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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[wearys]

[ it's covered in mud there can't be prints!!! hopefully

who tf would put breadcrumbs in a vial. ]

Uh, dude, swans incoming. Might want to sacrifice the dogs.

[randori]

[ no ]

Magnus, quick— can you swim?

[themodsgrimm]

[That's a good question, Magnus! Maybe you guys will figure it out at trial.

The swans are getting closer. And closer. And closer. Magnus and Natsuo are going to need to make a decision quick.]

[wearys]

[ SACRIFICE THE HOTDOGS ]

I'd rather not! [ he's had too much water this week and only has one good arm? ] But if we're going to do it we better do it now.

[randori]

I need you to get out there and grab whatever that is! Punch the birds if you have to!

[ Magnus is going to have to swim with one arm, because Natsuo cannot swim :( He does, however, finally heed Magnus' advice and hurls the hotdogs— they fly far, one by one into the air towards the far end of the lake. ]

[themodsgrimm]

["Now" sounds like a good time to do that, because with one last great ripping sound, the swans fighting over the orange thing stumble back from each other as it tears apart. They retreat to opposite sides of the lake to hoard their spoils of war.

The approach of the other two swans, meanwhile, is slowed by the hotdogs. They're swimming after them and leaving the boys be for now, but that will only last as long as the hotdogs do.

Then they will be back for Flesh.]

[wearys]

Gods damn it!

[ he's going to swim first to where the stupid birds were fighting to see if they left anything behind. he hopes so, because otherwise, he'll have to chase down one of the fighting birds and somehow fight it for whatever they're eating. ]

[randori]

[ gl

Natsuo will, uh. I guess run around the lakeside towards that other end too, trying to keep as close to Magnus as possible. He will punch a bird if need be. ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Sadly for Natsuo, there aren't any remainders of what they were fighting over left unattended in the water - all the pieces seem to have gone with the swans. The first swan to break away with a piece is... actually taking flight and flying away now, yikes. But that still leaves three more with pieces he could potentially fight?

Meanwhile, the other two swans are about 1/4 of the way done with their hotdogs...]

[wearys]

[ oh fuck

after a swan he will go, one of the three left and just. you know what? he's just going to tackle the swan to get it to release it's prize. he's tired, swan, give him your damn evidence! ]

[randori]

[ Awesome, great, Natsuo will cheer him on from the sidelines, being absolutely useless around water!


He's out of hot dogs, but if there are any rocks or hefty sticks lying around the lakeside, he javelin throws it at the escaping swan before it can fly too far. He'll take care of this one and Magnus can be torn apart by the rest. ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Well. Hm.

Magnus's bid to tackle one of the remaining swans doesn't actually go that badly, at first. He's able to get ahold of it and when it opens its beak to squawk indignantly, the orange thing slips out of its mouth - this close, he'll see that it looks like roughly 1/4 of a tiger kigurumi. There are some crimson stains on the fabric that even the lake's water hasn't washed off in its entirety yet.

However...

There's a hefty-looking rock that Natsuo can toss at the retreating swan. It hits it and sends it spiraling to the ground, but it doesn't loosen its hold on the orange thing in its mouth.

But the other swans all look directly at Natsuo.

The two with orange pieces of fabric fly away - the two that were about halfway through their hotdogs abandon them to fly up and descend upon him with much squawking and feathers. And the noise seems to be attracting the attention of others - there's the sound of flapping wings approaching. Many, many flapping wings.

Will they grab the fourth of the kigurumi Magnus is within easy reaching distance of and run for it? Or will they go for the one that the swan Natsuo downed dropped, too?]

[wearys]

Run, man, just fucking run!

[ because whatever natsuo decides to do, magnus is grabbing his 1/4th of a kigurumi and getting the hell out of this wet nightmare. ]

[randori]

[ He runs, but like a fool, he runs towards Magnus, sloshing into the water knee-high but no further, hand outstretched as far as it'll go ]

HURRY UP AND GRAB MY HAND!!!! SWORDIFY YOURSELF!!!!!

[ Magnus can turn into a sword or something?? hurry, Natsuo doesn't want to die like this, please ]

[themodsgrimm]

[A swarm of swans appears from among the trees. RIP, Magnus and Natsuo. They're getting closer and they look hungry.]

[wearys]

Fucking why? Grab this piece of onesie!

[ but fine, whatever! natsuo has two hands, so he better take the kigu piece because magnus is just going to

fucking

"swordify" himself.

he's still a little bent from the cyoa, but sure if natsuo wants to die trying to stab swans, magnus'll probably survive it as a sword. ]

[randori]

[ At least one of them will survive and that's what matters. Natsuo stuffs the cloth into his pocket and with his other hand grabs the sword and it's been weeks since he obtained his first sword but nobody's ever taught him how to use it bc they think he's a danger to himself or something, so

you can imagine what fighting the swans off is like, him waving the sword up over his head like helicopter blades trying to keep things away by indescrimnately slashing all around him as he makes a break back away from the forest ]

[themodsgrimm]

[If anything, the clumsy attempts at fighting back just make the swans angrier. He's able to slash some of them and loosen some feathers as he beats a hasty retreat to the castle, but he won't escape without a few nasty cuts and jabs from their beaks.

Yikes!

...once he makes it past the wooden sign with a swan on it that marks the path to the lake, the swans will leave him alone.]

[wearys]

[ this may as well happen!

once the swans don't seem to be attacking natsuo anymore, magnus will just. unswordify. and maybe throw up a little, being a sword helicoptered around is probably dizzying?

this was fucking stupid. ]

[randori]

[ At least they're alive, okay??

It takes him a while before he realizes they're not being attacked anymore and he lets Magnus go, staring back over his shoulder at the birds. ]

...Okay. Alright. Can you run? I need you to go back to the kitchen and get more hotdogs.

[themodsgrimm]

[is natsuo really asking magnus to run for more hotdogs while he throws up...]

[wearys]

[ hunched over, hand on knee. looks up. ]

Why.

[randori]

[ To get Sanji ]

Or, I dunno, whatever else you like to eat. We can't just give up here, right?

[wearys]

Dude, the swans want to kill us. I'm not sure we have a choice there unless you want to be swan chow.

[themodsgrimm]

[y'all narrowly escaped the lake with your lives, do you really want to go back and get killed by swans]