WEEK 6 - INVESTIGATION

[petoskeymods]

INVESTIGATION

As you wake up, nothing seems different - beyond that you don't have other emotions crowding into you like they have all week. 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: 13 PIECES
CAMPERS REMAINING: ???

Comments

[linearcrash]

I'm... not even sure if it'll work, yo.

[ He can't...talk about Phantoma, the research, or that they are collecting it. It's classified, and he still can't go against Mother. Crossing his arms as he frowns. So he has to...think of a way around that. ]

[soylentprotag]

I think we could use all the ideas we can get now. Two weeks left, Nine.

[Two weeks of this mysterious time limit that they've been teased with since the first week, and which is looming more and more ominously. What had seemed an interminable and bloody slog through murder and sorrow and terrible routine week after week now feels like... running out of time.

What will happen, once this ends?

They need some way of controlling that. Some way of reaching a resolution they can all accept.]

[linearcrash]

I might be able to store them.

[ Nine then makes a dagger appear in his hand. And then makes it disappear to show what he means by storing. ]

Just to help get them from one place to another...

[soylentprotag]

[Oh, so that's where he got the pens from that one time. And his spear. And a whole host of other things... Lenka wants convenient storage too, honestly, he has to carry so many items around on a regular basis. But. That's not the point here.]

... That's handy. Ichigo might have something like it... You could talk to him.

[Between the two of them, Nine's hammerspace and Ichigo's soul expertise, maybe they'd be able to work something out.]

[linearcrash]

[ Nine kind of ducks his head at that. ]

Yeah, I could see what he thinks.

[soylentprotag]

[There's a minor quirk of his brow when Nine ducks his head down, but Lenka doesn't pursue it; there's a guess or two he could make after yesterday's meeting and none of them are precisely related to what they're trying to do.]

Let me know if you find anything out. Or if you guys need help.

[How he could help with souls he has no idea. But well, he's still going to offer.]

[linearcrash]

You'll be the first to know. [ A pause. ] Or second if you count Ichigo?

[ And whenever the hell he actually figures out when they could talk about the thing... ]

[soylentprotag]

... As long as I know.

[He sounds a little wry about it. The order of operations actually isn't important; it's really just the result that they need to see, some way out.

He's quiet after that, letting the stillness of the chapel soak in and closing his eyes. Trying not to breathe in too much, because it's, uh, really starting to smell. He'll pay his respects for a little longer, but he might have to peace out if it gets worse.]

[linearcrash]

[ Are you saying Floe smells?

Nine just reaches over to put a hand on his shoulder to give it a squeeze. Then he'll hum a song. It's dumb, but he's kind of hoping Floe can hear it. ]

[soylentprotag]

[There's definitely an unfloertunate corpse smell going on here, them's just the facts.

His eyes open briefly at the squeeze and he tilts his head over to listen to the song -- apart from the Wii and and the coralfam there really hasn't been a great deal of music in the camp, but that means he remembers the little bits there are, things that people probably brought from their own worlds.

If Floe can't hear it, at least Sol likely can. Considering the mess on the altar, it might help.]

[linearcrash]

[ The words Ace would sing over and over pop up into his head as he hums. He'll repeat the verse a couple of times, the one line hitting him like it does for Ace. Become the light that guides the way.

Nine stands up, turning to look at the altar and Floe. ]

I'm leaving her in your care for a short time. Then we'll take her back, yo.

[ Holding out his hand for Lenka. Come on, let's go. ]