First Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Everyone wakes up this morning and finds that nothing is immediately off, however you have the strangest feeling of-

Actually you know what?

A baby died this week already.

This sinful game doesn't deserve playful coyness this week.

Investigate?]

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Kitchen

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Mmmm, burnt bodies for breakfast.]

[candymancan]

[Now that people are actually here and starting to like, care about the fact that there's a corpse, Wonka supposes he should make himself useful.

Is there anything suspicious that he can see that's not on the body itself?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well there's a giant pot on the stove right now, wanna check that out?]

[candymancan]

[Of course!]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's filled with oil of the cooking variety. It seems to have gone cold by now.]

[candymancan]

[owo...]

This might have caused the burns, then.

[He sounds particularly unconcerned about it.

What else is in the area that he might notice?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[well there are some hairs around the pot too]

[candymancan]

[Oh fuck y'all really did have her face get shoved into the pot of boiling oil, didn't you.

The hairs do match with Zhu Li's, yes? And how do they look- singed, coated in oil...?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[They don't, actually. Unlike Zhu Li's, the singed oily hairs are noticeably shorter.]

[codeofhero]

[Hm.

hmm.

This sucks. Another Human, dead. Such are the casualties of war, and he would be used to this more if that was the case. But there's nothing glorious about this, and there's no war to speak of.

He crouches near the body, determined to at least check for any clues, burnt or not.

What a waste.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well since I alluded to it earlier, wanna see why you can't recognize Zhu Li by her face?]

[codeofhero]

[well since he would definitely recognize it, yes! that would be dandy]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Very dandy!

A large t shirt appears to have been fried to her face.]

[codeofhero]

[What.

That explains the oil, but it... doesn't make any sense.

Is it one of the moron mountain shirts?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It is!]

[codeofhero]

[Swell, he always hated those shirts.]

That is just... Prime.

[Anything else to note? He finds her lack of face disturbing.]

[oh_worm]

[ alright, beth has watched her friends die horribly like a thousand times in a row, she can do this.

it's bodytouching time.

what's immediately obvious? ]

[in4apounding]

[So Penny's like. Never in the kitchen ever? But there's a lot of people here, what's going on guys-]

[Oh.]

Oh no, Miss Zhu Li?!

[Well that's. Really, really bad.]

[So. Help Beth time? Anything about the body besides the extra extra crispiness going on.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well minus the shirt.

... Is she wearing a poop emoji hat?]

[oh_worm]

[ softly, but with feeling: ]

What the dink?

[ Alright, uh... that's sure something. Can she find any physical wounds apart from All This Burning? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[... I hate to say it, but there's another important clue with the poop hat.]

[oh_worm]

[ ... Beth investigates the fucking poop hat. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Unlike the rest of her body, it seems to have a lot less oil on it. The only oil on it seems to have been absorbed from her head.]

[oh_worm]

[ oh good even the murder is cursed

alright, now for some injury checking ]

ROOM CLEARED

[grimgrinningghosts]