week 8 - wednesday

[productions]

murder manor week eight



wednesday

9 players remaining.

This is a general mingle post. Please put your character's name, the time, and location in the subject heading of their comment. Players may also thread in logs, either posted to murdermanor or in a private locked journal post filtered to include productions.

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[productions]

[The light in the room doesn't change much - there's still the clock smashed on the ground, some water on the table, some crumpled scrap under the table. The crossbow is set up on the table, unloaded, pointing towards a wall. There is also a crossbow bolt in the wall above the mantle.]

[vytis]

[Lithuania moves to Poland's body again to examine under his shirt for bruising.]

Someone should check to see if Alice and Spain are dead--that crossbow didn't appear out of thin air.

[productions]

[No bruising under his shirt, aside from the light bruising around his neck.]

[vytis]

[Lithuania--hesitates, next. Smooths down Poland's hair a little insistently, and apologizes quietly in Polish.

Then he examines Poland's eyes more closely before opening Poland's mouth to see if there's anything inside.]

[productions]

[His eyes are glassy and have pricks of blood in them. His mouth is a little sticky with dried saliva. The back of his throat is congested with mucus.]

[vytis]

[Lithuania shifts Poland away from the door to lay him, gently, on the ground, then checks the rest of his body, front and back, for any more injuries.]

[humanic]

[While he does that, Stiles will go to the door with the bolt in it and examine the bolt and the lock.]

Hey Lithuania, was this door already broken down when you got here?

[productions]

[The bolt had been shot through the lock.

Poland doesn't seem to have any other injuries.]

[vytis]

No, I had to break it down. [Lithuania will leave Poland's body for the moment to examine the clock. Maybe when it got smashed it got stopped at the time it was smashed, or something like that.]

[humanic]

You couldn't get in through the other door? [With a from, Stiles heads back to the window to check if it's locked or looks like it's been opened recently from the dust.]

[productions]

[The clock's hands are stopped at about 10:58.

The window is locked. It's not possible to tell whether it's been opened recently. However, Stiles may notice a large damp spot on the back of the curtain.]

[vytis]

Poland's body was blocking the other door. [He picks up the scrap under the table to examine.]

[productions]

[It is a slightly crumped piece of paper, typed. It reads: ]

An hour before midnight. Dining room. I know who it is.

[humanic]

Great. The window's locked too - looks like we'll get to the chance to solve another locked room case tomorrow. Because the first time just wasn't fun enough.

[He notices the damp patch and brings it up closer to his face to inspect it. He's not about to taste it because gross, but he will sniff it and cautiously swipe a finger in it to see if there's anything strange.]

[vytis]

There's a note saying to come to the dining room an hour before midnight.

[But Poland was so sick, and would he really have gone anywhere alone that late? Lithuania frowns at it.]

I'm not sure if this is real or planted.

[productions]

[There's nothing strange about the damp spot, it's not clear what it is.]

[humanic]

[Stiles shakes the curtain out and examines both the cloth and the area around it to see if there's anything else he might have missed.]

Maybe Poland thought it was a clue to opening a new secret passageway and we're missing a note that told him to eat the poisoned curtain. [His heart's not really in the sarcasm though.] That note just screams of a murder plot to anyone with half a brain though - if it was real, I don't think he would have fell for it unless it was delivered by someone he trusted.

[vytis]

Mm, he's not stupid. [Lithuania examines the top of the table next.]

[productions]

[There's water spilled on the table, it seems to have come from the flower vase sitting there.]

[humanic]

[He'll head over to the crossbow bolt in the wall next and inspect it closely before he tries tugging it out to see how deeply it's embedded. Anything weird about it?]

[vytis]

Maybe the curtain was on the table at some point? [He's not sure, though. He returns to Poland to check what items he has on him--if he has his keys or anything unusual.]

[productions]

[He does not have his keys or anything unusual on him.

The crossbow is deeply embedded.]

[humanic]

[Once he tugs the bolt out, he'll see if there's any blood or other markings on the tip.]

Yeah, if they struggled, that could have happened. Or maybe the killer tried to shoot him from there. [With that in mind, he'll carefully wedge the bolt back in the hole to see if he can tell from the angle approximately where the shooter might have been standing.]

[vytis]

He doesn't have his keys. I don't think he would have left his room without his keys, but it's possible the killer took them for some reason.

[In which case they should check Poland's room.]

[productions]

[The shooter was probably standing somewhere in the general area of the kitchen door side between the door and window.]