WEEK SIX: INVESTIGATION

[retellers]

WEEK SIX: 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 seventh 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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[retellers]

[ Lup has obtained one (1) gun! The castle is coming down now. Unfortunately, she's left with a giant mound of sand now, so functionally, anything potentially inside is still hidden. At least she knows there was nothing else hidden in the outside walls, though?

Hua Cheng, who is doing his best, finds a PHS. And now that he's here... a little further out, there's something else! ]

[evocationary]

[ she glances over her shoulder at hua cheng. frowns. maybe she should've been the one to swim, actually, but. she'll dig into the mound of sand, she guesses, while keeping an eye on hua cheng to make sure he doesn't drown or run into a shark with a gun

i am the sand guardian, guardian of the sand ]

[supremity]

[ Maybe Poseidon will quiver before her and spare her inves buddy..?

It's fine. Despite being one-armed, Hua Cheng is a strong swimmer - he gets the PHS, tucks it into his inner robe, and keeps going out towards the new thing further out. Whoever chucked this evidence is going to get smacked with the bow as soon as they pin who it was. ]

[retellers]

[ Lup digs into the mound and obtains......... another gun!

Though you know what, maybe Hua Cheng should've called Lup over after all! Because what he finds is a body, drifting in the water. ]

[evocationary]

[ ... she pockets this gun, and then glances over to the water. ]

Hua Cheng? Are you rising to the bait over there? [ look puns are hard

she makes her way over to the waves - ah, fuck. a body. she'll just - take her robes off in anticipating of having to help. ]

[supremity]

[ MORE SIGHING ]

Prolly gonna need a hand here, brah, don't think I'm gonna be able to get a floater back solo.

[ Calling back as he treads water - and hating every second of it - before he goes closer to see if he can find out who it is. Yay, body! ]

[retellers]

[ Actually, I just checked this body's weight and it should probably not be floating, so I'm changing my mind. A random current brought it up temporarily or something, and it's now sinking back underwater. You're going to have to dive for this body. ]

[evocationary]

[ oh, there it go.

she does, however, feel a little spike of fear as the body goes under. she forgets about her stab wound and runs in after him, pulling her hair back as she goes. her not seventy feet long hair, thankfully. she's going to swim out to help hua cheng get the body... ]

[supremity]

[ There it sure fuckin goes! Shit.

He takes a deep breath, before diving down after the body. He's going to reopen something and he knows it, and gege will scold him, nevermind the fact his eye is an open wound under his eyepatch. It's fine. They're both having a fun time.

we are diving for the body please mods please ]

[retellers]

[ Once they're underwater, it's pretty obvious who the body belongs to. It's a very distinctive shape.

Chiron is dead. Also, he apparently weighs, like, 2000 pounds? So have fun with that? ]

[evocationary]

[ oh

i'm... i'm not sure how they're getting him out of here but she - has a very intense moment of recoil. she has to swim up to the surface and just. tread water for a second.

okay. okay. ]

[supremity]

[ He doesn't stop Lup as she goes back up to tread water, staring at Chiron's body and trying to - think, fast. They can't lose this body, for more reasons than just evidence. But he does come to a decision, swimming back up to Lup. ]

Ru. [ Hua Cheng grips her arm, treading with her. ] Get ready. We're gonna try a hat-trick. Grab onto whoever comes and whatever part of me you can reach, aight?

[ And, right before he takes a deep breath to dive back down to try and grab any part of Chiron: ] Swan! Goat!

[ sploosh, back down he goes, because he's not going to make their NPCs dive down here to get a body???? #growth ]

[retellers]

[ I'm being lazy and embedding icons so that I don't have to switch journals. Suddenly, the water parts away from where they are, like Moses parting the river before it swirls around them, essentially leaving a dry radius surrounding them. Oh, and Goat is here now. Looks like this is his doing. Unfortunately, he's also part of the one-arm club, since his left arm looks like it's missing, but it's fine. He looks down at them for a moment—and then they'll both find themselves back on the beach shore, along with Goat. AND CHIRON'S BODY, I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD SPECIFY THAT IF IT WASN'T OBVIOUS ]

[evocationary]

[ djfkskjd thanks goat

she does what hua cheng says, holding onto his arm, and when they're on the beach shore, she just sits down next to chiron's body, completely soaked. and just... holds his hand for a bit. it's fine, she's fine. ]

Bit shell-shocked. [ she - spits this out, like she hates that she has to say it? because she does. ] Give me a second.

[ if there's anything else on this beach she isn't going to look for now. she will mutter a thanks to goat, though. ]

[supremity]

[ Glad that paid off! Glad I knew this wasn't a Zia-run thread. Hua Cheng spits out a little water as they sit there, because he's going to join Lup, in armless solidarity with Goat. He reaches his leg out to bump into him in thanks for coming and getting them and the body out, at least.

And then he just squeezes Lup's other hand tightly, leaning against her as they. Sit. He'll look to see if they can spot anything else, though, at a glance. There's five minutes left this is just our wrapup, probably. ]

We got what was important.

[retellers]

[ There doesn't seem to be anything else on this area of the beach! Elsewhere, Sora and Usagi played with a gun dolphin, but anyway. Goat looks sad as he glances down at Chiron's body, before he turns to Lup and Hua Cheng. ] ... I can transport the body, once you are ready. [ Sometimes you have only one arm but you still have super strength and spatial manipulation, it's fine. ]