[ WEEK FOUR – INVESTIGATION ]

[sheriffexe]

INVESTIGATION

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. Welcome to the investigation post! If your character decides to search an area, please post the name of the location in your header and wait for the mod replies. Anything to discover or not to will be indicated during the course of the thread. After the body is discovered, an announcement will be made and characters are free to spend the rest of the afternoons how they like. If there are any questions, please shoot a message either to this journal or at robowest.

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GENERAL STORE

[generously]

[ Claire enters the general store, giving a quick appraisal of the place to see if anything seems off at first glance.

Is there...? ]

[feminitis]

[Sei's just going to hobble along after him, this is fine.]

Anything here...?

[sheriffexe]

[ There are yo-yos in stock now. So that's cool.

Nothing else though. ]

Sheriff's Station

[thatsthespirit]

[as soon as she gets up, she books it to the stocks as fast as her bruised ribs will let her. which isn't very fast, but she's trying]

[hydrokinetics]

[So yeah, all right, he was here last week but that was important. Today is just as important and it's why as soon as possible he and Xion are on their way straight to the stocks. Percy, of course, is carrying her because everyone knows by now that Xion would try walking that far on her own. It's much more simple to just carry her.

But at least Milla's here, too?]

Sorry, we were booking it as fast as possible. [And hesitantly:] Milla?

gunsmith

[impulsiveness]

[Did someone steal one of the obvious weapons laying around here? Please say no, or else Jason and Natalie might have a conniption as they enter the place.]

[robitussin]

[Please let these teenagers rest and not have to worry about missing weapons. Anyways, they sure are here to check it out!]

Scale of one to ten, how bad do you think this will be?

[At least numbers are easy to tap out, probably.]

watering hole

[flippity]

[ papika will immediately head over to the watering hole!! she's gonna check out the shed area with all the fishing supplies near it first.]

[moraled]

[HERE COMES AN ADULT, FERAL CHILD Barnham follows along quickly.

Who knows what they'll find here, he's mostly following to babysit.]

church

[guiltlevel]

[ Russell will be at the church! Just checking to see if anything is out of place... The usual. ]

[sheriffexe]

[ The only thing out of place is here is the surprising lack of sin.

Also, the floorboards are still broken. ]

graveyard

[alcobrawlic]

[ Well, Sara's got Noct to come along with her this time, and her destination is the graveyard--

... Hopefully no one's stowed a gun in her grave again, but she's checking to see if any shit's out of place yet again. ]

[elemancy]

[time to see how many graves are desecrated this time, but not before:]

Talk about the heebie-jeebies. [it feels creepier than it did the first week, probably because ???? graveyards??? sure.]

Railroad Station

[bittybat]

[nothing at all is going to be wrong here, surely]

[sheriffexe]

[ Not a thing! Which means there's obviously going to be something wrong.

On the tracks, in particular. There's going to be a glint of red.

There is also the smell of something burning coming from the other side of the train. ]

body announcement

[flippity]

[ so after the great body search of week four, whole ass can be greeted to papika and barnham both walking back to the rest of town! they stop near the sheriff's station and the first thing anyone might notice is that they are both completely and utterly soaked, and they also both look very grossed out.

HUH. WONDER WHAT HAPPENED HERE. (it was bodies. bodies happened here.) ]

Hi... [ she. waves??? ] We found them? Lust and Simon. They were at the watering hole. Someone shot Simon in the head, and then tied him to a rock and threw him into the... lake... [ SHE LOOKS EVEN MORE GROSSED OUT AS SHE'S ABOUT TO SAY THE NEXT PART. ] We found Lust's head on the dock. And the rest of her pieces were in the water. We got it all out? They're back there.

That's, um, all. [ she looks at barnham and whispers. ] Did I do that right?

[moraled]

[Gently, he rests a hand on her shoulder.]

Yes. You did well.

[It's said tiredly, but he means it nonetheless. Good work with those dead bodies, Papika.]

Do not forget to breathe, Miss Papika. [It's been A Lot.]

[generously]

Multiple bodies again?

[thatsthespirit]

[two. . . one better than three, but still]

. . . thank you for the announcement, Papika. Are you all right?

[elemancy]

...Another two. Dammit...

[why is everyone going so fucking turbo for murder in this town. are the pure beans even pure :( :( :(

suffering ,truly.]

[impulsiveness]

[On a rulebook:]

Good to know we have someone with a head fetish.
Or two someones.

[Stop.................. And also:]

Want me to get you some towels? You look gross.

[hitsitoff]

[So obviously Eliot never looks happy about body announcements, but this time... This time he seems extra upset. Even with his arms crossed, he has his fists clenched. For a bit, he just sort of... focuses on his breathing. And boy, does he have to do a lot of focusing right now.

He's not really looking at anyone, his gaze is focused more to the ground than eye level right now.]

All chopped up, huh?

[Man, he sounds... a little quieter than usual.]

[insincerely]

[Hey, guess who's not dead (or in the stocks anymore, thanks Milla). He also looks a little like he's about to keel over because HAHA WHAT'S SLEEP, but...]

... Simon, huh?

[Well, bye, roomie.]

What about his monkey? He always had that guy with him.

[hydrokinetics]

[And he comes...lugging Yuna in one arm and Xion in another? How the fuck does this happen to him. He's busy holding both girls and listening to Papika before slowly shaking his head. Thanks for sullying the lake, you fuckers!!!]

Are you and Mr. Barnham okay? And how're we getting multiple murders now? That really wasn't a standard I was hoping to set.

[And then, awkwardly:] ...also Yuna got mauled by coyotes and I don't really know how to do first aid for normal people.

[glaring]

Have you... figured out what may have torn her apart?

[ A gun is easy, but. ]