WEEK 4: INVESTIGATION

[dormheads]

week four: 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 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 fifth 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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COSMETOLOGY BUILDING

[dormheads]

[ghoststrums]

[ he's here to fix up his nails? what fire alarm. no just kidding he's looking for murder clues starting with the door because i'm not a fool again.

he is RADIATING stress and anxiety but like, people are dead, it's fine ]

Lux, are you ... good?

[ she knows what he means. ]

[illuminance]

No one is good on days like today.

[ she feels... very frustrated. but lux squints at their surroundings... is there anything on the walls by the door? ]

[shaft]

[ And Claude is also here in his dunce cap! He spares a glance over Yamato and Lux, concerned for Yamato give his high levels of anxiety.

He doesn't say anything as he wanders over to where the mannequins are lined up, peering around them to see what secrets they're hiding. ]

[dormheads]

[Nothing out of place about the door or the outside of the building.

I'm going to stop Claude, because when he steps in—before he even gets to the mannequins at the back, the area in general is in disarray. Lots of things knocked over or pushed aside, etc. Watch your step!]

CAMPUS BOOKSTORE + CAFETERIA

[dormheads]

[disreguarded]

[good morning, it's winter investigation time.

beau has one hand on caleb and the other on ichiro. she is blaring anxiety, yay! come along boys let's start in the cafeteria, though like, she stops caleb before they go in and glances at ichiro.]

[katzepaw]

[He's following Beau, looking at his phone as he walks. Stopping too outside the cafeteria - anything obvious to see there?]

[steelo]

[ and here's ichiro! he's walking side by side with beau at the moment, a little slower than he would like (thank you denji) but that's fine. he meets beau's look and gives her a smile - reassuring, though there's a low anxiety in his emotions, too. ]

We got this.

[ hopefully "this" is not a corpse

anyway he's stepping ahead, over the threshold and into the cafeteria itself! what does it look like at first glance. ]

[dormheads]

[They might want to watch their step, since the floor by the entrance is covered in a strange substance, in a 4x2 checker grid!

Lying on the edge of the grid, though, is a body.]

LAZY RIVER & ROCK WALL

[dormheads]

[foreversweaterweather]

[ Mabel stands along the riverbed. ]

Huh. I wonder what we're supposed to find here!

[ she kneels down to squint at the grass surrounding the river, and if there's anything obviously floating along in the river as well ]

[lifeless]

[very funny if mabel finds the dead body first]

Hopefully, nothing.

[she says, but she's looking at the rock climbing wall itself to see if there's anything SUSPICIOUS on it]

[goalsides]

[i swear to god if we have to chase a body in this river...but he's here. mabel's checking the water and manwol's looking at the wall, so he will start to look through the equipment to see if there's anything missing or obvious.]

I can climb up the wall in a sec if we have to, but we should probably check the perimeter of the river, too. Just in case.

[dormheads]

[ There is nothing in the spot that Mabel is looking at, no.

Meanwhile, Manwol won't see anything suspicious on the wall itself. She will, however, see a goose waddling away.

Looking through the equipment, Taichi won't see anything amiss. ]

😱

[dormheads]

STUDENT REPORT CARD

After you've all spent time searching high and low for any sign of what happened, a ringtone will emit from your smartphones. A new notification has arrived: a report card. What's it say?

Student Name

Subject

Grade

Byleth Eisner

HLTH 186: Sleep It Off: Surviving Death by Hitting Snooze

F

Wang Lu

SPRT 500: Cultivating Immortality & Long Life

F

Oh! Well, that sucks. Maybe should've studied harder.

Shortly after, all phones will receive a notification stating that all Dorm Heads currently attending mandatory meeting following emergency. Emails and messages will go through, but they will not be able to respond. (Please don't send Audience Requests but you can OOCly let us know if your character tries to contact them.)

Any further investigation will not manifest in any more clues. You'll simply have to hold onto the pieces that you have until tomorrow.

EVIDENCE

[dormheads]

ICly, your characters will be holding onto evidence they found (aside the body, which disappears after a while once it's not within sight); OOCly, however, please mention here what your character is bringing to trial so that everyone has an easy list for reference tomorrow!

[katzepaw]

[Photographs of the slashes in the bookstore.]

[ghoststrums]

[ pictured:
wang lu's body as it laid to rest on the ground w/ his arms crossed & the sword
the cosmetology store looking like shit
specific marks on the ikea drawers ]

[disreguarded]

[ig the stabbed chuck tingle book even if it's probably not helpful is here]

[shaft]

[ 1x short, blonde hair
1x sword found with wang lu's body ]

[goalsides]

[-byleth's sword
-a black combat boot]

[duranduel]

[This can't be happening.]

[This has to be a dream, right?]

[Mandricardo is just standing, looking at his phone. His hand is shaking so hard that it feels like he's going to just drop it any second. And the waves of emotion that come from him are like a storm - grief, sorrow, heartbreak, fury.]

...

[And he's just going to stride off. Somewhere. Anywhere.]

[Wowie!]

i have to be dramatique

[feytality]

[ ... this, too, is another way in which byleth reminds maya of her sister. ]

[repress]

[ Well.

His expression only wavers a moment, because who wasn't expecting this?

But rather than fury, of which there's only a flicker, his emotions are just—grief. Raw, aching grief. A tremendous, insurmountable sense of failure.

—And then he's off! Goodbye. ]