FIRST INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

To say this week has been intense is, generally, an understatement. Friday dawns like any other day. Some of you may have guessed that something like this would happen. It's not a difficult assumption to make, considering what's at stake. Mayor Fontaine has come forward with clear intent, and maybe expecting twenty-five people to stay strong against it is too much. Or maybe not! You never know!

...For those of you not entirely convinced, however, those visible traces of blood in the elevator might speak differently.

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[kninja]

[Oh what the fuck. Obi books it for the meeting room.]

[inaclearing]

[It's not exactly unexpected, but the sight still turns Brett's stomach. He steps back from the elevator and calls back down the hall towards the dorms, a note of panic in his voice:]

Hey, guys?

[hellaethics]

[...Well fork.

Let's, uh, head straight for the lobby, I guess???]

[dullshooter]

That is not a tone that fills me with confidence.

[bathymetric]

[ No bodies here! A few things off that we'll return to later, but no bodies.

And, before you ask, the hostages are gone. ]

[bathymetric]

[ Nothing weird here! Just your everyday average tacky hotel lobby. ]

[inaclearing]

We, um -

[He seems at a bit of a loss for words, a rare thing for him.]

We need to go downstairs. And look around. I think. [And he didn't want to do either alone.]

[fuckingguy]

[ After staying up way too late to attend the tea party, Nandor has actually slumbered through the night for once! And when he wakes up... ]

Oh! I have more tokens!

[ And out he goes in his tie-dye shirt and jeans to cash them in! Except then, you know... the elevator car comes. And it opens. And his mouth waters. ]

... Shit.

[ This is not a good scene for him, so he's going to do what he does best: run back into suite 1 and start yelling and banging down doors. ]

[dullshooter]

[…]

Fine. Where to?

investigation

[bootyhunter]

[...It's exactly as he feared.

Dandy's own escapade in the elevator has left him with him with a variety of doubts, but-]

Is there any chance that somebody 'round here just got a really bad nosebleed?

[Much to his chagrin, he will get closer to the trails of blood.]

Closed his eyes and thought of some droolworthy dame? Damn it, damn it, damn it...!

[hellaethics]

Yo, Brett, everything cool-?

[U m. Good (?) thing Jason has been to the ER enough times to know what blood looks like because yikes.]

[inaclearing]

I - I don't know, um.

[Focus. He can do better than this. What would you do, if the worst happened? Brett runs a hand over his hair.]

Outside. The garden. People wouldn't necessarily see something there. [the bushes: half decent place to hide a body?]

[visiblepattern]

[Forrest tends to spend a lot of time in the garden in the morning, praying to whatever is willing to listen. Right now he really wants to go back to doing that because none of this looks good. How's it going in here?]

[bathymetric]

[ Hold up, Dandy! There's stuff we can note about the traces of blood, but we're going to save that for after the body discovery! Just know it's not really a trail. You're gonna have to look around other rooms to find whatever's gone wrong. ]

[capreelcious]

[ Yeesh. Floyd is heading for the restaurant! ]

[allatonce]

[........ Well. Let's bypass everyone freaking out with Obi and go to the library.]

[onemillion]

[...This is going to suck. There's absolutely no doubt this is going to suck, but fine. How's the landing looking on floor 2? Rossiu's destination is the library if floor 2's looking more or less fine.]

[inaclearing]

...why don't we stick together.

[Is someone likely to just get jumped in broad daylight? He doesn't know about that, but better safe than sorry!]

[bathymetric]

[ Oh, Forrest.

Hopefully someone is listening to your prayers, because you're going to need to start saying a few more.

There's a body face down in the shallow pool. ]

[hellaethics]

[Okay! That's gooood?

He's going to move onto the restaurant to check on that!]

[bathymetric]

[ There's something to note here, but it's not a body, so let's put a pin in that for now! ]

[dullshooter]

Let’s go, then. Who knows, maybe there’ll be a surprise ‘everything is fine’ party?

[To the garden they go!]

[bathymetric]

[ You can read in peace! You may not want to right now, though. ]

[bootyhunter]

[He's pretty shaken up following all of that, so he stumbles into the restaurant, mostly in an attempt to escape the chaos that is soon going to follow. Anything going on in here?]

[sastruga]

[I'm sure all that blood is fine and someone just spilled their tomato soup or something.

Meanwhile Mafuyu's gonna stop by the gym this morning, like everything's fine.]