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April mini-event
04/13 17:41
On Tuesday, after classes are long over and clubs just about wrapping up, those studying inside the library may notice black smoke start to fill the room. With the lack of sound, the library relies on flashing strobe lights to alert students of an emergency and the librarian with her piercing stare and domineering presence to order students to pack and leave IMMEDIATELY. The longer one lingers inside the library, the greater the sense of dread builds inside of them until they're unable to resist the student council members who have come to escort the last of the stragglers out, physically if need be.
Outside of the library, gathering students speculate about what happened, whether there was a fire, what were they planning to burn, maybe they were trying to get back at the librarian— who looks positively livid, by the way, and maybe staying clear of the library for several days until she cools off isn't a bad idea, although students will have no choice as the student council members standing guard at the door prevent anybody from reentering the library until it is deemed safe.
The library is closed for the rest of the week, and a sign on the door states that it will reopen on Monday the 19th.
Outside of the library, gathering students speculate about what happened, whether there was a fire, what were they planning to burn, maybe they were trying to get back at the librarian— who looks positively livid, by the way, and maybe staying clear of the library for several days until she cools off isn't a bad idea, although students will have no choice as the student council members standing guard at the door prevent anybody from reentering the library until it is deemed safe.
The library is closed for the rest of the week, and a sign on the door states that it will reopen on Monday the 19th.
04/14, 00:33
Around half an hour after midnight, those sleeping on the third floor in or near the second year classrooms may feel the ground shudder beneath them. They, uh, may actually want to relocate very soon, because water bursts out of the bathroom and floods the entire floor with very cold, light pink water.
Is that a finger floating down the hall? Yeah... yeah.
By the time the first of the faculty arrives at six in the morning, the entire third floor is flooded, and water has traveled down the stairwell to the lower floors as well, although there isn't as much water as one would think, as if something more is blocking the pipes and preventing all the water from rushing out of the burst pipe at once. The water is shut off for the rest of the day so repairs can be done and the floors mopped down and dried, with the second and third years relocated to the club rooms and auditorium for classes, and the bathroom by 2-D is closed for repairs until Monday the 19th.
When the water is turned on again at the end of the day, it is still very very faintly tinged pink.
Is that a finger floating down the hall? Yeah... yeah.
By the time the first of the faculty arrives at six in the morning, the entire third floor is flooded, and water has traveled down the stairwell to the lower floors as well, although there isn't as much water as one would think, as if something more is blocking the pipes and preventing all the water from rushing out of the burst pipe at once. The water is shut off for the rest of the day so repairs can be done and the floors mopped down and dried, with the second and third years relocated to the club rooms and auditorium for classes, and the bathroom by 2-D is closed for repairs until Monday the 19th.
When the water is turned on again at the end of the day, it is still very very faintly tinged pink.
04/16, 03:47
Considering that it's the middle of the night and most people, if they need to sleep, are doing so, it may be a while before anybody wanders into the auditorium. When they do, they're stricken with a bout of vertigo that passes almost as soon as it starts, and they may notice a body on the ground in front of the largest glass case in the back of the room. As in, the body inside the case is still there, and now there is a second body lying on the ground in front of it in a pool of dark red blood. A charming little note has been stuck to the front of the body's uniform, and a fluffy white cat runs out of the room while a skinny black cat peers at whoever is there from behind the large glass case.
Whether the people who initially discover the body decide to look for clues first or go wake and gather everybody to bring to the auditorium, they should be aware that the other students and faculty will be arriving in just a little over two hours. What are y'all going to do!!! You tell me.
Whether the people who initially discover the body decide to look for clues first or go wake and gather everybody to bring to the auditorium, they should be aware that the other students and faculty will be arriving in just a little over two hours. What are y'all going to do!!! You tell me.
04/19 08:00
Whether the body is left or moved, though, a missing student quickly becomes obvious, and the assistant principal orders a school assembly in the auditorium on Monday the 19th, looking very pale and slightly sick, which may or may not be due to the presence of a ...very realistic """doll""" on display in a glass case behind her. She announces that the student council president has passed away, and that students who report information regarding the situation to the faculty will receive merit points for their assistance, and whoever can provide indisputable proof of what happened and who was involved will receive 300 merit points, enough to put them well above even the best of students.
She also brings up the destruction in the library the other day, and how the pipes had burst overnight, and how the ceiling tiles seem to have been falling in places and have led the janitor to discover rats in the walls. Since the school will be closed over spring break, she will be having repairmen do extensive repairs on the school, including a very thorough fumigation to ensure no rats or bugs or anything of the sort left inside the school will come out of spring break alive.
Be good! Be safe! You are all dismissed.
She also brings up the destruction in the library the other day, and how the pipes had burst overnight, and how the ceiling tiles seem to have been falling in places and have led the janitor to discover rats in the walls. Since the school will be closed over spring break, she will be having repairmen do extensive repairs on the school, including a very thorough fumigation to ensure no rats or bugs or anything of the sort left inside the school will come out of spring break alive.
