[ 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

NW now im the one whos sorry bc i got cooked by keeping up w trial

[fixtures]

[ Well. Thankfully, him poking in his head in through the window isn't really a jumpscare, as any bandwidth she had for being jumpscared died out long ago. Her stare is quite blank as she makes eye contact with him, pausing in her current task of scrubbing the counter — there's a red foam of soap all over the place. ]

...Yes. [ She answers, simple and honest. ] I imagine I will be here for the remainder of the night, until morning, in fact. There is much work to be done...

[ Which she doesn't intend to hide from any of them... it doesn't even cross her mind that it might be strange to do that. ]

this trial cooked all of us so bad you're in good company

[pharmahoudini]

[He doesn't always mess with windows but sometimes. Sometimes you might as well throw all decorum and norms out the window and today is one of those days because what even was today.

Taking in her expression... Hmmm.

He's here after a delay so it's probably after all the body parts have been carried off -- there's just all the inglorious leftover stuff.]

Uh. You sure you wanna go all night? It's been here a while, anyway.

[Not a pleasant thought but at the same time it is the kitchen so like. There's a certain logic to not completely leaving it.]

[fixtures]

If the blood remains, the smell will be much stronger by morning. It would be quite unpleasant... hehe.

[ Don't worry about why she knows this, ]

Moreover, I will be alright. It's standard, for me to spend the night cleaning.

[pharmahoudini]

[Why is she hehe'ing. He's seen enough historical dramas probably to just accept that maids know how to get blood and all manner of bodily fluids out of stuff. That's just like, a maid superpower.

Be that as it may. After a split-second of contemplation he just slithers through the window without any particular regard for how messy it might be.

They've all been wading in whatever and will continue to do so.]

We can split it, then. Not much sleeping to do after that.

[There's a certain tension that says he is probably still vibrating to move around after everything outside. Just turn him into a pack mule or something it's fine.]