The town is quiet, eerily so. All animals, all chatter, all gusts of wind have come to a complete stop this morning. A tumbleweed passes by through the center of town and the rocking chair on the Sheriff's porch sways but remains silent. Everything is muted and as the door of the hotel opens, the only sensation that rings utterly true today is this:
One of your own is gone.
And now, as the rules state, it is your job to discover their fate.
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[time to step a little closer, cautiously!!! what kind of an absolute wreck is he walking into here?]
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There's also some blood nearby, on the floor near the door to a large pile of clothes in the middle of the room. There's also something glittering nearby on the floor, hard to make out from this distance. ]
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[noct, please don't be so desensitized to this already, it's only week two? he spots the blood, and he's about to check that out—until he catches a glimpse of whatever is that's glittering.
maybe he should check it out first?
his steps are definitely still cautious, like something may jump out at him before he crouches down to look at it. what is this mysterious glittering object?]
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That clothes pile that is starting to smell a bit, actually. Eurgh. ]
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[murmuring at the smell like a real adult!
he can see that it's a scabbard—he tries to recall if he's seen one like it before, but he can't place it.
it'd probably be easier to see it if he moves the stinky clothes pile, huh? gross.]
Icky... [truly, an adult, but he'll make a move to shift this pile; what's it like? how heavy is it? are there limbs inside those clothes?]
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Actually, it'll only take a bit of moving the clothes to notice that the real bulk of it is coming from the corpse underneath them.
Yes, as Noct moves the clothes, he'll be able to see that --
Manfred von Karma is dead.
And also his eyes are still open so haha, you're probably looking right into his face, Noct. Gross. ]
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but, well... shit. noct only spoke to this guy once, but he's not about to forget the guy that judged his ass for eating cup noodles, either. he frowns, because that's definitely not a reason for death.
still, he's going to just avoid creepy eye contact, trying to move the body a bit to see what identifiers are on the body—and to move the scabbard so that they can try to figure out if that belonged to manfred or someone else later.
is there anything else important he should be noting here—the mortal wounds, specifically?
(anything to not look in a creepy dead man's eyes, pls and thx.)]
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He also seems to be clutching something tight in his hand. ]
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yet.
(why is he doing this alone? who let this child investigate by himself!)
whatever it is manfred's clutching, noctis will realize it may be of value. time to see what that's all about! what is it, what's he got?]
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But once Noct is able to free it, he'll see it's a note! It's kind of a little bloodstained though so all that can be read it:
Thank you and I hope to see you then.
It seems polite, at least? ]
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sure is a suspicious note! what the fuck. we're just gonna hold onto that one for now. and if there's nothing else pressing? gonna just.
you know.
grab the scabbard too and step away from the corpse, k.]
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Shinnosuke has no qualms about stripping dead old men of their shirts, so he'll be doing just that to see where the blood came from.]
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