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]

[ Ansem doesn't really need to sleep, so he's up bright and early. Only to find this. Fine, let's open the door. Who has been an idiot today? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Oddly enough, first impressions indicate that nothing is immediately off about Edgar's Room. But there's almost a layer of unease that engulfs the room.

Not that Ansem would really care, but someone is probably uneasy.]

[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-- !

[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.]

[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!

[grimgrinningghosts]

[After people start gathering around Perry's body: there is an announcement over the intercom.]

The platypus is dead. Investigations begin immediately.

[And that's it, you guys better begin investigating.]

[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. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[However, a file will also be given to each of you unfortunate souls to examine.]

Victim: Perry the Platypus

Location of body: Edgar’s room

Estimated time of death: A little after 1 AM

Cause of death: Stab wound

Wound diagram. (will be added later)

Clue Count

[grimgrinningghosts]

Evidence List

TOTAL 9/15

Edgar’s Room: 5/7
At least they weren't too disrespectful to Edgar's memory
Clearly someone wanted to eat Perry
Perry died watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit and didn't guess the plot twist
I can't really think of anything witty for "stabbed in the face
Perry is always dtf (down to fight)

Soundstage: 2/2
Look at all that blood
Perry at least wasn't a drag in death

Costume Storage 2/6
one nasty papercut
What a waste of good clothing

Edgar's Room

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Did anyone even like this guy.]

Soundstage

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Act our your despair!]

Costume Storage

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Hey no better way to get over finding a body than a makeover!]

[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]

[worldstiniestviolin]

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

[Basil looks thoughtful]

Investigations must take place.

[worldstiniestviolin]

[Basil, being who he is, has wasted no time in getting to start his investigations. He has pulled out his magnifying glass, being that the room is slightly larger than most rooms he investigates in and he doesn't want to miss even the slightest detail.]

[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.

[pinkflip]

[Kim has decided one thing and that's that this sucks and she really doesn't want to poke around a furry critter's dead body. So she's going to look for...anything else that looks suspicious in the building, and that leads her to costume storage.

It's a comfort.

So, anything immediately off in this room?]

[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. ]