mcmurder | week 1 — investigation

The ticking of the grandfather clocks in each house draws louder and louder — soon, the ticking turns into a defining gong. Characters are stricken from their beds with the noise, allowing them to venture out.

Despite the frantic nature of getting out of their homes, upon exit out into the Abode, they'll see something unlike their arrival — the celebration seems to be over. Ribbons and streamers ripped from the lamposts, oversized candies were pushed into the river, wrapped presents were smashed and torn astray.

It looks like someone was not having a good unbirthday?

Shall you explore?

NOTE: Anyone in the House of Clubs (Foxes and Butterflies) and House of Spades (Snakes and Sheep), please do not reply to anything immediately. You have presents.

Welcome to the Investigation Log! To streamline things, I am listing locations and a cap of investigation slots. Please choose only one for now! I'll announce on Plurk if we need people in other areas. For the sake of setting — please have characters enter without getting too far into a building.

RESERVES + APPLICATIONS + PRIVATE CONVOS + LOCATIONS + IC PROFILES
+ MURDER PROPOSALS + IC RULEBOOK + HOUSING

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[ Dobedobe... guess who's popping up over here? ]

We'll just have to find out.

[ It can't be too bad, can it? ]

[ The first motherfucking thing y'all will see is books. Tons of books thrown astray, some still flapping on the floor as if they were fish out of water trying to breathe.

Max, since she's first, will see some of them stained red with blood. Izuminokami will see the books continue deeper into the building. Investigate? ]

[ welp, no time wasted. she gasps, but max is curious by nature, so she'll immediately investigate the bloodstain. honestly it'd make a gnarly picture. ]

Whoa.. no chance Mr. Rabbit spilled his appletini, is there? [ she'll flip through some of the books just to see the magnitude of blood. ] I've heard of purple prose but red is a little much..

Probably not. I think that would require us to be a little more fortunate for anything like that to happen anyway.

[ Izuminokami will let her inch closer to the ones stained with blood, but his own curiosity has him start to follow the trail of books that'd lead deeper into the area. ]

small>[ The bloodstains, as beautiful as they are, can be pinpointed as two distinctive flavors: some with tiny splatters and some with impact splashes. As Izu goes forward, he'll come to an odd look. A ... pyramid... of books? It's massive — endless amounts of books piling high into the ceiling, wide at the bottom, there seems to be some redness leaking through the bottom row of books... ]

[ too bad max has no gotdamn idea what the difference is. she can tell they're different, but not why. also she's feeling pretty queasy suddenly, so she'll just shut those.

This action will have consequences.

Anything else of note? ]

[ When he hears nothing over there, he'll just chance a peek over his shoulder at Max. ]

Is everything alright over there?

[ He'll look back in front of him, content to explore whatever the hell's going on over here. Whoever set up this pyramid of books is an asshole because he's sighing in annoyance--there's a part of him that's concerned with the redness leaking at the bottom but uh.

Ummm looks like he has to dig through this pile or something?? He starts to pick up one book and tosses it to the side as a beginning. ]

...This is ridiculous.

[ Nothing special about the books!

As he sees through the pile, he'll see the pyramid topple. Mountains of books fall on him — and he's now laying face first with a very dead Esther de Groot. Push the books aside and let's look at the body! ]

Um.. not really.

[ like tbh this sucks. she's sick of looking at these books, so she goes over to check out what her investigation partner is doing.

and when she does.. ] N-No fucking way.. Esther?[ almost immediately, max feels bile gathering in her throat. it burns, coupling with the fiery hotness from the tears pooling under her eyes. her face is red as a beet. she covers her mouth, but the floodgates were opened — she couldn't help it. she runs as far as she can get — maybe 10 feet — and hurls all over a pile of books. sorry dude, she might not be super helpful. ]

[ He makes a face that's pretty much like holy shit and he's up on his feet, taken aback. It's more the sudden appearance of dead body after books fall all over him (which was annoying too!!) than actual shock of someone being dead that provokes this reaction.

He looks over at Max and aw, man-- ]

Yeah, it's her--hey, what are you...

[ He stops when he hears the sound of... yeah. Yeah. It's fine...this is fine. He's got this, apparently.

Izuminokami takes a closer look at the dead body. So, what kind of wounds is he looking at here? ]

[ The first and obvious thing he'll notice is Esther's chest is completely gashed opened. Ribs exposed but no heart in her chest.

Poor Max, you need a big aloe leaf, honey. ]

[ Well, Izuminokami also sort of figures that she'll continue to need those moments while he investigates. If he grimaces and takes a closer look with this brutality would he be able to take note of anything like defensive wounds on her hands or such?

Or are they pretty much all set here? ]

[ There doesn't seem to be defensive wounds. A bruise on the head seems to indicate head trauma, bludgeoned to death seems very likely.

The wounds on her chest is noticeable — gorish and sliced open, yet inners torn around shamelessly.

Besides that, there doesn't seem to be much.]

[ He was probably making a grim expression the entire time. ]

Whoever did this to you will pay. I can guarantee you that, Esther.

[ Izuminokami's eyes narrow, before he settles and begins to head over to Max, despite the smell. At least their work is over for now. ]

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