Fourth.

[trustfellows]

As the fourth week comes to a close and Friday morning dawns like the rest of the week before it, with the chiming of the clock and the doors to the kitchen unlocking, it seems, for a brief moment, that everything will be normal. For a given degee of "normal", anyway – perhaps some are on edge because there's a definite pattern that's been happening here, but for a few blissful moments, everything seems quiet. It doesn't last long; eventually, Jericho's voice can be heard over the public-address system. He doesn't sound as excitable as usual, though perhaps that can be explained away with the content of his message: "Hey. Just so you know, we've kind of got a problem this morning. Nothing catastrophic or anything, but you might want to get into the foyer so you know what's going on. We'll be waiting." You might want to go.

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[trustfellows]

[Have fun, Elda!!]

[matchbreaker]

[ Man that wouldn't been more efficient if she just waited in the first place. Either way, after a slight delay she's back! And she can open the door.

So let's step into what's hopefully not a room of crazy. ]

[trustfellows]

[Two things will immediately catch your attention: there's something on the walls near the entrance of the room and there's something on the desk. Which one do you want to examine first?]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . .

Well, the walls are more visible, so let's look at the walls first, sure. ]

[trustfellows]

[There are carvings around the doorway! They're this and a simplified version of that, and they're kind of crudely etched into the wall.]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Weird.

... Well, she studies them for a long while before she uh - once more leaves the room so she can come back quick with a pencil and some paper from her own room. She's a talented enough sketch artist, she'll just be making a copy of those in the notebook here. Not like she can rip out the wall to show it to people.

But once she's got that down... well, she'll run her nails along them. Probably done with a knife or something, huh? (she'll move on to the desk though if there's nothing else to be gotten there) ]

[trustfellows]

[Nothing else to find with those carvings, nope!

On the desk is a crossbow. It also has carvings etched into it; these look like the ones on Sigrun's blade instead of the ones by the door.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Well shit.

Guess she'll just be carrying this - actually, probably good to check, is this thing loaded? Does it look like those carvings were also crudely made like the ones at the door or are these more artistically done?

( essentially, she's trying to deduce if these were likely both carved by Sigrun or if this crossbow had them to begin with / if this is one of the crossbows from the shooting gallery ) ]

[trustfellows]

[It's not loaded! The carvings look just as crudely made as the ones on the wall, yes!]

[matchbreaker]

[ Are they any bolts laying around this desk area? Or just an unloaded crossbow here she'll just be carrying along? ]

[trustfellows]

[No bolts! There's also one more thing to find here, so where do you want to look?]

[matchbreaker]

[ Well let's make a quick sweep...! How's the bed looking? If there's nothing obvious there her next step would be the closet ]

[trustfellows]

[There's nothing off with either of those, actually! Where to next?]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Hmm.

Well she could look in the trunk but... how about the bathroom? ]

[trustfellows]

[Nope, nothing off in here either!]

[matchbreaker]

[ Man she was mildly hoping it'd be something flushed down the toilet.

... So let's look back at the trunk? ]

[trustfellows]

[Nothing important to note there either!

As a hint, you might want to try looking up.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Science has now proven Elda would be eaten by a spider in a dungeon.

looks up? ]

[trustfellows]

[Most people don't think to look up, but it's always a very important thing to check in case of spiders!!

There are no spiders up there thankfully, but over the door there's another carving. This one is a word, actually! It reads: VERN. It's also worth noting that it's pretty poorly-written.]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . okay so like Elda's short and Sigrun's tall, but how high are these ceilings? Would this be like Sigrun could reach up there without a stool or anything if she stretched her arms out, or is the implication she needed to stand on things and/or spider climb ]