Final Investigation.

[trustmods]

You've all done very well to make it this far, but it's not over yet. The Conductor has been silent for the past few days. An uneasy peace has fallen. No one else has died, but does that really mean we're getting close to the end? But then, perhaps it's time to take some initiative of your own - to hold someone accountable for things they actually did, rather than punishing your own for acting out in a situation none of you asked to be in. A couple of you have some unused keys that you might want to try to use on the seventh floor. There's a room along the southern wall that hasn't been opened yet; that might be a good place to start. Are you ready for the final investigation? [OOC: Once you've gotten the western wing of the building open, the floors you'll be working with will look like this, with rooms A and B on each floor open for investigation; the red area in the southwestern corner of the floorplan contains a spiral staircase that leads between floors, though after the fourth floor down, the door leading into the building proper will be locked. Those four floors are yours to explore, though!]

Comments

[blazeit]

[ YOOOOOOO HOLD IT UP JEAN, TIME FOR A HIGH FIVE ]

Fucking finally. Who puts a key in a locked box five paces from the door it unlocks, anyway?

[openterrain]

An asshole, that's who.

[ .... ]

Or someone that didn't want to risk keeping it on them all the time.

[icysemblance]

They aren't mutually exclusive.

[openterrain]

[ Jean snorts. ]

Yeah, no kidding.

[ He puts the new key in his pocket, but slips the necklace with the old key back over his head. ]

The key to the lockbox was hidden in the office, after all.

[icysemblance]

That's true, it was. Let's just hope he's not leading us on a weird wild goose chase before we get to the real truth.

[openterrain]

I think we can count on getting sidetracked at this point.

[icysemblance]

Probably. It's not going to be easy at this point.

[blazeit]

[ Okay, time to calm down and get serious. Ish. ]

Yeah, good point. The weird key set-up might be a clue in its own way.

[openterrain]

Now we just gotta figure if it was an intentional clue or not.

[sunsong]

Observant does, I guess. Let's change his title to "Needlessly Complicated".

[blazeit]

He does say he dislikes beings straightforward, so. There's definitely that.

[sunsong]

Shit like this is why no one likes him. [ ... ] I mean, also the kidnapping and murder. But all the hoops and ridiculous inability to be straight with people or anythin' has to do with it, too.

[blazeit]

Mostly the kidnapping and the murder. But being a smarmy asshole about it definitely makes it worse.

[sunsong]

He reaaaaally wanted to beat Dio at that asshole contest, huh.

[ DIO IS FORGIVEN FOR BEING AN ASSHOLE ON THEIR SIDE ???? SHE GUESSES ??? ]

[blazeit]

Well, at least Dio helped beat that shadow monster thing to death, so. I guess he gets a pass on vampire bullshit for that.

[ maybe Bakugou should tell other people about things that ghosts informed him about in letters but


nah ]

[sunsong]

Oh, yeah? Wonder how that fight went down.

[ SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME ]

[blazeit]

I'm pretty sure the ghosts just grabbed whatever they could and like. Beat the shit out of it. Through brute force.

[ ... ]

That body was seriously fucked up good, that's all I'm gonna say about that.

[ HE SOUNDS

SO PROUD OF THEM TBH ]

[sunsong]

[ SOL CONCURS TBH ]

We have to make 'em give us like a blow by blow later, yeah?

[ninehundredlives]

...come again?

[DID SHE DRAG ALL THESE CAMERAS UP HERE FOR NO REASON]

[blazeit]

Ashley said in her letter to me they killed the shadow creature, so... You saw the body too, I'm pretty sure you can imagine how that went down.

[ a bunch of ghosts beating the crap out of a shadow monster with miscellaneous items... It's moderately horrifying but at the same time damn is Bakugou proud of them or what. ]

[ninehundredlives]

That's...really not what I expected it to look like. [She's still got a weird photo of that thing's corpse. Like, in her pocket, right now.] But good.

[icysemblance]

Holy...did they really? I'm going to hug them so hard.

[blazeit]

Same, they did so damn good.

[ The body was kind of horrifying but. GOOD JOB GUYS. ]