THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

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?]

Comments

[incendiarize]

[He isn't sure what he was expecting, but it wasn't this. It probably should have been this. Oh god. It's not like he's never been hurt or hit in the head or near death before, but....

He's never been murdered? He's never been murdered. And he gets to experience it in full now - but gets to take the memory with him.

Sorry to anyone else in the garden, who probably just saw him standing around doing seemingly nothing, until he collapses, breathing hard, one hand flying to his head. That was intense.

He.... He needs a moment.]

[yonosoymaria]

[Having Jun collapse against him and then seeing Arthur just drop in quick succession right as he turns around is one way to make a bad day worse. He only has two hands, he can't pick up both of you... definitely not when he's already holding both Jun and a spear.]

Are you all right?!

[incendiarize]

[Fortunately, he's still conscious - just reeling. Like he really was under attack.]

I-I.... Something about erasing the secret. I'm not sure what she got hit with, something flat...

[yonosoymaria]

But you - did you only see this, or did you relive it?

[He's got a passing, cultural-knowledge-level of how Spiritualist and Spiritist mediums claim they work, so.]

[incendiarize]

I-- It was like I was her. [He's feeling at the back of his head for injuries he knows aren't there.] She was already hurt, head trauma, and was trying to escape...