THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

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THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

[Good Friday morning, everyone!

Ah, the sun is shini--no.

Well, the birds are singi--....no...

It's time to take a shower and--...oh.

It's...the bats are...cute....?




Ok, it's a dreary and miserable morning and everyone is annoyed that they are here and there's an infestation of spiders and creepy happenings and the Stewards are jerks and no one likes this place, ever. Fine. Be that way. So.

What is everyone doing?]

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EVIDENCE SEARCH

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GARDEN

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[silvertongueheir]

[Well. He's not sure he can move, right now. Is there anything in the garden other than the body to look at?]

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[Not...not really. Other than the flowers.

Oh dear.]

[incendiarize]

[Before Arthur goes anywhere, he's gonna focus on his power as The Approach. It's a bit of a gamble? But as far as he's concerned it couldn't hurt to try.

Any visions to be had?]

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[When the Approach attempts to use his past sight, he will find himself in the eyes of another. He's in the dining room - as dark as it can be, late at night. He can still see a little, but only from the faintest radiation of a candle behind him. What will stand out more is what he feels - pain. Fear. He was attacked, but managed to hold the attacker off with the power of the Ursa.

His steps are dizzy, head spinning as he looks around and finds the door leading out of the dining room. The thought pounding in his head - no, Akko's thought, he'll remember what he's doing this for - is that she had to get away and fast.

However, Akko's body was slower to act than what she wanted it to. Her steps wobbled as she tried to go towards the door but ended up falling against the wall in the process. She could hardly think, moving on instinct and slowly making her way towards the door while having to use the wall as support.]

's not... gonna... erase the secret... don't have to...

[It's clear she meant to say this to her killer but her words are slurred somewhat from the head trauma, and it's to this point she's nearly reached the door...

She isn't looking back at all. There is no way for the Approach to tell who it is. Unfortunately, the visions he tries to see himself rather than those that just pop into his head, tend to be a little fuzzier. He gets the sense that someone spoke in reply, but it might as well have just been the wind, for all he knows. Akko's racing thoughts are much too loud, louder than the sounds in reality, for The Approach.

If she had full range of unhindered movement she might have been able to run, make it to the staircase or something. For now she'd gotten as far as she could, her mind numbly registering the sound of footsteps coming up to her.

This person, who was trying to kill her, it could be no one else...]

...n-no, it's not...

[Was all she managed to whisper out, not even able to look back before something flat, hard, and maybe a little sharp crashed down against the back of her head, instantly causing her to black out before her small form even hit the ground.

Akko Kagari was down for the count.

And so is this vision. Arthur will abruptly return to reality as soon as her consciousness cuts out.]

[joinhands]

[Sometimes in the course of human events you just want to check out the yard sard and then find out there's a big murder body discovery scene in the middle of the garden. This is what has happened to Krone. Here she is now. From a distance giving some kind of muted prayer about everything that's happened. Then getting closer.

The wound on the back of Akko's head was circular, right? And her face was in this bucket... so what's on the underside of the bucket itself?]

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[Nothing but dirt. There's no blood under it.]

AREA CLEAR

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DINING ROOM

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[relieable]

[so... Osomatsu wants revenge already. that isn't good. he's mad, and he storms into the mansion to look around. his feet take him back to the dining room for a closer inspection. he already looked in here once today, but it was just a quick glance.

so now he's going to inspect further. what is different about this room today?]

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[There is definitely something different about the dining room table, when he looks close enough.]

ROOM CLEAR

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SERVANTS' QUARTERS

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[belovedsuffocator]

[Felicity was sleepy when that noise first woke her up. Now, though, she’s wide awake. Atsuko, the poor girl...someone strangled her? With all those injuries? Doesn’t sound right, but...whatever, she guesses.

Anything of importance in the servants’ quarters? It’s one of the closer places she’s willing to go to.]

EVIDENCE

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[Something Felicity might notice right off the bat is that one of the beds is missing it's blanket.]

AREA CLEAR

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LATRINES

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cw: uh. the unfortunate nature of being human and having a bladder?

[yonosoymaria]

[Call Eric paranoid, but maybe there's something he missed in here.

Or just call him out for needing to piss even though there'd been no coffee or water this morning and looking for anything amiss in the room as part of an effort to not think about where the pits under this place might actually be in relation to the well outside, or the rest of the building....]

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[Might want to check the inside of the toilet before you do your business, Eric!]

ROOM CLEAR

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ROOM 14/THE URSA'S ROOM

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[icanhearscreams]

[He’ll look in here. She was his roommate after all. What’s going on in here?]

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[Hi there!

Where are you searching?]

ROOM CLEAR

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