WEEK FOUR: INVESTIGATION

[retellers]

WEEK FOUR: INVESTIGATION (?? remain) On Friday morning at 7am, all the doors will unlock and the participants may traverse between areas again. Participants will find that, as they leave wherever they slept, everything feels... unclear? Did they see whoever they were with? They can no longer remember. Even for those who spent the night alone, they can feel that something is off. It doesn't seem as though the Leaders are around, but at this point, everyone should realize what has happened. Time to investigate. ༶•┈┈⛧┈｡o°✥✣ 　　 ✣✥°o｡┈⛧┈┈•༶ Welcome to your fifth investigation! We will be posting top-levels for searchable locations—one set at 6pm EST and another set at 7pm EST. Each location will contain evidence to find, though it's up to your efforts as to whether you find all of it. Please coordinate investigation groups on Discord, as we ask that group threads consist of no more than 2-3 characters. We will stop tagging each top-level two hours after it went up, i.e. at 8pm and 9pm EST, respectively. Don't worry if you don't find everything! Characters will get the chance to revisit locations tomorrow at trial. At 9pm EST, an announcement will go up, confirming the victim(s). If you have any questions at any time, please let us know by pinging us on Discord!

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[sacredchants]

[ okay. that's.... hmmm.

izumo will take a closer look at the papers on the desk; does anything else look astray? any hint that maybe someone took other paper? ]

[lecarre]

[Listen... Ange is happy to have found nothing. She's satisfied by the sparkly clean bathroom and turns to leave. Izuko is still poking around in the lobby, and Dorothy is poking around the kitchen, sooo... to the second floor?

Anything off with the stairs as she starts to head on up?]

[misstrust]

[ Dorothy's checking cabinets and the closets and the oven just to be sure-- but Ange is going to have to handle the stairs herself, sorry. She's over stairs.

She's just here to be pretty in this investigation I guess!! ]

[retellers]

[ There's nothing else out of place on the desk! It looks like someone just took that paper and nothing else. Wow. What a mystery.

On the stairs, there is...............half a cupcake. it looks like it was split and then left untouched. what could it possibly mean

There's nothing in the cabinets, closets, or oven! Dorothy is always there to be pretty. She is just so pretty. All three girls should just grab cupcakes and have a party tbh ]

[sacredchants]

[ partying while there are dead people seems a bit... unsightly.

either way, that's a mystery and very strange, and since the mods keep ignoring my desire to examine the couches, I guess she'll meander over towards ange. ]

Did you find anything yet? All I've found so far is that someone ripped out the instructions for that memory book.

[lecarre]

[Izumo meanders over while Ange is peering at that cupcake as if it's a snake that's going to bite her.

She does not react to her words... at all. But then she straightens from the cupcake, leaving it there because she is Afraid to Touch, and turns to see Izumo right there and squeaks and jumps back with a hand pressed to her chest.

oh my god.

... Okay it's just Izumo. Wheeze.

Ange is helpful this investigation.]

Miss Izumo...? [She says this way too loudly. That is not her inside voice.]

[misstrust]

[ No, they're trying to solve a mystery!! So out of the kitchen she goes to rejoin the others and...

Huh. Well, actually, that explains a lot about Ange's weird silence and so Dorothy points up the stairs. And, loudly-- ]

Should we keep going up, spoopy???

[retellers]

[ the cupcake looks like all the other leftover cupcakes. please don't get hung up on cupcakes in trial, jan will kill me.

ALSO IZUMO CAN CHECK THE COUCHES I MISSED IT in over or under, there's nothing near the couches!

and then dorothy and izumo give ange a heart attack ]

[sacredchants]

Oh, those were the cupcakes that Wolf was eating.

[ "eating"?

but she's totally unfazed and doesn't apologize for startling ange because...well?? who else did she think would sneak up on her? it's fine. but when dorothy call out, she'll reply in turn: ]

Did you find anything interesting in there aside from cupcakes?

[lecarre]

[She definitely does not hear the first bit, but the rest is loud enough for her to grasp.

