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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
Regardless of that if poison is involved there are several ways it could be used. Lunch, dinner, tea, and so on. You can't even rule out the possibility that it's gas. Actually an hallucinogen gas would explain a lot of things, including the golden butterflies.
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If it is a gas, it must exist in some form or fashion and have a delivery mechanism. So somebody would have to be wandering around with a tank of gas and a nozzle to spray it or something, as well as have some way to avoid being taken in by the hallucinogenic gas.
Granted, if all it took was a quick puff, perhaps it would be concealable (and anyone you spritzed could be killed while delusional), but I'm still dubious. I always just assumed the butterflies were a metaphor, either for being "close to the killer" (no idea if it's for ANY given killer or only a particular one) in a given instance, or for seeing something you weren't supposed to see (Shannon sees butterflies while on midnight rounds, etc.). "The magic at work" as one of the killers operates, as it were.
EDIT: Working off the butterfly thing, imagine the butterflies represent the "ritual killer" and then imagine the ep1 First Twilight:
Spoiler for ep1 First Twilight:
Krauss kills his siblings at the meeting, but is unable to kill Eva because she retires early. With Gohda's help, or with Gohda an unfortunate but necessary victim, he drags the corpses to the shed and smashes their faces completely. He then goes back inside looking for Eva, but along the way he is ambushed by the ritual killer (say Nanjo just for the sake of argument), who has been following him. Nanjo kills Krauss, takes him to the same shed, but can only manage to partially smash his face. Somewhere along the way, or while coming back, Shannon is on patrol and sees something she shouldn't (the "butterflies," which could actually be Nanjo dragging a body or returning from outside for uncertain reasons). He kills her and, realizing he now has the six necessary to fulfill the First Twilight, drags her back to the shed, locks it up, and paints a ritual symbol on it.
This isn't meant to be a theory of what did happen, just an example of how I was thinking that if the staker isn't a murderer, it's possible the First Twilights aren't all one person either. While it often ends up looking ritualistic, there's no guarantee that it has to be. As long as it's in a ritualistic state when the survivors find it, it suits the purposes of the "ritual killer," whoever that may be.