First Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Nearly two weeks in the Haunted Mansion have passed. Parties were had, friends were made. In fact, maybe you've completely forgotten about the motive looming over all of you. However, as what might be dawn approaches the Mansion, you feel a strange feeling of dread as you wake up. Is it all in your head? There's only one way to find out.

Investigate?]

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[grimgrinningghosts]

[She is, in fact you've probably talked to her before, although in a muss less shiny form.

Karolina Dean is dead.]

[heartofold]

[!!]

Oh no... this is...

[It was a body.]

[kindaruledatit]

Seriously, what's with that glowing--

[And then she spots her, she spots Karolina lying on the ground, and she freezes up.]

[heartofold]

Is there even any way to tell how she died?

[She doesn't know a lot about sparkling people, but... she does know that she'd like to know who was responsible.]

There was blood in the foyer-- she must have been bleeding at least, right?

[kindaruledatit]

I...

[Wendy is shocked. How did she not notice the blood?

And, for once, she looks extremely unsure of... everything.]

[sixfingeredstan]

[Ford eventually finds the growing group of people in the kitchen, and sticks his head over Wendy's shoulder.]

What's going on? I saw blood—

[Oh. Oh, no, that's Karolina.]

Oh, dear.

[kindaruledatit]

...Yeah.

[It's definitely her. No mistaking that.]

Yeah.

[chainbroke]

K... Karolina?

[ She's too stunned to cry just yet. ]

[trashcubes]

[Hey gang, why is there a commotion, what's going on in... here...

... GUESS WHO YELPS AND ROLLS RIGHT THE FUCK BACK OUT OF THIS ROOM NOW.]

[tadaishi]

[And roll right into someone, who isn't paying enough attention to things half his size in his quest for coffee.]

Ow! Huh?

[trashcubes]

[The noise that WALL-E make is one of distress as it points to the kitchen back where it came from.

Someone's been hurt really bad in there and we don't know what to do.]

[pardonmylanguage]

[Tip realizes who it is-and staggers to a chair, sitting down with her head in her hands. She didn't even speak to that girl, but still...]

[folkscallmewander]

[Wander himself doesn't know if this is real or not, but seeing Tip all distraught is enough to temporarily bring him back to his sense. He gives her a hug and waits.]

[pardonmylanguage]

[She flinches a bit at the sudden hug, but ends up leaning into it anyways. And slowly starts sobbing.] H-how? I didn't think anyone here would actually...actually...

[ilovepuppies]

[YAAAAAWN. Guess who slept through everything and just wandered into the kitchen looking for breakfast.]

Ohh, hey guys, are you getting food, too-

[Wait.]

Karolina, why are you on the floor?

[outsidethecircle]

[She eventually heads into the kitchen against her better judgement and--]

...She's not doing that because she wants to.

[... Anna is just staring and trying to comprehend this herself. It just. Not now.]

[ilovepuppies]

[Star is hurriedly trying to rub the sleep out of her eyes.]

Whaddya mean? Why is everybody just standing around? Why is her bracelet off?

[That's what all the sparklies mean, right?]

[defyingfrigidity]

[... No. That's... no. It can't be?

Part of Elsa's brain just can't wrap around the idea that someone is dead here, that someone among them killed another over something like.... like keeping a secret? That was ridiculous! She understands the lengths some will go to in order to keep secrets, she knows that feeling very well but murder...!]

This... this can't be real...

[She hadn't talked to Karolina as often as she'd wanted to. As she should have. But she was a kind girl, how could anyone do this???]

[lessonsinlove]

[ Dragging herself out of bed was one thing she rarely did in the morning, but that biting sense of dread had woken her up. It hadn't taken her very long to head out from her room, and with minimal searching she'd decided on the kitchen. Immediately upon arriving, Elsa's the first one she spots and goes to greet her without a second thought. ]

Hey, Elsa... what's going--

[ Her voice cuts short when she sees Karolina and her eyes widened visibly. She was really... actually dead. Someone actually wanted to keep their secrets hidden that badly? ]

Why...? How could anyone do that...?

[folkscallmewander]

[After hearing the announcement, Wander jumps onto his feet and rushes into the foyer. Karolina isn't dead, she can't be dead, they were going to cook together and talk about Earth, everyone was getting along this past week, how is this real

The crowd gathering in the kitchen cannot be missed. He slides between the people already watching, trying to ignore the blood, but--

She's glowing. Why is she glowing, she can't be dead, it's just a misunderstanding.]

Karolina? Is that you? What's goin' on?

[thetimebomb]

Wander...

[Sylvia is just stunned. Karolina was just a kid, she didn't deserve this. Out of all the people she didn't deserve this.

And Wander didn't deserve to see this. She gently places her hands on Wander's shoulders and tries to gently move him out of the kitchen.]

We... we should get out of here. We don't need to see this.

[heartofold]

I... don't know exactly. That's what I want to find out.

[Something happened to Karolina and now she was no longer with them. But there were a lot of other questions.]

[arpeggiositar]

[...well that sucks. Demyx passes a hand oevr his face]

For real...

[He doesn't seem particularly torn up about someone having died, but it's still a nasty surprise]

[capulion]

[Kiara hears the announcement and all the commotion in the kitchen, so she peers her head in to investigate-

Oh. Yep, that's a dead body. A shiny dead body.

She sets her jaw in determination and goes to back to trying to trace the blood from the foyer. Bleeding starts somewhere.]

[heartofold]

[Once she pulls herself together she decides to try and see if she can find any wounds on Karolina's sparkling body. If the blood was hers, there had to be some kind of cut or something.]