Be good! Be safe! You are all dismissed.
OOC
- ✽ Please note that silence is strictly enforced in the library at all hours, and in the rest of the school from midnight to 6 AM. Although the library and the bathroom by 2-D are closed until the 19th, the doors are not locked and both rooms are accessible for investigation when the npcs are not present.
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- ✽ Please use the toplevels below for investigations, and the post itself to discuss amongst yourselves who the culprit may be. There is no deadline for solving this murder, but the solution will net 300 points to one character who reports it to the faculty and will guarantee you the winning bid on the body in the glass case.
- ✽ editable OOC notes can be found here
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Inside the art room, two things:
-- Are there any current WIP paintings that use the color identified above? If so, is this painting signed or is there any way to figure out whose painting it is? Such as a list of club members somewhere in the room and/or who's working on what.
-- They'd probably check the supply cabinets and any other storage spaces (the line of thinking is maybe the body was stored somewhere in there), as well as look for any hidden compartments in the flooring and/or walls. And probably the crawlspace portion above this room too, just in case.
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It's hard to tell which painting use that color specifically unless you're one of our newly apped artist characters that idk can identify colors, but if they ask members of the art club, they'll say that most artist mix paints instead of using them directly from the tube. From sight, there are some paintings with dark blues that match, but none of them are signed since they're still WIPs. One of these paintings will forever be a WIP because, as an art club member will tell them, the artist is the student council president who was working on a nighttime scene of the wisteria tree in the courtyard.
The supply cabinets and storage spaces are filled with paints, pastels, canvases, etc in ...relatively neat organization. Things are sort of just stuck wherever there's space, with the paints in one cabinet, the paper in the other, etc. One of the cabinets is completely empty, and there is a red stain on the back... which smells like acrylic paint. There doesn't seem to be any hidden compartments other than the crawlspace above this room, which is not dusty and is also free of rat droppings.
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(On that note, why don't they use that cabinet? Was the stuff in there moved recently? I'm assuming if this is the case it would come up on its own in the answer to the question above, but if it doesn't then Saihara would ask directly.)
The empty cabinet has a red paint stain on it, but there's no red in the art room... does the stain match in shape to what the body would have left if it was resting there with its back against that wall? Also are there any signs of someone trying to coat over it with something so it smells like paint and not blood?
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The cabinet used to contain paints— very old buckets of paints they weren't sure have dried out yet and may or may not have been lead based, and old cases of stray paint. These mostly sat there collecting dust all these years, and they didn't think the president had finished cleaning everything out already. The cabinet isn't very tall, so the body could fit but be a bit cramped, but the stain is higher in a corner and could possibly match up to the wound on the back of her head if it were positioned as such. The paint doesn't look deliberately brushed on (eg there are no paint strokes) but that's also debatable in a clubroom full of presumably talented artists.
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If someone were to search the canvas she was using for her painting, would they be able to find anything hidden in there? Like stuffed in the frame or stuck to the painting itself and concealed with a layer of paint over it.
And, is there anything in the art room that looks like it might be where the letters on the "donation" card were cut out from? I'm assuming those are cutouts stuck together to prevent handwriting identification, right? From how the picture looked.
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Yeah, those are cutouts stuck to paper to hide handwriting! There is nothing sitting around that is very obviously missing a single letter, but there are some newspaper and magazines and general scrapbook material lying around that could have been used and disposed of completely versus just tearing out a single sheet.
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Also, if someone were to compare the letters used with the available material, would they find letters that match color / size / etc. with the ones on the note? Like for example even if a whole issue of a magazine was thrown out, maybe there's another that has the same type of letters in it, etc. Basically I'm asking if there's enough to narrow down that the note was probably crafted from materials in the art room even if no direct evidence remains.
(As for direct evidence... Komaeda will search the trash can in the art room. Is there anything in there?)
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Also yes, they would be able to find letters similar to ones found in the advertisements in the magazines. These magazines are all old and span several years back, and seem to have been collected to be either used in art or to lay on the floors to protect them if somebody is a messy painter/sculptor/whatever. Shuichi can determine that there's a good possibility that the culprit used one of these magazines.
There is... trash... in the trash cans. Sort of. Empty paints and such that can usually be seen in the trash cans during class or club hours have been thrown out already since this is the middle of the night, but there are recycling bins filled with paper that isn't taken out as regularly. In them, Komaeda can find full and scraps of paper and magazines and other recyclables both clean and covered in paint. Presumably the club members reuse these papers to protect the ground instead of tearing up a new magazine each day.
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What is he trying to learn from this so I'm not leading you on a wild goose chase?
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Let me know if I need to be more specific than that though!
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Thank you for humoring me for 45785690 details!
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