Seventh.

[trustfellows]

It really isn't getting any easier around here, is it? The way your numbers have fallen is impossible to ignore by now – there's so much space in this building, and it just seems to keep increasing with every passing week. Furthermore, the incentives and the timer are designed to ensure that your numbers keep dropping – something that's guaranteed to be evident today, one way or another. Friday morning dawns like the rest of the week before it; the clock chimes, the doors to the kitchen unlock, and there's a heavy silence that's settled over the building. Once again, there's no announcement from Jericho this morning to wake you up; the public-address system remains quiet, and there's only one conclusion to be drawn from that. And there's really only one thing to be done about it, isn't there? For those brave souls who want to know what happened – or those morbid ones who just want to know who died – the first three floors are clear. However, something seems amiss even from the stairwell as you make your way up to the fourth. Namely, the heavy scent of blood. Explore?

Comments

[bloodisthicker]

[awww shit. okay.

is there anything immediately obvious once walking into the hallways of the fourth floor.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda's here too, following along this whole track of the scent of blood. She... uh. Looks tired? She still has her hair done up but there's bags under her eyes. ]

You can smell that too, right? Not wishful thinking on my part?

[bloodbiter]

[this is very Yikes, so she speaks as she sees him.]

Do you smell that?

[trustfellows]

[There most definitely is.

Immediately visible even from the stairs, it looks like there's a massive amount of blood in this hallway; looking around for the source of it will reveal that there's a person lying haphazardly in the corner of the hallway, near the stairwell.

Or, well.

Most of a person. It's most of a person, lying there.]

TRUST HAS BEEN BROKEN.

[trustbound]

[The clock chimes out suddenly and loudly from the foyer, the sound of it ringing out across the entirety of the building; unsettling though it is, it might almost be welcome after everything that's been happening here – after all, it's a sign that there will be...hopefully less unpleasant surprises in the rooms or the hallways.

Jericho can be heard a short while later, however; there's a definite intensity to his words – he seems about as excitable as ever, despite the carnage. Or perhaps because of the carnage, it's difficult to tell; either way, he doesn't seem as weirded out as he did during the third week, that much is obvious. Just very, very excited.]

Holy shit, okay. So the message I'm getting here is that you're all going to be really mad over people killing each other, but in the end absolutely nobody's going to go halfway when it comes to the actual killing part. Got it!

That's Peerless, Edifying, and Adroit down. Down and out and just kinda everywhere, from the look of it. I'm pretty sure you guys aren't going to let that stand, so go ahead and look around. Investigate as much or as little as you see fit, maybe try to find the rest of them?

Once you're done with that and are about as happy as you can be with yourselves right now, go ahead and meet us in the courtroom; we'll be waiting. And as always, do your best!

[trustfellows]

EVIDENCE LIST

31/31

FOURTH FLOOR HALLWAY (5/5)
- Milla did not deserve this
- Milla definitely didn't deserve this
- Why this
- Another note!
- Thanks, arrows!

ART STUDIO (6/6)
- Angel did not deserve this
- She didn't deserve this either
- How useful
- Blood evidence...?
- Well, at least it's in the sink
- More blood!

ART STORAGE (6/6)
- Susan did not deserve this
- She definitely didn't deserve this
- Huh...
- Missing items!
- A note!
- The door's been left open

ART STORAGE'S SECRET HALLWAY (3/3)
- Poor Angel
- That's a lot of saws
- This might be important too

WORKSHOP (3/3)
- All of the saws?
- This isn't the art room!
- Hmm...

MUSIC ROOM (5/5)
- Poor Susan
- Why would you do this to a cello
- This is here too!
- Suspicious...
- It just wouldn't be a Trustfell case without more blood!

FOURTH FLOOR MEN'S RESTROOM (3/3)
- What a waste of water
- How many sharp objects were involved in this case anyway?
- Poor Milla

FOURTH FLOOR HALLWAY

[trustfellows]

[evilfrenzy]

[...

Rideaux has a lot of mixed feelings about that announcement. Angel and Susan, too... Mmngh.

But he needs to focus here, because there is going to be a lot to investigate. He'll go ahead and turn his focus to Milla's body. The Great Spirit Maxwell...dead right in front of him. It still feels strange. But he'll get to work regardless.

Well. He's going to need to figure out what happened with the legs later, but before he gets to the obvious injuries he's going to start with Milla's head and work his way down. Are there anything to be found here?]

AREA CLEAR

[trustfellows]

ART STUDIO

[trustfellows]

[heritrix]

[Well, Adelina has Susan. After stepping out of the storage room, worked up and breathing heavily, Rin mostly wants to back out of here. Maybe investigate the music room since she found it first. But with Susan dead, and three bodies...

Rin holds her head up a little straighter, and makes her way to the one that's been left behind in the art room, crouching down beside Angel. How's she doing here? Besides the missing left arm. Are there any other obvious injuries?]

[destage]

[Well, while Rin's got the...body...Sayaka is gonna go and look around the room itself for a bit. Anything interesting going on here in the room itself...?]

AREA CLEAR

[trustfellows]

ART STORAGE

[trustfellows]

[bloodbiter]

[Okay, she can do this. This is... not at all fine, but she can handle this.

She looks over Susan's body first; what wounds are present on the woman?]

AREA CLEAR

[trustfellows]

ART STORAGE'S SECRET HALLWAY

[trustfellows]

[hesperos]

[ Alright, so there's a lot going on around these floors, but Yuri's going to come right in here first. Is there anything obviously off at first glance here? ]

AREA CLEAR

[trustfellows]

WORKSHOP

[trustfellows]

[matchbreaker]

[ Okay so Elda, dejected, furious, tired, was intending to go down to the hall with Milla but uh... she ended up here instead. She sort of intended to come break something.

Is anything immediately amiss? ]

AREA CLEAR

[trustfellows]

MUSIC ROOM

[trustfellows]

[sleepytimegal]

[ Everything sucks and there's apparently a hand in here? But... They're stretched thin. Especially with...

Don't think about it. Time to investigate...starting with the piano I guess. Let's get the horrible thing out of the way first. ]

FOURTH FLOOR MEN'S RESTROOM

[trustfellows]

[bloodisthicker]

[Tarrlok goes downstairs to...

...

...

Nah fuck it he's just going to the bathroom to settle down a bit, holy fuck. Um.]