[ 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]

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?

[combathatchet]

Yeah. I didn’t move it. It’s still open on the same page, too.

[dresscode]

[ sorry mods Haruaki's also gonna skedaddle off to the library at some point to investigate the cookbook as well ]

[murderhost]

[ It's a cookbook! Pretty standard home cooking sort of cookbook. The page it's open to is indeed a stew recipe, and cross-referencing the notepad to the book will confirm the list of ingredients is copied from the recipe that is open.

Also those pages are gross because eyeballs were sitting on them.

Ewww. ]

[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. ]

[combathatchet]

[Can we just go home, that would be ideal.]

If Yves was the one jotting down a recipe, he might've gotten caught off guard in the middle of it. But I don't know if that helps us figure out who did it.

[dissimulative]

I don't think it will either.

[ There's too many factors... ]

But to be fair, I can't really think straight right now. Someone just died and I can't just ignore that.

[combathatchet]

No one expects you to. If you have to step away for a moment, no one's going to blame you.

[Because this really hammers home the fact that this is real. The naive hope that no one was going to die is nonexistent.]

[dissimulative]

[ Oria stays quiet. No one will blame him? He might blame himself, so there's at least one. ]

... Thanks. I'll just need a moment to calm down, and then I'll be fine.