some sunny day

[sticksandbomesmods]

Its the early morning, the sun has been up for about an hour or two with the quiet stirring of the Grove. The town slowly wakes up, and goes about their morning...

There is a smell in the halls of the Inn. Subtle in the early hours, but as the sun rises higher in the sky, it becomes difficult to ignore. Pungent and sharp. It's the smell of warm milk on the cusp of growing sour.

Under one of the doors a bright, almost pearlescent substance, that has started to leak out.


Uncovered Clues:

1. Unlocked door.
2. Signs of light scuffling
3. Upended box of pastries
4. Stabbed in the heart, likely died instantly
5. Wound is small with no exit wound.
6. Window is Adjacent to Body
7. Dipper's blood is two different colors, red and pearlescent white. The pearl blood seems older. The red blood comes straight from the wound.
8. body is cold and has been dead some time.
9. Noise at 10-11 pm
10. Dipper left a note for his uncles he was meeting a friend.
11. KNIFE

Comments

[beathollow]

( mafuyu nods and does the same. time to open this door... )

[sticksandbomesmods]

[Congrats! The door opens as the object behind it is shoved forward.]

[Doing so seems to jostle it enough to have it fall over with a soft thud]

[The room is dark, with the exception of a low lit lamp with a red filter over the light, and the glow of that white substance that seems all over ...the oh. Oh that's a person. It was a person that was up against the door.]

[beathollow]

-!!

( sorry, odile, you're with an actually very sheltered teenage girl- it's only her shock that keeps her from screaming. )

[alphacraft]

Oh--

[ She's been through enough that her exclamation is quiet and restrained, turning quickly into a grimace. She steps aside so the girl has plenty of room to escape. ]

Perhaps you should wait outside.

[beathollow]

I- yes. Okay. S-should I get a doctor...?

( translation: is there any chance they're alive? )

[alphacraft]

[ If this was a human and blood? Definitely not. Still, a healer might be able to tell what exactly happened here, and it's a good idea to send the young one away on an errand. ]

...Please do. And please don't tell anyone else about this until we understand what's happened here.

[beathollow]

Okay. I'll be back, then.

( she's splitting the party then! to find... someone! have fun, odile. )

[alphacraft]

[ With the child gone Odile steps fully into the room and flips the light switch. ]

[sticksandbomesmods]

[The person is Stan's great-nephew Dipper, and he is very dead.]

[What would Odile like to look at first?]

[alphacraft]

[ First she's gonna. Close the door. Don't want people wandering by and seeing a dead body out of the blue.

She gives body a long enough look to identify it as 1. Dipper and 2. dead, then takes in the rest of the room, looking for signs of a struggle or any kind of pattern to the blood splatter. ]

[eidxiety]

[Hilarious, guess who was summoned by Mafuyu and is opening the door—

and then is immediately frowning at the corpse, oh... oh.]

[sticksandbomesmods]

[Odile will find the room is ...a little messy like anyone would expect a room of a teen boy to be, but Dipper is also very methodical in the way he organizes his stuff so, there is a clear work table with trays for his photography work. The lamp with the red light also rests on that table. String up across the ceiling are photo graphs. There's another table off to the side with some strange looking tools. His journal.]

[There is an upended stool, and a damaged chair that looks like it might have been tossed in a scuffle. A few feet from Dipper is also an upended box of pastries. The wound he's bleeding from is a stab wound in the heart, and the only splatter is actually from what might have come from moving him around with the door.]

[Also the blood near the wound is red where most of the blood that's on the floor or older is pearlescent.]

[alphacraft]

[ Odile flinches when she hears the door open, but relaxes when she turns and finds it isn't another teenager in the doorway. ]

Ah. Ain, wasn't it? I apologize. I wanted to send the girl away as quickly as possible.

[ So... yeah, welcome to the Corpse, she doesn't expect you to heal it. ]

[eidxiety]

Mm... haha, I'll tell her to go visit Mr. Jellyfish after this...

[Yeah that sure is a corpse, but Ain is checking over nonetheless. Don't tell me the body's gone cold... or do, this is an investigation after all and Ain is looking for other types of injuries but not finding any, per the above obviously.

