INVESTIGATION

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So you've had the week to adjust to your weird new situation, with most of the days leaving you to your own devices. There's been the threat of murder hanging over your heads since Tuesday, but... is anyone going to go for such a silly motive? Does anyone want ice cream that badly? Nobody's gonna be dead, right?

Well, everything seems pretty normal when you wake up in your rooms... but you might find something unusual when you go downstairs into the inn.

Care to explore?

Comments

[stavros]

[Okay, the room was fine, let's try the bar in the inn?]

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[Well.

There's a horse in the bar. There's that.]

[stavros]

Whoa!

[Kokoro nearly trips over something when she sees the horse. Cautiously, she starts to approach, is it... a live horse, or...]

I'm going to vanish soon but

[carbide]

[Olympia's up pretty early, as she generally has been. When does she even sleep? She's not in a particular hurry to get outside, so she'll have a chance to get a good look around the second floor of the inn.]

[consolemods]

[Nothing's actually wrong on the second floor! Have a nice relaxing time looking around.]

[carbide]

[Relaxing as that sounds, she hears some commotion going on downstairs. So for the remainder of my free time before I have to vanish, she'll be joining the other kids.]

[helldestiny]

[Uh, so....aside from the horse.

Anything up with the stage?]

[consolemods]

[Nope! The only thing wrong inside is the horse.

Maybe there's something going on in another building?]

[helldestiny]

[Well...makes sense. If the horse is here, maybe...

...

...

what would Anshar do Oh!

Maybe she should check the stables! So...she leaves the "hero" and Olympia to the horse in the bar and goes off to check there.]

[pinkgingham]

[So. Now there's a horse inside the inn.

O...kay? Nothing too terribly unusual about that, Sable's very much used to seeing the horse villagers inside of Brewster's cafe.

She just sort of...sidles on through and goes outside of the inn.

Anything totally strange outside?]

[consolemods]

[Not on the ground, but... There sure are some vultures circling above the paddock. That's maybe a little strange.]

[pinkgingham]

[Oh, oh dear...this can't be good...

She hurries over to the paddocks and meets up with the rest of the group.]

EVIDENCE LIST

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12/12

STABLES (3/3)
- I hope our horse friend is fine
- Maybe look into it though
- That's horrifying, Kokoro

PADDOCK (8/8)
- Someone just left it out there for everyone to find.
- There's a thief here!
- A...very dedicated thief? (CW: eye gore)
- Well this isn't very nice.
- Niles didn't deserve this. (CW: gore)
- Niles REALLY didn't deserve this. (CW: gore)
- Getting to the POINT ayyyy
- And one last clue for the road!

WELL (6/6)
- That sure is blood!
- Gosh darn it, murderer, people have to drink that.
- Hey, good thing hemp floats!
- But pitchforks don't.
- CONTENT WARNING: EYE GORE
- Blood on both ends of the rope is the least upsetting thing here

STABLES

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[stavros]

[Kokoro backtracks to the stables, trying to keep her face neutral. There was blood here, right?]

[consolemods]

[There isn't much to see here, actually, except for a stall door hanging open. That might be where the horse in the bar came from, but why was it open? What's in there?]

[pinkgingham]

[Well...she has to make herself useful in some way, doesn't she? There's no time to just stare at a lifeless body - she needs to be productive! The more she can stay on track with finding evidence, the less time she'll have overthinking things.

So, the hedgehog enters the stable. How are the other, non-bloodied stalls?]

AREA CLEAR

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PADDOCK

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[Body investigation will include gore and eye injury content warnings.]

[helldestiny]

[Well, she is right over the body so... let’s start with the injuries.]

AREA CLEAR

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WELL

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[...there's another gore warning here.]

[fuckthemancers]

[And this poor fuck is the one who's going to end up dealing with it.]

[Zulf has been uneasily hanging around inside the inn staring at the horse, not wanting to deal with his sudden unease, but, well... It's hard to miss the Sheriff's little announcement. So, after leaving the horse, he makes his way to the stables...]

[But that means stopping by the well. He means to get some water just in case, but, well..]

[condemnedone]

[ Well, alright. As he steps closer to here to get water, what's going on with the well?

Anything obvious up front? ]

AREA CLEAR

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