INVESTIGATION

[consolemods]

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?

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[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.]

[consolemods]

[Huh! One of the stall gates was left open! That's sure a mystery solved.

...

There's stuff to investigate here, like all the blood. But I mean, you might've noticed some vultures circling over the paddock on your way there...]

[stavros]

[TIME FOR THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT PEOPLE'S WELL-BEING TO MARCH OVER THERE]

I have a bad feeling about this.

[helldestiny]

[EXCUSE YOU SHE CARES ABOUT....one person....but.

Y E A H she. Huh.

The bells go off in her head because vultures eat dead things, and--

Well, time to shoo away vultures then!

By....wait, no powers.

By charging at them with a shout and flailing arms.]

HELL's ATAAAACK!!

[carbide]

[WHAT THE HELL'S ATTACK IS GOING ON OUT THERE]

[helldestiny]

[SHE SHALL CHANGE THESE VULTURES' DESTINIES WITH HER OWN HANDS!!!!]

[pinkgingham]

[A hedgehog has joined the party!

She hurries over to the trio and stops to catch her breath.

She doesn't say anything yet, but just...stares at the woman charging at the vultures.

Woah. Girl's got guts!]

[consolemods]

[WOW, RUDE, SIN, THEY'RE JUST HERE TO BE NATURE'S CLEANING CREW

they make some noises that sound like the vulture equivalent of "fuck this popsicle stand" and fly off to find some easier carrion to eat]

[helldestiny]

[DESTINY CHANGE: COMPLETE ??!!!

Mood: Accomplished!

Now, time to get to the body. Who is Sin looking at?]

[consolemods]

[Well, right now, he's looking kind of like Swiss cheese... but he might be a little familiar. His eyes are closed, so he might be mistaken for sleeping if it weren't for the fact that there's blood on his left cheek and there's, like, so many puncture wounds in his torso. So many.

Niles is dead.]

[helldestiny]

...Huh.

[She frowns. I mean, obviously the guy's dead, but...]

Well. You've met your Destiny.

[She doesn't say it mockingly, or in any particular way. Just. It happened. It simply is.]

[exclusiverelease]

[As the girls identify Niles' body, that voice booms out again, its source from- inside the courthouse???? Even if the sheriff's not visible, he seems heartened by the discovery, his voice deeper yet somehow more cheerful.]

Well now, didn't take you so long, did it? And in such a distinctive way. I'd tell you it was well done, but first you have to get away with it. This game's about more than not having any witnesses. I'm going to give the rest of you a little time to look around and come up with any clues as to who might have done this cold-blooded killing. Good luck.

[There is now another icon in the HUD displaying Niles' name, face (from before this incident), and a vague, unhelpful time of death. The word DEAD is stamped across his face.]

[consolemods]

[Well, just looking through the fence, you can see someone laying on the ground!

...and even from here, it looks pretty messy. Oh dear.]