Valaria murder mystery au

The Grand feast.

Once everyone had arrived, The groups made small talk, helping the half asleep people come to their senses and wake up properly.

Eventually Fabian greeted everyone at the entrance.

As normal, he wasn't formal about the seriousness of the trip, hugging and giving out handshakes to each member who could make it. This trip was just some time to have some team bonding and fun times.

that's ironic, isn't it?

A fierce storm was settling in the distance.

They were miles away from home, no communication to the outside world, a deep wood surrounding them like a blanket of prickly thorns and shadows.

After a mini tour around the palace like house, everyone was introduced to their rooms and roommates for the rest of the tiring week that waited ahead of them;

Fabian of course slept in his own room on the third floor,

Everyone else slept in the multiple guestrooms everyone had a bunk buddy, some worked out better than others...

Mal and cubby bunked together in room 3, with no hesitation Cubby had faceplanted onto her bed and didn't move for a sold 5 minutes. It seemed she was still kind of sleepy from the car ride.

Acoma and Kylie shared room 6,which had only one bed, made sense they were married after all.

Forest and Crimson bunked in room 2, fighting over which bed was theirs. Tussling to claim the best bed, they both fell on the floor about 3 times during the unnecessary tussle.

Mush and Integrity shared room 4, Mush dumbed around 5 big plushies onto her bed. Integrity wasn't even remotely surprised by this.

Duffle-bag and Churchill shared room 7, surprisingly no arguments broke out between them: it was actually all pretty civil between the two of them.

And fish and Airon shared room 5, we don't talk about what happened in room 5.

Eventually, everyone had unpacked after a long afternoon of childish arguing over beds and claiming territory. Everyone was exhausted and staving, so they all came to the terrible decision because this was a big team building exercise week they should try make a meal together.

what could possibly go wrong?

Well by the end of it they had decided to have microwave meals instead of actually attempting trying to cook an edible meal.

First of all, Mal and Cubby had gotten into a mini disagreement over baking methods and the best type of desert and happened to end up with flour all over both of them, both giggling like little children. Fish, and his chaotic ass, had decided he was gonna prank Integrity and Duffle-bag by hiding any type of ingredient they asked for or needed. Forest decided ,why not, so he would be annoying as possible and help Fish with his chaotic evil antics but also add poor Churchill and Acoma to the list growing list of victims. Crimson and Kylie decided to try and have some mother and son bonding time and actually honestly tried to make something decently edible. Acoma and Fabian tried their best to stop Mal and Cubby from play fighting with the flour but it was to no avail, so they just gave up and tried to stop Fish and Forest from being themselves. Mush and Airon attempted held back from the mess hoping they wouldn't be swallowed by expanding chaos.

Finally after the chaos had stopped and the microwave meals had been prepared and dished out for everyone, they had sat down at the surprisingly long table. The table had a dark blue cloth draped over its edges, golden patterns woven into its thread: looking closely you could see a sun pattern followed by an eagle in a overlapping fashion. Its was a pleasant looking table cloth, it looked a little bit like the companies logo.

Everyone was having a blast, making small talk and enjoying the surprisingly edible microwave meals. Cubby and Mal had thankfully gotten changed from their flour coated jumpers and blouses, into hoodies that still respected their colour schemes. Forest and Fish were still making jokes about their 'prank', that no one else was impressed by. Mush and Fabian were making pleasant small talk about each others lives at the moment and how they are doing family wise. Acoma and kylie had a nice conversation with their adopted twins, Crimson and Cubby. Airon was annoying Duffle and Churchie, who were trying to explain to him that in-fact, raiding another persons computer server was not a good thing and is very illegal: no matter what they did to Valaria.

That's when the incident happened.

Out of nowhere, the lights went out. Yelling and confused voices followed the realisation of a blackout. Finally the lights flickered on, everyone needed a few seconds to come to a stable mindset and for the confusion to settle into dust. Sadly Mush saw it first, it took her a few seconds to process the image in front of her. She let out a blood curdling scream, immediately gathering everyone's attention. Every soul in that room turned to see what had startled Mush that much, now the answer lay in front of them with a steak knife through its eye.

Fabian.

Their boss. The person they had just been joking around with him and having having pleasant conversations with.

Was slaying sprawled on his chair, dead.

Cubby backed up slowly from the body eyes full of dread and fear, she tripped over a chair and fell over backwords. Her hand slowly brought its self to her mouth covering it as the realisation kicked in.

Voices of disbelief fogged up the room, "this cant be happening." " is this a joke" "what's going on..."

Everyone was terrified,

Everyone was confused

Everyone was in disbelief.

Fabian was dead.

And one person in that room had killed him, one of his own employees had killed him. someone he trusted to let into his company, his friends, his family.

One of them killed him.

But who?