THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

[Friday morning dawns. It's a surprisingly brisk day; the winds are cold outside, and the sky is dark with its lack of sky. Well, a normal sky that one would be used to, at least.

The rats can be heard scurrying to and forth, in the walls. All seems to be as normal as it can be, this morning.]

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[awitchdidit]

[Beatrice blinks and looks at it.]

What new present has our hostess left us this time?

[Let's go prod the mound and see what it is?]

[strangerpeople]

[What are you prodding this mound with?]

[awitchdidit]

[Might as well use that metal stake she's carrying. The blunt end, though, sometimes mounds are alive.]

[strangerpeople]

[It's not moving.

Also, as Beato gets closer, she might notice it's a body she is poking.]

[awitchdidit]

[Beatrice leaps back in shock.]

What the hell?

[strangerpeople]

[Yeah. It's a body.

You want to roll it over to see who it is, Beato?]

[awitchdidit]

[Rolling that bad boy or girl over!]

[strangerpeople]

[Yeah...Beato might realize this is a metal body.

And it's wet...]

[katzenpfote]

Is that...

[It wouldn't happen to be red, would it?]

[strangerpeople]

[It is. And given how he is in moving, not responding, there's no doubt what this is, along with the who.



Proto Man, the Alphabet, is dead.]

[overworker]

Oh no...

[Being late because she didn't sleep so great, Towa is immediately greeted by a terrible scene.]

[awitchdidit]

[This time Beatrice leaps back in literal shock.]

Ow ow ow ow! Shit!

[zackthekiller]

Hah? Is that a dead body?

[whitemoontiger]

H-Hoping not but why would we be so lucky?

[ Guess who'd just come into the Dining car to see this? ]

[zackthekiller]

[Deadpanning at the guy who just walked up.]

Yeah, sure, maybe we just found a life size ragdoll that's filled with blood-

Of course we ain't gonna be lucky with a motive like that!

[unwittingking]

[...he just walked in, wanted breakfast, and now he's hearing that...]

Someone actually died, didn't they?

[whitemoontiger]

I was really just hoping that someone wouldn't have done it.

[ He's naturally a positive person at heart, okay? Stopping when King spoke up. ]

Yeah. Unfortunately.. that seems to be the case.

[zackthekiller]

[After watching the witch and the adventure guy prod at the body for a moment.] Yep! They killed the red guy.

[Goddamnit, it's always the smart ones that go first.]

[katzenpfote]

[Well then.]

... We have an issue, don't we?

[awitchdidit]

I've noticed the rain in this world has a tendency to pour.

[zackthekiller]

[Zack came in here with a scythe propped over his shoulder, and now people are poking a weird mound on the floor? What?]

Mmmh? What's going on?

[telecosmetic]

[Eliza stares at the mound, eyes wide.] I...I don't think they're moving. [Not even shifting in their sleep.]

[zackthekiller]

... Shit.

[telecosmetic]

[She's just going to...cling to his clothing a bit. This Is Fine.]

[zackthekiller]

[Hey, he won't stop her unless he has to fight someone.]