Week 4: Investigation

[becomemod]

week 4:

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 weekly 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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JADE BAMBOO (LOBBY)

[becomemod]

[floridas]

Greaaaaat.

[ well, unfortunately we are here at the jade bamboo. jolyne is just vibing unhappily with her arm in a sling. is there anything immediate going on visibly on the outside? fire? blood? termites? sanji?

or can she go in and see what's up on the inside? ]

[selfimmolation]

[ who is letting both of them examine. anyway ace is still wearing a shirt this is a capital offense, and he is looking really blankly at the jade bamboo. anything to see around the entrance or leading up to it? that he can spot with one fucking eye. ]

That's new.

[ w...what's new. ok. ]

[tongshi]

[ hung, apparently, is letting them do this. but he's here to keep an eye on them so there's that. he's very diligently following with his phone and looks up at the ceiling warily while he comes to join them. ]

What's new? [ ace your BRAIN. anyways does he smell any smoke, blood, weird perfume smells? there's a reception desk that usually has pamphlets isn't there? ]

[becomemod]

[ welcome to the jade bamboo! despite whatever ace is on about, it looks perfectly normal from the outside.

inside, hung can in fact smell blood in the air, but isn't that just the casino vibe? the front desk looks pretty normal. ]

[floridas]

[ any odd noises at all that aren't typical casino lobby noises? idk we are using all our senses.

since the lobby is made up of a parking lot as well, can she have a look? on the way, she'll keep her eyes peeled upwards, downwards, and all aroundwards. anything particularly out of place or broken? any prints or smears that shouldn't be in a nice clear lobby on the way to the parking lot. ]

Vrrm, vrrm, let's see what ya got...

[selfimmolation]

The casino.

[ ... the casino is not new, but okay.

jolyne can have the parking lot and hung can follow his nose, ace is going to the service desk to see if there's anything out of place in that area. or anything on the way there. maybe he will also get some tokens to play at the casino! anything can hadplen ]

[tongshi]

[ looks tiredly at him, before looking after jolyne when she goes vroom. ]

Let's just. All be careful... I've got my gloves with me if we need to grab anything. [ but yeah, no, he comes to the casino pretty frequently and i'm not sure if BLOOD SMELL is the usual jade bamboo vibe? where does he wind up going if he follows his nose? ]

[becomemod]

[ no strange sounds! and due to some timey wimey nonsense, jolyne will find that another team is investigating the parking garage. seems like they've got that covered.

nothing appears out of place on the service desk. the pamphlets look a tiny bit ruffled, but the air conditioning runs strong, so maybe it's just airflow. ace can swipe some casino chips! is that all he's doing over here, just looking from the front?

hung follows his nose to a display just beyond the receptionist's desk featurimg the latest, state-of-the-art slot machines and a beautifully crafted roulette wheel!

...or it would be beautiful, if not for all the gore. yikes. ]

[floridas]

[ i see okay nvmd then she will close the door and leave people to it for the second block...

she'll retreat from there and probably go follow hung, but as she does she will peek at the kiosk where you can load up your virtual card, anything there? can she poke through the pamphlets to see if anything's fallen in between the leaflets? anyways great love the roulette wheel full of gore. ]

Oh shit... [ softly, with feeling: ] Messy...

[selfimmolation]

[ ace will also look at it from the back! he is going around the whole thing. maybe he is looking for money. it's thievery time. he's just fully looking on, around and under this service desk like it's the most important thing in the world and not even noticing the gore roulette wheel not that far away ]

[tongshi]

[ well. takes a photo of the gore with his phone, then another a little further back of the placement, sighing, ears flat in his hair before he pulls the aforementioned gloves on. can he pick up the display without disturbing the gore? is it, like, just general nondescript gore or is there bone/brain/innards?? ]

Is there anything behind it..?

[becomemod]

[ the kiosk looks fine and normal, as do the pamphlets.

ace has infinite money, but good for him going for gold anyway. you go, king. anyway, there's a trash can under the desk that's smelling kind of gross, so enjoy that.

there's no real way to keep from disturbing the gore. it's a disgusting mess of blood and like... meat pulp. blegh. doesn't appear to be any bones in here. but hey, some chunks of meat landed on 00, and according to the flashing sign, that means you won! congrats! ]

[floridas]

[ so flatly: ]

... the hell is this, did someone explode...?

