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Fifth Investigation

[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?]

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[Coming to look over that shit. Couple of questions:

What kind of tea?

Is there anything left in the kettle?

What state is the jar of honey in?]

[A: Whatever kind Ardyn liked.

B: Nope.

C: Probably less than half full at this point, considering how long Ardyn inhabited this space.]

[Cripes, if the ~~oxy~~ unidentified drug didn't kill him, it'd be diabetes. Seriously.

So Jane's going to be a little odd and open up the kettle and sniff it. Does it smell like anything other than tea?]

[Nope!]

[Alright. Okay. Hm. Jane takes a moment to think about the other stuff that's on the counter - the other dishes and cookware. Honestly, for some reason, the baking sheet sticks out to her the most. After all, the tea stuff is out, too, and wasn't washed or put away. But this other stuff was?

Is there any indication besides the sheet, bowls, and measuring cups that someone might have baked something?]

[There's two icing tubes left out! Looks like strawberry and blueberry, yum?]

[Not really, considering there's a dead man in the other room. But icing tubes, huh...and two flavors. Could be for iced cookies to add extra sweetness. Jane takes a moment to double check the case files and uh

Hm.

Hm hm hm.

Yeah there is nothing in this kitchen she wants to put in her mouth right now so we're going to do a cursory look at the icing. Since you have a girl who knows how to bake, is there anything strange about the sight or smell of either icing?]

[If Jane squeezes a bit out of the tubes, she’ll find that both appear normal! Sweet as hell, but what the heck]

[She's sure they're sweet but again, not putting any damn thing in this kitchen in her mouth, she's not Sherlock Holmes.

Anything else of note in the kitchen?]

[Jane, you’re the only person in any murdergame ever with any sense.

Anyway, if you’re super familiar with this kitchen, and also just kinda how things work around here, it’s probably not super surprising that there’s a knife missing.]

...Oh, Jesus. Really? That too?

[Yeah she's familiar enough to notice that. Jane groans and rubs at one of her temples, already feeling a headache coming on.

Is there anyplace else she ought to look, or should she go find something to carry all this evidence around in? Shit sucks when you don't have a sylladex.]

[I’m gonna save us both and just tell you to hit up the trash.]

[Wow duh why did I not think of that.

Okay, what's in the trash?]

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Have you found something?

[Guess who apparently didn't think the dishes were significant?]

Someone left...a lot of dishes out. They cleaned them at least, but...they must have been left to dry after doing something last night.

Is... that unusual? If they'd been cooking late...

[look

she's trying]

Kind of. I mean, you could just wipe the dishes down and put them away, not let them dry overnight. And that tea kettle isn't clean, either - it still smells like tea.

That does seem odd.

[Surely nobody here is lazy enough to not only leave the dishes out, but stop washing them halfway through.

She pulls up the case file on her PIP. That sure is a wound on Ardyn's mouth. And... this is bringing back bad memories.]

Do you suppose he was poisoned?

...It says it was an overdose, right? So...likely with drugs, yes.

[It hurts to say that. Hurts that...she's not sure, and doesn't know, and there's all this crap in here that shouldn't be and wow it hits her that maybe this is incriminating? That people could suspect her? But even if they do - even if the others think she'd kill a man, she'd prove them wrong. Because it would get them all killed if they were wrong, and then no one would be saving anyone.

And Ardyn wouldn't want that.]

Like Sir Finn. And Dame Angel.

[Dammit.

...]

We'll be forced to have another trial, won't we? Even now that we aren't in that place anymore.

...It seems so.

[Ugh, this is just. This is all fucked up. Aaaaaaall fucked up.]

Arianna. Will you...help me carry some of these things with us there? For evidence. As much as I do not want anyone to put anything in this kitchen in their mouths, we might need some things, and I can't hold it all myself.

Of course.

[She was kind of expecting to help in the form of giving her a hug or something, but carrying stuff works too. Hell, it's a thing she's good at that she can still do here.]

What should we being? The kettle, perhaps one or two of the dishes...

The kettle for certain, and...the honey, you take those. I'll get mortar and pestle, and the icing bags...and the empty bottle in the garbage.

[The honey she includes because she legitimately isn't sure what could be poisoned, if an entire bottle of oxy was crushed up for this. It might be one thing. It might be multiple things. She's not exactly willing to experiment to find out.]