Fifth Investigation

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[Good morning, Champions. Nothing seems immediately amiss this morning. No explosions or screaming or anything to that effect, so it's already better than last week. Maybe PAL was full of shit after all. Possibly.

Might should take a look around anyway, though. Just in case.

>Investigate?]

Comments

[daughterofthemark]

[First thing in the morning, Arianna pays a visit to the memorial in Room 4. When she went to bed last night, it was purely a memorial, with no actual dead bodies present. Is that still true?]

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[The entire bedroom area is all clear of bodies.]

[shikosuki]

[ Choromatsu is also heading to room 4, still anxious about the motive. Please don’t let there be any bodies. ]

[tokencanadian]

[She really does hope PAL was full of shit. Otherwise, what was she going to tell Arianna?

Welp. Time to head to the restaurant for breakfast.]

[airlockedmods]

[Well, Pyrrha will notice that somebody already beat her there, since it looks like there's someone sitting at one of the tables. I'm sure they're just taking advantage of the fact that no one has explicitly forbidden the Champions from napping in non-bedroom places outside of the VR yet.]

[myocordial]

[Let's pay a visit to the chapel. How are we doing there?]

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[Clear!]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Yeah, no, Junpei's expressly on a body hunt, Ruri at his feet. Anything in the VR room, first?]

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[Clear!]

[induality]

[Out of room 1, Fukawa is heading to the restaurant...]

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[Well...]

[kingshaming]

[It's the first Friday where Xander hasn't been woken by a body in some time. And yet somehow he feels more dread then ever before.

So he heads towards the Information Desk, so he can see anyone running towards a disaster as soon as possible, or use the PA system if needed]

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[Clear!]

Investigation Start

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Attention, Champions. The Champion Patriarch's body has been found. When the period of investigation is over, I will turn on the requisite elevator to take you to your trial room.

CASE FILE

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[The Case File will be loaded onto each Champion’s PIP to examine.]


Victim: Ardyn Lucis Caelum Tenmyouji Wakasa Church of Caeldonia

Location of body: Restaurant

Estimated time of death: 12:15 AM

Cause of death: Overdose

Wound diagram.

Clue Count

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Total Clues: 16/16

Restaurant: 8/8
- Someone made a mess
- Do you want spants? Cause this is how you get spants.
- Broken ceramic
- He's resting
- blue, the most human color
- [sad beeping]
- Tea for two and two for tea
- Knocked over chair


Restaurant Kitchen: 5/5
- CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSE- oh wait, you did
- Tea time!
- in another universe these icings would be on opposite ends of the kitchen
- What do you have?
- [owl voice] drugs?

VIP Lounge: 3/3
- trash cookies! the best kind!
- ♥
- Broken plate

paging the good girl

[kingshaming]

[Xander hears the news over the PA, and makes no move to investigate: the others have this covered and he would just be in the way.

...and he's not sure he's ready to see Ardyn's body yet. Let his loved ones have their time, he is not wanted there. So instead:]

SIS, may I speak with you?

[shikosuki]

[ He hears the commotion and the announcement and just... looks like he’s been struck across the face. Or by lightning.

He’s never been useful during the investigations even back in the Fantasy Sweet so he hangs back. Usually he’d go and try to cook something like Queenie would, but he doesn’t dare go anywhere near the kitchen now. Not when there’s another body of someone he cares about right there to see.

So instead he hangs back in room 4 this time, tidying up his brothers’ memorial and feeling sick to his stomach again over the guilty sense of relief he can’t deny having. ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[You know who's outie? This guy. Nope. No.

Absolutely not. He cannot be present for this investigation and watch people gather evidence and move Ardyn's achingly human body and looking and. He can't. And he knows it. So when his feet finally feel like they exist again and his legs possess the ability to move, he's gone out of the kitchen and back to room 7.

It's his now. Maybe he should suggest Junpei move in with him. So they don't have to be alone. He all but collapses into the pile of plushies moved into the corner and waits for the inevitable.]

Restaurant

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[There's a sad beeping undercutting the hysterical human reactions.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Ruri, attuned to this particular beeping, perhaps, responds with distressed beeping of her own and goes to seek the source.]

[everylittlesecret]

[As much as she really, really, reaaaaaaally doesn't want to do this, it's corpse touching time.

What stands out beside the lack of life?]

[tokencanadian]

[So hey!!!! this sucks. All she wanted was a little breakfast.

But as she was the one to find Ardyn, it feels wrong to just... leave. so.... Let's try and help investigate around him, shall we?]

Restaurant (Kitchen)

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[Perhaps where the wicked deed was conceived.]

[cyan_maid]

[Oh God yeah no we're just. Kitchen is the nearest place to back up and have a very, very shaky moment of oh God what the fuck, because it's happened again. It's happened, and it's Ardyn. And - and Jane liked him, he was easy to speak with and they were working together yesterday, they were going to fix Seb and get the hell out of here and he was so determined to save everyone living and dead, and

And Jane. Rubs her eyes and. Swallows hard. Tries not to cry. Because that's right - he wanted to save the living and the dead, because the dead could be saved. They could get Ardyn back, if the "afterlife" he's sent to is the same VR simulation the others are in. But they need to survive this first.

So. Alright, Mods, what the fuck is up in the kitchen? Jane was here yesterday morning, she should be able to tell if something is out of place.]

VIP Lounge

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[At least you have a place to grieve in #aesthetic.]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika freezes when she hears the announcement. She'd been going over it in her head -- there was no one leader, the three groups followed their own, and Ardyn-san by far had the most people willing to listen and form under his banner, so if someone really wanted to succeed...

She marches into the VIP lounge quickly to grab some things -- anything amiss right away?