[ hate that for us. chunks of meat... yeesh. is it like only on the roulette? is it spread/spattered anywhere? are there any hand prints or... feet prints in the mess or leaving the roulette table itself? or a trail of any kind? ]

[selfimmolation]

[ ace literally lived next to a trash heap, kind of gross means nothing to him. he looks at the trash can and if he can't see what smells bad immediately he will try to fish it out. and he will maybe fish it out even if he can see it depending on what it is

i hope it's a body part ]

[tongshi]

[ hung does not see what ace is doing, so can't bat his hands out of there barehanded. instead he's moving the display as carefully as he can towards the door so that they can carry it out afterwards. ]

Urgh... [ is there anything in the roulette wheel besides the meat that schlopped down into the 00? he'll leave jolyne to looking around it as he carefully pokes around the roulette ... things. number slots. whatever they're called. the blacks and reds. ]

[becomemod]

[ there is some splatter around the roulette wheel, but most of it is just on the wheel itself.

there are some bloody footprints heading deeper into the building.

in the trash, ace finds normal trash things: discarded papers, food containers, and also... a pair of gloves. there's some blood on them.

little bits of blood and pulp drip from the display as hung moves it. that's probably fine. there's nothing else on the wheel but blood and gore and a single roulette ball, also covered in blood and gore. ]

[floridas]

[ can she go deeper into the building or is that just leading to the bar?

she's just gonna take a picture of the footprints next to her own? are they larger or smaller or of similar size (or will they have to visit the feet mind palace tomorrow?)

anything else in the area? recepticles for garbage, any other tables that she can look at? any machines acting weird? ]

[selfimmolation]

[ is it the pair of gloves that smells bad... ace is taking them. yay gloves :) what kind of material are they

also if that's it he's moving on to go spend his casino coins at the slot machines. by which i mean he's going to check all the different slot machines to see if there's anything out of place on/around/behind them.

also cursory ceiling check ig ]

[tongshi]

[ great, disgusting! he's going to i guess. collect the chunks of gore that slid off or are on the floor in general. he'll put them in the trash can that ace has left behind after taking the stuff out of it. gross.

is there anything in that slop that he should be aware of, otherwise he's just going to put it in there and check around the ground where the gore was to make sure nothing's been missed there.

hate being used to this. ]

[becomemod]

[ she can't go to the bar, but she can go deeper into the lobby, following the prints toward some stairs. they are close to jolyne's size, maybe a tad bigger. any more details on that will be for her mind palace tomorrow.

there are more trash cans, yes. there is also something on the floor closer to the stairs. is jolyne going to follow ace's lead and search for treasure?

it's probably a combo of the trash leftovers and gloves ): gross. but sure, ace can take those. i forgot to answer the material question. they're leather, probably. how well does ace know fabric, anyway, he so rarely wears shirts.

nothing out of place with the slot machines. sounds like someone's winning, but that's none of his business. checking the ceiling, ace can spot a small stain.

nothing was missed in the meat pulp. what, don't think this is a good prize? ]

[floridas]

[ don't assign her feet mind palace-haver!!! she'll take pictures of where the prints are leading though.

well she's not gonna follow his lead on the trash cans just yet because she's going to deem the object closer to the stairs more important. so she'll make her way over and have a look. what is this object, is there any more gore around it? ]

[selfimmolation]

[ ace is exactly the kind of person who'd know what leather is according to all the official halloween art

anyway, what does the small stain look like, about where is it (above the roulette?) and is it like, blood colored or just... water stain ]

[tongshi]

[ this is a terrible prize! but he's collected everything, i guess, and will now do a scan of the areas that ace and jolyne have not gone towards. because i don't remember what else there is in the lobby that's not been covered.

uhhh for starters, how's the elevator look? ]

[becomemod]

[ hey, you started this! but yea, the prints look like they head up the stairs.

the object on the floor is... a bracelet! a broken friendship bracelet, to be exact, made primarily of orange. it looks like it may have had a charm, once upon a time, but it's gone now.

the roulette wheel was moved, but according to the splatters, the ceiling stain may have been above it. the stain itself is dark, so it could be blood.

the elevator looks undisturbed. ]