week 1 — investigation

[mcmurderer]

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.

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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

Comments

[chocobro]

Let's not? I don't want to think we have a professional among us...

[ coughcoughardyncough

anyway, Prompto's going to keep biting at the back of his wrist to contain the noises he wants to make from how grimey this all is. he makes note of the chest wound and instead travels more south, inspecting as he goes.

how're we looking with the lower extremities, mod-kun. anything going on re: Croix's legs or feetsies? ]

[northernbound]

[okay she's had a good cry and... is still crying, so she's going to get up and look a little around the body. is there anything out of place in the room/close to croix? or is it just. the corpse of her dead its complicated facebook relationship]

Whoever did this... They were... [brutal? Rude? WHO KNOWS she's not finishing that sentence]

[mcmurderer]

[ The wound looks like it was done while the victim was alive, maybe? Sheba can tell only a few hours had passed.

As Prompto looks downward, he'll notice that Croix's shoes are actually quite bloody! They look like they're ill-fitted for her feet, though... one slightly pulled down to her ankle.

Huh?

Ursula can see that the entrance way of the room has a few half-bloodied footprints leading inwards.

That's all for this! ]

[uncoincidental]

...if there's a professional among us, there's one among us, whether we want to think that or not.

[But, hmm. Okay. She purses her lips together as she examines the wound, then slowly backs away from the body. It seems like Prompto's got the rest of the corpse examination well in hand, so she'll help Ursula do a sweep of the room.

Not that there's anything more for them to find that they haven't already!]

We should... we should probably let the others know what happened here.