week 2 - investigation

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 2 - investigation ♫ friday On Friday morning, everyone will wake up with all of their crippling paranoia gone. Or, well, as much as they had before coming here (looking at you, Inaba). Anyone heading out into the lobby will notice that the mirror is gone. And that can only mean one thing. >Investigate? cast setting

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[thebonezone]

...that's no good. [he's mostly talking to himself now.]

[what's on the door??? what's on the FUCKING DOOR wait nvm the body isnt dismembered this time it's fine he'll go check

is it more chains]

[vicedirector]

[ SORT OF.

Along the along the doorframe is weird assortment of things. Nearly every pair of scissors from the collective exam rooms is jammed into the wall around the doorframe. A second chain lays slumped on the ground nearby, an extremely ripped pair of latex gloves tied to it.

....as said this may be confusing so have a very messy diagram. ]

[thebonezone]

[that's a lot of weirdness to take in. there's only one way to answer this.] maybe they figured they weren't cut out for murder.

[...that way was probably not it. well. regardless. sans is gonna start by looking at the ripped gloves and the chain. is there anything else unusual about the second chain or anything on the gloves?]

[vicedirector]

[ thisistheworstcrimesceneever.mp3

Nothing unusual about the chain, and the gloves aren't stained or anything. Only weird this is that they are hella ripped. ]

[thebonezone]

[just give him sunglasses and sans is literally that dude in csi. yeaaaaaaAAAAAAAH

ok, what about the scissors? anything weird there? how deep are they into the wall anyway??]

[vicedirector]

[ Nothing weird about them other than the fact that they're jammed into the wall like a yandere calling card.

They're a couple inches in. So, not too deep to bury them up to the handle, but also pretty sturdily stuck into the wall. ]

[thebonezone]

[if the cactus is the most tsundere of plants, the yandere of plants is probably a venus flytrap. ...that's completely irrelevant but. eh.

he's gonna try to remove a pair (the one about doorknob level) to see if there's anything on the pointy end. also to see if he can.]

[vicedirector]

[ Nothing really on there except for tiny splinters of wood. Those scissors are super jammed in there. ]

[smileleftbehind]

[Cheshire happens to look behind him towards the door, now that someone else has taken over the body investigation. It's all normal at first, until he happens to see the scissors. Scissors are not exactly something he is fond of. In fact, not only is he not fond of them, but he finds them absolutely terrifying. That can happen when you are brutally murdered and had your eyes stabbed out with scissors.

Watch out, everyone. There is a cat jumping about five feet straight up in the air, only to find the safest spot on the other side of the room as far away from those scissors as possible.

[thebonezone]

[sans is distracted in his scissor investigation by the whole "cat boy jumping five feet up and away" thing. y i k e s. he raises his (currently still free, thanks) hands up in the air in a pacifying gesture]

... you alright there, pal?

[he doesn't know what caused that reaction. also, he'd make a seen a ghost joke but like there's a dead body about 2 feet away so ....]

[smileleftbehind]

SCISSORS! [He's going to cover his eyes eye... to protect him more than hide from the scissors, but not like anyone else here would have a clue.]

[thebonezone]

[. . . . . . alphys's anime didn't prepare him for this weird catboy and his weird mannerisms tbh]

...yep. those're scissors. it's pretty cut-and-dried. [he is probably not helping. hm.] you need out, kid?

[smileleftbehind]

[NODDING, YES PLEASE.

Though getting him to go past the door surrounded by them might pose a challenge.]

[thebonezone]

[this is where sans misses his "shortcuts". he looks at the door w/ the scissors surrounding it critically.]

...door's probably not your number one option right now, huh. [there's no option number two, unfortunately...]
if you can do it with your eyes closed, i'll lead you out. how 'bout it?

[there probably isn't much more sans can do here since he's hit a dead end with those scissors anyway. and let's be honest he's had enough one-on-one time with the corpse nearby.]

[smileleftbehind]

[Cheshire moves his hand away, eyeing the door. Nope, he doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with that door.

If anyone before had any doubt of him being a cat, that he is hiding squished between a cabinet and the ceiling, as high as he can get, then they should be convinced now.]

[thebonezone]

[oh my god

now, sans is much more used to dealing with dogs, but he probably should've expected these cat shenanigans to happen. this is what he doesn't do things. this bullshit. he sighs as he approaches the crouching tiger hidden scaredy-cat and looks up at him. sans is already not that tall a skeleton himself why you gotta do the cat thing]

...kid, does it look like i can reach that high? [he's not exactly the cajoling type, either. why isn't there a mother character available when he needs one.] ok, let's start with not lookin' at the door and getting down, how 'bout that.

[smileleftbehind]

[Excuse him as he stares. He doesn't even know you. How does he know you're not hiding a scissor. Wait, the paranoia should be gone... Still scared. He takes his sweet time calming down, but at least since he's now staring at Sans, he's not staring at the door.]

[thebonezone]

[it's probably not that reassuring to stare at sans, considering he's got the whole skeleton with unwavering grin look going for him. unless you're into very chill skeletons. still, he's holding cheshire's gaze.]

right... where's my manners. heh. i'm sans, by the way. sans the skeleton.

[...as if he'd be anything else...]

[smileleftbehind]

Cheshire [the cat.


He doesn't seem bothered by the skeleton thing. Chains tend to be a bit spooky looking anyway.]

[thebonezone]

[sans will count this as progress. somehow.]

so. now that we're acquainted. can you gimme the odds of you going out through that door? s'it any help if we blindfold you so you can't see the... stuff?

[as much as sans wants to get involved way less with all of this retroactively, he's not letting some cat??? human?? be stuck alone in a room with a dead body and objects that apparently make him want to climb the walls. he's not that heartless. ...he's also just not going to directly address the scissors in the vain hope that that helps a little.]

[smileleftbehind]

No.

[To all of that. Just no.]

[thebonezone]

[maybe he should leave the cat here. maybe he will enjoy living under the bed next to the brains and shit.

maybe sans's next option should be to get papyrus to bodily drag the cat out because he sure isn't. except there's a dead body and his bro has seen more than often of those this week. why is actually attempting to be helpful so hard]

... buddy, you know you came in that way, right?

[smileleftbehind]

I didn't know there were scissors there! [He seems to be a spitting cat at the moment.]

[thebonezone]

[dogs are so much easier. why couldn't you be a dog.]

fair enough. they're kinda stuck where they are now, though. it'd probably be easier on you to skedaddle out than stay in here with 'em.

[smileleftbehind]

[He eyes Sans, and then the door, and then Sans, and then the door, and then Sans, and repeats this as he slowly reaches down a hand, getting ready to jump down.]