INVESTIGATION 1

[umbralant]

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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CLOCK TOWER

[umbralant]

[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]

[No blood or signs of struggle around here on the ground floor, Dazai. Raven did find something very noticeable, and you will be able to see something near them:

Drops of something thick, Drops that seem to be dry by now. A closer look reveals...

...this is...mud?

[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!]

[raventhaw]

Footprints over here.

[ she'll call out to dazai. if he wants to come down he can; if not, he has the information. raven's going to follow their trail, first of all. where do the footprints begin, and where do they end? and what do they appear to be made out of? ]

[umbralant]

[Dazai found drops of dry mud. A quick glance between the footprints and those will reveal they have the same color and dryness.

Ergo, it's mud!

They're leading towards that staircase that gives access to the higher floors, and originate right from the entrance door.]

[deadlygoals]

[ He can go back to the foot prints. Real quick... how are they compared to Raven's feet? Are they bigger or smaller? What about Elliot? Do they look like they belong to him? ]

[umbralant]

[Have a good eye for sizing things up, Dazai! Let's see...

Raven, who apparently felt generous enough to pause and let Dazai compare those to her feet, has feet that are slightly larger than these. Elliot's are even larger.]

[deadlygoals]

[ Smaller feets. Hopefully he won't be defeeted by this.

Is there anything noticeable about them? Is there a limp to them? Do they appear to be running or just talking their time? Is it just these set of prints heading up? ]

[umbralant]

[That pun is awful. Investigation is over.

Taking a closer look at the muddy footprints reveals...it doesn't reveal much. The steps are evenly spaced, but there are two factors that make it hard to determine something from them.

One is that every step has less mud and therefore the trail fades -- in direction of the staircase, but they don't get there before there just aren't footprints left.

The other is that they are...shaped in a way you may not expect: they don't resemble shoes, but they're footprints, that's for sure. You know what that means, Dazai?]

[deadlygoals]

[ It was a great feet what are you talking about

That means it's bare feet? We have some scandalous naked feet around here? Wow. Get the feetish out of the game.

He's going to head up the stairs then and head to the third floor while Raven peeks at the second. ]

[umbralant]

[Dazai is dead by mod decree and isn't allowed in the graveyard. Thanks for playing.

While Raven take a look at the second floor and finds nothing of use, Dazai gets to the observation room on the third floor. The large windows show the night sky, with its moon shining and illuminating around. The cityscape of Krakow out there is beautiful.

But what he may find of interest right away is that there's some dry mud drops on the floor. Huh. Want to come in and take a look around, Dazai? Or would you prefer going somewhere else?]

[deadlygoals]

[ He totally wants to take a look. Let's follow the mud drops. Also, is Elliot's body down below? As in, he could have fallen from this side of the building? ]

[umbralant]

[Once Dazai approaches the windows, he'll find he can't see Elliot's body from where he is. These windows aren't even facing the main square, they're in the other direction.

The mud drops seem to stop in the middle of the room -- but following them you do reach a small lounge from where someone would sit and watch the cityscape outside. There are couches, many chairs, a table, an useless chandelier...a pleasant place to rest at, really]

[deadlygoals]

[ Hmm.

Is there any mud on the couches or chairs? An scruff marks or anything remiss here? ]

[raventhaw]

[ raven will be generous enough to pause and let dazai examine the footprints in relation to her feet. the trail itself, though - does it continue up the staircase? ]

[umbralant]

[Actually, it doesn't! The footprints fade some distance into the clock tower, less and less mud formed them, degrading with every step until there just aren't any footprints anymore.

The last few ones that are enough to tell a direction are pointing at the staircase, though]

[raventhaw]

[ perfect. raven's going to go up the staircase and look around at the next floor. anything immediately out of place here? ]

[umbralant]

[Welcome to the second floor of the clock tower, Raven. Enjoy your stay. After all, seems like nothing is out of place here! Seems to be void of anything worthwhile.

Would you like to continue going up? Or perhaps leave the tower?]

[raventhaw]

[ NEVER SURRENDER. we're going up. dazai's got the third floor so fourth floor here we come! ]

[umbralant]

[Your stalwart investigating spirit deserves a compliment!

While Dazai goes to the third floor, Raven goes up to the floor. The faces of the clocks are up there, large and round. Look at the time, it's sleuthing time. The door to the observation platform beyond the clock is open. Unlike Dazai, though, you don't find mud drops that hint anything.

The mud isn't on the floor, it's on the wall. And it's not some sort of random stain, either.

What are you going to examine?

[raventhaw]

[ let's look at the mud on the wall. is it in any particular shape or pattern? also, where on the wall is it in relation to the faces of the clock and/or the observation platform? ]

[umbralant]

[Luckily for everyone involved in this game, our spatial orientation skills won't have to be tested: the mud is on the same wall than the door to the observation platform!

It's funny, this mud on the wall seems to form a rather abstract bunch of stuff. Lots of straight lines and geometric shapes drawn with mud cover the wall]

[raventhaw]

[ hm.

HMMMMM.

raven's going to step back. does it look like these lines and shapes form anything in particular? or does this mostly look kinda random, even though it was made deliberately?

also, what sorts of geometric shapes are there? ]