Just Another Day In A Life

Tying Up Envelopes

(Content warning: part contains some swearing, not much, but it's still there, also mentions of murder.)

(a. Tying Up Envelopes)

Good morning- wait a minute, what the fuck? It's midnight? Oh, wait — the sun was setting when Greg went to sleep, but seems like he managed to sleep somehow. God knows why.

Now somebody is knocking on the door, which Greg opens, which reveals Sleepless standing at his door, except she's got a dark blue dress and witch hat instead of her usual dark-purple, and she asks him to go to her room to link clues about Mellanby, and the both of them entered her room, and the desk seems to have the envelope, alongside a note book, and Hollis is sleeping to the right bed. "Don't worry about him, he's dead asleep, well not really dead, but he's really enjoying his sleep." Sleepless says. "Anyways, here's some clues I managed to link Mellanby to." She opens the notebook, revealing the clues that she has gotten over the time she investigated Mellanby and his crimes: including eyewitnesses, murder locations, items at the scenes and possible sightings.

"The Majuminister guards won't investigate on this one, they'll just come up with some rubbish that they can't find him, although there's been rumors of bribery."

She then opens the envelope, which reveals some letters about Mellanby's possible hideouts, and several pictures of a man in black entering the buildings complete with a map for the pictures' locations, although those pictures are in nighttime, however. "So, he might likely be in Nusquam Ubica, that's helpful, but it's interesting that he did not find out this information and then flee to another city, but he's got to be in one of them so far."

The pictures reveals three possible places: 1. A warehouse east of the town, 2. A neighborhood south of town, possibly living in one of them — It's likely that the house dotted is the one he's living, 3. A store west of the town, the dotted one is also possibly the one he's staying in.

"This is quite informative, really, but it's possible that he's disguising himself to blend into the strangers, and he might just come down and kill us if he wants to blow his cover." Sleepless says, "Oh, and by the way, i believe that might be all I have to say, I need to take care of Hollis and analyze the clues."

Greg then goes back to his room, and goes back to sleep, and he doesn't dream of any strange men approaching him to compliment him on what he has done.

(b. Investigative Manners)

Greg then wakes up, but this time, the sun's going up, must be around 5 AM or something, and he puts on the suit jacket that is on the stand hanger, buttons it to make it fit, and leaves his room down to the main tavern hangout, which also exists an exit to the place — However, Sleepless and Hollis seemed to be awakened, eating food that Sleepless might have ordered to the tavern keep, and there's one empty chair on a side of the table. "That one's for you." Sleepless says to Greg.

He then sits down, haves the breakfast, and Hollis and Sleepless talked to each other during the meal, with the most prominent topic being Sleepless' prior adventures, and if she went through other things and the luxury life in Majuminister. Both of them seems to agree that luxurious living is great, but can be better.

"Now, do you know that there's a serial killer in Majuminister?" She says to Hollis, which he might be unaware of, "Not really, I've seen enough murder in my old hometown." He replies.

"Well, I've been investigating this guy for some time and while he may had done other crimes like bribing the guards and stealing-" Hollis interrupts her, "But I did use to steal."

"Okay maybe I can rule stealing out, but as far as I'm concerned, I am not doing this for money, but for fun."

"Why? You can do it to bring justice to-"

"No, that's lame, too lame and common, Let them figure out what happened, and it's another mystery on their hands."

"That's really narcissistic of you, Sleepless."

"Thanks, that's me!"

And then the trio finishes their food, with Greg finishing the last, due to him coming last. They then leave the tavern and heads for the first place that Mellanby is rumored to be, a house in a neighborhood.

The walk to the house took around 6 minutes, and nothing interesting happens during that time, and when they arrived, Sleepless was the first one to step onto the doorsteps and knock on the house door, which a man came to answer it quickly soon after.

"Hello, who are you?" The man speaks to her.

"My name is Sam Nicks, and I'm a private investigator and I've picked up some clues that led me here, we'd like to ask you some questions." Sleepless says to him, under a fake name of Sam Nicks.

"What do you mean you're a private investigator? You don't even look like one, you look like a witch mor-" He is cut off by Sleepless bringing her wand up.

"Trust me, all you have to do is to answer some of my questions, Now, first question, Who do you live with?"

"My wife and my son."

"Do you let people into your home?"

"Only for friends and family, but if they're going to stay, they can just leave."

"Very ungrateful of them, and now, have you saw anyone in black during nighttime?"

"Yes, I couldn't sleep and I saw somebody with a bag walking out from my window."

"Would you cheat on your wife?"

"What?"

"Don't worry, just me being me, now please, have a great day."

"You too-" He is cut off by Sleepless suddenly closing the door.

Sleepless then walks down the door steps, "Man with a bag walking around here? Not very much information, won't be helping us much." She says, "And now, we'll split up, Greg, go to the warehouse, Me and Hollis will go check at the store." Greg nods, and the trio splits up to investigate the two remaining places.

The walk to the warehouse took about 9 minutes, due to the warehouse being quite far away from the house, and during he was walking there, he saw a snake a size of a human, complete with arms and dressed in a clown suit using a old-fashioned payphone saying non-sensical words like "Shrut, Lazark and Salec".

The snake then notices Greg, and looks to him — "What you looking at, want the phone?" It said, and there were a honk sound coming from him twice, "Oh shit, I've got to go!" It then looked left and right, "You saw nothing!" It then disappeared suddenly. Weird.