THE ̧̕͝SEC͢͠͠O͏N̸̢D̵ INVE͘Ś̷̶T͏̛I͞GA̕҉T͟͡IO҉̢N̴͘

[strangerpeople]

T͝҉̡H͝E̵̢ ͝͝S̶Ę̡͞C͜͡҉OND̵̴ ̢I̶͢N͏V͝E͏̨̛ST͞I͢͞G̴͏A̛̕T͡ÌON͟

[The day has come.

..Valentine's Day, of course! Or should we now call it...ValITine's Day? Well, it doesn't matter. It's a Friday.

Hopefully, the Strangers got through this week without killing. But perhaps it's best to be sufficiently paranoid and check first, hmm?]

Comments

CONSERVATEX/LABORATORY

[strangerpeople]

[relieable]

[might as well look around here, for now. anything look off at a first glance?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Someone's been picking plants lately!]

[relieable]

[oh. would you look at that. Osomatsu moves closer, checking out the plants that seem to have some missing foliage. he doesn't know too much about plants, but what appears to be missing? flowers? petals? leaves? branches?]

[strangerpeople]

[Several items, though the one that Oso can easily see and identify is wheat.]

[relieable]

[wow. why wheat? wheat isn't poisonous, is it? maybe, if you're..........

well, he won't go down that road yet. best not to assume things.

anyway, he takes a picture with his wrist-communicator-thing of all the various plants, just in case. then he's off to look for more clues. how about the potions? the waterfall? anymore weird signs?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is an alembic in the laboratory that looks to have a few spots of liquid in it.]

[relieable]

[ale-what now? well, that's fine. even if Osomatsu does not know what that is, he sees the liquid. it's not really out of place in a laboratory, but he's checking anyway.

first of all is the device still on? or still warm? if not, he's going to go ahead and try to remove the top and smell the liquid]

[strangerpeople]

[The device isn't on, but it's still a little warm.]

[relieable]

[HMMMM. might have been used recently, then... but is it still safe to open it up? he's not going to taste the liquid, but he needs to know if it smells like anything]

[strangerpeople]

[It smells like...well, a little wheaty. Otherwise it just smells like...chemicals? Hard to describe.]

[relieable]

[yeah, we're definitely not tasting it.

but he will bring this thing for evidence, if it's small enough to move. anything else weird about the alembic? or the liquid? other than the fact that it is there at all]

[strangerpeople]

[Nothing else!

It looks like Oso's found everything here. Good job!]

[relieable]

[great! fantastic!

one more question, is the device he has old, or modern-looking?]

[strangerpeople]

[It's medieval.]

AREA CLEAR

[strangerpeople]