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

Comments

[asswipe]

[Veronica has done enough unpaid babysitting in the past three weeks to qualify for a professional babysitting job. Trusting Natsuo with sharp, pointy weapons was a mistake. Save her.

She takes a deep breath, looking at the ceiling for divine guidance. It is presumably a murder-free ceiling, maybe.]

... Let's just put the weapons back in their place to make sure we haven't missed anything, okay?

[And then she's going to start picking up after whoever the heck messed up the armory. Murderers these days have no manners, wow. Besides the now dirty katana, there's nothing else weird to be found as she starts depleting the weapons pile, right?]

[randori]

People take stuff from here all the time, though?

[ He helps her out bc I suck at investigations so you're welcome for the dead weight. He at least has spent enough time in the armory to know where things are supposed to go, and can make quick work of replacing things? ]

...We need to look for whatever killed Hijikata too. Don't forget.

[themodsgrimm]

[There isn't anything especially shiny or especially rusted mixed in with the weapons they're putting back! Good for them, cleaning up after yourselves, guys. A+ work.]

[asswipe]

They do. But I thought there might have been something else hidden in this mess. A needle in a haystack.

[But everything seems normal now that they've tidied up, so she removes the rusty gauntlets and finally sets them down. Her nails and skin are never going to forgive her for this. :(]

I know. There's something I want to ask, uh— Tiger? Or Dragon, whoever is hosting the trial tomorrow. Nothing about Hijikata's death made sense. [Well, it made less sense than normal.] ... Anyway, it doesn't look like there's anything here. Do you want to go meet up with the others?

[randori]

I guess... [ He will... leave the katana there ig just in case it's evidence, nobody but Veronica will know that he's the one who ruined it. ]

What do you think it weird about Hijikata's death? It just happened a day early, but it's like what everybody said. One murder a week.

[themodsgrimm]

[And away they go!]

[asswipe]

Yeah, but isn't it weird that nobody came for the body? And there was no announcement, either. We had to bring him to the suites so we could get everyone on the same page.

[It breaks more than one pattern, is what she's saying.

Either way, as the mod tag says — away they go! Time to judge the killer for murdering Fitz before Akechi.]

[randori]

[ BIG SHRUG

but also
1. where tf is the body
2. Natsuo is perfectly okay with the killer murdering Fitz before Akechi tbh ]