WEEK FOUR: INVESTIGATION

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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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PLAZA INN

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GRAVEYARD

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MINE

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MOUNTAIN

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[bisouled]

[ the graveyard is not her favorite place to be and also seems like a particularly tasteless place to commit a murder, but here they are - someone has to check it. She's relieved to see Homura and especially Rufus still in one piece. ]

Looks like we get stuck with the dirty work.

[ let's go in through the gates and see if anything's amiss... ]

[horologia]

... A poor choice of location, but I suppose there aren't actually any real dead here to disrespect.

[ yeah we're just erasing all of the rich people nonsense from two days ago. it's fine. rich people are stupid.

all right, what's the obvious damage. anything off at a glance to someone who's spent a lot of the week haunting the grave? ]

[sacredchants]

Are you sure you should be pushing yourself like this? I mean, after what happened in the manor.

[ at dorothy ofc because unlike some people she has feelings??? anyway, she's taking a look see around to see what's up and happening. anything that stands out immediately as odd? ]

[soulus]

[Rufus stares blankly at Fiora and Homura before entering the graveyard after them. Let's get an overall look at the location from a distance.]

[lecarre]

[Izumo is a good girl. Ange is just stepping into the lobby area to poke around, almost as if Izumo never said anything.

It's fine, it wasn't directed at her.

What do they see at first glance!!]

[misstrust]

Oh, it's fine, spoopy. It's not like I'm going to be pushing myself too hard here, spoopy.

[ ... And then Dorothy pauses, mouths "Spoopy??" to herself in disbelief, and just kind of. Shakes her head.

Time to look up at the ceiling before checking corners. ]

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[ Well, there are definitely things amiss. Mainly, it looks like chaos erupted in the graveyard. The dirt has been disturbed in various places, and from where they are, at the entrance, they can see blood splatters on the ground, on gravestones, etc. ]

[bisouled]

[ there's always the hope that nothing will actually be wrong! it is swiftly dashed.

Fiora sighs, then just gets to work. Where has the dirt been disturbed? She'll go investigate whichever spot is nearest. ]

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[ Their first step leads them into the inn lobby which looks pretty much the same as usual. The desk has its usual papers, pens and the computer as well as the added memory book, the three white couches look perfectly clean, and the small kamidama is ... somewhere near a corner, I think, I don't know. Sometimes you just remind yourself what your location looks like with changes.

There's nothing on the ceiling, spoopy. ]

[sacredchants]

Spoopy...

[ right, enough of that. if nothing immediately stands out then she'll wander towards the desk and give them a closer inspection. she'll look under the desk if there's anything that sticks out? nothing can completely untouched, right? ]

[horologia]

[ well uh, if fiora's got the nearest then she's going to be examining the blood splatters to see if there's any like, particular pattern/concentration of them. did someone bleed excessively on any particular graves, does it look like it trails, or is it just mess all over.

also she'll investigate the next-furthest away dirt disturbance, wherever that is. there.... are there shovels in the graveyard, actually. or are we shirasu-ing this. ]

[lecarre]

[Well. Izumo seems to have the lobby covered and Ange does not even twitch at Dorothy's words, so she just continues to wander to poke her head into the bathroom down here. Less walking for Dorothy, maybe, probably.

Anything look immediately off? Everyone has yelled about ceilings enough that Ange will look up as well just in case.]

[soulus]

[The girls have this section of the graveyard covered. Walking just past them, Rufus goes a little deeper still. Is it still much the same? And if so, where is the blood concentrated the most?]

[misstrust]

[ Dorothy loves walking, okay.

Which is why she's (silently) heading for the dining room to see what can be found. ]

[retellers]

[ There are no shovels in the graveyard.

The question is more like where isn't the dirt disturbed, really. There's no particular pattern to it, as so much as it's a combination of drag marks, skid marks, what were probably footprints but are no longer discernible and never will be, etc.

The blood starts further in (aka farther away from the entrance than the dirt disturbance does). Like the dirt, there's no particular pattern to it, and there's not a lot. More like a bunch of random drops here and there.

Both--the dirt and the blood--essentially form a trail, leading deeper into the graveyard. As in, there isn't a literal trail of blood or dirt, but the aforementioned things continue deeper in, in what's vaguely a non-straight line.

Where exactly is Rufus looking as he heads further in? At the ground, higher up, etc.? ]

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[ The bathroom looks normal! The bathroom ceiling also looks normal. Nothing seems out of place in there. It is clean. Thank god.

The dining room has a few leftover cupcakes ... ... that are unrelated to murder, not that Dorothy knows this, but I'll spoil it. There is also baking soda in a pan with burnt eggs. Something happened here. Something... curfew post related.

Nothing seems immediately out of place on or under the desk, though the memory book seems a little askew. ]

[sacredchants]

[ memory book.....

she'll check out the memory book and see if anyone else has written in the thing? or if there's anything on the outside? depending on what that yields, she might take a closer look at the couches. ]

[bisouled]

... Something crazy happened here. I don't like this.

[ this already smacks of a mystery that's going to be very difficult to untangle. How are the gravestones, themselves? Does the blood seem to be splattered on them at random, and are they defiled in any other noticeable way? ]

[lecarre]

[Thank god, it's clean!!

Anyway, just to do her due diligence, Ange is checking each of the bathroom stalls and also under the sinks.

Still clean?]

[horologia]

The question is whether just a single set of killer and victim did this, or if multiple people decided it'd be a good idea to defile a graveyard last night...

[ drag marks, how big are they? roughly body-sized, or something smaller? bigger? and what the hell does anyone have around here that would skid?

anyway she's going to more or less follow the trail while looking for any excessively disturbed or oddly-packed dirt that might indicate us having to shirasu this, or anything odd with the headstones whether big or small or on the ground. ]

[misstrust]

[ Dorothy is snagging a cupcake as Evidence. And also because being spoopy wreaks havoc on the appetite and who says you can't have cupcakes for breakfast--

But that being said, to the kitchen!! Please don't let dead bodies be in the kitchen. ]