INVESTIGATION III

[lesmodsalouette]

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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[lesmodsalouette]

[ The cloak is XXL and dark brown in color.

The blood splatter can be found all over the front of the cloak. It is not downright soaked in blood or anything, but there's a decent amount of red splotches. ]

[safetycheck]

[ Cool. Where is it singed? Also, let's look at that tear. Is the blood dry? Is the tear super frayed?

Also, anything else on the cloak, like hair? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The singing is a large area, roughly around the lower back of it. The blood is still a little moist, but certainly in the process of drying out. And the tear is pretty clean!

There is nothing else that is immediately notable about this, so no hair... rip! ]

[safetycheck]

[ Door time, then! Let's go back to the kitchen doors and the pews. Anything of note right off the bat that she didn't catch the first time before Cloth happened? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ There are a few drag marks on the floor, commemorating the path the pew took from its original position to its new home as a door blocker.

And as Lili approaches the second door to the kitchen, the one in the back, she'll find a smear of blood on the floor, in front of a door leading to the back room behind the altar. ]

[safetycheck]

[ Oh boy. Time to look in that back room, but first the smear: What is the direction, and how big is it? Is the blood here dry too? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The smear is positioned between the back kitchen door and the door to the back room. The blood here is currently drying out with the red of it having started to separate from the fluid, which blood apparently does while drying.

And when Lili looks inside the room, she'll find a large pool of blood on the floor inside. This has likewise started to separate out. ]

[safetycheck]

[ DEAR GOD.

Okay, how large is the pool in the back room, and where is it positioned? Does it look like the smear connects to it at all? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The pool is... pretty large. Large enough that you'd get worried about an adult human bleeding out.

It's positioned right in the center of the room. The edges of the pool that are positioned towards the door are more irregular and more smeared. Though the smear is not fully continuous with the pool here, the distance between smear ends is low and a connection seems plausible. ]

[safetycheck]

[ Oh, goodness...carefully stepping around the pool to look at the rest of the room. Anything that looks strange or out of the ordinary? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ There's a golden tarot card on the floor by the edge of the blood pool, stained red from it. ]

[safetycheck]

[ Tarot card...isn't that...?

Let's assume she caught a glimpse of the one Sabo presented the other day. Is this identical or similar? She won't pick it up just yet, but she is bending down to get a closer look. ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The card is identical! ]

[safetycheck]

[ ....She remembers Sabo saying something about another tarot card.

Thank you, Sabo. I won't waste your knowledge.

Lili will, uh...pick it up with the cape she found earlier, so as to not dirty her hands even more, I guess.

What else is there to find? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ There's nothing left in this room, but there's still a good bit in the chapel proper!

Does Lili want to look at the bloodstains on the floor or does she want to look around for stray objects? ]

[safetycheck]

[ Stray objects first. Let's take a break from the blood, man.

She'll walk throughout the rest of the chapel and see what she can find. ...Hopefully nothing too close to the body... ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ A bit out from the body, more towards the banquet hall doors, there is a cloth ball. This one is an actual ball, not a bunched up item of anything! It's a bit singed.

Further, at the edge of the room between the two kitchen doors there is a dagger. ]

[safetycheck]

[ Assuming she got a glimpse of the one showed off during the last trial, does this cloth ball look similar...? Anything to note about the singed area or is it just Burnt.

Let's look at the dagger, too. Assuming there is blood on it, of course, but what else have we got here? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ It does look similar, yes! And it's just singed, there is no noteworthy shape about it anything.

There is blood on the dagger, yes. It's a thin dagger, the stiletto kind. It's just been flung on the floor and left there.

And as Lili is down here collecting stray nonsense, she'll also find a chipped spray bottle. It's empty. ]

[safetycheck]

[ Anything to note about the blood on the dagger, like how much of it is covered in blood or is Coco reading into this too much...

...also. That spray bottle. Lili received a small bottle last week, which she revealed at the same trial. Is this the same sort of object? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ It is the same bottle!

As for the dagger... there's a decent amount of blood, but it's not covered in it over and over. The handle is clean! ]

[safetycheck]

[ Great! Picking those up too, yay.

Any other stray objects lying around? Or shall we circle back to the blood on the floor? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ I'm afraid Lili has reached the end of her fetch quest days... these were all the items to find!

So. Blood.

The majority of the blood is pooled in front of the altar where Andrew's body was. It's still a perfect dark red and has hardly begun drying.

It's not the only blood there is though - there's a trail from there, leading towards one of the pews that is only standing askew close to the garden door but not blocking it. By this pew, there's a slightly larger pool of blood again, but the trail continues onward still. The end point is in front of the door towards the garden. ]

[safetycheck]

[ To clarify, the end point is inside and not outside of the chapel, correct? Inside of the chapel, in front of the garden doors to the north (if we're looking at the map)?

Do these trails look just as fresh as the blood pooled in front of the altar? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ Correct on both counts! The end point is inside the chapel, in front of the doors and the trails are of the same freshness! ]