CHAPTER 3 ; INVESTIGATION

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 3 - WEEK 3??? 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, the mods will be providing top-levels for you 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 Britt (bloodthirstiest) and Danielle (entrappings), as they 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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[sanguinairy]

[He'll give the balcony one last check, looking back over the edge to see if maybe there are any glints of metal in the grass that can be spotted to indicate someone's chucked a weapon over. After that, he'll head back in for now, even though he'll go get Monika's body once they've checked things over.]

Have you found anything else?

[wagashis]

-ah, wait a moment, actually.

[hey, about those practice rooms this place has!

let's get a door in here, shall we.]

[themodsgrimm]

[For now, it looks like "magic" is what he's going to have to live with. Outside of it having been very definitely a lot on fire for what must have been a decent amount of time, there's no evidence of any kind of struggle to be found.]

[doublecrows]

[CHECKING THOSE NEXT. can't pull one over this detective's eyes!!]

[psychedelica]

[ of course it's a puppet. Hikage squats down, cautiously nudging the puppet with the barrel of his pistol before calling out. ]

-- It's a puppet. Jae-ha's puppet - looks like someone set it on fire.

[resumed]

[...? He just focuses for a moment.]

You think...? [There's something else?]

[selfinserting]

No. There's, there's nothing.

[He says, voice cracking slightly despite his best effort.]

[axilium]

... I swear, if something's happened to him...

[HE LIKES JAE-HA?? YOU ASSHOLES.

anyway, he'll leave hikage to examine the puppet if need be. he's going to check out the props just in case, because i think that's the only thing left mentioned in the locations page???]

[themodsgrimm]

[The empty shelves and hooks look fine! They're just not housing weapons anymore. Sad.

Meanwhile, now the katana's blade has a mixture of dust and oil on it. Icky. It's not going to stay shiny for long at this rate.]

[disclosures]

[She'll tilt some of them over and look at the baskets.]

There's a lot more yarn than I thought there would be.

[concasse]

[Fuck u, magic.

Whatever, Sanji is going to get a drink from the fridge first. Smoke dries you out and shit, so he's going to grab water for Stephanie, too.]

No marks around, either. But why have a fire in the kitchen... Makes it seem like there's something to hide.

[Ugh if he's gotta look through every cabinet, HE FUCKIN WILL.]

[themodsgrimm]

[If they head back inside of the bathhouse, they won't find anything out of the ordinary--especially not a body. Whatever happened to the poor sap missing fingers, it doesn't look like they ended up here. It's still safe to take baths here.]

[themodsgrimm]

[One of the baskets is half-empty! ...strangely enough, all of the yarn here sems to be light colored. The dark-colored yarn is nowhere to be found.]

[londonstar]

The fourth fire striker is missing again.

[ he pinches the bridge of his nose ]

Is this castle full of pyromaniacs or are we dealing with a previous culprit?

[themodsgrimm]

[There's no sign that a weapon was left behind. Monika's body itself appears to be the only notable evidence.]

[themodsgrimm]

[And as they start to think about finding a quiet place to practice...

...a door appears in the wall.

It's closed, but like. They could open it. If they wanted.]

[doublecrows]

[oho]

Truthfully, from the missing knitting needles and missing dark-colored yarn, I'd deduce that someone here. . .





. . . has decided to make a sweater.

[vigilantics]

[ what if she

checks the fridge???? i don't know ]

Unless we just have an arsonist running around.

[themodsgrimm]

[The rest of the puppets are fine, and no props are missing! It seems like someone was just really mad at Jae-ha in particular. The binch probably deserved it.]

[alchemenace]

[ I can't wait until we find out tomorrow we missed the body at the top of the stairs ]

... So... Now what?

[discardia]

... Oh.

[ Well. She's going to go ahead and open the door. ]

[sanguinairy]

[Thanks he hates it.

Anyway, since Evan looks like he's having a Bad Time and is already on his second body find of the week--]

I'll take her down to the foyer.

[asswipe]

[Turns to tell Natsuo that the hooks are okay.

Stops.

Stares.

Internally shrieks.]

—Oh my god, what are you doing? Put that rag down! We don't know if the katana is evidence!

[Anyway, she's kicking some of the weaponry on the floor as she scurries over to him to take the katana back. They should......... probably try to clean the mess since that's the last thing in the description, maybe.]

[disclosures]

Is it even the right temperature for sweater knitting? I hope they were making it for themselves- does anybody knit? That's for old people.

[psychedelica]

[ flatly: ] He was asking for it.

[ honestly yeah hikage is thinking he totally deserves it after that love potion shit from earlier this week...

he is checking the puppet out more in-depth, though! any missing body parts? fingies, perhaps?! ]