THE FIRST VICTIM

[monoguests]

[This morning, it seems like the world should have ended, but if anyone wakes up early enough or just (quite understandably) couldn’t sleep… well… they’ll see four giant Monobears catching the falling moon and pushing it back up into the sky.

That sure is a thing that happened, but it seems to have happened before touching the ground. That’s a good thing, right?

...Unfortunately, there might be something a little wrong. For one, there’s no music playing on the loudspeakers… which kind of leaves an unsettling stillness hanging in the air.

Maybe it’s best to check around the camp to make sure everyone’s alright.]

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[squidsisterpink]

[That. That sure is a thing.

It takes Callie a moment to get going, but soon she realizes that there is no music too. Something weird is going on here.]

I knew it, it was just a bluff!

[But hey, that means she should scout around for new info before doing her morning news! So she is going to go check out the theater first, and see if the movies stopped playing too.]

[monoguests]

[Well, before she can get in to see the movie itself, Mrs. Kubodera might notice something odd-looking by the front of the theater.]

[squidsisterpink]

Huh? What's that?

[Yep, she is going up to the front to check that out.]

[monoguests]

[Oh, huh! It looks like there's someone face-down in the dirt in front of the theater. They look too small to be identified from afar. Might need to get a closer look on that one.]

[squidsisterpink]

[Someone face down in the dirt? Oh no!

Callie hurries to the front, and unless there is something else really horrible up there, she is going to try rolling them over.]

Hey, you okay? We're not supposed to sleep outside of our cabins.

[monoguests]

[While the outfit that the victim wore would have previously obscured their identity, now that they're rolled over, it's all too clear who they are. There is a pool of blood that appears to have come from the back of their head, but it has an unusual hue. Namely, it's just as pink as the hoodie that the victim is currently wearing.

Mac Graziano is dead.]

[hopelessnecromantic]

[Eventually Betrayus wanders his way over to the vicinity of the movie theater and...
Yep that's a dead body alright. So someone really did it. Oh just wait until he gets his hands on them... He'll make them pay for allowing Stratos to live!
Also he isn't concerned about the oddly colored blood, interestingly. His species has a variety of different blood colors, and his own blood is white, so...]

I knew I should've memorized those Pacronomicon passages... Then maybe if I raised him from the dead, the bear would still throw the moon at my brother!

[lavenza]

[there seemed to be enough people using the obstacle course without a problem, so Liz has made her way to the theater next, plush Monobears in her arms]

Oh, good morning Callie--

[wait

wait

is that Mac on the ground

uh oh]

...Is something amiss?

[squidsisterpink]

[Callie doesn't immediately freak out, because the color of the blood is wrong. It looks like paint, or...]

...ink?

[She is about to reach over and touch it, but then Elizabeth is there.]

Something's wrong with Mac! He's covered in this pink ink-stuff, and he's not waking up!

[superstylishschism]

[For someone who's been up all night, Alastor sure has a lot of energy. He comes running from another part of the camp just in time to hear Callie identify the victim. He stops short, words catching in his throat.]

Mac?

[But then he's moving again, trying to reach the body.]

Move, let me see-

[chaoscontrol]

Don't touch it!

[Here comes Shadow right behind Alastor, back to his normal size, and skating up to the corpse]

[squidsisterpink]

[She jumps back, though she was already close to Mac, from having rolled him over and all. Would she have blood on herself anywhere from that?]

I'm not touching! I just found him like this!

[totaldrag]

...it looks like blood.

[Ashley overslept. But she is here now! She's still wearing both her feather crown and her terrible attitude despite the body, however.]

[squidsisterpink]

But blood isn't pink, it's red! Or blue, sometimes.

[superstylishschism]

My blood's purple, so we can't exactly assume. But that is an odd color for human blood...

[lavenza]

[oh she thought it was paint-- wait.]

...he's not waking up?

[uh oh

she drops the Monobears right away and comes right over]

[squidsisterpink]

[Callie backs up to give Elizabeth (and everyone else) room.]

He'll be okay, right? He just needs some stitches or something, right?

[lavenza]

If he's just unconscious then he should be but... with that moon being gone...

[a long pause]

...does he have a pulse?

[green_mario]

[After taking his sweet time getting out of the Mess Hall, Luigi can't help but notice a small crowd gathering in front of the theater, and despite his better judgement, goes to check it out.

When he sees what they're looking at, despite the strange color of the blood he feels his heart stop and he attempts to scream but once again it's caught in his throat from the horror he's witnessing.

So instead he faints for a few moments.]

[squidsisterpink]

[Drama-llama.]

[green_mario]

[Well sorry that seeing the sight of a bloody dead body doesn't make him happy.]

[tsungeonsanddragons]

[Though Clair didn't catch the conversation, she did notice the large number of students gathered outside the theater. Unfortunately it's also the last place she actually thought to look, so she's a bit out of breath when she gets there. Still, it's obvious something's going down, since most of the camp is here.

And, you know, Luigi's passed out.

She feels her heart sink into her stomach, but presses on, moving past everyone to see just what they're all starting at. Hope no one minds a bit of shoving.]

What is going on-

[And then she sees Mac, covered in...is that medicine? Paint? No, it can't be. Then maybe it's...blood? No, it can't be. Blood is red.]

-here...?

[Yet it definitely looks like blood.]

[theothersissel]

[Yomiel's not too far away, and he's just following the commotion, and...oh.]

Wait, somebody got murdered?

[A pause.]

Are you serious?

[tsungeonsanddragons]

[Wow Yomiel. You're a master of tact, aren't you?]

We don't know just yet, but...it doesn't look very good.

[sunflowerfields]

[Hinawa can't help but notice everyone gathering outside, so she comes over and-

oh

oh no]