Day 13: Investigation

[pandatreasure]

[Morning comes, and with it, a distinct sense of unease. The raccoons spared no feelings in their offers yesterday, and even tried to ensure a murderer could get away with it... Only if everything goes according to the raccoons' plans, though, and that hasn't really been the case so far, has it? Haven't you been doing so well these not-quite-two weeks?

In some cultures, thirteen is considered an unlucky number, you know.]

((Groups of 2-3 tops under each toplevel, please! We shouldn't need more than one person at each toplevel so please don't double up and give other people a chance to explore.

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Shrine))

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INVESTIGATION: INDOOR PLAYGROUND

[pandatreasure]

[You've all been working so hard! You've earned an extra hour in the ball pit, or wherever it is you're going to be wandering.]

[very_good_end]

[Erika gets out of her room and decides to investigate the indoor playground for anything new.]

[pandatreasure]

[There's something shiny in the ball pit...]

[very_good_end]

[This had 'trap' written all over it, but she wasn't going to let a lead slip away.]

[She'll wade out into the balls.]

[pandatreasure]

["let me see what you have"

a KNIFE

"NO"

YES!! KNIFE IN THE BALLPIT!! KNIFE IN THE BALLPIT!!!! HELL YEAH

it looks like the ballpit balls are also caving in towards the floor, as if being pushed aside from a central point...]

[very_good_end]

[...she'll take out a little rag to pick the knife up with, careful not to get her fingerprints on it.]

[Next, time to inspect the caving-in point.]

[pandatreasure]

[going, going, going... and ah, would you look at that! there's an open trapdoor at the bottom of the ball pit.

there's a rope ladder going down, but...it seems to have been cut. and the bottom of the trapdoor is dark enough that it's hard to tell whether it would be safe to just jump it...]

[very_good_end]

[Hm, if only there was someone stupid she could convince to go down there...]

[pandatreasure]

[that might count as murdering them depending on how the raccoons are feeling, js]

[suppressthedark]

[DID SOMEONE SAY SOMEONE STUPID

Because Ichigo has noticed Erika on his way back to the infirmary, and -]

Erika?

[So is she going to tell him about the hole or]

[purrtagonist]

[GOD FINE I GUESS HE'S HERE, TOO. hobbling on his crutch like a moron]

This place is significantly less covered in pepto bismol.

[very_good_end]

Ah, you're just here in the nick of time, you two.

[she smiles]

I have found here two interesting things!

One, is a trap door. The bottom of which simply goes into the darkness, and the ladder to climb down is cut.

Second... is a knife!

[suppressthedark]

A trap door?

[RIGHT, THAT SOUNDS....OMINOUS. The knife is also ominous??]

...I think I might've seen something in the props room to help you get down there.

[purrtagonist]

[. . . well]

Are you planning on going down there? Ichigo and I can't descend ourselves, but we can stay up here to offer you support.

[very_good_end]

Moi? I think not.

I am surely lightweight, but I am not perhaps so brave to risk falling down a pit into who knows what.

Fortunately, I have an assistant who can help me in such matters.

[suppressthedark]

[...Hang the fuck on]

That wouldn't be Futayo, would it?

[DISAPPROVING!!! so much]

[purrtagonist]

[ROLLS HIS EYES, then turns on his heel towards the exit]

Aren't you the Great Detective, Erika? Investigation is your job.

I'm going to get some rope.

[brb!]

[very_good_end]

[raises an eyebrow.]

But of course it will be Futayo-san. She is both agile and athletic. Traits that will definitely come in handy in this situation.

[rolls her eyes as Akira goes.]

Incidentally, Kurosaki-san, have you seen anything like this? It's a serrated bread knife, it looks as if it came from the kitchen.

[suppressthedark]

[Grumble Grumble Fine, he can't argue against that - especially not since he's injured so heavily. He still doesn't like it, though.

He looks over at the knife, blinking.]

Can't say I've seen it before, no. I'm not a big bread person except for things like Melonpan.

[purrtagonist]

[IS FUTAYO EVEN AROUND??]

[but anyway, after some period of time, Akira returns!! with prop rope]

Here-- [to Erika, b/c she's not injured]

Tie this against something sturdy, and use it to lower. . . whoever is going down there, down.

[very_good_end]

Is that so? Hm. Well, I've preserved it well enough... we should be able to find fingerprints on it.

Since you claim you haven't seen it before, you won't have any reservations about submitting your fingerprints for comparison, will you, Kurosaki-san?

Ah, perhaps Kurusu-san will even take them for you.

[suppressthedark]

[Why are you like this erika???? Why???]

...of course I'll submit my fingerprints. I've never touched it, anyway.

[Though-]

Why would Akira take them for me?

[truthstranger]

[ You know what, Akira, Ichigo, and Erika standing around a ball pit with a knife seems like a situation that should probably be investigated.

Shuichi interjects himself. ]

What did you find...?

[purrtagonist]

Because she taught me how to take fingerprints. It'd be a test.

[OH THANK GOD A DISTRACTION]

Hey, Shuichi-- are you up for some spelunking?

[very_good_end]

Indeed. Though if Kurosaki-san didn't want to submit his fingerprints, we could always find more creative ways of obtaining them.

[shrugs, giggling]