melodiesoflife | Event || Cluedo

Event || Cluedo

Characters: Investigators and their witnesses.
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: 15th June - 30th June.
Summary: Catch-all log for the Cluedo Event. If you would like to pursue investigations and play out the fall-out of the Cluedo events, this is the post for you. Please refer to the second OOC Post for the setting and what there is to be played. Another Log will be posted at a later date to play the murders.
Warning: Investigation and murders.

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[Unfortunately, stopping to write on a crate or wall would not only hinder the process of running away, it's something a killer would likely notice and destroy.

No, she wrote on the only thing she had handy.]

[He jumps up to grab a crate and pull himself on top of it. This way, he can get a better overview of the scene.

...Is there a message written in blood?]

[Nothing so gruesome. She wouldn't have needed the pen for that. But it is likely she tossed the pen aside after using it. And anything left at scene risks being destroyed by the culprit. Unless you wrote your message on something they would have a hard time getting at after they killed you. Something that a frightened girl could access easily while running. Something already handy.

And something that might be suddenly encased in crystal, making the message very hard to simply rub out...]

[That would be too simple, when he thinks about it. The rain could easily wash blood off the ground. The only thing someone can reasonable write on is their arm, but--

No. That's stupid. The crystal would have wiped that out...unless it only "corrects" injuries, not marking. There's also the issue of it being seen on the crystal...unless she etched it on the crystal herself.

There's no other lead, so leaving the forensics to the others, off he goes, now to the Temple of Fire!]

Edited 2016-06-25 19:55 (UTC)

[Lydia had gotten Ales' word, and had been waiting for this. Grabbing notebook and pencil, along with her camera (that was most important), she is soon in bat-form winging her way over wherever Ales said to meet. On the one hand, she's not eager to look at a murder scene, but on the other...

It's not as if she hasn't seen plenty worse either in movies and tv back home, or in the Neitherworld. She is not squeamish. Finding the Teensie, she transforms back to her normal form nearby holding her camera at the ready]

I hope I'm not too late to help. I have to be careful with my shots, I had a full roll of film when I got here, but it's down to about 20 now.

[Meaning she can't just snap like crazy, much as she might like to.]

Woah!

[Ales skids to a stop when Lydia appears before him.]

Er, you're not too late to photograph the scene but there's something I need to check at the temple right now.

[Lydia blinks, and offers a sheepish smile.]

I didn't mean to startle you. Lead the way boss?

[She is happy to fall in behind him and follow his lead.]

Right.

[He's still shaken up from the sudden teenager out of nowhere, but he continues running to the south.]

I found something at the scene of the crime. Alice's pen was tossed away, and I believe she might have written a message for us.

[She is right behind him, keeping pace pretty well.]

And there wasn't anything at the scene with writing on it?

[Quick on the uptake, isn't she?]

Not at all. Whatever she wrote on must have been cleaned away by her killer, or it was on her as she turned into crystal.

There's only one way to find out.

Then I'm definitely in the right place. I'll take pictures there.

[So very ready to help and do this.]

[Ales nods, leading Lydia through the winding streets and towards the Temple, where they find something strange...]

[Lydia is taking pictures, getting as close to the arm as she can to try and get a good shot. Taking 3 in fact, when her film IS precious. Just to ensure they have a record.]

She's smart...who's Dylas?

He's a new arrival. Not human, has antlers.

[Why him? He was a grouch, but why have him responsible for more than one incident? If the mastermind was trying to get everyone to turn against Dylas, he picked a dumb target. Why not one of those humans?]

[Lydia has done what she came here for, and is now just waiting for Ales to lead the way again.]

Maybe, if he didn't do it, they're trying to frame him because he's new?

[She picked up on the skepticism.]

He's not someone who goes out a lot, and I doubt Alice is the sort of girl to wander around dark alleyways looking for the guy. This might have been the first time she saw him.

...Of course, that doesn't exclude the possibility the culprit drew him to this scene so that the victims could have an easy target to blame.

If nothing else, it means we need to talk to him then.

[Ellie arrived at a brisk trot, not wanting to outright sprint and cause alarm, but when her brigand contacts posted in the city got word to her that a murder had just occurred, she hurried as fast as she could with discretion.]

[She sees the pen. She sees Ales combing the area, trying to see if anything was written down, and her gaze flicks back to Alice.]

Check her left arm.

[If Alice was right-handed, that's what she would have used to hold the pen, making the left side the makeshift writing surface.]

[He sees Ellie just as he rushes out of the airport docking area, but continues running. She must have seen the crystal statue, then. He appreciates that she doesn't tell him the answer outright, but lets him figure it out himself.

Without a greeting, he enters the Temple and walks straight to Alice's statue.]

[Crystallization might fix injuries, but does it erase tattoos? Makeup? No, simple marks are crystallized like everything else.

She is right handed, so the left arm is the place to check. In fact, she seems to have made a conscious effort to keep that arm held out slightly from her body. As if she knew people might be examining it later.

The message is short, and hard to see. The crystal certainly doesn't help with that. And if someone wasn't looking very closely, they'd surely miss it.

It's just one word, scrawled messily on her wrist. 'ANTLERS' ]

[UGH. Holding it up so high just to spite the short people like him. Really, Alice?

No matter. He had his Moogle sit just outside the airport and follow him around while carrying his minocopter for moments like this. It's not heavy at all, but it gets cumbersome to carry around. He takes a few seconds to hold it above his head, then press it.

Floating just high enough to read the writing on the arms...

...Antlers.

What.

He turns off the minicopter and drops onto the floor.]

Don't tell me Dylas is suspect for this one, too!

[Obviously, Alice has nothing to say to that. Just that one word, and the effort she made to communicate it to her fellow heroes.]

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Ok, so merging the thread a bit?

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I lied, threadjacking now before I run out the door

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