CHAPTER 5 ; INVESTIGATION

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 5 - WEEK 5??? 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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MUSIC HALL

[themodsgrimm]

The music hall is well-organized by type of instrument - pianos and keyboards in one area, strings in another, horns in another, and so on and so forth. Shelves along the westernmost wall hold sheet music and musical scores to allow people to both practice what they already know and learn what they do not. There are some chairs along the southernmost wall that can be pulled around to allow people to sit while they play.

[londonstar]

[ waver will be going to the music room!!! he has nothing to do with music but fitz was found here so...he might as well be somewhat cautious. ]

[themodsgrimm]

[What in the music room will Waver be checking first?]

[londonstar]

[ he’s gonna.... check the shelves? must be a good place to hide a murder weapon? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[There's a signed confession on the shelf! Congrats Waver, you solved the case.


...nah I'm kidding, there's just musical scores. On the plus side, if Waver ever wanted to learn to play Mozart, he can totally do that now.]

[thesettingsun]

[Meanwhile, Dazai will be poking around the instruments that you could conceivably fit something in - so the horns, mostly. If he finds a leg in here I'll scream.]

[londonstar]

[ waver turns to see dazai, and nods. ]

I thought it would be appropriate to search this, considering how we found Francis in here two weeks ago.

[themodsgrimm]

[dazai finds jae-ha's leg in the horn!!!



no i'm just kidding, there's nothing there. what else in the room would you like to check? or, speaking of where fitz's body was found... they know what they have to do to make that door materialize.]

[thesettingsun]

[No limbs in instruments is a good start. Dazai sighs heavily.]

Everything is worth searching.

[He focuses on wanting to get a little privacy, even though he absolutely will be letting Waver go in that room with him. Sensei doesn't count.]

[londonstar]

[ waver himself is thinking of having some privacy and no, dazai, you’re not included in that. he’d be even more embarrassed about practicing something he’s not good at in front of someone else. ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Limbless horns are always a good thing, yes.

But once they start concentrating on finding a private place to practice, the door to the soundproof room materializes on the wall. It sits there, waiting to be opened. Hmm.]

[thesettingsun]

[WHY DON'T YOU LOVE HIM SENSEI

Dazai opens the door! If something horrible and traumatizing is in there, at least he'll see it before Waver.]

[londonstar]

[ BECAUSE HE DOESN’T LIKE BEING MEDIOCRE.

that said, waver is a bit taller than dazai, so he can just look over his shoulder to see what’s happening. WHAT IS BEHIND DOOR NUMBER ONE YOU GUYS????? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[BLOOD.

Well. It looks like blood, anyway. There is a large amount of crimson liquid part of the way into the room, with smaller droplets scattered between the puddle and the door.

It also looks like there's something in the puddle, but they'll have to get closer to see for sure.]

[thesettingsun]

[Oh it's just blood. Or crimson ink, okay.

Dazai approaches the Thing in the Puddle, all while considering whether or not he should take off his shoes if he has to wade into it. Ink is a pain to wash off shoes...]

[londonstar]

[ waver is also doing the same as dazai, except standing on the other side of the puddle. he looks at it, and then looks at the door. his expression is one of concern and seriousness. clearly something happened here. ]

Well, this is a good place to have a fight, with it being soundproof and all.

[themodsgrimm]

[That thing in the puddle is a familiar-looking dagger. Luckily, the hilt seems clear of the liquid - the handle is just at the edge of the puddle - but the blade is fully coated.]

[thesettingsun]

...Do you have a handkerchief we could pick this up with? I don't want to get my prints on it...

[Careful handling of evidence. Imagine.]

[londonstar]

Unfortunately, no. All I have are my gloves and I’d rather not get them dirty if we’re still bound to get them tomorrow in the trial.

[ he frowns, sighing. he won’t touch the puddle or the dagger, but he is looking at it closely. ]

It seems that there was, at least, a fight. At most, a casualty. And if that’s the case, then... I guess they felt the need to move the body out of the music hall to make things more difficult. It seems like they got a good hit, too, from all the blood on the blade.

[themodsgrimm]

[The dagger and the puddle just sit there while they talk.]

[thesettingsun]

[It's better than the dagger moving...]

So leave it untouched. Understood, Sensei.

[Now Dazai's looking for more signs of a fight than the obvious 'giant blood puddle'. Has any furniture been shoved around or toppled over? Indents in the walls?]

[londonstar]

It’s best to leave things untouched now. Especially since this is technically a crime scene.

[ he will also be looking around! anything besides the blood puddle and dagger?! ]

[themodsgrimm]

[The furniture in this room seems more or less undisturbed, and there aren't any indents on the walls. Aside from the puddle itself, there's droplets of blood leading from the puddle to the door, but there's less of them the closer they get to the door.]

[thesettingsun]

Doesn't look like the fight disturbed much...

[Is there anything under chairs, or something.]

[londonstar]

Then perhaps this was where the fight ended. Cornered in this room, the person was attacked by their assailant and... well, we don’t know what happened after that. [ he sighs. the thought alone makes him want to shudder ]

I can only hope that if there’s no corpse here it’s because they got out of it alive.