Week 5 - May 4th

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Week 5: Investigation

You wake to the heat breaking in the morning. It's actually morning, bright. Sunny. Probably all of you are pleased to have gotten through the night with sleep, or at least with no sudden gunshots and impromptu investigation.

Cherish that brief bliss. Enjoy your morning routine, as long as it's in the motel. Once you leave the motel, you see, it's obvious something awful's happened again. Someone has taken the Sergeant's bait.

Because, right outside the very door of the building you sleep in, there's a broken body to greet you.

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[ Nothing to not. It's just a bag that's been sitting by the edge of a pond for some time.

However, speaking of the pond... Natalie will notice something, if she looks in that direction. Something glinting in the sun. ]

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[As soon as she notices, she goes to check that out.]

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[ A fish holds a large gold coin in its mouth! It looks to be catching the sun on the coin, amused by the sparkle. ]

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[Hm.

Time to go fishing.]

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[Get in that pond and grab that fish, Natalie! Go ahead! Through the water Natalie can see it's golden-colored and large, but without grabbing it, no further details can be seen right now.

Once she catches it, she'll find it's oval-shaped, and there's no engraving you'd expect like a date or a face. Instead, it has a few horizontal indentations, crossing from side to side of the oval]

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[She’s giving those indentations a closer look once she’s done catching a fish, frowning.]

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[Seems to be just indentations, several of them but nothing special about those. Other than those, there are no marks, the coin is rather smooth and shiny. It's pretty and a lot of people would love to have one, if it wasn't a clue in a murder case]

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[She pockets that, then looks around the scene again, checking for any signs of struggle in the dirt.]

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[Good call, Natalie. You'll find exactly that.

Right on the shore of the pond there's disturbed ground. It looks like someone's foot stuck a bit too hard into the mud and slipped]