bellelurette | INVESTIGATION III

Investigation

CLANG, CLANG, CLANGCLANGCLANG.

Your early morning begins with the infernal but familiar chime of dozens of grandfather clocks crying out in unison. Or does it? Let's rewind a little!

For those of you on the first floor of the castle the morning may begin just a few seconds earlier and it may sound more like BOOM!! - and who doesn't enjoy the ominous rumble of an explosion as their wake-up call? At least nothing seems to be immediately on fire this time.

Whether it is the boom or the clocks that wake you, you'll find that it is just past 5am and another Friday is upon you. While this may fill you with a sense of trepidation, you might still enjoy taking a quick look out the window. Every single flowering plant in the garden is in full bloom today, despite not even getting to the point of budding during the rest of the week. You don't remember spotting cherry trees out there before, but there they are. There's plum and apple, too, seemingly new saplings you don't remember from last night crowding the palace windows. You can only hope that this is a good omen for all things to come.

(( OOC: Comment to this entry with where your character is going in the morning. A mod response will let you know if there’s anything to be found there! The Investigation is a free-for-all until all bodies have been found.

Once the victim(s) have been identified, there will be an IC announcement, and mods will provide Investigation sub-headers for the relevant locations. Up to 3 characters are welcome to investigate under each header unless indicated otherwise. ))

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[ Junior will get the sense that something has been moved here since he fell asleep - what exactly that is might be better examined later though, because one of their number is missing. ]

[Oh, bad. Junior's going to take stock of who is here and try and rouse anyone not yet fully awake. Who is it that's no longer amongus?]

[Urianger practically bolted up when the explosion happened on the floor below, so he doesn't need any rousing. His poor elf ears...]

By the Twelve, what was that?!

I have a feeling someone likely caused an explosion.

[Considering last week and all...]

Hopefully not too much damage was done.

[ Junior gets a hug too!! ]

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[ Holy shit. Taking roll call. Can we ask who's missing or is that a surprise mod Chans ]

[ Also taking roll call. He hates this, thanks!!! ]

[Urianger breathes a sigh of relief to see G'raha still here, but now he's looking around to see who's missing.......]

[ He's also incredibly relieved to see Urianger here too, but now that most of them are accounted for...

He hates this. ]

[ Hug for grandpa!! ]

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[ Hug for grandpa's tall elf friend!!

Now where the fuck is - ]

[Oh-- Urianger is likewise surprised, but it doesn't stop him from returning the hug to comfort Lili. He'd tell her it's okay, but given the explosion and missing person from their little group, he...is not so certain of that.

But at least Lili is in good company.]

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[ clover will be immediately getting the fuck up like a honey badger wondering what the hell just happened ]

[ HUGGING CLOVER RIGHT AWAY!! ]

[ yeah she's getting a hug back ahhhh ]

[ You've completed a good roll call. Five accounted for. One gone. Surely it has become clear to all of you know just who is missing... Maybe it's time to search! ]

[Junior will leave the task of figuring out where their missing person has gone to someone else--if it looks like something notable has been moved, can he identify it easily?]

[ It'll take some looking! (Which is mod code for 'we'll get to this as soon as the headers are up, it's not immediately body hunt relevant' <3) ]

[ Calling out to the rest of them: ]

I will go take a look around the rest of the mansion. You are welcome to follow.

[ But he's leaving quickly to the observatory. ]

[Yeah, Urianger's coming with.]

[ Nothing is off here! ]

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[ following you two around!! ]

I'm going to the aquarium!

[ it's the most logical place to go to check on the others? wow here's hoping everything's chill there ]

[ Is she going through the staircase or the clockwork room? ]

[ clockwork! maybe she can smack another clock on the way for old times sake ]

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