week 7 - investigation

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 7 - investigation ♫ friday On Friday morning, the loss of the motive isn't terribly noticeable. As there were no mental effects this week, and everyone had taken their envelopes to at least destroy them, it's almost impossible to tell that something is off. Unless of course you're getting up in the wee hours. Perhaps just to go to the bathroom? Whatever your reason, though, something is noticeably wrong--the power is out. >Investigate? cast setting

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1st floor

[dhaosu]

[ Okay, since he's going to be grabbing a cup of tea... and finding there is no light, Dhaos is going to be going out from his room on the first floor, and using the light coming from himself to carefully guide his way along. Possibly ending up in the hallway.. or something? He will be making his way towards the lobby first if he doesn't stumble upon something on his way there. ]

[vicedirector]

[ There's nothing on the first floor. However, when Dhaos steps into the lobby, he'll find a broken, bloody hand laying on the floor. Noticeably not attached to its corresponding arm. ]

[dhaosu]

[ Dhaos' facial expression is well. You can probably guess at this point. Because...gross body parts. He'll leave it to someone else to pick it up. Good. He tries to discern if there is a bloody trail, or something...leading to the kitchen or elsewhere? ]

[vicedirector]

[ Not a trail, but there are scattered blood stains at various places in the lobby. ]

[dereban]

[ ...... welp.

That definitely is a thing. Which is why Inaba's going to go outside of her room with her laptop open as a light source, trying to discern if she can see anything out of place at first glance on the ground. Since there's nothing on the first floor, she's just going to walk into the lobby finding Dhaos and a... hand???? ]

Who--? [ UGH WHY DID SHE HAVE TO WALK INTO THIS WHY she's keeping behind though because ha ha ha ]

[vicedirector]

[ Would you look at that! Despite the poor condition of the hand, its pointer finger is extended very clearly, pointing towards something. ]

third floor hallway

[fourleafcleaver]

[meanwhile on the third floor, where the sounds of clover shrieking have certainly been missed in the past couple of weeks

BANG BANG THUD WHUMP]

SERIOUSLY?!

[maybe if you cleaned your room once in a while clover you wouldn't have so much shit to knock over on the way out of it. someone please make sure she isn't about to die]

[vicedirector]

[ nothing on the third floor. screech in peace, ms. field. ]

[fourleafcleaver]

[okay well she's just gonna bumble her way through the darkness and down the stairs because maybe there are candles or flashlights in the general store? so unless anything trips her up or is especially noticeable on the way, that's the next stop. she's going to spend the whole journey cursing and complaining because Clover may never know peace.]

[vicedirector]

( There's blood splattered about the lobby in general but, actually, just as she's leaving the hotel, she might notice blood on the entrance doorway. )

second floor??? lobby??? around, idfk what is happening investigation eventually????

[symbologic]

[Hey so it's ass o'clock in the morning on murder night and apparently the power's off but you know what the most concerning thing is? Alisha is decidedly not where she should be. She's also not in her room, apparently, which was the first place Faize checked after coming out of Hinata's room.]

[SO ONWARD DOWNSTAIRS THEN??? TO THE LOBBY? Flashlight in hand, Faize is trying to keep his voice steady, but it's hard when. You know. Murder night and your crush-maybe-girlfriend-who-really-knows is missing.]

Alisha!?

[Please just be like...making breakfast...in the powerless kitchen.]

[Yeah.]

[hopefragment]

[If you don't think Hinata's right behind him, idk what to tell you, friend. He's still tugging a sweater over his head as he follows close to the other.]

It's okay, Faize, I'm sure she's fine...

[Okay but if you're sure she's fine you probably shouldn't have said anything at all?? This kind of thing is Bad Luck.]

[vicedirector]

( Nothing on the second floor!

There are burned eggs in the kitchen (and it probably smells gross af). Then there's the aforementioned blood all over the lobby. )

[symbologic]

........

[He really wants to believe that, Hinata. He does. But She said she'd be right back and then...that apparently didn't happen. How long ago had that even been? WHY HAD HE FALLEN BACK ASLEEP?]

[Faize stops dead in his tracks at the foot of the stairs. Hopefully Hinata wasn't following too close behind him because otherwise we're gonna have a teen pile-up here, and not the fun cuddle kind. But...there is blood all over the lobby. There is blood all over the fucking lobby and that makes it EVEN HARDER to believe the "Alisha is fine" thing. So much so, that the flashlight beam is actually starting to shake a little thanks to being in Faize's hand.]

DING DONG, etc

[vicedirector]

[ As soon as Faize and Hinata burst into the pool room, all televisions in the hotel will turn on to static, waking up anyone still asleep. Katerina begins speaking: ]

A crime has been committed. Two people are now dead. Please rise, and investigate.

Additionally, the breakers have been tripped, and power has been restored.

[ As soon as she finishes speaking, the electricity in the hotel will now indeed work. ]

walks in late with starbucks

[minogame]

( Urashima was definitely asleep and it looks like he's missed a really good chunk of the investigation too, wow, I wonder why. When he sees all of the blood in the lobby (and even finds his own tooth there) he'll try to find someone-- anyone, )

W-wait, what happened? Who...

( Who's dead........... tell him. Tell me. )

this seems as good a place as any to join u on that train

[brawlhalla]

[ .............Well that sure is a fucking thing ]

I'm...not really sure?

[ lucy fell asleep NOW SHE'S UP and astrid is Concerned ]

inorite...

[minogame]

( Ugh... two bodies... )

Sh-she said there were two bodies again so... I don't know, we should help, right? Where is everyone...

[herbgrace]

Back to our usual routine, I suppose. [Not that Lithuania is happy about it. She's done some investigating, but hasn't found much this time that other people haven't already been all over.]

Hotel Lobby

[sobowtor]

[Poland's got a tooth and a coat and looks unusually demure.

If you were wondering who the second person was, she has the answer.]

Gilbert's dead.

[fourleafcleaver]

[Also Clover's here too, just kind of lingering around and frowning. Decapitated heads sure did happen today.]

...It's really bad.

[dereban]

So that's who the second person was. Goddamn it.

[detanimetion]

...Gilbert's dead?

[Whatever name Undyne had been expecting to hear, it hadn't been that. Maybe it had been naive or overly optimistic of her to hope that no one she was close to would be killed, that she could actually succeed in protecting all of them...but she'd clung on to that belief as fiercely as she could nonetheless. And for it to be Gilbert and Alisha this week, who'd both gotten along with nearly everyone and tried to be as helpful and friendly as they could even as the town sunk deeper into despair, to lose two people she'd considered as innocent as a human could possibly be in this place...

She takes a deep breath, her fists clenching. Part of her desperately wants to ask Clover if this is some kind of joke, but...no. No one would joke about something as cruel as this, especially not her.]

Dammit! What happened?!

[minogame]

( When Inaba mentioned seeing Hinata, Dhaos, and Faize, Urashima'd begun running the other possibilities in his head. There weren't many choices and he didn't like any of them. Sure, there were some he hated more than others but he didn't like a single one of them. So when Poland comes and announces who the second body was, Urashima is quiet.

The bright light that is normally in his eyes-- optimistic, naive, innocent-- dies out. Really, if Urashima was a light, he'd be practically dark right now. There's still some light there-- a small, glimmer of hope, and he speaks in a hushed voice, )

You're wrong.

eski you personified human garbage pail

[sobowtor]

[Poland furrows her eyebrows, her fist curling around the tooth in her hand so hard she can feel the rough side digging into her skin.

She doesn't say anything.]