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

Comments

[fonlines]

[ Ion seems fairly surprised too, but probably for a different reason? ]

... He punched who in the face?

[ "If you? get? the letter about me punching him? her? in the face, please forward it?? to my murderer.

what does this mean, exactly. It's how hard to send letters here and this is what Hijikata chooses to send them? ]

[sanguinairy]

[That's about what Souji pulled from this mess too but he doesn't seem any less confused by it. Hijikata-san why...]

I... don't know? He never mentioned anything about punching anyone in the face to me.

[Why is Hijikata punching people in the face WITHOUT HIM.]

[fonlines]

It could perhaps be a name, if it is short, but...

[ he is one of like three people with three letter names here, let's not. ]

It wouldn't make sense to refer to the murderer and- them separately...?

Was Sir Hijikata particularly prone to being cryptic?

[ Souji tell him more about Hijikata what does this mean ]

[themodsgrimm]

[honestly this castle needs more face punching

anyway, are they going to check anything else in the room?]

[sanguinairy]

[Considering that's only like. Ions, Ann and maybe Abe, he will discard that thought for now...]

It might be something separate? Hijikata-san isn't a very cryptic person, no... He's very blunt.

[This letter also seems blunt to him honestly HE'S JUST MISSING THE PIECES HE NEEDS FOR IT TO MAKE SENSE.]

He may have been in contact with someone else and tied to that letter, this one makes more sense...?

[BUT RIGHT, the rest... of the investigation... For now, unless Ion protests, he'll fold up the letter and slip it back into the envelope to keep.]

We can ask around later, I suppose. [FOR NOW, he'll just. Look under the table, just in case.]

[fonlines]

[ Hm, well, that's a good point about the multiple letters thing, though the fact that it's missing an addressee is still odd... ]

That might make sense, but... ah, perhaps we can discuss this later, then.

[ Investigation and all. Anyway, before Souji folds it away and they look around some more, does the letter seem as if it was cut or torn off from a larger whole or something?

Otherwise Ion's going to join Souji in scrutinizing the area near the table. ]

[themodsgrimm]

[There's a slip of paper under the table!




It's blank. It probably fell there when the owl came swooping in.]

[sanguinairy]

[THANKS, PAPER. Anyway, Souji will just nod at Ion's suggestion and glance around the room one last time. Anything up near the rafters?? A crouching hidden murderer?]

Mm... I don't think there's much else to check here.

[fonlines]

[ If there's a crouching hidden murderer up there will Ion's w1 dream finally come true. Will it. Free me, please.

But he does make a sort of agreeing humming sound, when Souji speaks up. ]

No, this room doesn't much look disturbed from how it usually seems when I'm in it... Perhaps there wasn't much to find after all.

[ Anyway he's going to crouch down to pick up that paper and put it away if it isn't secretly written on in invisible ink or something. :/ ]

[themodsgrimm]

[souji and ion become the third and fourth victims when a knife-wielding psycho descends upon them from the rafters with a shriek




okay, no, that's a lie. nothing in the rafters. paper is paper. anything else they want to check?]

[sanguinairy]

[don't tease me with the sweet embrace of death like this

But even though your continued prompting fills me with Fear, Souji will start heading toward the door after a last glance-around.]

Let's go join the others, then.

[So he can die when he finds out who got got!!]

[fonlines]

[ Ion will take one last glance out the window, then, since earlier he was probably distracted by owl flying right at them, do they have a good view of swan murder from here, mods please answer.

But other than that he'll follow Souji out as well, even though I, too, have Fear about these continued prompts. ]