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

[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.]

[folkscallmewander]

...We can't leave her like this. We need--if she's really dead, we have to make sure, we gotta say somethin'!

Like. Like.

[He walks over and sits beside her.] Why did this happen?

[heartofold]

Most likely... because someone was afraid their secrets would get out. That was the stipulation, if no one murdered by the end of the week... and... it's almost the end of the week...

[That seemed to be the most pressing reason as to why it should be happening now when until then they had been getting along just fine.]

...Once we've finished finding those answers we should do something for her. A memorial or something...

[It's the least they can do.]

[folkscallmewander]

Yeah, but--no, it shouldn't. Why should a secret be the one thing that does this?

[He lets a hand hover over Karolina's arm for a few seconds, then lowers it to mimic a comforting gesture. Even if he can't touch light, it has to mean something to her spirit.]

She wasn't tryin' to hurt anybody.

[heartofold]

We may not have those kinds of secrets but... maybe someone does. All I know is... it wasn't like this before we were told that.

[Sophie hangs her head.]

I never thought it would come to this.

[folkscallmewander]

[Wander withdraws his hand and hangs his head. They were so close to being a unified group and working together to break out or trick the ghosts into letting them free. All twenty-five of them were going together, but that fantasy has been replaced with the sadder one of twenty-four. Karolina, who had cooked with Wander. Karolina, who was sweet and kind and deserved to live. All of them deserve to live.

He pulls his knees up and rests his face on there.

For now, he doesn't answer and focuses on his breathing.]