Third Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Two people have already died this week, but no matter how you look at it, the requirements for The Narrator to call off the motive still haven’t been met yet. And with a motive that affects so many, it’s hard to believe that no one else will die this week.

At least, when everyone wakes up today, they’ll find that there’s absolutely nothing off with the second floor.

Investigate anyway?]

Comments

[nocasetoobig]

[No.]

Hey! Wake up!

[JUST GONNA HOP ON TOP OF HER AND GET A LOOK AT THAT FACE]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Chip should very quickly recognize her despite all the blood, having talked to her just yesterday. And, if that gash in her neck is any indication, it's very clear that...

Thalia is dead.]

[nocasetoobig]

No...No! Thalia, please, not you too-!

[THIS IS ONE UPSET CHIPMUNK]

[coulombslaw]

Thalia...?

[You have to be kidding. That gets Virgil to approach much more than he'd have preferred, crouching to a side to check the victim's face. That definitely is Thalia. For a moment he just stares at her, until he stands up]

They won't get away with this!

[Well it's time to investigate]

[nocasetoobig]

[have fun with that buddy Chip's kind of curled up on Thalia's chest and crying]

[audentiae]

[ HEY GUYS WHAT'S GOING ON IN HE- oh.

Well.

Reyna's gone very quiet over here. ]

[greatwidesomewhere]

[Belle comes into the chapel, fresh from her cursory check of the movie room, to see a cluster of people gathered around something near the entrance. A cold feeling settles in the pit of her stomach, but she hangs back.]

What is it? What's happened?

[tadaishi]

['Sup guys, who did you find?

Oh. Now he can see her face...and the gash. ]

Thalia! Oh god...

[greatwidesomewhere]

[Swallowing down her fear, Belle finally looks, and—]

Oh—

[Her voice breaks, and she turns away, without thinking, to press her face into Tadashi's shoulder.]

Tell me it's not really her. Please.

[tadaishi]

It...it looks like her. S-sorry Belle.

[He'll just put an arm around her and kind of awkwardly hug her.]

[greatwidesomewhere]

[His awkward reassurances are very much appreciated. As much as she's trying hard not to sob right now, a few muffled ones escape her, shoulders shaking.]

She...she can't be. She's immortal...

[tadaishi]

I guess immortality doesn't work here...

[Poor Belle.]

[greatwidesomewhere]

How can it not work.

[That's its job! To work!

She pulls back, embarrassed, wiping furiously at her tears.]

I need to...to go help. To find who did this.

[forgottenfounder]

[Oswald was attracted to the growing crowd in the chapel, wandering in somewhat hesitantly. He's pretty sure everyone isn't in here to find Jesus.]

Guys, did you find someth-

[He freezes up, staring in horror at the girl he knew fairly well now, lying on the floor, bloody and cut and very definitely dead.]

Oh... Oh no, Thalia...!