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

[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...