Investigation IV

[lesmodsalouette]

INVESTIGATION

Being forced asleep the second the clock struck midnight has been an ill-omen for weeks now. Yet this morning sees you waking not to explosions and smoke, but to the comfortable feeling of eight hours of uninterrupted rest. It's 8 in the morning and the sun is already out, and all is quiet around Chateau Ambregris.

Do you dare hope that you can face the day without further bloodshed? That Ish's announcement of needing no more bodies has stilled the restless violence in everybody's hearts? They say time heals all wounds, but has this ever-repeating week truly had the same effect?

(( 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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[oncefallen]

[A restful night for once? SUSPICIOUS...

Anyway, the important things. How's the Tea Party headcount looking this morning...]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ Well. The barricade Blade has built in front of the door? It's been shoved to the side. In fact, the whole door has been broken off its hinges and is laying out in the hallway, together with a few pieces of random barricade furniture.

This surely bodes nicely!!

As for the members of the tea party... two of them are missing. ]

[remainsilent]

[ Dan Heng will be looking for Blade, Clover, Junior, An Lili, and G'raha. He'll check on the rest but you know... priorities ]

[oncefallen]

[WE DON'T LOVE TO SEE IT, what the hell.

Oh boy. Looking around to see who else is still here...]

[littlegentleman]

[Checking in, hello! Baby is here and waking up.]

[fourtuity]

[ Clover is slumped over at a table, head literally in a book. She slowly starts waking up after sensing movement around her. Her brain hasn't quite caught up yet, but her eyes are already blearily scanning around for the others. ]

[uiscebeatha]

[ Waking up with a face full of sun... 8 AM is so late for him.

Is everything in order in the garden? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ Good morning, friendly early riser and Normal Man!

Where in the garden are you waking up? ]

[simulacres]

[ uhhhh

how’s the observatory looking. ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The observatory is looking bad, thanks for asking.

Ayaka wakes to the unmistakable smell of blood, and the unfortunate sight of it also. There's a body laying on the floor in a puddle of red. ]

[antemeridian]

[ Honestly, a full night's rest after the last few weeks' Friday mornings is probably the most suspicious thing of all. Homura is significantly nocturnal, but even so, going on too little sleep when she can't mumblemumble madoka things gets to be somewhat of an issue.

8 am is so late it's strange though. The sun doesn't reach inside here to the wintering room, where the magical lantern she'd taken to cozily spend the night in an igloo with (alongside some blankets in the form of fur coats and warm drinks) is providing her light instead, but when she stirs awake and looks outside...

Is everything in order here, or are Amb and Coco and Crystal criminals of the highest order? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ Homura's peaceful winter paradise has transformed overnight. The sharp smell of iron hits her nose as soon as she awakens, and there is a bloody hat right at the entrance of her humble abode.

As she steps outside, she'll find that the snow is disturbed wildly, and marred red all over. Red, red, red as far as the eye can see - that sure is the running theme of this morning, isn't it?

But at least there is nobody else here. It's just Homura and the blood, abandoned in the cold. ]

ANNOUNCEMENT

[calamitish]

[ ish's voice filters over the grounds, broadcast from the ballroom. he's wearing something different from his usual, perhaps getting in on the style this week( cape in purple with matching general cap). ]

Well, well, it looks like we're ending this all with a bang, huh?

[ compared to the last announcements, ish is in full clown form for this one. ]

I could blame you but I won't! As always, for the last time I'm here as your host to your carnival!

Sariel and G'raha Tia have fallen in the final hour but don't despair. You still have the time to grasp the truth for yourself before we depart.

I'll see you at midnight.

[baebladie]

[ Well, wherever he is, it doesn't matter, because he doesn't get to the body in time before the announcement is there.

Blade's reaction is small, in the grand scheme of things.

Dan Heng is with him, so he can see him lean against a wall, shaking, a sharp noise escaping him - caught between maybe a laugh mixed with an anguished noised - and then that goes quiet. It doesn't last long because he pushes himself off, and strides off to investigate, but it's...something...he's still sane enough for that, somehow. ]

[coldseep]

( As it turns out, hell has no bottom, and neither does grief.

Hwylryn remains quiet and still for a long time, thick tears rolling down his cheeks, unlike to stop before trial. )

[oncefallen]

[It just gets worse, doesn't it?

"I'm not so weakened as to be in trouble just yet, and it wouldn't serve much purpose to risk causing you the same effect as Miss Lili," he'd said to G'raha's offer of mana last night.

In the end, that refusal hadn't even mattered...]

INVESTIGATION

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WINTERING ROOM

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CLOCKWORK ATELIER

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OBSERVATORY

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STAIRWAY

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[ Only one person here, please! ]

SOLARIUM

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KITCHEN

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[ Only 1 person here as well! ]

GARDENS

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LAUNDRY ROOM

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