THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD INVESTIGATION
(~SK. 17)


[It's Friday, Friday. Or...something like that. What is up with the calendar in this place?


Anyways, everyone knows what's happened in the past two weeks: someone has died. And, unfortunately, there's no reason to think someone else has not fallen prey to someone who wishes to fulfill the motive. But...maybe you're lucky this time. Maybe someone doesn't have someone they hate enough to kill for. Let's be honest with ourselves-saving someone you love is understandable. Switching with someone you hate? Surely no one would go that far for someone that they don't like.



Right?



OOC: Content Warning: This investigations involves dismemberment.]

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[strangerpeople]

[Time to look elsewhere. So where to, Gai!]

[voidseeing]

[Well, since there IS a bar in here, is there anything unusual up with it?]

[strangerpeople]

[Mothing wrong with the bar, but there is something wrong with the sofa as Gai looks around.]

[voidseeing]

[Is he going to find a body part on the sofa, is that what's happening here--]

[strangerpeople]

[No.

He will find something stashed under the sofa, though.]

[voidseeing]

[Let's pull it out! Who stuck what under there?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[A hammer and scissors are stashed haphazardly underneath it.]

[voidseeing]

[... are they bloody?

And is there anything else in the vicinity of the sofa that looks out of place? If not, he's heading over to the bookshelf.]

[strangerpeople]

[No blood that can be seen.

But as he's getting up, he'll see something with the cushions.]

[voidseeing]

[Okay, what's going on there? Is he going to need to stick his hand in there too...]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Eeeyup.


He feels something decidedly note-shaped underneath it.]

[voidseeing]

[Oh boy. What does the note say?]

[strangerpeople]

[Unknown. It's in cipher.

Maybe someone can help with this...]

[voidseeing]

[... well, with Brain gone, there are maybe three people left who he thinks might have any idea when it comes to that sort of thing so.

GONNA USE THE "PHONE A FRIEND" OPTION and call Hubert in for this.]

[pegasinister]

[Hubert comes when called... but he pauses when he sees Brain's corpse. He looks... pained, and doesn't respond right away to whatever Gai has]

[voidseeing]

... I already examined it. You don't have to look if you don't want to.

[pegasinister]

Too late to turn away now.

[But he does finish coming back to Gai.]

What do you have?

[voidseeing]

A note that's written in some sort of cipher. I figured you might be faster at this than me.

[A tiny, wry smile.]

I usually leave that sort of thing to Tsugumi back at home.

[pegasinister]

...a cipher, you say?

[He looks very very worried all of a sudden and reaches his hand out for it:

does it look familiar?]

[strangerpeople]

[It sure does to Hubert. It looks like his cipher.]

[pegasinister]

... damn it. Damn it-!

[So what's it say...]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

watch out for \

[pegasinister]

"Watch out for-" And an... i? A slash?

[He wrote a good number back and forth with Brain in said cipher: is this Brain's handwriting?]

[voidseeing]

The start of a letter that they didn't have time to finish?

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Yes. And it is indeed a slash, for whatever reason.]