Week 2: Investigation

[becomemod]

week 2:

investigation

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Early Friday morning, our heroes awaken to the moon setting, and finally, the freedom to leave the locations they fell asleep in the night before. It's a normal morning... if you ignore the sirens echoing through the city streets.

Police and prinnies have gathered in certain locations. With the sight of heroes giving them hope, they call upon you for help in searching for evidence, that we may all learn what happened on Thursday night.

So what are you waiting for? The investigation is yours.

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Welcome, heroes, to your second investigation!

We will be posting top-levels for locations to be searched - one set at 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST and the second at 7 PM EST / 4 PM PST. Each block will run for two hours during which characters can search the locations for evidence related to the events of Thursday night, and each location will have something to find. Please coordinate investigation groups on Discord, as we ask that group threads consist of no more than 2-3 characters.

Once the two hours are up - at 8 PM EST / 5 PM PST for block one and 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST for block two - threads will no longer receive mod tags and the investigation will conclude for the night. Whether you find everything is up to you, but don't worry if you don't! Characters will get the chance to revisit locations tomorrow at trial. At 9 PM EST / 6PM PST, an announcement will go up, confirming the victim(s).

If you have any questions at any time, please let us know by pinging us on Discord!

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[becomemod]

[ There are no desks in the front of the police station. There's a little counter in the wall, but it doesn't seem to have been disturbed in the night.

The wanted posters are of nobody familiar. There's one for a purse snatcher. There's no real damage to the pin boards, besides some scuff marks from falling.

The chairs are more akin to waiting area chairs. It looks like it would go back further, if they cared to follow the trial. ]

[axeswing]

[ A TRAIL OF CHAIRS????? THROWS THE PIN BOARD!!!

I'm kidding, after carefully placing it down on the desk he'll follow the trail. ]

Whoa, this is real detective work, huh? I might be pretty bad at this! [ At least he's honest. ] But I'll try my best.

[ Are the headed towards a hallway? Is there anything indicating what part of the police station that the trail is heading? ]

[inquired]

[ at least he's honest ]

That'll do, Vane. [ patting him on the arm. ] That'll do.

Come along - the trail leads us this way. [ mr detective the inquisitor is on the case!

temenos moves very carefully, avoiding stepping on any of the mess, but sweeping the floor for any shoeprints or anything of the like as they move. but otherwise yes! of course! the hound is on the trail! let's follow it back to wherever the trail leads! what do we see at the end? ]

[becomemod]

[ The trail of mess, with things knocked over, goes over to the holding cells. Some of them are thrown open like somebody knocked into them. This particular hallway doesn't have any people in it at the moment.

No footprints on the ground.

There's something in the corner of the hallway, but it's hard to see it from their current vantage point. They'll have to get closer to examine it. ]

[axeswing]

[ Vane will take a glance inside some of the open holding cells, just to see if there are any signs that the fight extended into one of them. Like any signs of possible blood or fallen items.

But then he spots what's in the corner -- ]

Hey, do you see somethin' over there?

[inquired]

[ he will remember briefly to take a picture. click? ye olde.

but okay. while vane's checking the holding cells, he glances over to the corner, makes an affirmative noise, and then makes his way down the hall to go look at the thing

what is it!!! ]

[becomemod]

[ There's no blood or fallen items within the jail cells.

Looking at the corner, there is a pool of blood and a kitchen knife on the ground. ]

[axeswing]

[ Jesus.

He’ll come over after inspecting the holding cells, looking to see if there’s possibly any signs of blood or damages done to the bars before he joins Temenos.

He then Looks at the blood. And the knife. And then at the fantasy Catholic beside him. ]

Do I take a picture of this… ?

[inquired]

Now you're getting the hang of it.

[ boy howdy. to be clear, is the knife in the blood, or to the side of it? roughly how big is this pool? like. body sized? small? large?

once a picture is taken, he'll kneel down to carefully pick up the knife with the corner of his cloak so he doesn't touch it or smear anything on it. +1 knife for the priest! ] A kitchen knife, it seems.

[ looking down the hallway from where the blood is (not back where they came from) is there any more blood? ]

[becomemod]

[ The knife is to the side of the blood. Roughly, it's a medium pool of blood. It's not larger than a hand, certainly not body sized.

