week 1 - investigation

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 1 - investigation ♫ friday On Friday morning, time shifts. It's a strange, twisting feeling reverberating throughout all in the town, even able to be felt by those still asleep, warping their dreams. Everyone's sense of time is back to normal, and the large grandfather clock in the lobby is gone. Which, here, can only mean the mastermind had a change of heart--or someone is dead. >Investigate? cast setting

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ROOM INVESTIGATION

[lastgirl]

[After getting Takao's room key off his body, Buddy, Kotetsu and Faize will head up together to investigate his room. Anything of immediate note they will instantly see?]

[minogame]

( It's never easy visiting the room of someone who isn't around anymore... That sort of task was always left to the more veteran spirits back home when someone was destroyed in battle.

That said, he doesn't really know how to start searching right now. )

Are we just... looking for anything?

( He'll check out the bathroom to see if anything is obviously out of order in there??? )

[symbologic]

It's hard to determine what might be "out of place" in an unfamiliar room but...anything that stands out is probably worth taking note of.

[And Faize will start his search by looking under both beds.]

[lastgirl]

Yeah. Go nuts. It's not like he's going to barge in and complain to us while his neck is broken and his skull is cracked.

[Buddy...that said, she'll look in his closets.]

[vicedirector]

[ Takao has been sleeping in the bed where the lamp is on the right-hand side. The quilt mostly covers the bed, not dramatically flung aside. The Other Bed has a small pile of his clothes - as a teenage boy who's continued exercising, it's immediately obvious these ones are not clean, but it's only two days worth or so. His set of pajamas is folded up in the top drawer of the dresser, which hangs a little open. The closet is closed. A historical bright orange jacket he wore sorta often is there along with a thick deep orange greatcoat that he never wore.

The pad and pen in the bedside table seem to have been in use. There are a couple bad origami pieces or paper airplanes lying around on the floor, the far side of the Other Bed. On the top of the bedside table are two pieces of paper. One is sparse: "Shintaro Midorima" above a residential address in an upper-class ward of Tokyo, Japan. Spaced below it, written later, is the address of "Shutoku High School", in a reasonable school area in an upper-middle-class ward of Tokyo, Japan. Then another piece of paper is a letter, probably the one he wrote most recently. In the actual drawer are more letters. ]

[minogame]

I wonder why someone would choose him...

( His room looks pretty normal to him? He was a normal guy? But hmm, let's see what Takao's been writing? Maybe he wrote down notes about suspicious people or something? )

[symbologic]

He was one of the "easier" targets, would be my guess. [Faize gets up off the ground and comes over to examine the letters as well.] He may have had athletic ability, but compared to a lot of the people here, he was just...a normal human.

[minogame]

Hey.

( It's a whisper with a warning. He won't really say anything more in response though. Instead, he makes eye contact with Faize and then glances at Buddy. Don't say that... in front of the normal people... )

[lastgirl]

It's because he was a weakling. An average man without much fighting ability.

[Says "normal human" Buddy.]

[symbologic]

Hm? [He follows Urashima's gaze, though, tbh, he's not sure why he's lookng at Buddy. She's been making pointed sticks??? And is good with blades, according to her profile? He actually wasn't including her in that group, weirdly enough. And her comment proves it.]

I wouldn't go as far as "weakling" but that is precisely what I was getting at, yes. They went after one of us who was the least likely to fight back.

[minogame]

Ah! ( BUDDY, DON'T... ) But he was healthy and strong and really big...

( Those things had to have been in his favor some how... )

[lastgirl]

I've killed bigger men than him. Being big doesn't help if you don't know how to fight.

[She sighs.]

Also he was...nice? Maybe too nice. Before time began going out of order, one of the girls here passed out in the kitchen. He and I were in the area when it happened and his first instinct was to carry her up to her room. He even stood there till she regained consciousness.

Maybe he was tricked by whoever killed him? Not suspicious enough to think something could happen if he was alone.

[vicedirector]

[ They look to be letters to a friend, actually. A MURDERGAME STAPLE. ]

[lastgirl]

[She quickly skims the letters, looking to see if he wrote about anyone in this game. Nothing.]

...Guess he thinks someone can get these to his friends.

[minogame]

( Urashima actually takes the time to read over them once. There's a lot to read so it takes him a while but it breaks his heart when he's finished, )

Then we should find a way out of here and give them to his friends. ( He taps one letter, ) We're from the same country. ( Though, he doesn't quite recognize the specific location... )I can take them.

[lastgirl]

You should let other people from your country know too? In case you die as well.

[Just sayin'...]

[minogame]

Ah... ( Buzzkill... ) There are a couple of people I can ask...

( He didn't want to actually think about that. )

[vicedirector]

[ OKAY AS FOR THE CLOSET SPECIFICALLY:

The safe is empty. His arrival outfit is also hanging there along with various other pieces of the provided wardrobe. It looks less cluttered simply by virtue of being the closet. The provided gloves, hats, and scarves are on the top shelf, pretty much untouched, like he reached in to take one once but then put it back and never touched them again.

There's nothing else of note here. ]

[vicedirector]

[ Nothing under the beds except a few pieces of shitty origami. ]

[vicedirector]

[ There is a toothbrush, toothpaste and deodorant cluttered over the sink; he's clearly been using it, but the shower is pretty dry. A swimsuit and a few towels are also hanging on the shower rod to dry.

There's nothing else of note in here. ]