WEEK 3 INVESTIGATION

[killerwaves]

INVESTIGATION

Good morning, sunshines, sungems, and wild partiers of the night! No matter what kind of night you had, you'll find yourself awakening to an energetic tune blasting out from the island speaker system, one that more than a few of you will recognize -- you won't be able to escape it, but why would you want to?

Music is a great way to start your day, and surely, this is a great omen for Fridays at this resort. There's at least one reason to get up dancing, as the wings of the warp phenomenon have vanished with the morning mist and the sea breeze; Kingfisher's Retreat boasts a beautiful, uninterrupted waterfall that reflects the morning sun once more, and the waves at Sungem's Peak are largely peaceful. Even the customary burst of sound and pressure was a little mollified by the addition of the new soundtrack. You know what that means by now, but hopefully the music will add a pep in your step.

(( OOC: Welcome to your second investigation, we hope everyone is enjoying their DD refreshes ☆ ))

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MAIN RESORT: BEACH

[killerwaves]

[ Just to be clear since we have a lot of beaches/shoreline, it's the swimmable beach by the main resort. ]

[chosenwang]

[ Time to sacrifice Wang Lu to whatever it happening here. Is there anything that jumps out besides the Frenchman here? ]

[killerwaves]

[ No jumpscares, except...

Well. There definitely is something going on with the sand that's immediately noticeable. Something which appears to be pockets of missing sand that looks like it's been tossed around due to some kind of activity that results in these pockets being about 10-30 feet wide.

Alongside a haphazard spilling of blood. There's other things around here that are nearby, but suffice to say, Wang Lu has hit the jackpot! ]

[chosenwang]

[ He's going to take pictures of the pockets of missing sand. Where is all the sand?

Is the spilling of blood like someone had a cup full of it and spilled it on their way to do whatever beach crimes they did? Or like it came from a wound? How big is the spilling of blood? He is taking a pic of this as well.

Time to go check out the other things nearby. Wonder wonder whats in the wonder beachball ]

[killerwaves]

[ Where in the world is Carmen (Sand)iego—

Anyways. The spilling of blood is about...well, it looks like a haphazard spill of some kind. Almost somewhere between the former and the second due to how unusual it appears (uneven, haphazard, and the complete opposite of uniform.)

It's about somewhere towards a moderate to small level of spilling, but nothing too large.

The other noteworthy assortment of 'things', are these...strange impressions in the sand. As if clearly there was a lot of activity due to feeties moving through this patch of sand. It's difficult to judge any defined footsies or anything like that, given it will be immediately noticeable that these marks from someone's feet are overlapped with another's. ]

[chosenwang]

[ Best part of waking up is spilling blood from schrodinger's cup

Can't believe the mods want a feet check. He's going to compare the impression with his own in the sand to see how they look in comparison. Does it look like a smaller, about the same, or larger impression? Then he'll walk into his own indent to see how that looks. Might not be accurate, but it doesn't hurt to try.

Where do these impressions lead anyways ]

[killerwaves]

[ Yum~

Unlike the other case, this foot check will be inconclusive. It may be due to all the overlapping footies making it too difficult to judge for an adequate size comparison. Alas, but he did try!

The impressions' trail is a little difficult to discern, probably also due to the destruction and madness, but there is a general idea of "someone came through here with someone else and there was a lot of hurried movement by more than one person".

But the small path of destruction with the pockets of missing sand do seem to paint a picture of a lead of movement towards Seagull's Playground, via the bridge nearby. ]

[chosenwang]

[ These feet crimes.

He will walk by them to check if anything was dropped in them or by them. ]

[killerwaves]

[ There appears to be nada dropped into these holes! Or by them, for that matter. ]

[chosenwang]

[ Why can't the killers ever drop a note that says who they are?

Okay, he's going to peek over at Mags and then look around to see if there's anything more. Anything sparkling? Mystery not quite goop? ]

[killerwaves]

[ That's a good question.

