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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[axilium]

[belph already knows shirasu is fine unless he was just a goddamn hallucination the entire time, so he's staying where he is and not bothering to speak, because he is absolutely not happy right now.

so yeah, shirasu will have to speak up for them.]

[psychedelica]

[ Belph, at least, gets a softer look from Hikage, rather than the cold stoicism he's showing everyone else in their time of grieving. He's selfish; he's not terribly familiar with Belph's relationships outside of the one he has with Hikage. But he is terribly familiar with suffering over the loss of someone you care about. ]

... You can make them pay.

[ he won't say it's going to be okay - but he will say that. ]

[axilium]

[... well, it's the sort of thing he'd expect hikage to say, he supposes.]

I don't know if I'm really the revenge type.

[psychedelica]

[ he's trying his best. ]

It's what you have to do.

[ in a place like this, at least. ]

... [ another pause, as if he's not sure if it's okay to say this. ] I'm with you.

[axilium]

[okay, that gets a look of surprise from belph. a moment passes, before he smiles wryly.]

How much did it kill you to say that?

[... he doesn't quite know how to handle that kind of sentiment, but it's. probably appreciated.]

[psychedelica]

I meant it.

[ Hikage doesn't balk here, for once, even if he might usually otherwise. ]

[axilium]

[... yeah, he really doesn't know how to deal with this.]

... Thanks.

[it's sincere, at least.]