WEEK 0: INVESTIGATION

[dormheads]

week zero: investigation

remaining students: ???

On Friday morning at 7AM, everyone will find that they're now able to leave their suites and dormitories. How will they know the time they can leave? Well, it's because it's hard to ignore the fire alarm that's blaring in every building of the campus, and also the fact that all of the banners and materials with the school crest seems to have changed into something slightly different? Hm.

Is this a practice drill? Did someone pull the alarm? Perhaps there's an actual fire somewhere. There's only one way to find out.

Maybe you should look around.

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Welcome Students, to the first investigation!

We will be posting top-levels for searchable locations—one set at 6PM EST and another set at 7PM EST. Each location will contain evidence to find, though it's up to your efforts as to whether you find all of it. Please coordinate investigation groups on Discord, as we ask that group threads consist of no more than 2-3 characters.

We will stop tagging each top-level two hours after it went up, i.e. at 8PM and 9PM EST, respectively. Don't worry if you don't find everything! Characters will get the chance to revisit locations tomorrow at trial. At 9PM EST, an announcement will go up, confirming the victim(s).

If you have any questions at any time, please let us know by pinging us on Discord!

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[ercnerd]

[Byleth turns over the corpse of one (1) Ercnard Sieghart, who is, actually, breathing. At a glance, his bare arms and face are littered with small bites. He doesn't stir.

The frog stubbornly clings to his hair, but leaps off in a fright when his eyes suddenly snap open, pupils constricted. He bolts upright, grabs his sword beside him in a reverse grip, and swings the blade around, parallel to Byleth's neck, in warning.]

[dormheads]

[I rolled a 7 so I guess Molly is still fighting that goose off!

There's nothing else of note about the area. I'm not saying whether there are footprints or not so don't take any lack of them to mean something,]

[divineimpulse]

[...]

We're here to help.

[her own hand is on her sword, but it's a useless gesture. sieg would get her before she could move.]

[headmt]

[I lied I'm actually abandoning the goose. I refuse to keep losing dice rolls to this FUCKING goose. He can get his attack of opportunity Molly is trying to dart away and join the others once he looks over and sees this fucking mess.]

Oi! What the hell are you doing out here? Can we put swords down, for fuck's sake.

[is he gonna try and cut someone in half.]

[katzepaw]

Stop!

[He'll shout as soon as Sieghart moves for the sword; there's nothing he can actually do here except try to deescalate the situation. He's just sort of standing there with his hands out in a panic until he stops it short of her neck.]

Put it away, she hasn't done a thing to harm you. What are you doing out here?

[dormheads]

[Well. Congrats, Molly manages to outrun the goose and it gets bored and waddles off to join the other geese, who have eaten all the crumbs.

Now deal with the other feral creature around here.]

[ercnerd]

[The feral look in his eyes fades with a blink as he gapes at Byleth. He promptly lowers his sword.]

It's you kids . . . !

[He moves to stand. A grimace crosses his face when he looks down at his pants. A fish falls out of his pocket and into the river with an abrupt plop.]

[divineimpulse]

What are you doing here?

[he seems fine. she's over the threatened-with-a-blade thing.]

What bit you?

[headmt]

The whole threatening to cut people in half gets less cute the more you do it.

[Smacking Sieghart lightly (sorta) with the bear slipper.]

And these yours?

[katzepaw]

Come, it was a reflex I'm sure.

[He's more worried now, because a few things aren't adding up.]

Something strange is happening; we ought to get him indoors and let him get dry. Will you tell us what you recall while we walk back to the dorm?

[And, glancing at Molly - ]

Try messaging Beauregard, please? She has not yet responded to me.

[dormheads]

[Since this tag round started before the block closed, I'll just slide in a last mod tag to confirm that there's nothing else around here.

Continue!]

[ercnerd]

[Ignoring the slipper, he touches his face with his other hand. What happened to his perfect face?]

That's not mine.

[He wouldn't invest in a pair of bear slippers. (He has poor taste.) Caleb talks sense, though, and Sieghart trudges his way out of the riverbank.]

What's going on? I remember a yell, and then . . .

[divineimpulse]

And then you woke up here?

[oh boy

she checks her phone for messages, and fires one off as she walks to the riverbank with sieg.]

How are you feeling?

[headmt]

[Oh, yes. Snapping his fingers.]

Right, like I said to you two earlier. The yell and the thump!

[But he's digging in his pocket to get his phone, starting up the talk-to-speech.]

Beauregard? Where the fuck are you. For some reason, we woke up and decided to terrorize the geese this morning and found Sieghart in a ditch and some plush feet accessories. Don't know why that's weird or anything considering I wake up in ditches all the time, but here we are.

[Oh right]

You can respond to this message ... ?

[katzepaw]

[That was a pretty good message, yeah. A pretty good summary. Except for the part where they were locked in and then suddenly all passed out and some of them were moved. That part is maybe not great. But he's still not thinking murders happened.]

. . . Do you remember passing out, a little bit after that?

[ercnerd]

I must've blacked out on my way to investigate the sounds . . .

[But it doesn't explain why he's waking up out here in, as coined by Mollymauk, a ditch.

He nods along to Caleb when he stops and raises an elbow to look at his upper arm. The marks, of which there are two types, are the same as those on his face.]

What's with these? . . . Did a goose bite me?

[divineimpulse]

[hold the futuristic handheld talking device]

You were able to go outside?

[she draws closer to sieg in order to investigate the bites herself, without actually touching or detaining him.]

It looks like more than just a goose.

[headmt]

[Looking at his phone for a bit, but ... ]

No response.

[Okay, fine, now he will be a little bit worried. Since it seems to have gone through.]

Last I saw you were heading upstairs? Don't remember you coming back down.

[katzepaw]

[Ugh. He's just grumpier now. Walking him back towards his dorm.]

So you don't remember what happened, but you did get close to the sound we heard.

[ercnerd]

I don't know if I managed to get close. I wasn't outside, either.

[At Byleth's comment, Sieghart squints at the other type of marks along his arm. Realization dawns and he frowns.]

. . . Now why would they do that? I didn't even chase any of them.

[divineimpulse]

Chase what?

[this isn't adding up. none of this is.

but they were also more or less forced to return to their dorms the night before. so who was to say this was any different?

she looks at her phone once, twice, and writes another message.]

[headmt]

[Looking at the damp slippie?]

And who's even are these then? Somehow ended up with you.