[CONTINUE] week 1 || act: investigate

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[Everything is still, silent, and dark - just like it should be.

Thursday comes, and there is no angry captain waking you up, no crowd of people.

But there is still, undeniably...

a feeling of foreboding.

You know what this is.

One of your own...has perished.

At the hands of one of you.]

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PATH UNDER THE WATERFALL

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PATH LEADING TO THE WATERFALL PATH

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[finalring]

[ nothing like being under the waterfall when you're an anxious mess ]

[white_camellia]

[Let's check out the path to the path first, yes.]

[cw_suicide]

[yeah, sure. why not.

needs more caffeine tho]

[lovecolored]

[ Marisa's going on some morning plant gathering trips today, so she heads out this way.

Oh, and someone is probably dead, she guesses. ]

Mornin'.

[foundationmods]

[Well.

The first thing they're going to see...Is someone lying face down on the path, in the mud.

...]

[foundationmods]

[Well, There are some footsteps here in the mud leading up to it.

Two sets, actually.]

[finalring]

Morni-- [ oh no ] Dammit...

[ well shit. he'll walk closer to it, seeing if he can recognize them without...well, turning them over yet.

but if he can't, he'll do his best to turn the corpse over, calling marisa for help. ]

[white_camellia]

[Okay, well, this is probably where the detective comes in.]

Two sets of footsteps in the mud...

[For the time being, Nanaka will be on camera duty.]

[lovecolored]

...ah, shit.

[ She scurries over as well.

Who deda? ]

[cw_suicide]

[..... oh this is not something he likes went caffeine deprived.

HEAVY SIGH as he crouches down to investigate. size of feets? types of shoes? anything else in the mud like blood? or additional marks?]

[foundationmods]

[...Well.

As they get closer, it's easy to tell who it is. After all, that black hair of his is hard to mistake on anyone else - and even with mud, it's hard to miss those petoskey-patterned eyes, staring blankly to the side.

His mask is on his hip, and a white-yellow heart floats in the air, just above his body, which isn't punctured or bleeding at all. One could almost believe he was sleeping, if not for the SOUL...and for the lack of breath.

Ren Amamiya is dead.

[finalring]

....

[ solomon stays silent as he turns over ren's corpse. he doesn't really know what to say besides silently mourn him.

all he can do is hope that he'll be back with them in the next loop.

deep breaths. he's got this. ]

We need to gather as much evidence as we can. [ ... ] I can stay with the body, if it makes you too uncomfortable.

[foundationmods]

[Well, One set clearly belongs to Ren - it goes to the path, but doesn't come back.

The other set Is much larger, clearly belonging to one of the adult males here. By the stride, it looks like it'd be someone who's close to his height. It goes to the path and then comes back, towards Snowdin.

There's no other traces of anything like blood...just the footprints.]

[lovecolored]

[ ............ ]

Ren...goddammit...

[ Marisa pinches the bridge of her nose and takes a deep breath.

It'll be fine. He'll be back when the week starts over, right? ]

...I'm okay. I'll help look at whatever needs lookin' at

[cw_suicide]

[oh.

really. really does not like this.]

... victim's just ahead, judging by how tracks go forward and not back.

Other prints are male, large. Near my height.

[DISLIKE ALL OF THIS.

but getting out of the way so Nanaka can get pictures

and then he's going to back track a bit to see if the other footprints do anything suspicious]

[finalring]

I think we should take his SOUL...and check to see if there's anything around here like footprints. [ okay! well since we're at it, we're going to check the general state of the corpse. broken bones? possible cause of death? ]

[white_camellia]

[Yeah, she will take the photos, record Dazai's observations, and then check the rest of the path as a whole to see if anything else seems out of place.]

[foundationmods]

[Funny you mention broken bones - there's the normal Rigor Mortis, but there's also some things that will immediately stick out.

His right wrist is broken, along with his left forearm. Moving his legs will reveal his left knee is also broken. Finally, when moving his head, his neck is also broken, Ren's head wobbling in a way that suggests clavicle dislodgement and spinal cord severage.]

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[They don't - They just keep walking back towards the inn in Snowdin. Calmly, without rushing - like the person doing it was walking.

And, well. Dazai should know why they were walking.

However, as he's doing that, he might notice a glimmer of something in the walls that isn't the stars or part of the normal glow of the area.]

[finalring]

He didn't go quietly. Whoever killed him had to fight him until they had a chance to snap his neck. From then, they threw him. That's what I believe right now. [ wow! he sure didn't want to remember how much he hated doing body checks.

can he tell time of death from the rigor mortis? and, aside from that, are there any bruise shapes that can be distinguished? ]

So perhaps the "culprit" will have some injuries on themselves as well.

[cw_suicide]

[... should he know that?!

but time to investigate the glimmer on the walls. what so shiny???]

[white_camellia]

[Something in the walls, you say? Maybe I can actually be useful for once, then. First, a photo, then, let's check what that something is.]

[foundationmods]

[The thing that's glimmering is a bit high up - you might need a boost to properly see it, considering the lack of powers going on rn.]