WEEK ONE, SATURDAY

[killerwaves]

INVESTIGATION(?)

Exciting night, no? Were you able to get to sleep, or did you stay up into the wee hours, seeing that far-off shimmer near the gazebos and listening to the rising rumble of whatever-that-is and wondering when it would come for you?

At least, when dawn finally comes and the shimmer is overcome by the rising light of the sun, it seems that last night wasn't the end. For you.

Instead, once it's morning proper, there's a shift -- like the breeze and the smell after a bout of sudden summer thunderstorm without the storm: the pressure and the oppressive atmosphere of yesterday is gone, just like that. But also: accompanying it a few seconds later is a clean whipcrack of sound, like giant hands clapping together. And a moment after that, you'll feel something pass overhead -- you won't be able to see anything, but anyone outside at the time will find themselves staggered by what seems to be a small shockwave spreading throughout the island.

That's not the only change that awaits you this morning, however.

You might want to get out of bed, if you haven't already, and take a proper look around.

(( OOC: Welcome to our peace week Saturday event, islanders! Please note that this will be run similarly to a normal investigation, but will not be a full investigation. As such, everyone is welcome to explore for the first part of the event, and then we will take a limited amount of people for the second half, investigation-style. ))

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GARDEN INVESTIGATION

[ho_ohs]

[gluttoning]

[Following the blood smell with Alice and Billy, zoom zoom, here we go.]

...Mn. You could smell this from the other side of the resort.

[Unless one of the others stops him, he's leaning down to take a look at the body, specifically what's going on with the blood. Is there an obvious wound, or did Merlin get slam-dunked into the ground?]

[killerwaves]

[There's plenty of blood to go around!

Blood around the body, blood behind the body where he's leaning, blood on his front and in his hair...

Strangely, though, his clothes don't look as torn up as they should be for the amount of blood.]

now in the right place

[gluttoning]

[...

I

hate this but

Beel's taking a sample of the blood on the ground and putting it into his mouth. Can he still pick up the incubus mix from earlier?]

[killerwaves]

[Put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen, for Beel eating evidence right out the gate. But honestly he's valid. Kind of. There's a body right there, why would you take it off the ground--

That said, the blood tastes the same as earlier. All incubus, baby.]

[gluttoning]

[Just piping up before Billy smacks him:]

It's his blood. Tastes the same as it smells.

A lot of it, though.

[He's gonna let Billy take over on the actual body, but let's take a look around the point of impact. Is there any blood trailing across the ground? On the foliage? Or is it all contained to the body itself?]

[killerwaves]

[There's definitely blood around Merlin -- there's blood in the crater next to him, on the ground and foliage around him... it's quite a mess!

You'll notice, though, that the blood next to him makes odd patterns on the ground. More specifically, some of it looks oddly ring-like; the pattern is concentrated mostly around Merlin himself, though it trails down partway into the crater.]

[gluttoning]

[Huh.

Ring-like as in a donut shape with a cleared hole in the middle?

Does it match the holes Billy just found on Merlin's back? Or are the patterns completely different?]

[butcherspice]

[He was gonna say something to that effect, but then Beel says that he can't help but be mildly amused.]

Regular bloodhound, aren't ya?

[gluttoning]

Scent is important.

[His brow creases slightly.]

Don't call me a dog again, though.

[butcherspice]

[Of course Billy's gonna take a look at a dead body, might as well see what the freaks around here are capable of.]

Straight-up reeks, does he? Someone did a number on the poor sod alright.

[Well, he's gonna start by inspecting Merlin himself. What happened to wizard man?]

[killerwaves]

[It's kind of hard to tell, given he's sitting against something and also leaning over, but somebody definitely went to town on him if you judge just by the amount of blood on him and the surroundings.

That said, Beelzebub's got the blood part.

Billy will notice that there are no wounds on Merlin's front. Odd.]

[butcherspice]

[Now, ain't that a pickle. How about head wounds since there's blood in his hair?]

[killerwaves]

[There are no head wounds!

More specifically about the blood in his hair, it's because his hair is so long (it goes below his waist), and so the blood from his torso also hit his hair.]

[butcherspice]

[Okie-doke, gotcha! Given there's nothing in the front, Billy is gonna turn Merlin around to see if there's anything on his back. Obviously this isn't a normal murder but on the off chance--]

[killerwaves]

[Glad you asked!

Merlin's back is full of holes. Assuming you moved his hair aside. Several of them are concentrated around where the chest area would be on the front, but there's odd ones scattered over the lower torso, too.

His clothing here is also more consistent with the wounds, with the holes in the back of his robe matching the holes in his person. There's some stray glass, presumably from the statue(s).]

[butcherspice]

[Bingo!]

Well, someone here made a kebab out of ya, didn't they, mate?

[He's casually talking to the corpse. So normal. Anyway, about how wide are these holes and are they all around the same width?]

[conceivesfrenzy]

Hmm. Wouldn't have been my first choice.

[ She just kinda ignores Merlin for right now, looking at the rest of the garden. I see in the Great Body Hunt it's pretty messed up, but just to reiterate for easy access, what's going going on here at first glance as she looks around? ]

[killerwaves]

[There's that pesky small crater next to Merlin, of course -- it's not too much bigger than Merlin himself, but looks like it was made with some amount of force, and there's what looks like a fault line leading towards it from closer to the garden entrance.

Most of the destruction is in this localized area, statues, foliage and all.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ i now have the image of merlin doing the yamcha death pose in the crater........ sublime.

There's nothing in the crater right now, is there? Or laying around in the rubble nearby? ]

[killerwaves]

[SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT. I am a serious modship conducting a serious murder investigation(?).

The crater is indeed empty at the moment!

As for elsewhere, some of the statues are intact, but many are in two or more pieces. It looks a lot like their bases gave out.

Possibly more importantly, there's something moving behind one of them.]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ bless. all hail our fyre mod \o/

Is there any kind of indication of whether the statues were shifted due to whatever assumedly-earthquake-based activities were going on here? Or it was knocked into?

................ she looks at where the movement came from warily, adjusting the grip on her crop as she slowly moves around to get hopefully a better look and see what it is. ]

Hello?

[killerwaves]

[It seems like most of the statues knocked over were near the fault line and disturbed earth.

But, again more importantly, when Alice tries calling out--

Something small, white and fluffy comes speeding out from its hiding place in a blur. It moves so fast that that's about all she can see before it leaps up, bounces off the top of her head, and books it out of the garden like it's on fire.

Can you really blame it, though?]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE –

She lets out the highest pitch yelp as Fou jumps her, wildly swinging her crop and easily missing as it uses her head like a springboard. ]

HEY –

[ She whirls around, immediately having forgotten about what she was doing and tunneling on that white little fuck. rip to merlin and all that but now it's personal. ]

Get back here, you little twerp!

[ fyre i'm so sorry she's going after him. is fou just gone or is there actually a point to trying to follow him. ]

AREA CLEAR

[killerwaves]

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