FOURTH INVESTIGATION

[faentasy]

INVESTIGATION IV

Unlike last week, the seventh hour of the night passes without any incident. Maybe it's enough to prevent as many terrible sleeping positions as last week, but an hour later your good luck is upended.

You rise with the sun again, although this time it's a good measure ahead of you. Today is another Friday, and you know what those bring by now.

The time is 6:00 AM.

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

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[hellochildren]

[Of course the parrot knows what Fridays bring. Everyone knows. All they can do is hope the week isn't as bad as most.

He will be leaving the lodgings if there isn't any sights that could make him stop.]

[gemuinemanagement]

[It takes Suga a bit to emerge, both because he has to un-bar the door and because he has to apologize for cuddling up to Tenn in his sleep. Priorities.

Then he realizes the room only has three people and panics. The person who isn't in his room and should be is... probably fine........

First things first: the lounge is the closest place to check.]

[biqe]

[ is marcus alive

IF SO, Phil will head to the bakery since it's been long enough to kind of move on from the bloodbath of a few weeks ago and return to the early morning joy of muffins.

If not we will move to a different timeline!! ]

[faentasy]

[Well Suga, hopefully you're feeling lucky today because ding ding ding there's a person on the floor!

Hm.]

[gemuinemanagement]

[He's not feeling lucky at all actually?

what are the odds that it's not the person mysteriously missing from the sleepover. it could happen.]

[purefuries]

[ Good morning friends!! Junko's going to head over to the kitchens and see if there's any corpsey things in there. ]

[mirrite]

[He is sound asleep! Not in the bed, though, but details. Those books are... okay yeah no they are not comfortable at all to sleep on and he'll be grumbling when he wakes up.]

[biqe]

[ sorry ]

[faentasy]

[It could happen, but Suga might find himself disappointed.

A place really does take on a completely different impression when viewed in a different context. While the addition of the profiles had been unsettling through the amount of information they exposed, now it's as if the eyes of those portraits were the only silent witnesses to the incident that unfolded in here, just the night before.

Disarray now rules this room with various pieces left out of place--a table overturned, potted plants and lamps unceremoniously toppled--but the real centerpiece here is the person who lies in the middle of it all, their torso awkwardly twisted to their left while one arm flops back behind them and the other remains pinned down by their own weight. The closed eyes and slack expression on their face belies the violence of the scene, contrasting further with the wounds that mar their front. Once blonde hair is now caked in red and black by the blood pooled beneath them, as if it can't help but taint every last bit of this scene in the smell of iron and death.

And now, the only reminder of their former self is preserved in those portraits as the tale of this heroine turns into a tragedy.

Adora is dead.]

[mirrite]

[The things he does for you...!]

[faentasy]

[Well, he might've noticed something happening in the lounge.]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Adora. Adora was just with him, they were just eating Tenn's cooking and talking and now-

Suga drops to his knees and stares blankly at Adora's unmoving form. He doesn't even have it in him to cry this time - it just doesn't make sense that she could be so alive last night and now be a corpse.]

[reallyfishy]

[Since Raven's room is right next to the lounge, he's made a habit of checking in there when he heads out for the day.

Today is apparently very much a pizza.gif kind of day.

He mutters through gritted teeth:]

Son of a...

[faentasy]

[Marcus is alive unlike Riku so Phil is free to go on his bakery adventures. And it is fine! No bodies to ruin his day or anything (unless he wants to go to the lounge on the way out), but the bakery itself is unscathed. Hurray?!]

[sempiternel]

[ Just going to the clock tower to check the time? Like, why is it so early GOD. Let's not trip over dead bodies before breakfast. ]

[hellochildren]

[Well, R.I.P.]

[faentasy]

[Well, there's certainly some... weirdness going here and it smells kind of nice in here but no corpses! Maybe come back here a bit later?]

[biqe]

[ muffin time ]

[faentasy]

[By the time Yuri gets to the clock tower she'll find it's around 6:10 AM. Too early for a murder investigation, isn't it? Alas, it is what it is.

Nothing to report, though]

[edamamepon]

[ Makoto's followed Suga from the room, worried the whole way that it was Adora or ....

It's okay that Suga doesn't have tears left, since Makoto is welling up with enough already. But he sure wishes he'd run out of tears.

Makoto knows they should start figuring out what happened. Instead, moves to put a hand on Suga's shoulder. ]

[amortristis]

[ Ugh, this magical sleep stuff sucks. At least she's not asleep on the stairs this time, though?

If there's nothing of note in the archives where she wakes up, she'll probably head out towards the docks. ]

[reallyfishy]

[Well todAY IS OFF TO A GREAT START...

But since Raven's pretty sure he hasn't heard an announcement yet, that must mean there's more fun and happy things to find, so he'll join the unholy scavenger hunt.

He's going to make his way toward the new area, specifically the onigashima. That's a bit of a trek of course, so if there's anything along the path...or if the boats have been sabotaged or something, he'll likely run into it.]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Thanks, Makoto. He's too stunned to write any kind of response, but he appreciates it.]

[faentasy]

[So how about that beautiful sunrise, eh? It would be nice, but there's kind of a couple of... big lumps(?) that are submerged in the shallows of the shoreline.]

[hellochildren]

[The lodgings are where they sleep, but also where their dead bodies are regularly found, apparently. Pericles wasn't particularly close to Adora, but seeing the messy murder scene before him...

There's a feeling in his stomach. One he doesn't like at all.

Another health issue to look up. Other things to deal with.

Landing on Suga's shoulder, the Professor's voice is...soft, as he speaks.]

Herr Suga, do you neet assistance?