...]

Spoopy...? [?????

... anyway.

She just points upstairs.]

I... still haven't checked up there. I didn't see anything else. [Time to start heading up??]

[misstrust]

Only cupcakes, spoopy.

[ She hates this.

And she turns her gaze up the stairs and hates it even more. And with a bravado of a mighty warrior and also having to raise her voice even more because apparently Ange only heard the most annoying part-- ]

UP WE GO, SPOOPY!

[ Ange will probably beat her there and Izumo but it's fine. ]

[retellers]

[ spoopy ...

spoopy scawy skewetons are not upstairs! There doesn't seem to be anything out of place for Ange to see. Only to hear, because spoopy.

Dorothy watch out, Ange didn't pick up the cupcake and it's immediately in the way in the stairs for people who have a fucked up leg.

what is izumo doing ]

[sacredchants]

[ what is izumo doing?

i guess she'll be responsible and pick up the cupcake that was discarded on the stairs because someone should think of our crippled. though i have no idea what she's going to do with half of a cupcake.

up the stairs we all go??? ]

[lecarre]

[Apparently, there's nothing upstairs but Ange pokes around all of the crevices and around the doors anyway. It's not like they can get in any of them but their own but.

Gotta look around?? She just gives Izumo an apologetic shrug.

And as she does, she yells down:]

Please... do not come up here, Miss Dorothy!

[STAY DOWNSTAIRS, BROKEN LEG LADY.]

[misstrust]

[ Oh. Okay. No stairs for Dorothy. ]

THERE BETTER NOT BE A BODY UP THERE, YOUNG LADY SPOOPY!!

[ Lord what even is there to check still, can she go slowly investigate the washer and dryer or does that not count as Inn-- ]

[retellers]

[ This mod will be nice and tell you to reread the very first comment they gave you, but sure, Dorothy can check the the washer and dryer to find a lot of nothing. Maybe some dryer lint.

There's nothing in any of the nooks and crannies upstairs either! Wow. ]

[sacredchants]

There's an elevator in here you know.

[ BECAUSE PEOPLE FORGET? but if there's nothing upstairs then back down to the lobby and izumo is going to check out her kamidana?? wherever it lies? please don't let it be trashed..... ]

[lecarre]

[i'm not smart mods that's why I'm playing this scrub.

Anyway, obediently Ange heads back on downstairs, whispering in mystification:]

There's an alligator...? [She Did Not Hear apparently.

But once she's downstairs, uh.

Has anyone poked at the computer yet, she'll do that if not, even though she doesn't know what a computer is.]

[misstrust]

[ I'm also not smart mods--

But Dorothy returns with dryer lint (no she left it there) and will now join Izumo by the kamidama or whatever. ]

[retellers]

[ The computer still does not turn on! Alas. Ange can poke it, though.

But the kamidama is a hit! Especially with both of them looking, they'll notice a bit of paper slipped against one of the rocks that are laid out. ]

[sacredchants]

It's not an alligator it's an elev—[ HER KAMIDANA!!!!

THIS IS THE LAST TIME IZUMO WILL ASK FOR ANYTHING NICE FOR ANYONE EVER, but since izumo can bend over, she's going to pick up the piece of paper. gonna go out on a limb and might be the same paper as the memory book? ]

[lecarre]

[Ange has no idea how to use a computer so this is just as well.

Anyway she'll join the squad so that she's not holding up this whole investigation.

CONTINUE.]

[misstrust]

[ And Dorothy will peer over Izumo's shoulder to see if the paper says anything? I mean it might just be the first page, that's legit. ]

[retellers]

[ It is the first page-- or part of it. It looks like it's from the middle of it? It's ripped on the top, bottom and side, anyway. The instructions are on the front ... and because your round is almost over, i'm going to assume they turn it over!

The back says "FORGIVE THEM". ]

[sacredchants]

Forgive them?

[ and since the three of them don't need to be here, can izumo go to the memory book and do a quick check on the handwriting??? ]