Cognitive Logic in Understanding Evidence; Wednesday, Second Period [01/13].

[died8yearsago]

And so, for their second class, the dinner party would find themselves arriving in the ballroom of Mr. Corpse's mansion, a grand room as one might expect, with plenty of open spaces, large windows overlooking the stormy scenery of the tumultuous sea beyond, occassionally illuminated by the peals of lightning. A grand piano crouches in a corner, and, crouched beside it, a maid, over a still body in a dark suit, a puddle of blood pooling behind his head. Thunder cracked across the sky outside, and the maid stood, eyes wide as dinner plates as she regards the group.

"Oh, it's terrible," she gushed, hands balled to her face in distress. "Just terrible! I'd come in just to dust, and there he was! Mr. Corpse! Dead! Whatever are we to do???"

"That's a good question," Ros agreed. "What are we going to do? We should probably contact the poli--"

One of the side doors to the ballroom burst open. "The phone lines!" he declared. "They've been cut! I've tried to call the police, but we can't get through."

"And no body has service way out here in the middle of no where," Rosa added thoughtfully, because it was convenient to the plot, "especially not in this storm. And because of the storm, odds are, whoever did this deed is probably still here with us. That leaves us but one choice: we have to try and find who this killer is and how they did it before one of us becomes the next victim. We should start by looking around, seeing if we can find any clues," cue lightning, "to solve this mystery....before it's too late."

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Re: Investigate! - CLUE, 01/13.

[thebeastofhouston]

Arabella had never examined a dead guy before, but you didn't grow up in a family of private investigators without learning how to examine a scene. After a look around the room, she steeled herself and bent to examine the body.

Hey.

Wait a minute.

Either that portrait over there on the wall was a really shoddy likeness, or, "Are we...absolutely certain this corpse is Mr. Corpse?"

Re: Investigate! - CLUE, 01/13.

[howareyanow]

Now that got Wayne's attention, forehead squinting at Arabella a moment as he considered that.

"Well, who the fuck else would it be?" he asked. "The butler?"

Actually, now that he'd mentioned it, where had that butler disappeared to?

Re: Investigate! - CLUE, 01/13.

[thebeastofhouston]

"That I really could not tell you," 'Bella' protested. "But, although I was not as close to Mr. Corpse as some of you here--our communication was mainly through correspondence, as I have been at school--and I am certain that death changes a person...chiefly by making them dead, I suppose...I am not entirely certain this is him, and I think it best to be sure of the identity of the deceased, do you not?" God, she sounded like Scarlett O'Hara.

She looked down at the body. "Perhaps we should, ah, search the body?" Arabella would have gotten right down to it, but she thought her character was more squeamish than that.