THE TRIAL INVESTIGATION.

[thegardeners]

[On Friday morning, for any of the early birds, they may find a note lying outside their door:

I think someone’s after me, if someone breaks into my room I’ll run to the lake! Please help look after me! ~ The cutest in the world, Cagliostro

There’s a smiley face at the end, along with tiny hearts. (You can choose to have your character to run into it if you wish-- some were purposefully delivered, and some were blown by the wind. The general idea is they can run into one easily, around the Pagoda.)

However, if you look at Floor 17...

Well. For now, everything seems peaceful. What do you want to do today?

Investigate?]

Comments

[thegardeners]

[Smells like peaches... and Cagliostro. In fact, if he follows the scent, he'll just lead it right back to her. If his nose is particularly sharp, he can smell another person's scent just barely lingering on it, but Cagliostro's is overwhelming and unmistakable.]

[sundiet]

[He follows the scent... right to Cagliostro's body. There's another scent, but it's hard for him to make out.

He looks over at Nira, and then at Cagliostro. Hm...]

Her scent. There's another person's on it, but hard to make out.

[The dog can talk!?]

[ladyporthos]

...so she was carrying it... [Why would she be doing that? And then she does a double-take.] You can talk?

[sundiet]

I guess she used it as a weapon. [And bonk the target with it? He seems to have roll his eyes.] Yeah, I can. I didn't earlier because I don't know what kind of person you are.

[He looks back at Cagliostro.] Guess while I'm here, might as well help out. Got anything I can check out for you?

[ladyporthos]

So she probably hit someone with it. Probably not very hard, but maybe she could have left a bruise. [She looks at Cagliostro's hands. Any bark or scratches that might come from holding a branch on them?]

[She blinks.] So you think I'm an okay person, then? And can you smell any other scent on here? It looks like someone punched her on the forehead...

[sundiet]

Well, you're not running away or pulling out arrows at me. [How oddly specific.] If you do anything sneaky, I'd bite you.

[Maybe. He nods and start sniffing around the area.]

[thegardeners]

[Bridge smells a bit bad-- well, other than the whole "someone died here" thing. There's some old and such-- like it's been wet for a few hours.

Though, the bridge nearby seems pretty dry-- maybe you should move Cagliostro's body?]

[sundiet]

[Wet and dry. Give him a moment...]

Think we can find more stuff if we move her body?

[Maybe her butt is hiding more clues underneath it.]

[thegardeners]

[If you move her body, you'll find that the back of her clothes, and the bridge, is completely wet. Hm, seems like she was wet before, but the part of her facing the sun was dried up.]

[ladyporthos]

[Nira tries to lift the body, but probably ends up dragging it. Her eyebrows go up.] Huh! Looks like she fell or got dumped in the lake at some point...or someone dumped water on the bridge. [While she's at it, she'll try to flip her over completely to see if there are any more marks on her back.]

[sundiet]

[He helps her drag the body over, biting on Cagliostro with his teeth. (Ewwwww).
After letting go, he notice what's hidden down there. Huh, wet areas.]

Probably. Is it possible to get water from the lake without disturbing anyone down there?

[He erred to the side of caution earlier in the week.]

Maybe someone pushed her, while she's fighting them off? [Time to search and sniff for more clues.]

[thegardeners]

[There's dirt, leaves and some flowers tucked in her messy clothes. Perhaps there was a struggle here.

Maybe you need to look beneath her clothes... (sorry cag)]

[sundiet]

[...]

Can you search her?

[Look, he might be a dog, but he's a Polite Enough Dog.]

[ladyporthos]

If you had a bucket, maybe. Or maybe you could drop something really big in and make the water splash out...we would probably have heard something like that, though.

[She nods.] Alright...can you help me carry her somewhere more private? [Stripping someone on a bridge feels kind of exposed and rude.]

[sundiet]

[He nods.]

Alright. Don't freak out too much, by the way...

[And in a moment, there's a young man in his place.]

... Yo?

[ladyporthos]

[Her eyebrows shoot up even more.] Oh! I guess that's why I didn't see you around before. [She bends to pick up Cagliostro under her shoulders.] Can you get her legs?

[sundiet]

That's why. I want to keep hiding that... but it's easier if I'm like this to help carry her.

[He nods, and bends down to grab Cagliostro's legs.]

Got them. I'm ready to go.

[ladyporthos]

Alright, heave! [Assuming nothing else interferes, she'll make her way to the closest awning, where she'll lay Cagliostro out on the ground.] Can you turn around while I examine her?

[creepylaugh]

[ WALKS IN AN HOUR LATE WITH NO STARBUCKS there's now another girl to check this out, any other time someone may have raised a fuss since Iria's just a teenager, but she's seen her fair share of death running away from people after her powers. Someone caved, and so quickly. Iria was angry but... she wondered if she could really blame them in their desperate situation. ]

... Let me help out.

[ She'll ask about what she's missed so far here, so we can fast forward what they know as of now and where else to look. ]

Even after all that head trauma wouldn't that have been enough? Ugh, hope there isn't more.

[ Hope only gets so far. ]

[thegardeners]

[Examining the corpse, there doesn't seem to be much else of note, except for some obvious bruising on her ribs. Like, someone-pressing-that-hard-could've-broken-her-ribs level of obvious.

Other than that-- they've got all the evidence!]

[ladyporthos]

...wait...her ribs...was someone trying to do CPR on her? That can leave a lot of marks on skin if you're doing it right...