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?]

Comments

[ilovepuppies]

['Karolina Dean is dead.'

no.

no way.

This can't be happening.

Star kneels down next to Karolina and... tries to shake her awake. She's totally not dead. Not at all.]

Karo...lina...?

[grimgrinningghosts]

[She isn't moving.

Either way, one thing Star will notice besides after the shininess is the large amounts of blood around her body.]

[ilovepuppies]

[She's probably getting it all over her PJs but she doesn't care.

The least she can do is figure out where all the blood is coming from.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[The blood is centered around a wound in Karolina's stomach.]

[ilovepuppies]

[dat's nasty.

She doesn't really want to look closer, but is there any way to suss out what caused the wound? Size, shape, etc?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's a surprisingly small wound, but if Star is familiar at all with stab wounds, she should easily be able to realize that it must have been a stab wound.]

[ilovepuppies]

[Star definitely knows her way around weapons, so yeah.]

Somebody stabbed her!

[grimgrinningghosts]

[You scare me sometimes, Star.

Anything else you wanna investigate with the kitchen?]

[ilovepuppies]

[a girl's got to know her medieval weaponry, ok.

Well, the kitchen must be full of stabby things. Do any of them look like a murder weapon?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Actually, near Karolina's body, there is a bloody paring knife.]

[ilovepuppies]

[WELL THAT'S SUSPICIOUS.

Star very nearly nabs it bare-handed, but then she remembers those crime dramas Mr. and Mrs. Diaz like to watch. She then goes to find a dishrag or towel to scoop it up with.

And then it's -ugh- time to go back to the stab wound. Does it look like a match?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's a match.]

[ilovepuppies]

A paring knife? Who stabs somebody with a paring knife? At least use something cool, like a claymore!

[She mad? She mad.]

I guess I better hang onto this...

[She rolls it up in her towel of choice. And she really wants to get outta here.]

[tadaishi]

[S t a r]

I don't think they were worried about being cool.

[Besides, is there even a claymore in the house?]

[ilovepuppies]

But a paring knife! You use that to cut apples, not stab people! It's lame! It's dumb!

[Long, exasperated sigh.]

This is all so stupid.

[kindaruledatit]

Dude...

[She digs your style, Star, but...]

[ilovepuppies]

But it's a stupid paring knife!

[Talk about the worst way to get murdered ever.]

[kindaruledatit]

Gross.

[Which is an understatement.]

[ilovepuppies]

Seriously.

[this sucks, man.]

I think... I think somebody stabbed her.

[kindaruledatit]

[She's trying to look at the stomach wound, but. Ugh. She's lost her usual appetite for gnarly stuff like this.]

Yeesh. Why would...

[But then it hits her, and she's frowning.]

Aw, man...

[ilovepuppies]

I didn't think someone would really DO it!

[kindaruledatit]

[She tugs at a few strands of her hair with a mounting frustration.]

I can't. I didn't want to believe it. [uuuugggh]

[ilovepuppies]

I thought we were friends, ya know? Okay, so some of us are a little grumpy [JIMINY] but nobody here's a MURDERER!

[Waaait.]

Whoever did it is still in the house.

[kindaruledatit]

Yup.

[She says quietly, knowingly.]

No way out, remember? We're all in this together and junk.

[ilovepuppies]

[As much as she's sure the killer wouldn't strike again right away, Star still peeks over her shoulder. Just in case.]

We gotta find them. And then. I dunno. Put them in a cage or something.