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

[alttitude]

[shows up to investigation an hour and a half late and also half-naked

you might think i'm kidding but unfortunately that's the top-level!

because here's jae-ha, having chosen to forego a shirt today given the fact that it'd be very, very uncomfortable considering the stretch of burns that seem to crawl all across his skin. they're first degree burns though, so unfortunately he's mostly fine!

he looks over all the items behind the glass case with an inspecting eye, his expression obviously souring as he finds the bodies of Monika and Fitzgerald behind the glass

and then wanders up to his own burned puppet in the glass case, eyebrow raising]

.... I see.

[axilium]

[...]

Oh, good. You're not dead.

[alttitude]

By some miracle.

[Though when he turns to Belph, it might also be clearer that he has one additional thin slice across his chest.]

I was wondering what could've caused it until I came out here....

[axilium]

... It was pretty awkward to find.

[alttitude]

... oh?

Did it give you a scare?

[axilium]

Anyone would be caught off-guard by a puppet on fire.

[toughchoices]

[



reyna drags her eyes up from Jae-ha's chest to his face]

Does it hurt?

[should they, like, go find some ice and apply it to that burn]

[alttitude]

[bad taste, reyna]

It stings - but it's nothing that's any worse than slightly distracting.

[he probably likes it tbh]

It was just more concerning when I wasn't sure what the cause was.

[toughchoices]

[murders jae-ha right here and now]

[toughchoices]

[anyway, look, i'm sorry reyna's garbage taste is canon. anyway.]

You're lucky it wasn't anything more serious.

[but it does beg the question - was it intentional, or was it just that whoever did it grabbed whatever puppet was closest?]

[alttitude]

You're not wrong - I wonder if someone had a grudge against me.

[and did they know that this would be the extent of the damage?

or

was it intended to be much worse?]

[discardia]

[ there is only a concerned side-glance, before Cardia looks away-- mostly because everyone else seems to be fussing over him just fine. ]

[alttitude]

[he probably caught her eye for a quarter of a second

and just huffed softly to himself once she looked away

ah

it's still too soon]