Weird question. If Ain enters his Freak Arc and tries to see what colour the body's blood actually is, considering the mix of the two... will he be able to do that? He might say "sorry" like six times in succession and stick his fingers in the knife-hole to check while making the most horrified face about it.]

[sticksandbomesmods]

[....Yes.]

[Yes, Ain can do that. Weirdo. the blood in the knife hole is red. And it stays red even when exposed to the air. Looks like whatever triggers his milk-blood is something else.]

[Also, he is right, the body has gone very cold, probably too cold? The smell is slowly growing worse, too.]

[eidxiety]

[He hates this, he's sorry Dipper but he has to check. People here have weird blood and he knows that because he is also a weird-blood-haver. After three more apologies, he's going to skedaddle over to the pearl-coloured blood.

Is it still wet? Dry? Can he scoop that with his opposite hand and tell anything about it like magical properties (he is an angel/can sense supernatural things??) or if the texture is different?

Mutter mutter,]

I wonder if Mr. Crane can identify whose blood this is, since he did blood draws on most of us...

[Odile was not here to experience this, this was a while ago, but Ain wonders this aloud as he flits about.]

[sticksandbomesmods]

[Some of its still wet! Have fun scooping it! The consistency isn't much different but it's definitely more magical. Though, it's notable that the magic between the red and pearl blood is the same, just that the pearl blood is way more potent.]

[It's probably worth asking Mr. Crane, though. Who knows!]

[alphacraft]

[ Odile was already looking back at the room, thinking through several problems, when she hears... that happening. She turns to look, makes a face, and promptly look away again.

She's read enough murder mysteries to have some idea of what to look for, but it's very different when put in to practice. But if Dipper was against the door, then where did the assailant go? Out the window, maybe? ]

I'll have to take your word for it. I've never seen blood in so light a shade before... and I wouldn't know if the color has any significance.

[sticksandbomesmods]

[There is a window on the other side of the room directly across from where Dipper's body was found, though it's covered with a thick curtain to keep the light out.]

[eidxiety]

[When I commit the cardinal sin of playercest and Ain whines to Gnosis like MR. CRANE DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER :( anyway that's cheatin' so Ain's just gonna

wipe his fingers on a tissue :')]

His blood is magical. —haha, sorry, I know that sounds weird. The pearl-coloured blood has a pretty potent amount of magic coursing through it. I don't know what to make of it, because I didn't know Mr. Sou Sou that well, magically-speaking. Um...

[...]

He's been dead for several hours. Just by the way.

[Anxiety level increasing... Ain is not equipped to do an autopsy and it's very clear one isn't needed, but it's the wound that bothers him. Are there any drag marks/blood droplets/"the body was moved here/the body was killed here" type forensic marks, or is it just what was described above?]

[sticksandbomesmods]

[Sure looks like he was stabbed up against the door and died pretty damn quick.]

[Though, no blood on the door. Whatever got him wasn't long enough to leave an exit wound.

[alphacraft]

Several hours? That's useful information.

[ She's going to open up those curtains. ]

[sticksandbomesmods]

[Sunlight!!!! Its kind of bright out there. Outside is...well, the outside of the Inn. Some bushes.]

[Something glinting.]

[eidxiety]

[Cool cool, while Odile checks out the window (because Ain is having the same thought but doesn't want to get in the way), he doesn't know what else to do here other than to make Dipper comfortable (Ain he's dead) so he just

scoops this wholeass teenager into bed and covers him with the blankets.

This is what they do when humans die right, they make them look like they were resting peacefully...]

Ms. Old Lady— [why] —whatever weapon got him didn't leave an exit wound. It was probably something small. A dagger, I'm guessing?

[cryptograms]

[ As far as Ford knows, he and Stan walking to the inn to meet his still-living nephew for the day.

But as he draws closer he can tell that something is off. The scent in the air is wrong—and familiar. It only takes him half a moment to place it. He's been around too much spilled Paleblood, both Dipper's and otherwise, to not recognize it. And for the smell to be that obvious before there's any sight of the stuff...

Ford starts running. He makes a bee-line for Dipper's dark room, barely even glancing at Mafuyu before he throws open the door. ]

Dipper!

[ He's pretty sure he knows what he's going to find, but... he can't just accept that. Maybe if he calls out, Dipper will respond. ]