third investigation

[stagemanagers]

[At the start of Friday, things are surprisingly calm. There’s no blood on the hall carpet, presumably no bodies ready to fall out of a broom closet, nothing especially incriminating when the cast wakes up and emerges from their rooms. It’s possible this time, even with the palpable temptation of the Phantom’s motive, that no one has taken him up on his offer to kill. Maybe later today you won't have to march yourselves into the trial room to decipher clues and watch more of you die.

But the day is young.]

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LIBRARY

[stagemanagers]

[recessives]

[ slams in here THIS IS A SURPRISE ROOM THAT'S GONNA HELP US NOW what's up what's in here now that she knows two people she liked are dead ]

[stagemanagers]

[You may notice that a chair at one of the tables is askew.]

[recessives]

[ The damn murderer.... not putting chairs back.......

Okay, time to look at that further, then. What do we got here? ]

[stagemanagers]

[There's some papers on the ground next to the chair! All together, we have a) a crumpled-up scrap, b) a full page, crumpled, and c) a pile of tiny tiny scraps. Pick your poison!]

[recessives]

[ Let's start with A! ]

[stagemanagers]

[She has chosen A.

This appears to be a ripped scrap of a letter, which was then crumpled up. If you unfold it, you can still read one sentence:]

You killed two people, of course.

[recessives]

[ Oh of course, for sure.

Uh... h-how about B? ]

[stagemanagers]

[B is a full letter, crumpled. Though it hasn't been torn, there's only one sentence on it anyway:]

I can grant you that opportunity. All you need do is ask.

[recessives]

[ COOL.....

so uh. c? ]

[stagemanagers]

[C is a bunch of tiny torn-up scraps of paper! As they are now, the pieces are too small for any of the writing to be legible.]

[recessives]

[ well! this has been a fun and edifying journey! she really appreciates having been the one to find all of this!

Anything else of note here? ]

[stagemanagers]

[There's no further items in here, at least!]

[justmeheere]

[nevermind meph's got that ignore hey shilo we're investigating together again

at least there's no surprise blood here right? it probably just looks like some friends had tea and - wait. that historically ends badly.]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like there's some stuff on the floor near one of the tables - a different table from the one Shilo is currently looking at.]

[justmeheere]

[A lifetime of point and click mystery games has prepared him for this - what kind of stuff? Like dropped books? Trash? A sword?]

[stagemanagers]

[Oh, you recognize this! It looks like one of those pamphlets you all received containing the cast profiles! This one looks like it's been creased and marked up a lot.]

[justmeheere]

[Huh. Marks like writing? Does it look like anyone's handwriting he'd probably recognize?]

[stagemanagers]

[You won't be able to identify any handwriting, because there's not really any writing going on here! Red, Richard, Jonny, and Sigyn's photos have been crossed out with thick X's. That's about the closest it comes to writing proper.

As for the rest - there are a lot of punctures through several other photos, as if stabbed through with a pen. These photos are: Nana, Steven, Spinel, Riley, and yourself, Jeremy.]

[justmeheere]

[Wow. So. So glad he's found this piece of evidence. Truly, this investigation is a series of people finding concerning evidence for them, personally.

..................... I'm afraid to ask this: is there anything else?]

[stagemanagers]

[Actually, no, there's no further curses in this particular area of the library!]

[justmeheere]

[Oh thank god I was afraid you were gonna tell me there was a bloody knife or something.]

AREA CLEAR

[stagemanagers]