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

[sixfingeredstan]

[Ford's voice is firm but as gentle as he can manage.]

We'll find out. Do you think we can look inside these rooms? Perhaps there's more to be found...

[folkscallmewander]

...I guess if we ask Ghostave, he'll let us in. We can't leave Karolina's room locked up forever.

[terribibble]

[Waaaait wait wait. Are talking about going into the dead girl's room.]

Doesn't that seem... I don't know, a mite bit disrespectful?

[folkscallmewander]

[Wander attempts to shrug, but he's so tired that he just slumps over.]

I dunno. Maybe there're more clues in there. Maybe it's best we never go inside again. I don't--

[I don't know what to do in this sort of situation, he thinks. He has no clue what to do, he's just standing there doing nothing while Karolina's life has been cut short and her family and friends back home don't know.

Wander grips his arm.]

When this is over, we gotta ask her closest friends what they want.

[terribibble]

Right... right.

We just... we have to get through this first.

[And he isn't sure he can. He feels about as deflated as Wander looks.]

[sixfingeredstan]

I meant the four with the blood on them. Not hers.

[He might have wanted to go into her room, but he's not going to mention that now.]

[terribibble]

It still seems disrespectful. We oughta ask them first. If -- if they haven't done anythin' wrong they'll let us in, won't they?

[sixfingeredstan]

Maybe. Maybe that's best. Let's just take another look at the marks first.

[grimgrinningghosts]

[While I suppose you could check the rooms, it appears like the bloody marks are from someone knocking, rather than trying to open the door.]

[terribibble]

[HHHH THAT JUST KIND OF CONFIRMS HIS THEORY THAT SHE WAS MAYBE TRYING TO GET HELP AFTER WHATEVER MADE HER BLEED THAT MUCH HAPPENED

This is so distressing]

[sixfingeredstan]

[After another long, close look at the bloody marks, Ford pulls away with a grim look on his face.]

Fiddleford, you may have been right. She might have been knocking on doors...