THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[It is very early. Very, very early. It's still night, even. Most are probably still asleep.

They will not be asleep for long.

Not after the screaming suddenly starts coming from the voices outside their doors, if they are in the apartment car, in their rooms.]

Oh god oh god oh god-

B____R! FOOT IN MY MOUTH INDEED!

[And certainly not after the big

BOOM

That suddenly rocks the train. There is screeching, moaning, and a flash of great darkness. Everyone, for a moment, is blinded by blackness. There are shouts and screams that echo, no matter where one is. Smoke and begins to fill the hall of the apartment car.

Whatever has happened-it's bad. It's very bad.

And the darkness is starting to clear up...]

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[higanbana]

[Good fucking morning. Jesus Christ.

There's no way in hell Ris can sleep through that, so she blindly grabs for her cloth eyepatch and starts strapping that over her right eye as she stumbles toward the apartment car.

Mind that her depth perception isn't great when there's actually light, much less stumbling through pitch darkness, but does Ris care? No. Not when there are people in that car she cares about!

So. What's going on? Can she even tell?]

[katzenpfote]

[He immediately gathers up his animals and heads out, staying low and heading out - oh. The darkness is clearing. He panicked for nothing... maybe.]

[What does he see?]

[eternaldivide]

[ That screaming nearly woke Mithos up instantly since he was just about to go to sleep when it started. Mithos works his way to his door in the blackness to stumble out. Wandering the darkness isn't something all that new to him...

The smoke makes him cough, but is there anything in the hallway when the darkness starts to clear up? ]

[otherworldlyking]

[ What the hell just happened? There goes sleeping.

He's coming out of his room then hallway if he can make it that far and taking a look around, especially since the darkness started to clear up. ]

[charmingheroine]

[Who spent the previous night sitting vigil and trying to remember prayers this place seems to have torn out of her head? This girl.

So she's dressed, at least, when she careens out of her room. Was either of those voices one she'd know by now?]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[This is not the rudest awakening RGB has ever had. If he had to rate it, it probably wouldn't make top five even. No, what really makes this one notable is that instead of fleeing the sound of danger, he goes towards it.

There are people he needs to make sure are alright.]

[unwittingking]

[It almost feels like this is conspiracy not just to hurt King’s ears when a body gets found, but also make him wistfully think back to the days where it was just finding Proto Man’s body in the dining car.

Whatever is happening, King bursting out his door, trying to figure out what just happened, as well as where it happened.]

[higanbana]

[So Ris and Minato are heading from the dining car toward the armaments car.

Anything on their way, or is Ris safe to nurse this loser?]

Important Announcement from Your Telly

[technicolourdifficulties]

[If there is one thing RGB is good at, it's fleeing a dangerous situation. If there's a second thing he's good at, it's yelling. So when he hears Minato mention that there's radiaton upstairs... Well, if there's a time to crank his volume knob up, this sure is it.]

EVERYBODY OUT OF THE DINING CAR! WE HAVE NUCLEAR RADIATION UPSTAIRS!

[Aaaand now he's getting out himself. Goodbye friends, he is gone.]

INVESTIGATION START

[disregartist]

[There is a squeak from the intercom. The Conductor's voice is terse and curt. It might even be angry.]

You have until breakfast to investigate this.

However, do not attempt to go into the second floor of the dining car. The crew will do that, they are equipped and are able to handle this. Just focus on investigating the bodIES and the evidence.

[And...that's it. The communique cuts off.]

EVIDENCE SEARCH

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