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bellelurette2025-03-28 04:10 pm
lesmodsalouette) wrote in bellelurette2025-03-28 04:10 pm
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 thereβs 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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She'll walk throughout the rest of the chapel and see what she can find. ...Hopefully nothing too close to the body... ]
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Further, at the edge of the room between the two kitchen doors there is a dagger. ]
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Let's look at the dagger, too. Assuming there is blood on it, of course, but what else have we got here? ]
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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. ]
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...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? ]
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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! ]
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Any other stray objects lying around? Or shall we circle back to the blood on the floor? ]
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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. ]
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Do these trails look just as fresh as the blood pooled in front of the altar? ]
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Though I will leave you with a last note - though the smears on the ground are largely indistinct smudges, she may be able to make out the shape of a handprint somewhere in the mess. ]
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Anything else? I see the evidence clear top level but just in case... ]
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After seeing Sousuke's little test, Lili decides to try it herself. She will attempt to try and lift and drag one of the untouched pews. How hard is it for someone her size? She's also not very strong, so... ]
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