Looking down this hallway, Temenos can see bloody drip marks going towards the back of the station, towards the back exit. ]

[axeswing]

[ Vane will take a picture before Temenos takes away the kitchen knife. He’ll also try to compare his hand to it, for the sake of it.

He’ll also take pictures of the blood going further down the hallway.

Is there only the trail of blood that’s left? Are there any sign of a fight or more rudely shoved chairs? ]

[inquired]

[ you're doing very good detective work vane!!!

alright, cool. he's going to follow the trail now that the knife has been obtained and trust vane to be a good photographer and assisstant without saying anything else because he's in the zone. blood's on the floor - drip marks like splatters? is it steady, or does the trail meander? he follows it down the hallway to the exit - is there anything up overhead (CEILING!!!) or on the walls? or is it all on the ground?

is there any blood on the door? is it one of those push open doors or does it have a doorknob: is everything there clean, or is there more blood? ]

[becomemod]

[ This is the only trail of blood in here. There's no more sign of a fight around here. No chairs around either.

Drips like drips, but they seem steady. It doesn't meander at all. There's nothing on the ceiling here or on the walls. All the blood is on the ground.

There's no blood on the push open door. ]

[axeswing]

[ Uhhh well… he’ll continue taking pictures of the droplets of blood on the floor. Would you say that they’re obviously visibly drips or you gotta squint or you’ll miss them kind of drips?

Can he open the door? ]

[inquired]

[ anything else back by the exit? any emergency exit signs? ?? ?? is there an alarm that can be tripped back here???

if there's nothing weird, can we loop back around and check the interrogation rooms or offices? i'm reading the description and realizing i missed this. its important to me to mention also he's doing this and holding his staff in one hand and the knife in his other and wandering around with Focus (TM) dangerous twink on the loose solving crime ]

[becomemod]

[ There's an emergency exit sign right above this door. Vane can open the door.

Immediately upon opening it, they are greeted by the priestess of the Grand Narukami Shrine.

Her body in a heap.

Yae Miko is dead. ]

[axeswing]

[ OH MY GOD A BODY I FOUND A BODY IT’S BEEN YEARS!!

But Vane is opening that door because what is an emergency exits all doors are exits.

When he sees the body his blood goes cold, his limbs moving before he has full control. ] H-Hey! You’re uh… Miko Miko Mii? Are you okay!? [ He doesn’t remember her name. He’s also very flustered. Sorry, he might accidentally touch the body unless he’s stopped to check for a pulse. ]

[inquired]

[ ah.

well. temenos peers around vane to see - and yep. that sure is a body. that sure is his teammate's body, even. ]

...Yae Miko. [ he says, quietly, remarkably unreactive comparatively. and, when vane goes to check, he brings a hand out to put it across him to keep him from rushing, with a - ] Carefully. Don't disturb anything. Check, but...

[ ... but, well. thinking she might have a pulse is wishful thinking.

but with that warning, temenos then will kneel down beside her as well. is there anything we can see around her body? or about her positioning? since that's not always easy to see at body check. ]

[becomemod]

[ Her body is dumped into a heap, unceremonious for a priestess. Then again, she's dead.

It's easy to tell that her body is in a pool of blood.

She does not have a pulse. ]

[axeswing]

[ Sorry. He’s either too fast, too frazzled, too hopeful to pay much heed to the warning; it’s all intense.

There’s no pulse. His expression shifts, and he respectfully places hands to at least… move her a little. If he can, before her body disappears or something. He just doesn’t want to see her in a heap of limbs when she was once a living and breathing person before.

Sorry he’s sniffling. ]

[inquired]

[ well. temenos's mind is racing, and he's not exactly thrilled about the scene being messed with, but, vane is a giant baby and it's not that surprising - he watches this happen for a moment, and then shakes his head. another day, another body. ]

...We're going to get rushed out of here, before long. [ ...

but, it's affection week, so, he reaches up to very gently lay his hand on vane's back as he stands when he hears him sniffle, leaving it there like a steadying weight. ] ...Come along, Vane. There still may yet be more to find.

[ except there isn't because our block is over ]