FIFTH INVESTIGATION

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Ten deaths have occurred in this mansion, one guest is still completely missing from the mansion with no clue where he is. How many more deaths with occur in this mansion? Will the remaining guests ever know a time when they don't have to worry about someone close to them dying each week?

Nothing seems immediately off, but you should all know by now to never trust Fridays.

Investigate?]

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[grimgrinningghosts]

[Hey, how do you know it's Kiara? Besides the fact that, getting a close look at her face shows that it couldn't be anybody but Kiara. Her face eerily blank from the lack of muscles and bones in her body.

Kiara is dead]

[terribibble]

[what the fUCK]

Someone -- someone --

[SKINNED HER and like okay look. An animal won't have the same impact on him as a person. That just isn't how it works. But she was a talking animal. He explained the fourth of July to her. It's... complicated, how he feels about this. It's bad. It's just bad. It's just really really bad, okay?]

[sixfingeredstan]

[Ford kneels down to look over Kiara's sad, shapeless skin with sorrow. He hadn't been incredibly close to her, but he'd made a friend in her, and the naturalist in him feels very sorrowful indeed. She'd been one of a kind.]

How did they do this. And where's...

[Where's the rest of her?]

[outsidethecircle]

Forget how, why did they do this?!

[Yep. Anna is now here and she's not happy.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Oh god. Oh god it's a gruesome death and there are kids still here. If there's one thing that severe apathy and depression can't beat out of Elsa it's her big sister instinct, so as soon as she realizes Anna is there with them, she turns to face her, being as gentle as she can as she puts her hands on the younger girl's shoulders.]

Anna... I-I know you like to help investigate these things, but you and Tip... you can't do it this time, okay? You can't... [She pauses, because god she has to fight down a wave of nausea.] You can't be the ones to find... everything.

[her skinless corpse is what she's trying to say but she can't get the words out.]

[outsidethecircle]

...R-right. We. We probably should sit this one out.

[She wants to help a lot but, wow. That's something she definitely doesn't want to find.]

But... whoever did this is horrible.

[She might have been defending the trophy room earlier but... she's pretty sure the other animals weren't trapped in a murder mansion before they were killed and skinned.]

[defyingfrigidity]

Whoever did this... they have to be worse than all the other murderers combined.

[But... who? She can't think of a single person left in this mansion that would kill one of their friends, let alone someone as kind as Kiara. And in such a gruesome way...]

Do you want me to keep you company? Until everyone is done investigating?

[outsidethecircle]

Y-yes please.

[She might not be the right Anna but have an Anna attached to you, Elsa.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Okay... okay. Well. They can't stay here, that's for sure. She won't let Anna stay in the room with.... with that gruesome trophy.]

Would you like to go to the bathing room? The heat might... might help a little.

[She knows there's blood over there, but as far as they know, it's just blood. But she doesn't know what else might be found in the other areas, so it's best to keep it safe for now.]

[outsidethecircle]

Y-yes. Let's go to the bathing room.

[Right. She can handle blood now. At least... at least it's not that.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[There's a moment of hesitation, then Elsa tugs Anna closer, wrapping her up in what she's hoping is at least a somewhat comforting hug.]

I'm sorry... I wish I could do more than this...

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well there's one way to find out, huh?]

[sixfingeredstan]

[...Shit. They're going to have to hunt for her carcass now, aren't they.

He stands up heavily, and looks around the room, looking for more blood trails. Entrails. Anything.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[No more obvious blood and entrails are in the trophy room.]

[amadeusrockette]

[hey so how's the second floor looking? like, say if someone decided "nah. i'm not in the mood to see whatever's going on up there i'm gonna stay right the fuck here."]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[I mean, I suppose it depends on which room you go to.]

[amadeusrockette]

[you know, julia just wants to sit for a sec to prepare herself in the seance room. surely NOBODY would leave a corpse, skinned lion or otherwise, in there.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's clean.]

[amadeusrockette]

[cool. great. what about the music room?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's also clean!]

[kindaruledatit]

[Hey ya'll, Wendy's back. She's a bit paler then before. Good thing she hasn't had breakfast yet.

She is definitely not looking directly at Kiara's shapeless form.
And whenever she does she lets out the smallest breath. She was a good friend.]

There's... gotta be more to her. Somewhere.

[sixfingeredstan]

I know. I...we have to find her. All of her.

[He's not grossed out by blood and guts, but this is stomach-turning even for him.]

[kindaruledatit]

Yup. [She wavers a bit.]

If you're gonna go look, I can... stay behind, I guess?

cw: vomit?

[kindaruledatit]

[Wendy knows how to hunt animals, she knows the methods to skin them too. Her dad's training paid off in that regard.

But now that she's looking down at someone who she had thought of as nothing but a good friend... and was now missing everything except her skin... She's just instantly filled with rage and despair, anger and tears burning in her eyes as she takes this in.

She just.... has to leave suddenly. To be sick, over here. In this corner.

Yup.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[... Man and just when Elsa had maybe started to make progress on not being a reclusive mess. She doesn't really feel any better but after her dream and the discussion they had yesterday about it, she's been feeling a little more willing to get up and check things out.

... So of course this had to happen.]

What-?!

[OH GOD WHAT CAN YOU EVEN SAY TO THIS???]