THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[The morning starts as...most mornings do. Quiet, calm. In space. Next to a jail.

That, however, changes when screams start to emanate from the entrance.]

RUN RUUUUN!!

AAAAAAAH!!

[Soon enough, droves of people are streaming out of the jail, panicking and screaming and in some cases fainting. They start jamming towards the station in a near-stampede, screeching.]

LOOSE! THEY'RE LOOSE!!

THE ANIMALS HAVE ESCAPED THE PEN!!

[...Oh dear.

Help?]

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EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[The animal pen is open. Nearly every animal is gone.]

[dragonmouth]

[ Oooookay, that's unsettling but we already knew that. Any signs of where they might have run off to, or signs that Atsushi/the murderer might have been here? ]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[Well, since he's already here and that junior detective was snuffed out - a shame, that - RGB guesses he'll get to actually investigating. Any signs on how the animals got out?]

[strangerpeople]

[RGB will notice something on the ground, near the pen's entrance point.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[He'll just be poking at that then. Not literally, of course, but you know.]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Don't worry, this isn't Polythreme.

The key card isn't going to bite back.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[No, but this being like Space Quest is also not out of the realm of possibility, and you know how Sierra games are.]

Hm. That's interesting.

[He'll just pick that up and examine it more closely then.]

[strangerpeople]

[It's just a normal key card. A key card that grants access to open the pen and deactivate the force field, essentially.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[So that means that this was intentional, and probably intended as a distraction to mask the murder occurring. He'll just be pocketing that then.

Anything else suspicious around that he can spot?]

[strangerpeople]

[Well, he might notice one of the animals approaching him from outside the pen.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[Oooooooh no. He's just going to slowly stand back up, try to look non-threatening, and prepare to bolt the moment it looks like it might get aggressive.]

H-hello there, friend. Lovely day for it, isn't it?

[strangerpeople]

[DUH DUH DUHDUH DUUUUUUUUUUUUH. This is one of the soul-eating ones, and it's going to come right up to RGB and--

...give him a lazy look and...do the monster equivalent of a stoned yawn.




FEEEEEEEEEEEARsomething's kind of off about this obviously.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[...Well, alright then. He's not going to relax in the slightest, but this kind of does suggest that it doesn't see him as a source of food. Whether that be evidence of a lack of soul or simply that he doesn't carry snacks on him is something he'll have to debate for later, but he supposes he'll just... back up slowly, while looking the thing over for anything that sticks out about it.

You know, other than the massive, tooth-filled jaws.]

[dragonmouth]

[ yes hello RGB she has a wooloo cuddling up to her ]

...I don't suppose the Conductor wouldn't mind if we brought our friends to whatever mockery of a trial awaits us now.

[technicolourdifficulties]

Yes, I suppose the goat last week set a bit of a precedent, didn't it?

[He might be not-entirely subtly moving so that Tali and the wooloo are between him and his toothy "friend", tbh.]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[One thing she will find is a very, very, very panicky sheep.]

WOO! LOO WOOLOO!

[dragonmouth]

Ah!

[ She's going to just run over there!

Hold on a moment - she'll...stick her hand out. ]

Are you - are you hurt?

[strangerpeople]

[The sheep is not hurt. It is, however, freaking the hell out, as if it just woke up and realized where it is.

It looks at Tali, scared as anything.]

W--woooloooo woooo!!

[dragonmouth]

Er...

[ She has no idea how to calm a sheep?

She has never even seen a sheep before this week? ]

There, there...

[ Can she...pet it... to get it to calm down... ]

[strangerpeople]

[It'll take some time, but yes. She can calm it down.]

l-loooo...

[dragonmouth]

[ Look she's a princess and all princesses have like, an innate ability to attract cute animals or some shit. ]

...do you know where the others are?

[ Tali no, Tali animals can't talk ]

[strangerpeople]

Loo woo wooloo...

[Very sad sheep is still quite panicked, but it doesn't seem to be able to explain anything. Well, not in human language.]

[dragonmouth]

I know, I know...

[ What does she know? NOTHING, that's what. She's gonna keep petting that sheep.

After this goes on for a while, is it going to try to move anywhere? ]

[strangerpeople]

[No, it's thankfully calming down.

It sniffles with a 'wooloo' and snuggles next to Tali.]

[dragonmouth]

O-oh...

[ It's...it's fine, small sheep thing.

While she's keeping you occupied she's also going to see what RGB is up to. ]