Week 5 - May 4th

[cartesio]

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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[cartesio]

[Nice, teamwork!

Your turf here in the junkyard has a pile of stuff, the fire already gone, but the strong smell of melted objects persists. It's a sizable pile, quite a few things are here.

The first one that may catch the eye is the long pole-like object here. Will you be able to grab this stuff or at least move it away from the rest?]

[relieable]

[he can start grabbing things. he's not super strong, but he's not a weakling. let's take a look at the pole-like object first. what is it? is it a mop]

[cartesio]

[Not a mop! Osomatsu pulls out the object, and finds...there's another one still on the pile.

Looks like this was broken in half. Seems to be a polearm of some sort. Perhaps a spear or a lance?]

[relieable]

[HMMMM. might want to keep that for later. could be someone's weapon. this makes him nervous... he sets those pieces aside, then starts looking at the rest of the pile. what all is here?]

[cartesio]

[Worth noting the ends of this weapon are melted!

Next in your scavenging hunt in this pile...there's this melted bunch of weird, lumpy yet tantalizing bunch of gold. A sizable pile, too. Jackpot?]

[relieable]

[noting that the ends of the weapon are melted. he's good at this... not. still, it's hard to miss.

but this gold? he almost salivates at the sight! where did this even come from? he crouches down to get a better look, and he'll lift it, if he can... unless it's a huge heavy lump, or still hot]

[cartesio]

[Lift it, Osomatsu, it's officially yours now. It seems that, whatever this pile was before it got melted, is unrecognizable. It doesn't have any noteworthy features now.

The rest of the pile is more gold, as well as what's presumably the metallic parts of the weapon all melted. Kind of golden-colored, but not like the gold. The pole itself isn't melted, but is all bumpy now. Nothing of use, in other words.

What may come useful isn't tangible, it's the constant smell of burned...something. Something was burned. Hard to know what it was, but it stinks. Hair, perhaps? Fur? Feathers? Nails? It's impossible to pinpoint]

[relieable]

[yeah, that is a bad odor, isn't it? he looks around for more things, the source of the smell, perhaps, and then at the pile. the fire here was hot enough to burn metal, and that's creepy to him. he'll take what he can for the trial tomorrow.

if he follows his nose, is he going to find what was burned?]

[cartesio]

[The smell seems to come from the pile. Underneath the metal and gold, there's some ashes. It's impossible to know what it used to be.

His wandering around may lead him to find a matchbox, though. It's burnt, but not enough. The box and its contents still are recognizable]

[relieable]

[hm. he can't really take the ashes back with him, but he'll remember the smell!

the matchbox, he'll pick up, too. he glances around once more to make sure he hasn't missed anything, then he starts hauling back his stuff]