WEEK 4 INVESTIGATION

[killerwaves]

INVESTIGATION

Did you enjoy your musical serenade last week? Depending on where you find yourself this bright and sunny morning, you might be getting an encore of a different sort, in the theater.

Are you having the time of your life? Someone is, or more accurately, was if the trend from the last weeks hold. There's not even any extraneous noise to interrupt the musical marathon; the snap and pressure release of past weeks is notably absent, so maybe it's not the time to continue the party scene yet... Those on Dodo will be able to spot the warping haze stretched past the aquarium and almost to the theater by the time they make it outside, while those on Sungem and Seagull will also be able to spot the phenomenon encroaching on the shore from the ocean. Hm.

"Anybody could be that guy ♫"

(( OOC: Welcome to your third investigation, stay hydrated and refreshed ☆ ))

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[killerwaves]

[Shuda is also at the beach, but he's up and moving, so Alice is free of a third body this week. ☆

There's a decent area of disturbed sand which is also kind of glittery due to some sundry glass shards lying there. That's not the only thing that glitters, though! If Alice is looking around the beach, she'll also spot something shiny down by the water.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ Oh thank God. No one should have to deal with that if that happens.

Let's actually start with the shiny down by the water. If she needs to dig anything up she'll do it, but what're we looking at, here? ]

[killerwaves]

[As she heads down to the water, she'll notice a trail of drag marks going down the beach through the sand and into the waves. Once she arrives by the waterline, she'll be able to see bits and flecks of metal that washed up.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ Do the drag marks look like they go into the ocean, or do they stop by the shoreline? How big are they?

And as for the metal, what color are they? I assume they're too small to be reliably places as to their origin, but just in case, could she tell where it's from? ]

[killerwaves]

[The drag marks go down into the ocean, and they're not super big.

The bits of metal are a mix between gray and gold, and are too small to be able to tell the origin. If she's eyeballing them real hard, though, she might also notice some black scraps buried in the sand with them.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ Like, Kallamar big?

Fun! Would she be able to tell if its all the same metal painted differently?

Otherwise, she'll move back and go to the disturbed sand. How's it disturbed? Where are the glass shards in relation to it? ]

[killerwaves]

[It could conceivably be Kallamar-sized from a quick eyeballing, yes.

They're a bit small, but since it came up in Baizhu's thread they're different metals.

The messed up sand connects to the drag marks and mostly just looks like there was a lot happening in this area, with dips and pockmarks and whatnot. Most of the glass is near all of this too. There's also small patches of darker sand just visible here and there.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ Darker sand like it's wet, right? Is there water coming up from underneath the base layer of sand? ]

[killerwaves]

[It's not quite wet; it looks more like something dark stuck the sand together in droplet-looking patches.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ sighs.

Can she tell what it is by picking a chunk of it up and sniffing it. ]

[killerwaves]

[





It smells like fish and iron.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ aaaaaaaand she's immediately flinging it off. ]

Ew! Gross!

[ why is her life like this. anyway she's now given up on that and gone to the glass. how big are the shards? how thick are the shards? is it just busted sugar again – ]

[killerwaves]

[They're relatively small pieces -- would be easy to miss were it not for the sunlight reflecting off of them. It's pretty thick glass.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ Cool. Is there any kind of trail that the nasty iron fish goo follows? Or is it just kind of overlapping with the drag marks?

And if she combs around the beach a little further out, is there anything else that she'd notice? ]

[killerwaves]

[There's not really any trail! It's mostly overlapping with all the disturbed sand and the broken glass.

The rest of the beach seems to be undisturbed.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ gross, now she's gotta see how much of this fish smell she can clean off her before trial – ]

[killerwaves]

[To be fair, it was a pretty small piece! Just wash your hands, Alice.]