fifth investigation

[stagemanagers]

[Oh, what a night.
Why'd it take so long to see the light,
Seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right.
What a time, what a night.

What a night last night was! Dancing under the stars, romance, family...all the things a good school dance should stand for. Even with everyone being sick it could still, overall, be considered a hige success.

But on the subject of the sickness thats spread through the school...when people start to rouse from their dance-fuled exhaustion in the morning all the symptoms seem to be completely gone. Which should be good news but knowing what day it is.

Maybe you should leave your dorms and investigate.]

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[stagemanagers]

[Beneath the sheet, the body is sprawled out on its back, very still. That pristine prom outfit is soaked through with blood on the front, and there is a pair of coins resting over her eyes.

Maya Tendo is



still breathing.]

[employeeoftheyear]

[That

That’s his sister

His baby sister

Spongebob doesn’t think. He immediately goes to her side and cradles her close to him.]

Maya! Maya please tell me you’re still with us!

[brokeforgood]

[Well maybe if she just stands in the doorway she’s not technically leaving the dorm—]

Hey guys wh—- [Farrah Screams.]

[stagemanagers]

[Maya is out cold, for the record!]

[employeeoftheyear]

[Its okay, Spongebob is continue to gently cradle her, soothing her hair out with his good hand.]

Please say with me Maya, stay with us. I won’t let my baby sister die on me.

[comeandfindme]

[ Listening to Janis as she works (which will be documented in the investigation toplevel), Peregrine sharply says: ]

Spongebob. I got her. You need to look with everyone else. Please. We need all hands on deck.

[employeeoftheyear]

O-okay.

[Spongebob hesitantly lets go of Maya and gets up, giving one last look at Peregrine before he sets off.]

Please take care of her for me.

[Well time to investigate that rooftop garden for real now!]

[stagemanagers]

[There's also some pretty concerning stuff going on here, but no actual corpses! You might be able to see, uh, the courtyard from up here, though.]

[mcfife]

Maya!

[Angus crouches over her, no, that's too much blood. There's the coins, she's dying, she's alive--]

Supplies! We need--! She's still alive, we need to save her!

[He's going to remove the coins from her eyes.]

[comeandfindme]

[ The shout wakes her.

Peregrine stumbles out of Broadhurst, hair mussed and half-dressed in a long night shirt, too focused on the adrenaline to perform a head count. ]

What hap- what happened?! [ She looks— ] Maya...?

[ She pales. And immediately returns to Broadhurst, pulling out her emergency first aid supplies from her backpack. ]

We gotta clean the wound, stop the bleeding!

[mcfife]

Her dress- we remove it!

[He's going to let another girl to do that, for now he's going to keep her awake.]

Maya, brave Maya. Can you hear us? Please, we're here for you. [They can save her. They won't lose another of their number. He swore to get them out of here alive, and he isn't going to break that promise!]

[fourbutts]

[ And, behind her, shortly after! ... Also, even moreso, Deeply Disheveled. ]

Maya? Fuck-

[ Well now Janis is fuckin Awake!! ]

She's not... is she?

[mcfife]

She's alive, we can save her!

[He prays they can. Peregrine is more than capable of saving her.]

[stagemanagers]

[Yeah, you should probably do that - but for organization's sake, let's save it for the investigation header. After all, you're bound to find some things.]

[comeandfindme]

[ Man, here I am already writing up a fun first-aid comment— alright, we'll save it for then. ]

[fourbutts]

[ While that happens. ]

... We're not sick. If she's okay and we're not sick.

[ Janis swallows. She looks down at Maya. Peregrine's got this. She has to have faith that Peregrine has this. And she's going to have to step up while Maya's out. ]

We need to keep looking. Everyone who's not currently saving my girlfriend's life, we need to keep looking through the school. Now.

[ And she's going to go check uh. The photo dungeons, because those seem like an ideal place, narratively, to do a murder. ]

[stagemanagers]

[Narratively, this place is pretty fucked, huh? But there's nothing new to find here!]

[brokeforgood]

Well—-

Shit. Why follow the rules now?

[To the courtyard we go!]

[mcfife]

[Peregrine and Spongebob has it handled. Knowing that Maya will be well, Angus has a lot of people to worry about. He runs off to the gym first.]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Maya?

[What...... how....]

[tailor_made]

[Just a few seconds after the announcement sounds, the door to Broadhurst opens and there's Hester, shoeless and still in her prom dress doing her best impression of Andy Samberg's Liam the Teenager Who Just Woke Up.]

Wha' happ'n?

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine isn't surprised by Hester's approach. In fact, she's...busy, but we'll get to that in the investigation thread!! ]

Hester! Over here, I need a hand!

[tailor_made]

Wh- oh my god, Maya! [The panic in Hester is instantaneous and she springs forward to be nurse to Peregrine's field medic, crouching on the ground and right in some of the blood.] Tell me what to do.

[musacal]

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[musacal]

[ Before Hester arrives the Gershwin Groundhog can be seen down the hall, paralyzed in place. It's faint but there's a rattling sound coming from it.

Right as the Broadhurst door opens though it's gone, ducking into a different room to hide (and cry) in. ]