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]

[ Xie Lian finds nothing there either!

There doesn't seem to be anything else at the carousel, or at the whatzit. ]

[dianxias]

[ okay you know what let's go check out the stuff that actually has names.

xie lian will wait for taako to catch up, and then look between the funhouse and the house of mirrors. ]

Where should we start, brah?


[



closes eyes. ]

[uhhhmagic]

. . . [Looking at him.] No. I'm not gonna rise to the bait.

[Heading for the funhouse?]

[retellers]

[ Xie Lian is living his best life.

They head to the funhouse! Nothing seems off on the outside. ]

[dianxias]

[ is this where i confess i've never been in a funhouse in my life

is there a specific path to follow? mini event says there are two different doors so... he's gonna check along the floor and then poke his head in to the door on the left. anything to see?

please dont take the bait taako xl is shutting his mouth again.]

[uhhhmagic]

[RIGHT INTO THIS FUN HOUSE

any more pills around. Anything on the floor. or the ceiling???? We haven't been checking ceilings. Anything in the door on the right since XL took the left.]

[retellers]

[ I've never been in a funhouse either! So I will sum it up by saying that Xie Lian and Taako possibly have lots of fun in this funhouse while other people find a corpse, maybe, but they also find nothing in here. ]

[dianxias]

[ is that mod speak for "fucking move on please"

anyway i guess they do a speedrun of the funhouse and have a fun time? ]

...Dude, I couldn't find anything.... That place was like...whoaaaa.

[ now that we've had a wonderful surfer bonding experience, i guess we should go check out the house of mirrors instead ]

[uhhhmagic]

Totally tubular! Tuna-bular? Does that work?

[Yeah, off to the Mirror Haus. Anything obviously off there? BLOOD?]

[retellers]

[ That's mod speak for "I can't even pretend to bully you when most of us don't know what a funhouse looks like, so it would just be us crying in vague descriptions at each other."

They don't find blood at the mirrorhouse, but they do find a velociraptor in a cat kigu wandering around outside. It is very sad-looking. ]

[dianxias]

[ ohhhh no.

xie lian crouches down and reaches out to the velociraptor, and holds out his hands for it, making soft "pspspsps" noises. would. would this specific velociraptor come to a familiar face? ]

[uhhhmagic]

More of these small fry, huh?

[Dino . . .

Anything outside of the mirrorhouse? What about if he pokes his head inside?]

[retellers]

[ The dino will come to Xie Lian, yes. ): It makes sad whining sounds.

When Taako pokes his head inside, he'll see that some of the mirrors that he can see are damaged, with broken shards scattered on the floor. ]

[dianxias]

[ WOW THIS IS BAD.

he scoops it up and scritches the top of its head, immediately, then goes in to follow behind taako with the dinosaur in his arms. shattered glass...

is it just random mirrors that are damaged, or do the damaged ones go along a path? can we follow the damaged mirrors further into the house? ]

[uhhhmagic]

[Anything on the floor? The MIRROR CEILING? The mirring.]

[retellers]

[ The damaged ones do go along a path that you can follow! There isn't anything on the floor or the mirring for the most part, until they reach a part where they find a PHS on the floor, along with a blood splatter.

Also, from up above, blood might be dripping onto their heads. It looks like it's seeping through cracks in the ceiling, like it's coming from the roof. ]

[dianxias]

[ ... bad. bad bad bad. he hates this. xie lian looks down at the phs, and then back up. is there a second floor or is it on the roof? i'm saying the roof since thats what the mod text says. ]

...I'm going up.

[ i looked for surfer slang for this and found nothing we have twenty minutes.

anyway he's gonna go loop back around, tuck the velociraptor back in his straw hat on his back, and then make his way up to the roof, looking to find that exact spot where they were. where's my body, ]

OOP responded to the wrong one

[uhhhmagic]

[i can't believe looking at the ceiling has finally paid off

taako just gets dripped on

sighs

and goes to pick up the PHS]

[retellers]

[ There is no second floor! How is Xie Lian getting up onto the roof?

Taako has obtained one (1) PHS. ]

[dianxias]

[ you and i both know he will jump

or climb onto the next roof that's a little shorter and jump. or use ruoye like a grappling hook onto whatever is sticking up enough that he can get on the roof.

he is GETTING UP THERE ]

[uhhhmagic]

[Taako knows he's not getting on that roof and will NOT EVEN TRY

Is there anything amongst the shattered glass inside the funhouse? Any blood or guns or pills or writing that says MOB DID IT?]

[retellers]

[ Yeah, Mob killed [redacted] from the grave. No, but he does find two bullets and casings lodged in different mirrors.

On the roof, Xie Lian finds... a body! You have five minutes, I won't be coy: Ochako is dead. ]

[dianxias]

[ that is sure what he was hoping he wouldn't see, yeah.

he takes a minute - covers his mouth, muffles the sharp gasp that comes out of his mouth and just. stares. a deep breath, in, and out, eyes closed, and then, just loud enough to be heard. ]

...Taako. [ because he can't say too much, right now. ] ...Ochako.

[ and. with that, he's going to kneel down and carefully pick her up off the ground and cradle her in his arms.

if there's anything else to see on the roof besides the body, he'll take a sweeping glance, but somebody killed my daughter :(

totally not righteous. :( ]

[uhhhmagic]

Gnarly . . .

[Well. It's 8:00, so. I don't think there's anything else we can do. Totally not tubular.]

[retellers]

[ Nothing else up here! Just a dead Ochako. ): ]