[ week one: investigation ]

[murderhost]

INVESTIGATION

On Friday morning, you wake up — groggy and uncertain over when you went to sleep, how you went to sleep, and how you got in your bed. Yet, you are in your bed (unless...?) and there is a sense of foreboding in the air. Some people might notice their roommates are not in their beds. Some people might notice their roommates are still sleeping. Let's hope the ones who aren't there just got up a bit earlier than everyone else and aren't, you know, the victim. Or victims.

But the doors are unlocked now and the house is accessible again. Time to go investigating.

HOW THIS WORKS: Below are top levels for every location in the house. Please reply with your character entering or interacting with the location and the mod journal will reply, sharing details over what your character will find in the location. We'll let everyone in the discord know when all points of interest have been found.

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Comments

WAKE UP AND INTERACT

[murderhost]

[ For those who are just waking up and want to talk to their roommates or stumble into others in the hallway before figuring out what might have happened the night before. This is a mingle TL for that! Enjoy the few moments of peace before the insanity breaks. Let everyone know you're still alive! ]

[pharmahoudini]

[There's a muffled yelp from the roof of the manor, for those whose rooms are up there. Also a weird thud and a hissing noise. It's fine, surely.]

THE LIVING ROOM

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

None applicable for this search.

[ To note as people step down the stairs and into the living room, the first place you'll reach: the inactive mannequins have all disappeared over the night without a trace. The house feels strangely empty without them. ]

[lowprofiles]

[He's just on his way to get breakfast but uh???]

Huh. Someone finally clean 'em up?

THE KITCHEN

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

Cannibalism, Decapitation, Limb Removal

[stds]

[ fumiko is going in to make some coffee as a wage slave does. as she arrives, she sees kyoko nearby and waves. ]

Morning.

THE LIBRARY

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

Eye trauma

[akademise]

[ Good morning library!! More has a book to return that he finished last night, but he is starting to get a foreboding feeling about this day... even so, it's time to put this random romantasy back on the shelves. ]

THE OFFICE

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

None applicable for this search

[dissimulative]

[ BUSTS THE DOOR OPEN—no I'm kidding but hello oria is here!! What do we got here ]

The vibes are crazy this morning...

THE DINING ROOM

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

Eye Trauma, Decapitation, Limb Removal

[honeytraps]

[The mannequins are all gone, which, given the previous art installations, probably makes the dining room far easier to get to?

Yay?]

THE PRODUCTION ROOM

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

None applicable for this search

[ This door is still locked! Hmm, why is this toplevel here? (This is not a proper investigation location.) ]

[dresscode]

[ Hm. The handle jiggles ineffectually. The door is still locked.

A beat, and then Haruaki looks at Obikawa with utmost seriousness. ]

Use me as a battering ram!!!

OUTSIDE THE MANOR

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

None applicable for this search

[pharmahoudini]

[Local spidey on the roof, what WILL he see--]

THE POOL

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

None applicable for this search

[fbwhy]

[ This feels weird? This feels weird.

Grace doesn't remember falling asleep, which is concerning on its own, but once she can investigate, she's going to cautiously head to the pool.

Unsure what this sense of foreboding is, but still. ]

THE GARDENS

[murderhost]

Content Warnings

None applicable for this search

[crashout]

[ good morning, what the fuck is up? also, he looks pissed. ]

So this is how we're playing huh...

Post-Investigations Roundup

[stds]

[ taking place in the living room as everyone comes back... ]

So... I think we probably know by now that someone died, and in a pretty gruesome manner. We should share what we found and account for everyone.

[stds]

[ replying to my own toplevel yeehaw- ]

Kyoko and I found a bunch of butchered body parts in the kitchen. There was a human torso, still clothed. Inside a pot were chopped up arms, missing hands from the wrists. And inside the oven were the legs going down to the feet, which still had shoes on them.

There was a kitchen knife covered in blood on a cutting board. The fridge had some bloody smears on it too. And a lot of water on the floor, soapy.

[fbwhy]

Yuta and I... found a pool table.

[ Fuck. She's just a little shaken by the mention of a bunch of body parts. ]

Table. In the pool. It was burned. A-and we also found Kalim unconscious in the hot tub.

[ But! Not dead! ]

[voring]

We found someone in the producer's room!

[Looks around because he cannot fucking remember what Princess looks like.]

rip yves cleaning and burial party !!!!!!!

[fixtures]

[ Once everyone's had a chance to poke around the crime scenes, Giselle gets to work cleaning... starting with the part she thinks no one will want to do, which is moving and collecting the body. There's a resignation to the way she does it, even if she does it without hesitating or an ounce of disgust on her features.

Anyway. She is in the kitchen collecting the various chopped up bits and fishing stuff out of the pot if it hasn't been already, using spare bed sheets to wrap each piece up neatly. She won't seek out anyone's help with this chore, but neither will she tell anyone coming in to stay away.

It's going to be a long night of scrubbing the floor and every surface in here and the dining room for her... ]

[combathatchet]

[Second verse, same as the first... Well, almost the same. There she is cleaning in the kitchen, and here Leon is—with a grim look on his face—walking in to say, to some degree, it isn't necessary for her to do it alone.

He draws close when she's in the middle of wrapping up a torso.]

Why are you doing this by yourself? Let me take care of this part.