grimmoired | CHAPTER 6 ; INVESTIGATION

The Story Continues...
CHAPTER 6 - WEEK 6??? 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 1-2 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.

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[those are next! he's going to walk the pathways nearby first, checking the ones on each side of the fountain for anything amiss.]

[the pathways themselves seem pretty clear - no puddles of questionable liquid along the walkways! however, if he's looking very closely, he might see just a drop or two of something red near a rosebush.]

[time to investigate that bush then! what's up in here, and does this look like more red ink?]

[It could be red ink. It could be blood! Where's Sanji to sniff or lick it when you need him...

Anyway, the rosebush is pretty. It's got both pink and red roses growing from it - and, apparently there's a beige-colored one, too! it's a bit deeper in the bush, partially obscured by leaves.]

[fine he'll sniff it then... he can identify blood or ink smell so let's find out. he isn't touching it though.

beige doesn't sound like it fits though? so after a quick sniff test he's going to cautiously shift the leaves aside to get a better look, trying to avoid thorns.]

[it's blood!

the beige thing looks like a flower... but the texture seems just a little off by sight. its petals don't seem as smooth, and in fact, as he shifts the leaves around it aside, it shifts to one side as well.

it doesn't have a stem.]

[yeah uh he's sure as Fuck not touching this mystery thing bare handed. are there gloves in the tailor? can I establish this is why he returns to the tailor again later? I have some concerns.]

[i mean if the investigation location is left unattended the investigation ends so... yeah he can run to the tailor, but...]

[why did I solo this.

okay he's going to use the bandage covered hand which is still more contact than he's comfy with but, as the kids these days say, yolo]

[the mysterious flower comes away with no problems!

once he pulls it out and has it in his hands, he'll see that it's made of fabric, and has been folded into the shape of a flower.]

[well then.

anything weird about it, any blood on this thing? or now that he thinks about it-- on the thorns near it? did someone get cut stashing it here...]

[there aren't any thorns! but some parts of it sure do seem to be covered in crimson liquid, now that he's gotten it out of the bush.]

[bless these roses for being thornless but what the fuck, then

is the liquid mostly on the outside, or-? also does it smell like more blood let's just get that out of the way.]

[it's soaked through - hard to tell which side it started on.

also it smells like ink]]

[having multiple red liquids is confusing sometimes

also the inky flower is coming along while he finishes checking out the pathways!]

[the rest of the pathway looks fine! what else is on the list for him to examine...]

[...more topiaries? how are those guys doing today.]

[the creature-themed topiaries are still clear!]

[there are like eight paths apparently so can I just tell you he is going to spend time checking each of them and their bushes so I don't make you go back and forth with me for fourteen tags.]

[god bless

anyway, near one of the flowerbeds, shirasu will find that some of the flowers have... fallen off near the bottom? they seem a little crushed. he might want to take a closer look.]

[ain't none of us got time for that.

he'll investigate what's up down there and try to see what happened with these flowers!]

[maybe someone was doing something over here, because the flowers definitely seem to have been knocked off from the bush. a few dark strands of something that might be some kind of dead grass poke out from the dirt, which seems as though it's been a little disturbed - unsurprising, with the state of the flowers.

some of the fallen flowers seem to be in the same shape as the folded cloth flower he found earlier. maybe someone needed a reference!]

[hmm... taking a closer look at the disturbed dirt. is it turned over enough to have been dug in? don't these gardens look too nice to have dead grass in them?? that's also getting a second look.]

[it's possible that the dirt could have been dug in! but do you see any shovels around here, shirasu?

those little strands are dark and poking up out of the dirt. just by sight, it's difficult to tell what they are in the shadow of the flowerbed, though.]

[no and he can't GO GET ONE so I guess we're doing some gardening by hand here, this is his life, these are his choices in the pursuit of evidence.

he'll try to carefully unearth those strands first and if by strands you mean this is hair I'm gonna die.]

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