robowest | [ WEEK ONE – INVESTIGATION ]

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 mod replies. Anything to discover will be indicated during the course of the thread.

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[As Shinnosuke peers over into the grave, he frowns at the smell, but he does look inside the coffin, and:]

... Please tell me there aren't decayed skeletons that resemble us for everyone buried here.

Would you really be surprised at this point?

No. I'd say that the people behind this seriously need to get a hobby, but that'd also be unsurprising.

It's as sick a joke as everything else around here—starting to wonder if anything screwy can be surprising now.

Probably not. If anything, this should just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of how messed up they can get. We've only just started, after all.

Can't say it doesn't set the tone for what exciting things we have to look forward to.

[fuck this place already, pretty much.]

Better hope everyone has a strong stomach. They're all going to have to get used to the smell of corpses, looks like.

Might be a good time to invest in nose plugs, if there are any around here.

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[Also peering over his shoulder, hello.]

What are the chances that's a lot of why they brought us here? [He's visibly disturbed, but at least he sounds level enough.] Too much of a coincidence.

In other words... they got a bunch of skeletons and abducted us specifically because we resemble them, or somewhere along those lines? I'm a shitty guy, and even that's pretty weird by my standards.

And you don't think a killing game for someone's entertainment run by a robot named Hal is weird at all? [Really?] Weird seems to be the name of the game here.

[He shrugs.]

I wouldn't name the robot Hal, but otherwise, that stuff isn't too weird to me.

But I guess if I think about it, that makes this pretty normal too.

[...that's fair. But where in the fuck are you from that this is normal Shinnosuke???]

I wouldn't name the robot Hal either but that's not the point. Somebody went through the effort of finding a double of that girl and maybe doubles of us. Or we're the doubles? I don't know. Too bad we can't figure out how long she's been buried.

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[Jason looks uncomfortable for a moment, but— he nods.]

There are. I can... sorta confirm it.

Great. [...] And while we're at it, has anyone seen Rin Tohsaka?

No. Not today.

[Which is concerning given the current state of affairs.]

But the corpse in that coffin doesn't belong to her. So we know she's not buried here, if anywhere.

Yeah... Well, unless we've got some kind of weird time thing going on here, but if we're going down that route, we'll be coming up with theories all day and get nowhere.