( INVESTIGATION - WEEK 3 )

[abhoth]

Promptly at 8:00 AM, both of the Grandfather clocks will begin to ring, the sound traveling to every corner of the motel. All residents will wake up as if it was any other morning. There's the usual hum from the air conditioner units and the sound of harsh wind blowing against the windows. While the sun may not have ever set, the amount of times the Grandfather clock rings makes it clear: it's time to get up and greet the brand new day. However... something seems off. Maybe it's a shiver of cold leaving a trail of frost on your skin or a burning sensation in your chest — but it feels like something is drawing you out of your room and into the outdoor hallways. Where will you go? Welcome to the investigation log! Please put the name of the location your character will be exploring in the subject header. If you plan on grouping up with someone else for a location, we ask that you keep it to 2-3 characters maximum. Mod replies will be sent out at 6:10 PM onwards, so we ask that you hold off having lengthy threads until then just in case there's a corpse smackdab at the entrance of a room. Happy body hunting! ( quick navigation ) ic rulebook | locations | statuses | room assignments private conversations | ic profiles | graveyard | full navigation

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INFORMATION SHARING, DINING HALL

[lohengrins]

It's Friday. Let's not act stupid.

Did any of you uncover anything?

[willremember]

I don't know if it's relevant or just people being people, but the kitchen is missing a ton of forks and a bowl.

[lohengrins]

Marty was found disembowled in the Dark Room. I'll hope that's a coincidence.

[willremember]

I don't think it is.

[lohengrins]

Neither do I.

[ fucking cannibals. ]

The information is appreciated. Tch. This gets more repulsive by the week.

[ a pause. ]

...Be careful out there.

[ninjay]

There's a trail of bloody footprints leading from the lobby area to the stairs leading to the second floor of the outside hallway. The prints fade away before they reached any room in particular though.

[ he goes to fold his arms over his chest and then changes his mind and stuffs his hands in his pockets instead. ]

[lohengrins]

Rachel was found in the lounge and Marty was found in the Dark Room. Someone may have attempted to move their bodies...or we have an accomplice here.

[ and suddenly, a beat. ]

Are you injured, by any chance?

[ninjay]

Attacking the one in a wheelchair... how low.

[ he frowns, but when percy changes the subject jay just. blinks in surprise. ]

... The injuries are the least of my issues.

[lohengrins]

She often told me "I am easy to kill." as though she expected this. Tch.

[ he looks him up and down. ]

Not from how Yukina described them. Have they been appropriately tended to?

[fauxtetsu]

Rachel's gone. There's words written in blood on the walls.

[ ...Sorry Percival. ]

Someone else was outside the lounge but Girge is handling that.

[lohengrins]

[ his expression falters, and he goes pale for a good second. percival bites his lip, heaves a breath and then runs his fingers through his hair in some attempt to level himself. ]

That's my failure to bear. Where is her corpse and who is the other person?

[fauxtetsu]

...I don't believe we can do much to prevent these misfortunes, so it's a failure o all of us.

[ Time to dad Dad 1, and Nagasone sets his hand on his shoulder. ]

In the lounge, still in her wheelchair. It's not a pretty sight, there's blood everywhere.

[rextenebrae]

One of the strange objects from the room with the targets is missing from the hunting lodge.

[ what are firearms we just don't know ]

[lohengrins]

Are you referring to the gun?

[ get with the program, knoll! ]

[rextenebrae]

[ listen... listen!! ]

Yes, that. I suppose someone just wanted to arm themselves.

[crushcard]

Your roommate. Quer and I found him in the Dark Room.

[ He looks grim, and he's lowkey resisting the urge to throw up because what the fuck, seriously. ]

You'll see the condition of the body tomorrow, but it doesn't look good.

[lohengrins]

[ well, today just sucks. there's failure #2. percival, looking surprisingly dejected, nods. ]

I'll see if I can find anything in our...my room.

A saw was missing from the market. I'll pray that there isn't a correlation.

[crushcard]

[ ... sorry percival. he's also not the best person to break this news????? someone with more tact would have been better, jfc. ]

I doubt there is. The body was. [ frowns more. ] Disemboweled. And the wounds on his face didn't look like they were caused by a saw of some sort.

[ still low key looking like he wants to throw up a bit but refusing to. ]

[blacktailed]

He hadn't been dead long when we found him. Whoever did it, he wasn't even cold.

[or spoiled, really. but Kaiba looks bad enough without her adding onto it.]

That could be what happens if you stay in the dark room too long, if the saw isn't a match for the injuries.

[disinterested]

[SOMETIME LATER if everyone's still here because he was kind of busy with, you know. Things.]

Mira's dead.

[a beat]

Just kidding. She should hopefully survive through the night.

[lohengrins]

[ he tenses.

and then he smacks girge's shoulder a little too hard. ]

Don't joke about something like that! Where is she!?

[disinterested]

[wow!!]

Aloy's room. Possibly still unconscious, possibly awake. [possibly high???] I don't know.

[thawedheart]

[Once the shower nonsense is over and done with:]

There were marks on Rachel-san and Akira-san's doorknob like the one from the first week... One of the employees took it as evidence.

[Don't mind her, she still has the hood of Akira's hoodie up to hide her face.]

[lohengrins]

Somebody broke in, then.

[ he looks her over. ]

Why are you wearing Akira's jacket?

[thawedheart]

[She points to her left cheek, which is mostly obscured by the hood.]

He let me borrow it to cover this up.