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

[terribibble]

You don't?

So you think maybe... maybe it was whoever... ?

[Well, hey, at least those are definitely human footprints, which rules out the lion being the murderer if that's who left them. That's bizarrely comforting.]

[capulion]

[She shakes her head.] There are two sets of footprints. One lead to her body, and the other set led here.

[And as far as she can tell there aren't any retracing steps back to the foyer(?).]

[terribibble]

[Well... well. That makes sense from a logical standpoint. He still doesn't like it. He doesn't like any of this. He would really like some coffee but that's where the body is and he can't make coffee next to a corpse, he can't, he can't. He doesn't want to see it.]

So why mark those doors in particular?

[Is it a threat? You're next? That's what his brain is very sure it is and it is not helping his nerves at all.]

[capulion]

[Vast lion shrug. She really has no idea, dude.]

What do they have in common?

[That's a logical question to ask right]

[terribibble]

I -- I couldn't tell you.

[It's a very logical question, it's just that she's asking the wrong guy.]

[capulion]

Mmn, yeah. Me neither.

[She isn't even entirely sure who lives in those rooms.]

Aren't we supposed to be trying to, you know, get away with it? So we can leave?

[terribibble]

Wh -- no! No, no, if whoever did this gets away with it then they leave and we all --

[He runs his hands back through his hair. Okay. Yeah. It's sinking in right now about nnnnnow.]

[capulion]

So wouldn't leaving marks everywhere sort of go... against that?

[She isn't quite catching up to you yet, buddy.]

So why would someone make a mess like this?