THIRD INVESTIGATION

[faentasy]

INVESTIGATION III

Some days are long and some days are short. If this wasn't the third week of your stay, perhaps you might think that exhaustion had crept in from Wednesday's nights activities. But you know better than that by now.

Consciousness comes to you groggily, perhaps uncomfortably depending where you were when sleep suddenly took hold of you. While the world stands on the verge of awakening as the horizon blazes with a fiery glow, the sky remains a navy blue where you are.

The time is 5:00 AM. You could return to your slumber, but do you really think third time's the charm?

((OOC NOTE: Investigation is open until 10PM EST.))

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[faentasy]

[The controls are working, yep! 1 PM isn't too much of a difference but it does work and the clock changes accordingly. The position of the sun probably also changes a little but that's kind of hard to tell without a sundial since it's a 15 minute difference only.]

[scythegun]

[Might as well check that, then!! Let's try... 7PM. This should definitely be more obvious as to the sun's positioning and the changing of time!! Is this even relevant to the investigation anymore, I don't think so, but Yeager is here to waste time (literally)!!!!]

[faentasy]

[The sun sets to leave a rosy sky as the flowers in the vicinity close and the pumpkin appears in the fountain where Yor's body was. Welp?!]

[scythegun]

[casually messing with other investigations, whoops??? well this looks important, so!!

What's up with this pumpkin?? I just had to google "do pumpkins float" so is it floating in the fountain??]

[faentasy]

[My wording was bad rip but considering it seems to have a door in it, it would probably float if the fountain was deep enough. As it is, it's kind of just squishing Suga's leg to the bottom of the fountain some but this is fine, surely.]

[scythegun]

[While Suga's got the inside, he'll take the outside. I'm keeping this here instead of moving it because he'll definitely be messing with the time of the clocktower again in a bit, rip to the fountain crew.

But for now - how's the fountain and the outside of the pumpkin look now that it's there? What... is this pumpkin exactly. Do we have a location this presumably came from?]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Paper airplane note to Yeager incoming!]

What happens if the pumpkin disappears again when someone is inside it

[scythegun]

[catches it!! makes a face at that note.]

That sounds like a dreadful idea! I was planning on changing the time a bit to see how it disappears, so let's not jump to the stupidest idea possible immediately, ja?

[gemuinemanagement]

[Looks at him like this.

Sits down in the middle of the pumpkin and refuses to move.]

[scythegun]

[...]

I'm not in the mood to play games, Suga. Two people are dead and we don't have all day to investigate. Finish up in there and get out.

[He is not going to risk killing Suga, so if you want to miss evidence then stay in there, I guess?]

[gemuinemanagement]

[FINE he'll get out.]

If it turns out to be important to know that I'm blaming you

[scythegun]

Good to know we'll have a repeat of last trial, then.

[He is really not in the mood for your desire to die today, Suga.]

[faentasy]

[The fountain looks the same (although the water level might have risen a bit because. pumpkin), just with the oversize gourd in there. If Yeager's messed with the clock tower before though, he'll find that the pumpkin will consistently appear in the fountain so long as it's set to nighttime, like a cheap knockoff version of Cinderella's carriage.]

[scythegun]

[He's presumably messed with the clocktower at least once because he'd find it funny (even though I kept forgetting to put that in a top level, rip) so!! Good to know that this is a thing that happens and that the pumpkin is always here. Does it look like the pumpkin's been damaged at all on the outside?]

[faentasy]

[Nope! Aside from the handle that Suga already found, nothing weird or off about the pumpkin on the outside!]

[scythegun]

[Hmm! Okay, so now that Suga's out of the pumpkin, it's time to mess around with the time and see how things go... but first!! If the idea is to test what will happen when something is in the pumpkin, then he can use an item instead of a person, so he'll go grab a stick and toss that inside the pumpkin. Now, if he messes with the time again and moves it forward (checking every hour!) what happens to the pumpkin and the stick inside when he reaches daytime?]

[faentasy]

[So, the pumpkin stays around until we get to 5:30 AM when sunrise is. The moment the sun is up, the pumpkin vanishes and the stick drops into the fountain with a plop.]

[scythegun]

[Excellent, that's about what he thought would happen! So a body in there would probably do the exact same thing... If he keeps messing with the time in hour increments, does anything else interesting show up or otherwise seem disturbed?]

[faentasy]

[Nope, Yeager just gets to see an unnaturally accelerated sunrise but that's par the course for this clock tower area anyways, so!]

[scythegun]

[Excellent, that's all the questions he had answered, so if anyone else has more they can investigate the clocktower!! He's out, time to relax until the trial, goddamn.]

[faentasy]

[Take a good rest, Yeager, you deserved it!!]