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

[civilized]

[ he clacks his teeth. ]

How awful. [ he was a bit of an annoying boy, but he didn't have much ill will toward him. ] ...In the interest of disclosure, I want to make mention that Mejojo and I were both with Akira last night. We had the idea to break into the Timeshare together.

[kanshisha]

[ He doesn't quite like, narrow his eyes. But he definitely focuses on Kira. ]

Can both of you give us any details on what you saw or what happened.

[throning]

Akira lost an eye during our venture — I tended to his wounds, while Kira was eager to leave us in the dust. I'll be sure to detail what happened to the lot of you tomorrow.

[ his expression and voice are both the slightest bit sullen. he didn't know him well, but... ]

...He was an amiable young man, and was in enough pain as it was. I can only hope his death was a merciful one.

[civilized]

Excuse you. [ fucking shit. ] You were more than happy to run through those axes without coordinating with us. Akira and I could have lost our heads then!

[kanshisha]

[ for once kei looks serious!! he just, frowns at them both. ]

For both your sakes, and more importantly ours, I hope you both can get your stories straight soon.

[civilized]

If you are to imply that we may have been involved with Akira's death, I assure you that isn't the case. [ he points to mejojo rudely. ] I would have sooner wished for his death.

[ fucking. shitty. cat!!!! ]

[kanshisha]

[ Damn I wish he knew Mejojo was a bitch so he could be like 'WELL THATS FAIR'

but he doesn't. So instead he kind of just..eyes the two of them..]

Regardless.. if you two were the last ones to see him, it's hard not to be suspicious regardless of what you thought of him.. or what you think of each other.

[throning]

The rabbit mentioned a trial earlier on in the week. Tomorrow would be the proper time for this discussion — I'd prefer to gather my thoughts while I'm still able.

[ because, you know.

mister man over there wants to kill him. ]

I'll recount what happened for you all, I assure you this much.

[civilized]

Understandable. I only wanted to forthright with the facts in this moment.

[ and he just gives a fucking eyeroll at mejojo's "waiting until the trial" bullshit. ]

[civilized]

[ hahaha....... ]

We had tried to get inside, but then Mejojo -- [ and wherever the fuck mejojo might be, kira shoots him a look ] -- stepped on a trap tile and we fell into a hedge maze. We maneuvered it until we found an exit in a shack, that took us back outside the area.

[ and while he's been hiding his left hand in his pocket, he takes it out now -- his pinky is gone, a strip of fabric now tying up the flesh. only a very tiny bit of it remains now that connects to the hand. ]

Some kind of oyster piranha bit it off. Akira lost an eye.

[kanshisha]

Ah, so that wasn't the work of his assailant.

[ Yikes! Poor kid. ]

Thank you for confirming.

[civilized]

Correct. I'm not sure what happened to him after we parted ways - Mejojo and I are both in the Spades house and nothing was disturbed there when we returned. Whatever happened to Akira, I feel I can say neither of us were involved.