Mock Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Friday arrives, the deadline to go through with the motive. A motive which will destroy what you love most if no one is murdered. It's enough to make most people at least concerned about the possible outcome.

When everyone wakes up that morning, they'll find that the bedrooms and foyer are clear, so maybe that means that means that no one took the motive? Maybe you can just go back to sleep and forget this whole thing.

However, there are still those sprawling movie sets out there, but maybe we're just being paranoid.

Investigate?]

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Western Room

[grimgrinningghosts]

[YEEEEE-HAW IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A MURDERER IN OUR MIDST.]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ It's hero time.

Gaston marches into the room with head held high, immediately starting to throw around furniture in his search for clues and probably contaminating an important crime scene in the process. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[The first obvious thing Gaston will notice is the blood trail going through the room.]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ That's...probably not supposed to be there, right?

He frowns, peering at the blood trail and following it along in search of its source. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It seems to go to the restaurant and sci fi room.

However, there are some strange smudges in the blood as well.]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ you mean apart from gaston's footprints

He studies the smudges. How large are they? Any indication of what (or who) might have made them? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's impossible to tell what the smudges are, they just seem like... smudges.]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ Well. That's...strange. Isn't it? He's not a detective, how should he know?

Is there anything else noticeable about the blood trail? Is this like a "someone had a bloody nose and had to rush to the outhouse" trail or more of a "that guy's arm got torn off and he did not even try to stop the gushing" trail? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[I feel like we would notice if someone's arm was ripped off, Gaston...

It's sort of in the middle, actually. Gaston is familiar enough with how much people bleed, right? So it would seem like someone got a nasty wound, but it doesn't seem heavy enough to be a deadly amount of blood loss.]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ I mean you never know...

So. Blood trail, smudges, got it. Anything else to note? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Not with the blood trail!]

[greekrevival]

[ So there's a blood trail, cool. Anything else here to look at?

besides gaston flagrantly messing with the crime scene of course, she can just yell at him tbh ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Huh. There sure are a lot of prop guns on the floor.]

[greekrevival]

[ Okay, that's...strange. Prop guns? Definitely not real guns? Around where in the room are they centered? Or are they just kind of all over the place? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[They're prop guns, at least, and they're scattered about the room.]

[greekrevival]

[ If she takes a closer look at them, will she find anything identifying? Say, blood, hair, a big ol' sign saying HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED- okay, not that last one, but you never know. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[That's the weird thing, they just look scattered about. No hair or blood or anything.]

[greekrevival]

[ ...this isn't the work of Gaston is it, they were like this before he started crashing about?

just so we're on the same page here ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[I mean if it was, it would be a huge spoiler, let's just say.]

[greekrevival]

[ this trial is gonna be fun i can feel it in my bones

SO is there anything else with the guns to take note of? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It'll be a hoot!

Nothing else with the guns to note!]

[greekrevival]

[ Alright, then what is she missing...? Gaston's got that blood trail, at least he's got eyes, but what else could there be...

Anything off with the saloon in the Western room? Where all that there alcohol is? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It seems pretty normal for the most part, no one drinking massively in here!

... It looks like someone opened the piano recently, however.]

[greekrevival]

[ great awesome

Before she opens it to peer inside at whatever likely horrible thing is there, any marks on the lid? Scuff marks, blood, etc.? ]

ROOM CLEARED

[grimgrinningghosts]