Turnabout a la Mode! Day 1 Investigation

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The journey is far less painful than might be expected. After arriving in the Champ de Mars in Paris, the arriving strangers go unnoticed by the crowds all around, the people too busy whispering to each other in horror. Several are crying and others are carrying their children away from the Eiffel Tower which stands high above in the dark Paris night.

The area is hauntingly beautiful, with lights covering the trees of Paris's park and banners talking about the great Tic and Tac's final Parisian tour before going worldwide. So why is the entire place so somber?

The fact that the police are scrambling about is the first clue that something is very wrong. As the Visitors were warned, their powers are completely gone, leaving only their mundane skills. With no Persona to call on, it will make this entire journey far harder... but thankfully Minerva can be spotted close by.

But before anyone can do anything, she's being carried away by the policemen, put into a car, and carted off.  The police bar the perimeter, looking at you in annoyance.

"Mesdames et Messieurs, the show is over, and this area is a crime scene. Please move back so as not to cause issues with the investigation."

It seems something terrible has happened...

But just as you're pondering your next move, another car screeches up beside the yellow tape, and a man with a fervent expression and a rather alarming mustache leaps out of the car.  Gesticulating wildly, he descends upon the scene like a storm of extravagantly expensive cologne.

"Get back, get back!  A terrible crime has occurred here!  And I, Chief Inspector Otto Gaffe, swear that I shall not rest until justice is served!"

A flailing arm barely avoids breaking a nose as he impatiently pushes you out of the way.

"Who are you?  ...Is that an attorney's badge?"

Perhaps this would be a good place to start.

((There will be no tag order so as to speed things along!  But each group should only respond to the portions marked for them (A, B, or Defense).  When all the necessary clues have been discovered, we will initiate Day 1 Court. You may respond!))

Comments

[deathboss]

"I for one, could go shopping on the most famous fashion avenue of the world!" Okay Eikichi, stop being star-struck of being in Paris. He coughed and attempted to get serious again.

"Right! ... so how do we do that?"

[jonathandammit]

"I've not much of a clue on that either." No pun intended. Jonathan kinda comes from nowhere, but that's technically kinda normal for him.

"Could I get one thing clear, though? Is this place really 'France'?"

[deathboss]

"Sure is babe! You can smell the French in the air!"

You can't smell the french in the air. "If it's not France, it's an amazing copy of it! But there's no doubt in my mind, we are in Paris!"

[jonathandammit]

...Babe...?

"Isn't France a fictional kingdom, though?" You would think that, after all this otherworldly shenanigans, he would be used to this.

Apparently not? "Or does it exist in this world...? And your world?"

[boxingemperor]

"France is real...at least in my world. I can't afford to travel though, so I've never been there. Until now, that is. It's a fictional place where you come from?"

[jonathandammit]

"It seems to be. It only appeared as a mention in one of my friend's 'manga'."

France doesn't exist in Jonathan's world, but apparently, manga does!

[boxingemperor]

Jonathan seems not to favor that word. Guess he's not a comic fan. Akihiko really never had time for it with training. "I used to read manga when I was a kid, not so much anymore." Still, it's something their worlds have in common, right?

[stringent]

There is a whipcrack that breaks the lively chatter between them, the sound magnified by the steel floor as Franziska looks furious that they're just standing around being utterly useless and talking very loudly as she arrives to the scene of the crime proper.

"This is a crime scene! If you have time to talk, you have time to find information!"

[deathboss]

"W-w-w-what the hell?!"

Dude, what's with the sudden whipping?!

[stringent]

This is how she keeps the men, women and children in line. But mostly foolish fools.

"There is a dead body here, suspicious circumstances and you insist on wasting valuable time! Do not squander it when there is a trial tomorrow, you fool!"