INVESTIGATION 1

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INVESTIGATION 1

The clock strikes eight. The intermittent showers that dominated most of yesterday had, at some point during the night, escalated to a complete downpour that drenched the streets. Maybe that's why the morning might almost feel refreshing today—while it can't be said that the birds are chirping and the sun is shining brightly, the breeze is cool without being frigid while the sky is bright with the half moon.

Nevertheless. The deadline for Tuesday's motive was laid down as Friday, and amongst the pleasant earthy smell of the rain may be a tinge of something else.

Well now, how shall you spend this morning?

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MAIN SQUARE

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[inordertobelieve]

[ Alright, so while Shin is taking care of sketching the body, Mikami is going to take mental inventory of all the stuff that is around here. Where around the body are the books and knives located? ]

[umbralant]

[Well, first of all, most of the items just seem to be knives and stationery, like pens and paper. There's like, a shitload of knives?? Think around 12 of them or so and about 4 pens.

Second of all, Mikami can note that there's no real rhyme or reason to how the items are scattered around the body; they're just sort of there, like someone decided to make an Elliot pancake and then add some sprinkles of knives or something (although none of the items are on top of his body).

Third, Elliot still kind of has a bookbag slung around his shoulder and it's definitely open, with some paper kind of spilling out of it.]

Body Check

[twoasone]

[It takes a few minutes for the main figure sketch to be completed. There's a considerable amount of detail for something done on the fly, but it's a lot better than Mikami's stick figure.

With that, he holds the notebook under his arm for a moment as he kneels in for a closer look.]

[umbralant]

[Just for some body context, Elliot's lying face down on his stomach with his right arm under his chest and his left just... sort of flung out there.

What part is Shin going to be getting a closer look at?]

knife check

[deadlygoals]

[ S'up, here's here with his two buckets.

He's going to be careful though as he steps around the evidence, but Dazai is here checking the knives. More specifically, he's going to count the knives. Does it look like to be the same amount of knives that Elliot had during his peaceful protest in the library? ]

[umbralant]

[More or less, yes, assuming Elliot's protest set wasn't confiscated by Seteth or something somewhere along the way. Either way, there's about 12 such knives from the milk bar, the clergy housing and the opera house restaurant scattered about.]

Paper check in main square

[deadlygoals]

[ Hi back again for an additional thing.

The paper and books all over (the ones that are closest to his head). Is the pink/watery blood just on the top of them? If he picks them up, is there going to be any of the pinkish blood water under them? ]

[umbralant]

[The watery blood will basically be soaked through individual sheets of paper, so there would definitely be some still underneath. As for the books, the bloody water will still be underneath it but the pages touching the ground would also have absorbed some of it.]

CLOCK TOWER

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[raventhaw]

[ well, seeing as the corpse is being handled appropriately, raven's going to look inside of the clock tower. is there anything off on the first floor at a first glance? ]

[deadlygoals]

[ He'll let the others handle the body, time to head inside of the clock tower, following Raven. Is there anything noticeably different when you first walk in? Any blood or signs of a struggle? He's going to head up the stairs first to check since it looks like someone might have fallen from a height. ]

[umbralant]

[Perhaps it's because there's a body just over there, on the main square, that it feels like everything in the surrounding areas is going to be tainted and involved in that murder.

While it wouldn't be true in most cases, in this one it certainly is. This clock tower has something glaring right away:

Footprints! Jackpot, Raven!]

CLERGY HOUSING

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[ortion]

[Well, that happened. Overwhelmed by both relief that the incentive is no longer hanging over his head and trepidation for what else their hosts could have in store for them, Dist heads back to collect his thoughts... But on second thought, he should probably get in on the investigation too.

He'll go ahead and check the common areas by his room first. Anything to be found in the storage area?]

[umbralant]

[ The storage room is a pretty decent area to start, and in fact it seems like something is missing from here, would your masterminds really leave with you so few buckets?

...they might, but there's less than before. How familiar is Dist with this room? ]

[baitless]

[whatever. MYSTERY TIME. He might go back to the housing to scream into a pillow or something first, though, unless something catches his attention on his way inside.]

[umbralant]

[ Mystery!!!

Setheth is able to make his way back to housing to scream all he wants and do his best impression without anything else terribly horrendous jumping out at him. Whether that means the entirety of the clergy housing is innocent is another mystery however. ]

OPERA HOUSE - BACKSTAGE

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[youspinmeknightround]

[Okay yeah Suzaku knows fuck all about investigating a murder so he's going to hobble his way down to the opera house to get the pamphlet. He is still very indignant about the entire affair, but while he's here, might as well look around...]

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[ Welcome to the opera house, and subsequently the opera house backstage! First thing's first: how familiar is Suzaku with this area, and did he bring a light? ]

[p_q]

[He's been stealing candles aplenty from the church and has a tendency to parade through the city with them at all hours, so it's no surprise that Ulquiorra has basically abandoned the body buzz to turn up in the opera house. First off: has anything changed about the profiles while he's passing by?

Second of all: anything else looking amiss aside from Suzaku hobbling about like an old man?]

[deadlygoals]

[ I hope he took the clown scented candle. clowndle. ]

[psychophant]

[...if the clothes have been messed with, he's rioting. ANYWAY, Iago's here with a candle and the first order of business is to check the clothes - is there anything on the way or is he able to get there just fine?]