fandomhigh | So You Want to Be a Detective; Friday, First Period [01/19].

Offering a very different feel from last week's bullpen set-up, the class would find themselves, this time, in the warm and sunny kitchen of a quaint farmhouse, with a big red barn and cows and chickens outside and everything. Some real Country Living, Small Home on the Plains shit right here. And although there was a distinct, lingering scent of freshly baked apple pie in the air, there was, of course, no pie to be seen.

There was, however, an adorable little old grandma.

And Rosa, of course.

"You guys...." There was a smirk on her face, reluctant but nonetheless present, "...actually did a really good job last week." Open praise and a compliment? Don't get used to it! "You really took to the challenge and used your resources and did some pretty good preliminary leg work. We're going to expand on that this week and focus on interrogating and investigating witnesses, which is, honestly, my least favorite part of the job, so it'll be nice to just get it out of the way. So here's your situation: this here," she gestured toward the kindly old woman who looked like she stepped straight out of a book of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, "is Esther. Esther here just baked a pie, and, as little old grandmas who bake pies are wont to do, she set it on that," Rosa pointed, "window sill so it could cool."

She shook her head. "Classic rookie mistake, Esther."

Esther, appropriately, hung her head in shame.

"Anyway," Rosa continued, "it's up to you guys to try to figure out who might have stolen the pie by asking around and seeing what kind of narrative or clues you can dredge up out of the likely suspects. Obviously, you have Esther herself you can question. There are two hired farmhands and a milkmaid, as well as the farmer himself...Esther's son....his wife, and their three adorable disgusting little children, ages 14, 9, and 5. There's some snot-nosed little kid from the farm next door who hangs out here all the time, and a vagrant living in the barn that no one else knows about. Esther's husband is dead, but the farmhands insist that he's haunting the place, so who knows, maybe that's a thing, and there's also cows, chickens, a really snooty house cat, a rough and tumble barn cat, and two loyal dogs." She squinted a little. "Maybe a goat? I can't remember. Anyway, this is definitely a serious investigation if I'm including dead people and animals as possible witnesses, but, hey, I've been here long enough to know that at least someone probably is all into the whole ghost whisperer or pet detective angle.

"So to sum up: old lady, missing pie, lots of suspects." Rosa was now moving toward the kitchen table, where there was, fact, a box with a pie in it. "Go figure out who took the damn pie."

With that, she dug a fork in and took a bite of said pie.

"This is a different pie," she informed them, then waved her fork at them impatiently. "Go. You're wasting time, the culprit might already be halfway down to the creek by now, or something."

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Down on the farm!

Amaya Blackstone

Humprey Goodman

Charlie Gale

Arden Finch

Gray

Start scoping out the scene and wondering if the only exposure Rosa has ever had to actual farmhouses is entirely based on what she's seen in television and movies, but, look, this kitchen actually did look like a quaint farmhouse kitchen and not something out of a Nancy Meyers movie, which showed a lot of restraint on her part!

You've got free range of the farm to try and see what information you can pull from their testimonials to see if you can figure out who took the pie! You've got a wide range of characters that I will try to respond as if work isn't too terrible, but also feel free to mod whatever you'd like about them and your interactions with them, as well!

Well, Amaya was definitely setting out to begin her investigation in that barn.

Definitely to investigate suspects, really! Not farm equipment! How dare!

Humphrey was taking a few minutes to go over the case and that rather long list of suspects. He decide dit was likely one of the human suspects, considering any animal who had messed with the pie would have left some clue behind.... spilled pilling, crumbs, or would have simply just knocked it off and eaten the pie where it landed. And a quick check of the widow sill and immediate area showed no such evidence. So, Humphrey felt fairly confident that his focus needed to be on the two-legged suspects to start with. Which ones though.... that was proving a bit more difficult. He'd have to learn more about them to see who would be most tempted by the pie or who was the most spiteful to do something so terrible to Esther.

At some point in his initial investigations, Esther herself waddled on over to Humphrey and went to set a hand on his arm. "Oh, hello, dearie," she warbled, "I can't thank you enough for taking the time to look into this whole pie issues. Oh, but I'm so embarrassed, to let a fine pie like that just slip away like that! How's your little investigation going so far?"

Who is not sharing her pie, sorry.

So You Want to Be a Detective; Friday, First Period [01/19].

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Class Activity: Question Witnesses and Suspects! - SWYTBAD, 01/19.

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