Mock Victim

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It’s Friday. Your first week stuck in Doomville is almost up. While Judge Doom’s motive was certainly big, it’s hard to judge, for lack of a better term, if he could manage to change anyone’s past, let alone your own. So maybe you forgot about it, or maybe you’re so caught up with the “what if’s” that it hangs over you as you wake up today.

However, as you leave your dressing room, you may find that the door to Edgar’s Room is mysteriously ajar. While it was open for investigation yesterday, it seems more open than it was yesterday.

Investigate?]

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[returntodarkness]

[ ...Well it's not him that's uneasy, that's for sure. Fine. Time to explore! He's going to look under and in anything and everything. He's a goddamn scientist, a villain and a snoop. And maybe he can find something of use the old butler hid out of sight. HE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING WITH HIS TIME. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[As Ansem approaches Edgar's trunk, there is a faint, but unmistakable smell of blood coming from inside it.

Are you sure you want to open this?]

[returntodarkness]

[ He is a destroyer of worlds. He isn't exactly squeamish, not to mention he definitely did horrific experiments on live subjects.

Let's open the thing. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well it's probably a good thing you're here because inside the trunk there is a small, furry being in the trunk, lying motionless.]

[returntodarkness]

[ ...Okay there were not many of those. Like, what, Basil, Perry and Bianca? So which one is it? Unless this is someone he doesn't recognize as being here this week. ]

[rollerscoater]

[It's definitely not the one scurrying into the room and scaling a tiny staircase up.]

Is everything alright? I saw the door and-- !

[returntodarkness]

[ ...WELL BIANCA, THERE'S YOUR ANSWER. PERRY IS DEAD. ]

It would seem someone else took our captor up on his incentive.

[rollerscoater]

Oh! Oh, that's horrible! The poor man. [he's a platypus but you know what she means] Why, we've got to do something about it!

[returntodarkness]

...I have a question. Did anyone bother to ask what happens to the rest of us if the culprit happens to get away with their escapades?

[ This is a headache waiting to happen. ]

[worldstiniestviolin]

Clearly we are punished for their wrong-doing as well.

[Basil looks thoughtful]

Investigations must take place.

[returntodarkness]

[ ...Of course people are coming in. ]

...A safe assumption.

[ He's not happy, he doesn't like helping people. ]

I'll handle the body. I'm a scientist--I can at least do that much.

[ ...Besides, he might actually enjoy being their resident corpse toucher. ]

[worldstiniestviolin]

Good. A thorough examination will help more in the case.

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well, Ansem should quickly notice that it's the largest of the small animals here, and that his fur is an odd shade of teal if dyed a little from being soaked in blood.

Perry the Platypus is dead.]

[ilovepuppies]

[Hey guys what's goin' on in this-]

WAAAAAUGH!

[pinkflip]

[Edgar's door's more open so it seems people are filing in, and, um.]

Oh my gosh- no, no no no--!

[THIS IS GREAT THANKS]

[ilovepuppies]

[LITERALLY THE BEST EVER]

Iiiiii don't like this. I really don't like this, like, at all!

[Star reaches in and plucks Perry's hat from the, er, corpse.]

Don't worry lil' detective guy! I'm gonna get to the bottom of this!

[kindaruledatit]

[Wendy hears shouting and screaming, Wendy's rushing in. She basically skids to a stop at Edgar's door.]

Guys? What's--

[and then she sees, well, everything.]

Oh.... No way....

[wannagetsmote]

[Just because he tried to eat the thing, doesn't mean he wanted it dead. Or... well, maybe he did, but that was almost a week ago at this point. And yesterday tapped out his dead-people meter.]

[Wars happened. Savagery like this, though. That's not something you get used to.]


[In times of great strife, the best chiefs stood strong and squared off against the enemy. Funny, then, how the one person he condemned here managed to do just that.]

[No matter, it was quickly becoming obvious that most people were just as perturbed by the sight. Problem was, they weren't him. Maui was always strong in the face of fear, right? Even if his chattering, trembling tattoo wasn't.]

[And at the end of the day, this was just a dead animal.]

Let's get to work, people.

[thedukeofficial]

[ Oh, that's... another dead body? He guesses??? IT'S AN ANIMAL, PEOPLE. ]

Eesh. We couldn't cool it for a day?

[ilovepuppies]

[GASP! That just gave Star an idea!]

What if it was the judge guy? He's the only one around here who's rotten enough to actually kill somebody!

[at least, Doom's the only one she's SEEN kill somebody.]

[tonewlengths]

[What's going on in here why is there screaming, Rapunzel comes to check it out and oh joy.]

Is - Is he...

[tadaishi]

[Tadashi has arrived late, and literally with half a cup of coffee.]

What's going on this ti--

[Oh, that sure is a lot of blood and a dead platypus. 'Scuse him while he takes a few steps away to try not to be sick.]