Second Investigation

[wringmaster]

Investigation 2

Your days in the Cirque de l'Ardeur are coming to an end. It will be less than 48 hours until you're allowed to leave if you choose so. With the finish line in sight, all one must do now is survive until then.

However...one or more people may not have gotten to.

When everyone wakes up, nothing seems off. There are no burning tents right now. Despite that, as soon as they get wandering around, they'll notice something awful happened last night.

It's time for the second performance of the Cirque de l'Ardeur to begin.

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[wringmaster]

[ There sure is a blockage. But Robin can slip through the hole in the tent just fine to look into the tent where he will see... things looking pretty normal actually.

Maybe the hole was just for decoration? ]

[fellcrest]

[ did. did someone try to blockade the entrance and forget what these tents are made of.

... actually uh, can they tell what direction the hole was made from? someone busting in or bursting out? do the edges curl outward in or from the inside out ... what does the hole look like, in terms of how clean cut or not it is? ]

[wringmaster]

[

The hole was made from the outside, the edges curling inward (someone bursting in from the outside just in case this wasn't clear since this mod cries in directions). As for the hole itself, it's more of a rip than a cut. ]

[fellcrest]

[ someone kool-aid man'd into the training tent, i see . . .

looks down at the floor. looks up at the top of the tent. outside of the airtight box and the other mystery box, is everything else truly in order? is there a spot somewhere where everything's stored where it looks like the mystery box came from? ]

[wringmaster]

[ Looking up is always important! Everything looks in order, aside from the space where the airtight box is usually stored. But if he's looking really closely he'll notice the area where the weapons are stored looks a little messy.

As for the mystery box, it's origins are not clear. ]

[fellcrest]

[ well, haru seems to have the mysterious wooden box well and handled, so let's check out those disturbed weapons.

uh. are these weapons normally organized by type or what. is it possible to make out what might or might not be missing? ]

[wringmaster]

[ There is some order to the weapons! They're hung up/stored on the walls/sorted into barrels depending on the type--it's important to keep your rubber swords separate from your real swords you see.

The actual metal swords are stored in a rack on a wall, and one of them racks is empty! ]

[fellcrest]

[ so despite someone kool-aid manning into the tent, and yoinking some swords that are probably now scattered in the other investigation areas ... nothing else looks disturbed? no signs of struggle or mess? because hm.

what about the glass magician's case? that's heavy, right? looking around or at it, is it immediately apparently how someone moved those couple hundred of pounds? drag marks? some rube goldberg pulley system not yet mentioned? or is the assumption to be made here that someone here is a lot stronger than expected and can really lift? ]

[wringmaster]

[ Just to clarify, just one of the swords is missing and not an entire sword rack trying to write in joker's slang is the end of me.

And correct in that there's nothing else disturbed and no struggle or mess. The glass magician's case is heavy, yes. There's no drag marks, no pulley system, or a sleigh of reindeer.

Someone can really lift. ]

[fellcrest]

[ So whoever blockaded the tent (from the outside, then, since the wood box is from elsewhere? not impossible that they blocked themselves in, but...) is different from the person who forced their way in, most likely. Not the worst idea, probably, if the aim was to try to prevent people getting weapons but ... still bypassed in the end (and probably just as easily circumvented if people already grabbed their weaponry before the block went up?). While we're asking clarifying questions though, how heavy is the wooden box, anyway?

And uh, how high up/wide does the rip go? This is probably not the most conclusive evidence for a possible suspect's build, but hey, might as well check. ]

[wringmaster]

[This box is big and heavy, big and heavy enough it'd be cumbersome to carry or move around, for most people. Someone can really lift!

The rip is pretty wide and high -- but given that it's fabric there's flexibility as to how wide it needs to be for an hypothetical person. From the looks of it, it does seem like the majority of the people in this circus could pass through it]

[fellcrest]

[ yeah, figured that'd be the case re: rip in fabric. ... majority means not all of them, though. question mark for later, i guess!

so to reiterate, while the floor isn't clean, it doesn't look like a struggle happened here, or that there's hasty footsteps with a long stride sprinting to get around or away, huh. ]

[wringmaster]

[Correct! Doesn't look like there was a struggle or hasty footprints]

[mousquetaires]

Robin-san? If we take this box from both ends, do you think we can bring it over to the main tent together? We might have an easier time narrowing things down, if we try to test for who can lift it without too much difficulty...

[fellcrest]

Hm? Well, I'm willing to give it a try if you are. Like you said, it will give us an idea of who might or might not be able to lift it...

[ heave ho? ]

[wringmaster]

[Heave ho!

Feel free to take it with you, if you'd like]

[mousquetaires]

Oh! This isn't bad at all, with two sets of hands...

[ it's fairly heavy, but she's not struggling all that much, just holding one end! and the training tent isn't especially far, either -- they should manage in no time! ]

[fellcrest]

It is fairly reasonable ... But we're looking for someone who would be able to do it alone, unless they happened to have an accomplice.

[ it might be heavy, but like haru he's not particularly struggling either. let's carry this on over to the main tent in preparation for later! ]

I'd suggest for us to try with the other one as well ... But that might be a bit more difficult to accomplish.

[wringmaster]

[ Just as a clarification! The wooden cargo box is easily carried by two people, especially since it's empty.

The transparent magician box... probably isn't (or with a lot of effort) because it's several hundred pounds. Unless Robin and Haru are that swole. ]