Erika heart

[dramatispersonae]

You get the sense that you pass through a door, but it shuts immediately behind you. However, when you look back, there is nothing but a dead end wall behind you. There is carpet is lush beneath your feet, and the corners are free of dust. Except for the lack of any actual entrance, it could easily be the entranceway of a lavish mansion.

Any magical or otherwise supernatural abilities you have are disabled.

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BEDROOM H

[dramatispersonae]

This appears to be a bedroom. There is a large bed and a wardrobe. It is brightly lit by overhead lights... there is a large window on the opposite wall, but it doesn't seem to have any means of opening, and the only thing you can see through it is featureless black space.

Supine on the floor is Erika. Her throat has been slit very deeply, blood soaking the entire front of her dress and pooling on the floor around her, and she has small knives stabbed to the hilt in each of her eyes.

There's a larger, bloodied knife on the floor beside her, as well as a bloody pink dress and shoes, matching her outfit precisely.

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[sightunseen]

[gosh... I don't like this chick but that's startling to see. sobered.]

...we seem to have found the murder.

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[surefire]

[meanwhile, pretty unfazed by this, but that's probably to be expected]

So it would seem. We found the missing knives, too...

[kneeling down to inspect the corpse a little more closely!]

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[dramatispersonae]

Her throat is cut almost to the bone. There's no way someone could survive that.

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[sightunseen]

It looks like we'll need to find out who took that fingerprint kit...

[goes to open the wardrobe, using the tip of her knife to avoid leaving fingerprints]

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[surefire]

Mm, perhaps.

[meanwhile I will check on and under the bed]

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[dramatispersonae]

The bed is slightly unmade. There is nothing under it.

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[dramatispersonae]

There are several more identical pink dresses in the wardrobe, as well as shoes and accessories.

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[sightunseen]

[she shouldn't be wearing pink :T]

The killer wore... her own clothing?

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[surefire]

Or maybe that clothing belonged to the killer herself, too. Mm, should I go collect the kit, after all?

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[sightunseen]

Yes, I think Miss Eve had it. She's the black-haired girl in the Jasper kimono, if you haven't yet met ♥

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[surefire]

I believe I've met her just the once—it was an awful long time ago, though!

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[sightunseen]

I believe she's just returned. I'll look through here more...

[checking through the shoes, dresses, and accessories in more detail - anything in the pockets? anything missing?]

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[dramatispersonae]

There's nothing in any of the pockets, but there are two empty hangers, and two open spaces on the shoe rack.

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[surefire]

[and pops back in moments later with the kit]

Anything interesting?

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[sightunseen]

I think the extra set of clothes came from this wardrobe. Two are missing. Have any of the others found anything?

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[surefire]

There's another corpse in room A. That one was suspended from the ceiling to make it look like a suicide, though it looked like she was hit on the back of the head with a frying pan...

[motions to the kit] And I got this from them! Ta-da!

Re: BEDROOM H

[sightunseen]

Goodness, do we have a mass murderer on our hands...? Let's go ahead and take the fingerprints — on the handles of this wardrobe as well, I think.

I wonder what the different Miss Erikas are supposed to represent.

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[surefire]

[goes ahead and takes fingerprints! on the handles of the knives, and the handles of the wardrobe... and hell, takes the corpse's fingerprints, too. speaks casually as she goes about this]

If I had to guess, probably different parts of herself. It's hard to say until we know what's in every room...

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[sightunseen]

Then which died? It would help to know what she's trying to kill in her own heart. That's a motivation for murder, isn't it?

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[surefire]

Right... Well, since it's Erika... it's most likely she'd be killing off things like "affection."

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[sightunseen]

What does the other room look like, out of curiousity?

[looking around this one again, are there any clues at all...]

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[dramatispersonae]

There do not appear to be any more obvious clues.

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[surefire]

It was decorated pretty warmly, with empty picture frames on the wall.

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[dramatispersonae]

All of the fingerprints you get this way appear to match...