FIRST INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Friday, the deadline for The Professor's generous offer, dawns like any other. The automated cycle of lights, the only real indication of time passing here on the seafloor, passes into an imitation of daylight with a series of clicks and the hum of bulbs intensifying their glow.

Just last night, spirits were high as many of you watched movies and chatted. But as you leave your rooms today, there's something... foreboding hanging in the air. A quiet stillness, almost unnatural.

... Eh, it's probably fine, right?

Comments

[emberserker]

[Anna's going to head to the dining area, maybe there's something good in there.]

[bathymetric]

[ Good news, Anna, the dining area is free and clear! ]

[mouflon]

[ It's probably fine. Rin is barely awake anyway! So she's just going to head to the gym like she does every morning. ]

[bathymetric]

[ go get jacked, rin, the gym is clear ]

[archboxer]

[How ominous... Let's start the day off by going to the library.]

[bathymetric]

[ well hm. unlike usual, where even if you leave the library in disarray (Della), someone comes around at night to clean it, the library is kind of a mess.

Maybe it's the other person in here's fault. They don't seem to have had a good time, and are lying on the floor in the middle of the room.

... The blood also probably isn't a great sign. ]

[baitless]

[...hm.

Well, okay, it’s probably a good idea to head to the dining hall to get breakfast, right?]

[bathymetric]

[ it's the most important meal of the day, seteth, of course it's a good idea to go! say hi to anna while you're there, won't you? ]

[ladygeryon]

[..huh. There's something weird in the air, and Nira doesn't like it. She's going to head to the library and see what's going on there.]

[bathymetric]

[ Well... ]

[valentinus]

[ Anything going on in the art gallery? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Looks pretty clear! Enjoy your art! ]

[onefuture]

[Hm. Well, that's ominous.

Lif doesn't exactly like what he's feeling in the air, and he'll be going to the fitness room.]

[bathymetric]

[ Say hi to Rin! ]

[hardnosed]

[ Oh, fun! Jasper's just going to go to the vending machine room to redeem some coins before anything else. ]

[bathymetric]

[ A SECOND CORPSE DROPS OUT OF THE VENDING MACHINE- nah,enjoy your weird trash, Jasper. ]

[bathymetric]

[ The speakers all throughout the facility... well, they don't click on, they're more advanced than that, but The Professor's voice calls out of them all the same. ]

Well, it seems your secrets are safe with her. The Huntress is dead, and one of you is to blame. I will permit you some time to search the facility to gather data about the killing - after all, you all still have to try to guess whodunnit.

Further instructions will follow. Good luck and... happy hunting.

EVIDENCE LIST

[bathymetric]

20/20

Library (11/11)
- Patch notes: removed Aela's essential NPC status
- Time of death obtained (sort of)
- Bruises obtained (for sure)
- Broken wrist obtained (oh big yikes)
- Arm cut bad
- Look at all these books
- Look at where these books might have come from
- Who doesn't love a little erotic lizard fiction in their investigation?
- Oh right, the murder blood
- Maybe less than expected murder blood?

Open Area (West) (2/2)
- Cut loose, footloose
- Also there's more blood

Men's Restroom (4/4)
- And yet! More blood!
- Continue to cut footloose until further instructions
- Blood sink, sister to........
- T O I L E T K N I F E

Laundry Room (3/3)
- Wosh u soul
- REALLY wosh u soul
- But dont u dare dry it

LIBRARY

[bathymetric]

[ they do say knowledge is power, don't they? ]

[snackooed]

[ Alright, alright-- ]

Okay, if you're going to look around in here, try to move as little as you can. Someone told me Shelley has a camera, and if that's true, I want her taking pictures, stat. I'm going to investigate her body, okay? If someone wants to spot-check me, go ahead, but we need to keep this area as close to the way we found it as possible for now. We'll start gathering our evidence later.

[ Okay, deep breaths. That's a fair bit of blood, alright, but where is it coming from? ]

[archboxer]

[Now that it seems Aela's body isn't going to be swarmed, Rhea steps aside to look around the crime scene.

Just how torn up is this room, anyway?]

[ladygeryon]

[Nira's going to leave the body for now and investigate further out. Any blood on the floor apart from where the body is?]

OPEN AREA (WEST SIDE)

[bathymetric]

[ I really should have named the open space between all the rooms... ]

[mouflon]

[ Rin steps out from the fitness room into the foyer when she hears the announcement, sleepy brain now instantly on high alert. Is there anything in the area that might immediately grab her attention? ]

AREA A MEN'S RESTROOM

[bathymetric]

[ where the urinals live ]

[bolderfell]

[Okay. No sign of Therion before the announcement goes off, but the first thing he does is run to where all the people are, linger in the back for a second, holding his scarf, and then hoof it to the men's restroom--the one place he knows has no surveillance.

What's up.]

LAUNDRY ROOM

[bathymetric]

[ you cannot in fact hide from your troubles in a washing machine. probably. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ That sure is a way to be woken up. Della make a beeline for...somewhere, she's a little groggy.

That somewhere happens to be the laundry room. Anything stand out (eyyy) immediately? ]