CHAPTER 1 ; INVESTIGATION

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 1 - WEEK 1??? Narrators Remain ; The clock begins to chime, and on the first note, curfew lifts. Your doors swing open, whether you are ready or not. Leaving your room is a blur. The person you fell asleep beside — are they still there? Have they vanished? Were they ever there at all? You can't seem to recall clearly. What you are most aware of is the pervading sense of wrongness in the air, and how you can't hear anything but the chime of the clock. Even the sounds of your own voice and your own footsteps do not reach your ears. By the time the time the clock strikes nine, you know one thing to be true: blood has been spilt. Search the castle carefully — you wouldn't want to miss a single important detail, would you...? Welcome to this week's investigation post! This time, you all will be posting your own locations that you wish to search. Please note the Locations page for your reference. Evidence — or lack thereof — will be noted in these threads. We ask that group threads consist of no more than 2-3 characters. After the discovery of the body (or bodies) and any pertinent evidence, an IC announcement concluding the investigation will go up. You are then free to make your own toplevels on this post for any threads you would like to have between the end of the investigation and the start of the trial. If you have any questions, please ask on our Discord server or ping us on plurk. Please direct pings to Danielle (entrappings) and Britt (bloodthirstiest), as we will be taking point on this investigation! Instructions on this week's investigation can be found in a pin in the General chat! full navigation. locations taken (statuses) stories (profiles) info & faq wishing well private conversations

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[themodsgrimm]

[The fridge has nothing in it! Aside from, like, food. And drinks. You know, normal kitchen stuff. The rest of the area is pretty much like that too, except for the fact that the door is locked.

Sanji and Hikage live here now, I guess.]

[concasse]

[And here is Sanji, strolling over with absolutely no fucks to give.]

I'll try kicking the shitty door down after I make my coffee.

[JUST CASUALLY]

[psychedelica]

What? Are you an idiot? We need to get out of here before something shows up and tries to kill us.

[ THIS IS NO TIME FOR COFFEE!! is there anything else in the room Hikage can try and open and/or investigate?! a window, maybe?! ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Food may be the windows to a man's stomach, and the kitchen may be where food lives, but there are no literal windows here.

...

Maybe they can wedge a butter knife in the gap between the door and the doorframe to shimmy the lock!

Or maybe they can just chill a bit and have coffee. Or canoodle. Either option is fine.]

[concasse]

I fuckin dare someone to try.

[HIKAGE I AM SO SORRY FOR SANJI.

Also he is damned serious about that coffee so upon seeing there's no way to escape, he's going to make that coffee. Or at least start it. He'll turn to poor Hikage eventually.]

Alright, let's find a way to get the door open. I got the coffee started.

[YES NOW THEY CAN PROCEED]

[psychedelica]

You've got to be kidding me...!

[ he cannot believe he's stuck in here with some curly-eyebrowed weirdo who's more concerned about getting his coffee break than possible murderers on the loose!! you better believe he spends the entire time sanji is making that coffee trying to find a secret exit, looking for more exit, and angrily rattling the doorknob. The idea of wedging the knife in the gap doesn't occur to him, because he's never had to do anything like that before...

also, he's mad at sanji now ]

[concasse]

Kid, relax.

[SANJI IS SO CHILL? Who is this man, he's never this calm. Anyway he's going to nod to one of the drawers.]

Try a butter knife to get the lock open... No shitty guarantee it'll work, but I wonder if the kitchen door locked on whoever was here last.

[psychedelica]

What?

[ also DON'T CALL HIM A KID, HE'S ?? YEARS OLD. Hikage doesn't exactly know what he's talking about, but he's frustrated enough to just go along with it, and tosses Sanji one of the knives. Yes, literally, he's throwing it towards him. Catch. ]

[concasse]

[EXCUSE YOU, BINCH, HE'LL CATCH IT, rolling his eyes.

Also despite being the chef, Sanji's bff is Nami. Who unlocks all the locks and steals all the things. So yeah. He is. Actually decent at this. THAT SAID, will he actually succeed in shimming that knife through the door and doorframe, opening the lock?





Because he actually does not care, his coffee isn't finished yet.]

[themodsgrimm]

[The door swings open after some shimmying! Congrats, you escaped. Hikage, enjoy your sweet, sweet freedom. Sanji, enjoy your bitter, bitter coffee.]

[psychedelica]

[ oh thank the lord. ]

Finally. [ he moves to just... leave... but, miraculously, he actually maintains a modicum of politeness here, and turns to look at Sanji. ] I'm going to go check on the others. Thanks for nothing.

[ it was a very small amount of politeness ]

[concasse]

Fuck off.

[NO POLITENESS HERE.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF HIS KITCHEN.]