Fifth Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[You wake up and find out that your bff necklace from Randy in pieces. Any relief that might have come from the loss of this painful gift is overshadowed by a simple fact: someone is probably dead now.

There’s no point trying to be optimistic. At this point you’re probably well aware that nothing good could possibly happen on a Friday.

Do you want to investigate?]

Comments

[not_over_yet]

[ ...HMM. Do the books look "thrown-about" scattered, or "placed-haphazardly" scattered? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Technically the latter. While there are a ton of books placed around the room, they're all closed, not even any of the covers are open.]

[not_over_yet]

[ Well that's certainly not suspicious at all.

Anything else odd about the bookcase itself? Also, how well did it cover the body, is this like the most inept attempt ever to hide a body or? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It partially covered the body, and nothing really else is of note about this particular bookcase.]

[not_over_yet]

[ ...HM.

Looking around, does anything else look out of place in here? besides the corpse ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There's another bookcase that hasn't been knocked over.

... While most of the books are there, there is one missing.]

[not_over_yet]

[ ...How can he tell there's one book missing? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[... Well... The books on one row are slightly slanted like one book is missing.]

[not_over_yet]

[ Hmmm. What are the other books on that row about? How sizable is the slant, does it suggest a huge book or one just big enough to make its absence noticeable? Basically, is there anything that might hint at what the missing book is? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Just a single book, a little on the smaller side, is missing and it's alphabetized by author's last names. If Basil frequents the library enough he might be able to realize what book is specifically missing.]

[not_over_yet]

[ Between his attempts to research magic in general, his attempts to research exorcism specifically, and his attempts to research fixing Facilier's vocal chord issue? Hell yeah, he's been through these shelves a TON. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Great! Then he might eventually realize the missing copy of Franz Kafka's great book The Metamorphosis.]

[not_over_yet]

[ Hm! Has it been left elsewhere in the library, or is it straight-up missing entirely? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's completely missing.]

[not_over_yet]

[ Noted! Looks around again, anything else unusual he could examine? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There's a chair that's knocked over!

... Yeah I should have mentioned that first this seems a little anticlimactic.]