Looking over at Mags and in the general area does not get him anything else, either! ]

[chosenwang]

[ Time to walk closer to the water just to be sure there wasn't something chucked into the waves. ]

[killerwaves]

[ Fortunately, there will be nothing having been chucked into the waves! ]

[microtransactions]

[ anyway, after his cursory initial looking up and down the beach yeah sure let's go uh, investigate closer to give lacus and lobelia their space! prompted by wang lu.

so is the missing sand from the sand holes just gone? no apparent mounds or piles or anything in the immediate area if they check the tree or shoreline? the mod comment states how wide they are but what about depth, i.e. how much sand is being thrown around here?

does the blood appear to make any particular trail? ]

[killerwaves]

[ The missing sand is just gone. Gonerio. Sayonara! Magolor will not find it no matter how hard he tries.

In addition, the depth of these holes are 3-5 feet deep!

The blood does not make a particular trail, given its uneven spillage and placement. ]

[microtransactions]

[ dang that's a lot of sand just gonezos. weird...

wang lu has determined the feeties apparently head in the general direction of seagull's playground, which coincidentally matches the general mcfuckery along the shoreline; can magolor backtrace the other end back and see about where the mess started? the main resort maybe? if he approaches the... treeline? greenline? does anything become more apparent as he heads that way?

also more clarifying qs, there any particular pattern to how the sand holes are distributed, or do they appear scattered around at random? are they scattered across the entire length of the island stretching around because whew that sure is a long path for them to have taken considering it doesn't look like they cut through the middle of sungem? and how clean are the edges of these pockets anyway; is it a gentle slope down into the hole or is it like, jarringly abrupt and stuff? ]

[killerwaves]

[ It's a little hard to discern where the mess begins and ends, just due to the grand scale of it. Though, honestly speaking, that might also be because this isn't the only place where the mess is happening.

The treeline towards the main resort is also not affected.

For the sandy unholey mess, Magolor can find this upon closer observation:

The sand holes are almost seemingly random in placement, though they're relatively close-by the feeties as well. In addition, the holes are going to be definitely clean. Perhaps as a result of the missing sand. They don't look like a gentle slope either; rather, more jarring in how they slope down. Definitely more abrupt. ]

[microtransactions]

[ then they're definitely chalking this one up to funky power usage, huh? to be clear: there's blood haphazardly spilled here and there in no discernable trail, the majority of which wang lu has/is checking out, but there's nothing in the holes themselves other than a conspicuous lack of sand? no random blood or bits of gore or anything?

given ibuki's dead goose and a toppled palm tree elsewhere, is there, uh, any other disturbed flora or fauna at any point along the path magolor's taking around the island? and if he looks out into the waves there's nothing bobbing there, yeah? ]

clarification: sand

[killerwaves]

[ Just a small note that, oops, Magolor would have actually found a small pile of sand nearby (outside) of these holes, though that doesn't stop the appearance from being completely odd and unusual as described! Since there is a lot of sand in the beach, these holes are also noted to still contain sand within them despite their strange shape.

Nothing else will be found within these holes, or anything like that.

Main resort has no other disturbances along the other the flora or fauna on the main resort path. Seems the deda goose was the outlier! ]

[microtransactions]

[ oh yeah i didn't mean Nothing nothing, just like, that there was a conspicuous lack of sand where (more) sand should be, hence the holes existing. words are hard.

anyway sighs and takes pictures of these holes and sand piles like a tourist before making his way back to wang lu and the blood splatters

while he was taking a closer look at the holes did any indication of what might have made them stick out. is the sand slightly wet/clumping together, are there bits of melted 'glass', does it swirl in a circle or something, idk. ]

[finalmix]

[ probably shows up halfway through impromptu photo session with starbucks coffee from the book cafe ]

Huh. Those look like the ones on the bridge.

[microtransactions]

It goes all the way around the beach here. I'd ask if you think there'll be more of the same on the other island, but we can both probably guess the answer to that.

They really did a number on things, didn't they?

[finalmix]

No point in stating the obvious~

Wonder how they took out the roof, though.

[ because that roof sure is missing???? ]

[microtransactions]

I'm wondering where most of the stuff went, honestly.

[ roof. sand. 90% of the bridge chunks. ]

[killerwaves]

[ Magolor peers at the sand, trying to discern more of its sekrets.

Unfortunately there's nothing else he can discern about the sand holes here. There are no melted glasses, and nothing more telling about the shape. ]