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week one: investigation
Week 1
investigation
Suddenly, consciousness sinks its icy grip into you and yanks you into the realm of wakefulness.
Disoriented, you rise to your feet. Put one in front of the other. Who were you with last night? Are they all with you? Do they still take breath? You can’t tell. Not yet, at least. Instead, you stumble into the next area, and perhaps you’re not alone, but there is one thing that you are innately aware of: something is wrong. So very, very wrong.
The sky has a faint discoloration to it, and if you peer too closely, you might notice how the air seems to be thrumming, pulsing with magic. You can almost taste it—and if you aren’t careful, may choke on it. It’s best to focus on the task at hand in front of you first.
Disoriented, you rise to your feet. Put one in front of the other. Who were you with last night? Are they all with you? Do they still take breath? You can’t tell. Not yet, at least. Instead, you stumble into the next area, and perhaps you’re not alone, but there is one thing that you are innately aware of: something is wrong. So very, very wrong.
The sky has a faint discoloration to it, and if you peer too closely, you might notice how the air seems to be thrumming, pulsing with magic. You can almost taste it—and if you aren’t careful, may choke on it. It’s best to focus on the task at hand in front of you first.
Welcome, Sacrifices, to your weekly investigation!
We will be posting top-levels for searchable locations—one set at 6PM EST and another set at 7PM EST. Each location will contain evidence to find, though it's up to your efforts as to whether you find all of it. Please coordinate investigation groups on Discord, as we ask that group threads consist of no more than 2-3 characters. We will stop tagging each top-level two hours after it went up, i.e. at 8PM and 9PM EST, respectively. Don't worry if you don't find everything! Characters will get the chance to revisit locations tomorrow at trial.
At 9PM EST, an announcement will go up, confirming the victim(s). If you have any questions at any time, please let the mods know by pinging us on Discord!
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while daan checks the inventory and yuffie looks around, he's going to just. keep checking around the animals' areas sorry i'm committed to making sure nobody has got body parts in their mouth or some shit. hello horse and presumable horse stall how are you, do you hold secrets. hello barn cats are you running away with something are you doing it don't you fucking do it.]
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[ That's great, those are all perfectly normal items to be missing and not at all alarming. Swear to god if we find someone chonked.
Alright, he'll start kind of moving around combing the inside of the barn thoroughly, looking through hay piles and moving them around just in case ANYONE or ANYTHING is buried under them, like blood spots, meat, Sampo, the tools... ]
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[ ok yuffie has to shake a paw ]
[ but yeah she will check out what's at the entrance. what's happening over here ]
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daan checks the hay bales, and won't find anything inside/under them, but two of the bales have some sort of indents in them.
yuffie finds something at the entrance... it's a bug net! seems broken, but that's all she can tell about it at this juncture. ]
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[is there anything else inside the barn that's not listed that we should contemplate looking at or are we gonna need to head outside...
OH IT HAS A CEILING
looking up at the ceiling. in case.]
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[ 'Cause you know, he's only got one. Why is he on invest again? Anyway he's not the demographic that carries around a camera so he's just going to have to (SQEX Voice) get it memorised. How big are these dents, does it seem people-sized. He will try to keep these particular bales as intact as he looks around.
What about these barrels? Systematically opens each one up, this is what the first 10 minutes of every F&H gameplay looks like anyways. Will he find an egg? Rotten meat? Perhaps heroin? Don't ask questions. ]
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[ can yuffie enter her bug net mind palace and figure out where this bug net would have originated from? otherwise, she's going to add it to key items, then check the rest of the outside of the barn. perimeter first, walking all around and looking at the barn itself and out into the field...... ]
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daan can get the sense that one of the dents is large and one is less large. they could feasibly be about the size of a person or so, though it's hay so you're not getting exact shapes to make out here. there's nothing in the barrels, but as he's moving away from the hay bales to check, he can see some dark stuff in the dirt, trailing off.
no you cannot access your mind palace with the bug net. also there is no bold text in the barn? stop trying to be cool like the beach. she gets hit with a shingle from the roof as she's walking around outside for her troubles. ]
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[MYSTERY HOLE?? YEAAA LET'S GO CEILING CHECK
he will wander over to stand beneath the hole and try to see if he can estimate about how big it is. there's no measuring they can really do here, this is more just. is this person sized, multiple person sized, a quarter of the roof... is there debris below it?]
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[ You joke but I guess unironically he may not have been able to discern the difference in lighting here right away. Why is there a hole here. He looks back down.
These bales of hay... were they neat or did they look scattered... like someone fell through the damn hole in the ceiling on top of them.
