June mini-event

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06/19 07:32

[ The following half-cryptic message goes up in the early morning before class, at the exact same time as two people are let into the faculty office to talk to the Vice Principal. ]

S.Saihara

Sorry. I should have told everyone a lot sooner.
I know that.
But... if I did that, there was a chance it might have become about the merit points. And no matter what, I wanted to prevent that at any cost.

The person who did it might have been wrong... but they're still an important friend that we lived with.
That's something that shouldn't be reduced to a number.
The fact that it can be is what's messed up in the first place.
So maybe I wanted it to be a message. Not only for that person, but for the rest of us too.

[ There's no further explanation that follows, and any comments, no matter how important, will obviously not be answered for at least a few hours, depending on how things settle. ]

06/19 17:23

It's a bright and sunny day. The heat is unbearable, with sunlight reflecting off the whites of the outer walls of the school building and seeming to concentrate right in the middle of the courtyard where it comes off the concrete in waves. In desperation for a breeze, you open a window— or perhaps you can't, and simply rattle the window latch futilely— when something large and black falls from the sky and smacks into the pavement, black turned red turned nausea and vertigo and the consequential darkness of the school when a blood sacrifice has been observed.

Black shadows students start to converge upon the body in the courtyard, although their efforts to drag the body into the expanding void in the auditorium can be thwarted by breaking a mirror and returning to reality— just in time to see a second body hit the pavement in the courtyard and send you right back. Escape once more and... a third body hits the ground, bright blue eyes staring lifelessly up at the sky above.

The sky stares back, dark storm clouds gathering in the horizon. Tonight, and through the weekend, it will rain.

06/19 17:47

I.Sena

dying is sooooooooo annoying
so fess up who did it

✽ Please use the toplevels below for investigations. For some semblance of organization, there will be a separate toplevel for body investigation, location investigation, and suspect investigation, as well as one for general questions.
✽ As a reminder, npc students can open/close any window; pc students in classes with at least one rank (3-A, 3-B, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, and all of the first year classes) can open/close windows in 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C; and pc students in classes that gained at least one rank in the past month (3-A, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, 1-B, 1-D, and 1-E) can exit through the courtyard-facing window in 1-D.
✽ Unless there's an ic reason to argue otherwise, npc faculty will remove all three bodies by the end of the day.

Comments

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Speaking of, Maya's going to go "what the fuck was that message, Saihara" the next time she sees him, which won't be today bc she is bad at checking the PDA

Some of the npc students give him weird looks because of the message, but there are still some that indulge him. Since npc students do not experience void school, the first body was missed by most students and the number of students who saw what happened is very few. Of these students, they were on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors, and more were on the club side of the school than the classroom side.

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ISN'T SHE GONNA KNOW help is the staff gonna keep the confession a secret, I assumed the whole school would find out through the grapevine...

Anyway, if people on the 3rd floor saw the fall, it's safe to assume the body was thrown from the 4th, right? Since you have to be lower to actually... catch the motion. Shuichi will diligently tell Amami what he found out through the walkie-talkie, and suggest he also check the bathroom next to 1-D and maybe the crawlspaces around the area.

On his end, he'll either go back up with someone or wait until Amami's free to help him again, but either way later that evening, he'll check his classmate's desk and locker, and also the trash can in their homeroom. What does he find...

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The staff isn't going to broadcast it like "HEY EVERYBODY GUESS WHAT??" they're in the business of providing an environment for murder, not punishing those who commit it ('': Merit points are just a bonus...

True for windows on the classroom side to see something fall past the window, but on the clubroom side if a person is standing right next to a window, their gaze is naturally drawn either straight across or lower, especially in following movement. Which, now that I think about it, a student on the 4th floor could see too, but for simplicity's sake I'll say that nobody on the 4th floor saw anything.

The trashcan will be emptied by the janitor before the end of the day (6PM) so it will be empty if he waits too long. The classmate's desk doesn't have much of note inside- it contains some textbooks, a notebook with an attempt at taking notes, and school supplies. Inside their locker is an extra set of school uniforms, outdoor shoes, several superhero comic books, and two months worth of failed exams; it seems as if they were really struggling on all sorts of subjects.

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But they offered 300 merits for whoever found the culprit, too? This school is so confusing, it's fine, he'll just have a very awkward conversation with Maya.

Hmm... okay, so just to make absolutely sure so we don't assume the wrong thing, was there anyone specifically in the 3rd floor classrooms that saw the drop past their window too? Or is that a suspicious blank / gap in accounts...

OKAY tbh I feel like Shuichi would reasonably remember that from the last murder, so since he himself stayed out past 6PM, he'll ask Amami to swing by in the middle of what he's doing and check the trash real quick before then. In Enh's words: "if you have time to steal from the cult you have time to check the trash can"

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Yeah

Nobody on the 3rd floor saw the bodies drop completely past their windows from top to bottom, but ones on the club room side were able to see the bodies in the middle of falling from the 3rd floor below. Basically, focus on the 3rd and 4th floors.

There is only normal school trash inside the trashcan in 2-C, lots of papers and pencil shavings and Shuichi can touch wet gum if he's using his hands to root through the trash.

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Shuichi.... is safe outside so Amami will have to go through that incredible experience on his behalf (and decide if he checks anything else on the 3rd floor). Thanks for ur sacrifice oniichan...

That's all I had for now, thank you Ori!