor store, Murray purchased about $40 worth of alcoholic beverages, including Baileys Irish Cream, Kahlúa, vodka, and a box of Franzia wine. Security footage again shows she was alone when she made that purchase. At some point in the day, she also picked up accident-report forms from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles from an incident she was involved in a few weeks before hand to which she owed money.

Murray then left Amherst between 4 and 5pm, presumably via Interstate 91 north. She called to check her voicemail at 4:37 pm, the last recorded use of her cell phone. To date there is no indication she had informed anyone of her destination, or any evidence that she had chosen one.

Some time after 7:00 pm, a Woodsville, New Hampshire, resident heard a loud thump outside her house. Through her window, she could see a car up against the snowbank along Route 112, also known as Wild Ammonoosuc Road. The car pointed west on the eastbound side of the road. She telephoned the Grafton County Sheriff's Department at 7:27 pm to report the accident. According to the 9-1-1 log, the woman claimed to have seen a man smoking a cigarette inside the car. However, she later stated that she had not seen a man nor a person smoking a cigarette, but rather had seen what appeared to be a red light glowing from inside the car, potentially from a cell phone. At about the same time, another neighbor saw the car as well as someone walking around the vehicle. She witnessed a third neighbor pull up alongside the vehicle.

That neighbor, a school bus driver returning home, noticed the young woman was not bleeding or visibly injured, but cold and shivering. He offered to telephone for help. She asked him not to call the police (one police report says "pleaded") and assured him she had already called AAA (AAA has no record of any such call). Knowing there was no cellular reception in the area, the bus driver continued home and called the police. His call was received by the Sheriff's Department at 7:43 pm. He was unable to see Murray's car while he made the call but did notice several cars pass on the road before the police arrived. Another local resident driving home from work claims she passed by the scene around 7:37 pm, and saw a police SUV parked face-to-face with Murray's car. She pulled over briefly and did not see anyone inside or outside the cars, and decided to continue home. This witness's statement contradicts the official police log, which has Haverhill police arriving nine minutes later.

According to the official police log, at 7:46 pm, a Haverhill police officer arrived at the scene. No one was inside or around the car. The car had impacted the tree on the driver's side of the vehicle, severely damaging the left headlight and pushing the car's radiator into the fan, rendering it inoperable. The car's windshield was cracked on the driver's side, and both airbags had deployed. The car was locked.

Inside and outside the car, he discovered red stains that looked to be red wine. Inside the car, the officer found an empty beer bottle  and a damaged box of Franzia wine on the rear seat. In addition, he found a AAA card issued to Murray; blank accident-report forms; gloves, compact discs, makeup, diamond jewelry; driving directions to Burlington, Vermont; Murray's favorite stuffed animal, and Not Without Peril, a book about mountain climbing in the White Mountains. Missing were Murray's debit card, credit cards, and cell phone, none of which has been located or used since her disappearance. The police later reported some of the bottles of purchased liquor were also missing.

Journalist Joe McGee, writing for the Quincy, Massachusetts, Patriot Ledger, summarized the incident: "At a hairpin turn, she went off the road. Her car hit a tree. At that point, a person came along who was driving a bus. It was a neighbor. He asked her if she needed help. She refused. About 10 minutes later, police showed up to the scene and Maura Murray was gone."

Between 8:00 to 8:30 pm, a contractor returning home from Franconia saw a young person moving quickly on foot eastbound on Route 112 about 4 to 5 miles (6 to 8 km) east of where Murray's vehicle was discovered. He noted that the young person was wearing jeans, a dark coat, and a light-colored hood. He did not report it to police immediately due to his own confusion of dates, only discovering three months later (when reviewing his work records) that he had spotted the young person the same night Murray disappeared.

The responding officer and the bus driver drove around the area searching for Murray. Just before 8:00 pm, EMS and a fire truck arrived to clear the scene. By 8:49 pm, the car had been towed to a local garage. At about 9:30 pm, the responding officer left. A rag believed to have been part of Murray's emergency roadside kit was discovered stuffed into the Saturn's muffler pipe. Authorities would refer to Murray as simply "missing" at 12 pm the next day, almost 24 hours after the last confirmed sighting of her. 

The case remains unsolved.