What the hell is this. Is it dark stuff (object) or dark stuff (stain/liquid) and what colour of dark are we talking... and where does it trail off to... opens my eye. ]
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[ fine no bold text allowed.... she added it to key items..... and then got beaned over the head with a shingle. anyway she will just climb up this barn to the roof and try to discern damage from there. what's happening on this roof. how many shingles are going to come flying at her ]
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the Dark Stuff is some sort of liquid, it's hard to say from just looking since it's mixed in the dirt, but trails deeper into the barn. there's two trails of it traveling together: one is steady trail of droplets, and the other is more like a groove in the dirt mixed with the liquid. OH I MISSED DAAN CONTEMPLATING HAY, they are not orderly and neat, they're just sort of generally beneath the hole.
yuffie is gonna have to parkour a bit up onto the roof but sure she can get up there since she's a ninja. it looks like some of the shingles up here are damaged and scuffed, like the one that fell onto her, and of course there is the hole. ]
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[ok so roof debris Is here, cool, that solves the questions i had.
mathis joins daan where he is investigating the Dark Stuff, lingering by him a little nervously. how wide is the groove comparative to like, a foot, i will inspect this so daan can find out if this is blood or something aaaa]
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Cool... is it like, a coloured dark and if so what colour. He gets some on his fingers and a brief sniff test. Does it smell more like blood or like motor oil. Banking on the former because we don't have a car.
What the fuck IS up with that groove? Does it look like a narrow groove, say, made with a sharper edge, or a wider groove made with something more broad? I had these pre-written but Mathis is looking too thanks boo.
He's gonna keep on keeping on deeper into the barn following this. Show me the goods. ]
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as they inspect the mystery groove thang, it's thinner than his foot, and the liquid that comes up off the dirt is red, and yes it smells like blood! the groove itself is on the thin side in general.
as he follows this, daan will eventually hit more of the blood... which is easy to confirm because there's a lot of it. this is a blool. there is a sickle dropped nearby as well.
yuffie can't discern too much EXACT information from the large hole, but it does look like it broke in towards the inside of the barn. the shingles are just generally scuffed. there is also something kinda caught in The Hole... but she can't reach it from where she is. ]
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[NEVERMIND. THIS IS NO LONGER A GOOD INVESTIGATION.
not the blool. he hesitates, looking at it for a few moments, before he cautiously peers further in. is... is there anything else over here... he does not very much want to touch that sickle, thank you.]
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[ He would like you to not get traumatised under his watch, buddy? He'll produce a cloth from a bag he's been carrying around ever since Funky Fashionista happened and gingerly pick up this sickle on a clean end. I hope there's a clean end, is this thing bloody anywhere.
And then he'll approach the blool, rounding the corner. ]
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[ yuffie is going to try to get closer to this mystery object that is stuck, to take a better look at it and/or dislodge it, if possible. she will use her ninja skills to do this ]
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daan can pick up the sickle without messing up the state of it, but otherwise he forgets how to perceive sickles. must be a vision thing again. is he following after mathis, or perceiving the blool some more? checking something else?
yuffie gets the sense that she will have to like, swing into the barn and jump to get this shit. it's snagged on some of the broken roof supporting bits. is she going to try? if so, roll a d20 for me please. ]
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he's ignoring daan telling him to be careful and continuing further. sorry. is this because it's almost 5? could be. what's the thing sticking out of the wall? IS THERE A BODY IN HERE? HE'S LOOKING TO SEE IF THERE'S A BODY IN HERE. AGAIN.]
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[ Distractedly to Yuffie, because there's things happening here. Wow, Daan's eye is failing him, this is so sad. Well just note that he is being careful to not affect the state of the sickle much because of Saturday shenanigans, he's resigned to things happening tomorrow.
Is Mathis not perceiving the blool, I thought he was. We were both approaching it. Is there anything around it... how big is this blool... really love that blool has entered our regular vernacular.
Still glancing over to whatever Mathis is looking at just in case, also fuck you for not listening. Kids these days. ]
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[ yes she is absolutely going to try!!! i rolled a 13, yeehaw. action yuffie ]
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yes you've both been perceiving it but you don't really glean much else from the blool besides that it's a large amount of blood and that the sickle was nearby! daan can perceive the same as mathis when he looks over where he is.
action yuffie!! with a 13, she can nab what's caught on the broken wood—seems like a scrap of... something, but it's gonna be a rough landing. good luck. ]
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wait an axe and holes are still bad!!
thanks mods hopefully yuffie doesn't break anything but if she does: at least the doctor is right here?? for the record when they hear whatever sound happens from her landing mathis Will hurry over to help.]
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