WEEK 5 - INVESTIGATION

[petoskeymods]

INVESTIGATION

As you wake up, nothing seems different - beyond that you don't seem quite as worried about your secrets being exposed anymore. And that, just like all the times before, means only one thing -

- that one of your fellow campers have committed murder.

Someone is dead. It's up to you to find out who...and to gather evidence for it.

BASE EVIDENCE: 10 PIECES
CAMPERS REMAINING: ???


((We ask that you remain in groups of 2-3! As per usual.))

Comments

[petoskeymods]

[Well. The moment the freezer door is open, blonde hairspills out, with frozen blood chunks caught in the hair.

The head sitting in there stares at them with glazed over blue eyes, sitting in a puddle of her own frozen blood.

Usagi Tsukino is dead.]

[homeecspacecop]

[Chuuta yelps in surprise, stepping back.]

[That's the girl from our cabin.]

Th-that's her head!

[itsagazebo]

[... No... No... No...


Eddie can't think. He's staring right into the dead eyes of someone he considered a friend, someone he trusted... He chokes for a moment as his brain catches up with what he's seeing. Then he just screams, loud enough for most of the camp to hear.]

[trashmouthtozier]

[when the hair starts cascading out of the open freezer door, Richie is too confused to react. the bloody ice chunks, the glassy blue stare ... all of it is the sort of thing that ... really doesn't mesh with reality. you don't open a freezer and see the head of someone you were painting a shack with.

you just don't.

it's not real.

he swallows, and turns to Eddie. his voice is small, but calm, in the way that suggests the calm is thin ice waiting to be broken

Whatever you guys are seeing, it's okay. It's ... it's just another hallucination. Because there's no way what I'M seeing is real, right now.

[homeecspacecop]

[Drew sees it too.]

[If possible, move the witnesses away from the scene so they can calm down.

Chuuta grabs both of the other boys by the hands and steps back. His hands are shaking.]

Look at me. Let's go over here, okay?

Hey, Drew? Running stitch. [And Drew shoots out a beam of that glowing blue energy to sew the freezer door closed.]

[itsagazebo]

[Eddie shakes his head, his breathing erratic]

No, that... we wouldn't all fucking hallucinate at the same time. She's dead. She's fucking dead and someone cut off her fucking head and stuck it in the freezer like some psychotic fuck!

[He yanks his hands free and just points at the freezer]

So unless you saw something other than Usagi's fucking head in that freezer IT WAS NOT A FUCKING HALLUCINATION!!

[trashmouthtozier]

[a strangled, high whimper escapes Richie's mouth, and he backs away from the freezer, shaking like a leaf. he whispers:]

I didn't even get to throw her that party.

[and then ... he just faints. because he's the one that opened the freezer and came face to face with the Usagisicle. he can't cope with that, right now.]

[itsagazebo]

Richie!

[He lunges forward to grab Richie before he hits the floor, ending up landing hard on his knees with Richie in his lap. His eyes are wide]

Rich! Hey, Richie!

[He lightly taps Richie on the cheek. He's always the one on the ground, he doesn't know what the fuck to do to help someone who fainted!!]

[homeecspacecop]

Help him, okay? [If Eddie's helping Richie, he isn't going to be looking at the head.

So that means Chuuta can step forward and open that freezer door again. He's not flinging it wide open, just enough to see in and confirm that the head is still there. Then he'll be... looking at the head to see what he can see. Please don't make him touch it.]

[itsagazebo]

[Eddie grabs a towel that was conveniently hanging out nearby and tucks it under Richie's head before standing up.]

Chuuta... I... I don't think you should be the one to look at it.

[He swallows hard, stepping forward. He has to be brave... for Usagi.]

Let me see.

[petoskeymods]

[The head is very, very frozen, but there's also strange marks around the base of her neck stump.

Not much else besides that.]

[linearcrash]

[ S'up. Nine heard screaming, and after seeing the body... well he had a feeling. ]

Uh. Have you guys seen a head in here?

[itsagazebo]

[The group staring at the freezer should be a good hint that there's something going on...]

[homeecspacecop]

It's okay. You don't have to look. I... I can handle it. I have to be able to look at a crime scene.

[And... touch a body too.

And then Mitsuru (distrust) and Nine are here.

To Nine:]

Yeah, we found... a head. Um, can you get me a pair of gloves from the shelf?

[itsagazebo]

Chuuta... [He steps forward] You had paint on your trunk. The paint she was using. That makes you a suspect, asshole. Suspects shouldn't be doing the investigating.

[linearcrash]

That's bullshit.

[ About Chuuta being a suspect. He goes to grab the gloves. ]

Drew would have made sure they didn't leave paint all over if they did it, right?

[ He's handing the gloves over to Chuuta. ] I can take the head to the body... there's marks on there I need to see, yo.

[itsagazebo]

So fucking what?! Every single time someone's died there's been a bunch of people saying "oh they couldn't have done it!" Well what if he fucking did! I don't think he should touch anything til we know he didn't do it.

[He's going to try to snatch those gloves]

If you need someone to help... I... I will...

[killtheanimals]

Paint? We found some slumped against the shack.

...around Tsukino's height, if my calculations are correct.

[Hm.]

I can check the corpse. We need to get it defrosted?

[Tricky when one lacks fire spells, but he'll take a look around for a spatula and telekinesis it over with a crook of his finger.]

[trashmouthtozier]

[speaking of defrosting, Richie chooses this moment to wake up and see a spatula floating over his head]

Hi, spatula.

[he rubs at the back of his head - wtf towel? - and sits up, disoriented. one glance at the open freezer door is enough to remind him where he is, and he launches himself up off the floor, wobbly on his feet, stumbling toward Chuuta with his teeth bared]

FOR THE THIRD TIME TODAY, CHUUTA, WHAT THE FUCK!!!

[homeecspacecop]

But I... [Nobody cares. Nobody would believe him. No one ever does.

When Nine offers him the gloves, Chuuta doesn't take them. He just steps back. Richie yells at him, and he doesn't say anything.]

[linearcrash]

[ He huffs out a breath in response to Eddie, and lets him take the gloves. ]

I can use fire, yo.

[ And then Richie is awake. Nine is moving to step between immediately. ]

Stop it. Throwing accusations is going to do shit right now.

[killtheanimals]

We need to focus on the investigation if we're going to take this seriously.

[Come on...]

Can you use fire... gently? We can't risk ruining this.

[trashmouthtozier]

[killtheanimals]

[The scream is a good sign because it means Eddie is still alive. Seeing Richie on the floor is alarming until he realized the boy is simply fainted, at which point he nods and heads into the kitchen.]

What happened?

[itsagazebo]

[Eddie turns to look at Mitsuru]

Usagi... Usagi's head is [He swallows, trying SO hard to hold it together] in the freezer...