INVESTIGATION I

[lesmodsalouette]

Investigation

Psst. Were you enjoying your peaceful, sleepy spring morning, blanketed in magic and mystery? Alas, the times they are a-changin’ – that is to say, everyone will get a rude wake-up call from a sleep they may not remember falling into at precisely 8 o’clock AM on the dot, every single grandfather clock clanging out the hour once again. It’s truly a grand and terrible orchestra, made perhaps just a bit worse by the state some of you may be waking up in.

Now, is this better or worse than your last magical wake-up?

Only time will tell.

(( 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 and up to three characters are welcome to investigate under each header unless indicated otherwise. ))

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[lesmodsalouette]

[ It's not meticulously shredded. There are only around half a dozen tears, give or take. Richard can tell which part of the curtain was the top based on the rigging attachment, so he'll be able to tell that the tears are concentrated off-center to the right, at about 3/4th height of the curtain.

The lower edge of the curtain looks clean and not particularly notable! ]

[ocenon]

[ About how tall are you viewing the curtain as? im sorry for the pedantry lol probably best that we get the gauge earlier than later before we get a narwhal situation again and zelos gets scaped.

He'll check where the rigging is attached to the top part of the curtain to ensure that nothing's there, before finally moving on. Is the part of the fire set that is on the stage the one that Ayaka was just looking at? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The curtain is about 3m tall / approaching 9 feet in height.

The curtain is intact aside from the tears that Richard observed earlier. And the fire is indeed part of the same set of backdrop pieces!

As he examines the setpieces, he might also see a pile of props towards the entrance of the backstage area.

Oh and also... CORRECTION: the earlier candles were the castle-typical magic candles that do not burn with real fire. ]

[ocenon]

[ Ooooh, props. Let's take a look and see what we got here... ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ There's a pretty big pile here... but if Richard digs a little he'll be able to produce two jester's hats that don't belong here, because normally they should be in with the clown clothes.

Their bells have been ripped off. ]

[ocenon]

[ yknow when you said bells in sabo's part i was thinking about the ones with the handles so when you said they were grape–sized i was so confused. this is simply on me because i am stupid.

Anyway this is a sad development... is there anything else in the pile? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ pats your head and mine, nu.

there is one last thing in the pile, a small wooden frog. ]

[ocenon]

[ RIBBIT.

Two further clarification questions and then I will leave you alone:

- I know the only props that matter are the hat and the frog but are they different enough that the frog sticks out?
- How is frog. Any kind of wear and tear/abnormal condition to it? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ yes, the frog does stick out.

frog is fine! it is a cute little toy frog 🐸. ]