[ 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

[combathatchet]

[Leon's here, and he comes bearing... a pair of eyeballs, gingerly resting in an outstretched palm. This would be a prime time for a quip if he were a lesser person.]

More and I found these in the library. [The irises are blue-grey, AKA ~the color of the dawn~] They were resting on an open book, on top of a... stew recipe.

[Seems like someone's got a sick sense of humor.]

[dresscode]

EEP!!!

[ DAWG PUT THOSE EYEBALLS AWAY?????????????? ]

A-are they real!?

[combathatchet]

[PEOPLE GOTTA SEE THE EYE COLOR OKAY...]

They look like the real thing. [and i've been around a lot of blood and gore to know]

[dresscode]

[ TURNING AWAY FROM THE EYEBALLS ]

We should bury those properly! It's disrespectful, Leon-san!!!

[combathatchet]

We will.

[Or we will once we gather up all the parts. Don't worry, it's not like he's going to start juggling them.]

But it didn't make sense to leave them there on a recipe, either.

[That seemed even worse.]

[dissimulative]

... Huh?

[ He glances at the notebook and then back at Leon. ]

Why would they write a recipe if they already had a book...?

[combathatchet]

Makes me think the recipe was being copied down before any of this happened. If not, then I'm not sure — it doesn't make much sense.

[dresscode]

[ God, this is the worst. OKAY. Focus up, Haruaki. ]

Is the book still in the library?

[dissimulative]

It really doesn't...

[ time to never go in the office—actually can we just move to a different house. Oria would like that, actually. ]

[stds]

Geez. This butcher really went to town.

[combathatchet]

[FROWNING]

Yeah. Someone was sticking to a theme. Though I have a feeling these were removed after the fact.

[stds]

Yeah, almost certain they killed him some other way before they did... all of this. Pretty messed up!

[combathatchet]

And complicated. Killing someone like that? There's no way it was easy to do, even for someone strong.

[stds]

Yeah. We might have to consider there's multiple killers. This degree of chopping, draining blood, plucking out eyes... it's a lot for one person to do overnight.

[combathatchet]

[Nodding.]

If I had to guess? This could at least be a two-person job.

[stds]

Two at minimum sounds right. We have our work cut out for us.

[changel]

[just]

[covers her mouth with her uninjured hand and looks away]

[combathatchet]

[Ough sorry. He doesn't enjoy having to show this off to everyone. Leon doesn't say anything, but just frowns apologetically.]

[changel]

[it's okay it's not his fault!! EYEBALLS ARE JUST A LOT]

[yesterbloom]

[ she closes her eyes.

okay!!! okay..... ]

[combathatchet]

[yeah it's not great]

[factoring]

[Somebody has a terrible sense of humor.]

[combathatchet]

[yeah these aren't the kind of jokes he likes]

[pharmahoudini]

[Sucking in a breath because dude.]

Hey, at least warn people before you throw those in front of everybody, yeah?

[It's not great!! That he probably recognizes them!!! Shaking his head, but in terms of actually dealing with the eyeballs there's just that first kneejerk reaction, really.]

This is the second time a recipe's been mentioned. Somebody really wanted to make sure they got it right.

[combathatchet]

[Listen! It's Bad but it's important that people see the eyeballs!! Also I'm an RE protag and I pick up questionable stuff all the time,]

Or someone was trying to be funny.