The roof of the dorms, Wednesday morning

[bestatmystery]

Lottie wasn't going to need an email to tell her to look up and see that there were aliens. She had an excitedly barking dog and her own finely honed mystery instincts to do that for her.

She and Pepper were on the roof investigating it just now. In this particular instance, "investigating" meant taking pictures with her smartphone and texting them to Shauna and Mildred with so aliens. very space. wow. and little alien head emojis.

Pepper was investigating the emo garden. Or, you know, fertilizing it. One of those.

[open roof for any fellow non-abductees!
Note: Lottie will spend at least part of today going around looking for sadly abandoned pets once she works out that folks have gone missing. You can shook me an email if you would like an IC way to make sure your character's fuzzy/scaly/feathered friends are looked after while your character is in-sim'd.]

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[halfbad.livejournal.com]

Nathan didn't use email. Even if he did, he couldn't read it anyway. But, he knew something was wrong when he looked up at the sky and saw the ship.

He'd come up to the roof to get a better look, blinking owlishly up at it before he noticed Lottie.

"What're you doing?"

[bestatmystery]

"Collectin evidence of our alien invaders and storin it to an offsite back up facility," Lottie said.

The "offsite back up facility" being Shauna and Mildred's phones. Assuming they didn't delete Lottie's pictures.

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"That sounds...really technical," Nathan noted, walking over towards the garden. "There a need for evidence?"

[bestatmystery]

"Evidence is very important in a proper investigation," Lottie said with some dignity. "How're we supposed to figure out a mystery if we don't have any evidence to point to?"

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

Nathan scratched his head. "What's the mystery you're trying to figure out? Why those things are here?"

[bestatmystery]

"Who they are, why they're here, why the dorms are all WELL QUIET this morning. Pepper's been proper antsy too, and he has a good mystery sense about things."

Well no. He didn't, actually.

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Quiet?"

He'd noticed that too but hadn't really thought anything of it. He shifted from foot to foot.

"Anders wasn't in his room this morning. Do you mean that kind of quiet, where people aren't around?"

[bestatmystery]

Lottie tilted her head thoughtfully. "That would fit the aliens theory," she said. "They quite like to abduct people. Especially drunken Americans."

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"What if they're just in class?"

Forgive Nathan, he'd never really heard the stories about aliens before.

[bestatmystery]

"Is Anders usually in class right now?"

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"I don't keep track," he admitted. "But he works too. And it's a nice day outside so he could just be in town. I honestly can't say one way or another where he is."

[bestatmystery]

"I'm pretty sure there's usually more people around than this," Lottie said. "Even with classes and work and summer and all."

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Nathan admitted, rubbing his neck. "You think those people in the ship have something to do with that?"

[bestatmystery]

"I cannot form any definitive conclusions as of yet," Lottie said, rather precisely. "It's still very early in my investigation."

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

She sounded so professional so, despite wanting to question that, he just nodded.

"Anyway I can help you?" If Anders was gone, Nathan wasn't going to just sit idly by either.

[bestatmystery]

Lottie hummed and rubbed her mouth thoughtfully. "I suppose you could try questionin witnesses."

Of which they had established precisely zero.

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Okay." Nathan paused and looked around. "You know where I can find any of those guys?"

[bestatmystery]

Nope.

"What, am I gonna do all the work for you?"

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"...no but I've never done this before so I'm not really sure what I'm looking for," he admitted, wincing. "But witnesses, okay. I'll...see what I can do."

[bestatmystery]

Awww, he was a mystery newbie. Lottie decided to take pity on him. "It could be anyone. Try just walking up and asking if people have seen anything weird."

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

Nathan nodded. "See, doing that here could get so many answers but I'll give it a go."

He glanced up at the ship before turning back towards the stairs.

"Be careful."

[bestatmystery]

"I'm always careful." That wasn't even remotely true. "I'll let you know if I find anything!"