Splitting The Seams

Splitting The Seams is a case featured in Peardog's Fan-made as the first case of City Of Romance (Season 1), and the first case overall. It is the first one to occur in the Fantasy district.

Prologue
After a long flight, we finally land in Paris, France We take a long look at the sights, and attractions we can experience and before long, the day ends. We wake up and take a long walk on the streets of Paris, wandering around trying to find a cafe to have a quick snack. Instead, we find a local police station. We walk in hoping to ask for some directions but get approached by a certain Henri Thierry. He asks if we came from his flyers. Before we get to answer, We hear someone shouting for Henri from another room. He tells us to take a seat while he goes to talk to the mysterious voice. After a couple of minutes, we see multiple people rushing out of the back and into police cars. Before everyone leaves, Henri stops and tosses us a police uniform telling us to get ready. We get ready and Henri quickly rushes us to the car. He drives us to an apartment and we rush up the stairs. We get to the 4th Floor and we approach a door where we hear crying. We open the door where we find a woman crying, with a dead body.

Chapter 1
We ask the woman to back away from the body so we can bring it in. Henri tells us to investigate the area while he calms down the women. After investigating the area, we find three things. We identify them as a broken pair of earrings, an empty bottle of perfume, and a sewing machine covered in blood. We give the evidence to Henri so he can send it in and he asks if we can calm down the women. When we ask her for her name, and she says that her name is Nikki Crux. When we ask her what happened, she responds with she was doing her daily errands when she decided to stop by her friend's place where she died. When we ask her what her friend's name was, She responds with the name Dara Vega. We head back to the station to discuss the evidence we found with Henri and he tells us to fix the earrings so we can send them to the lab. We fix the earrings and send them to the lab. Then, we ask Henri what's next and he tells us to go and pay our lab chief, Chloe Veronique a visit to discuss the perfume. We visit her lab and she greets us with a welcoming smile saying "Oh, you must our new detective! Well, I'm Chloe Veronique. I'm the lab chief here at the Parisian Police Squad. Happy to have you aboard!". We then ask her about the perfume and she tells us that she found traces of stock, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, and cayenne pepper on the perfume. We then ask what this means and she responds saying it's the ingredients of a lobster bisque, a common dish in France. We then ask her what this means and she responds with the victim didn't have any lobster bisque before the murder so this has come from the killer. We write this down in our killer's profile and return to Henri. When we ask him what to do next, he tells us to visit our tech expert, Pascal Blasie to learn more about the sewing machine. We visit his room where we find him in his chair and he slowly turns around to greet us. He says, "Oh hey, you must be the newbie on the team. Well, welcome to the Parisian Police Squad. Hope you have a good time in the force.". We then ask him about the sewing machine to which he responds with he had the blood tested but it was only the victims. However, he did find out that the sewing machine did have a tag on the bottom of the sewing machine with the words "Propriety of Choir". When we ask him what Choir is, he replies, "You don't know what Choir is man? Wow, you must be super new to Paris. Anyways, Choir is this big fashion company that runs all of the clothing here. The main reason why this is super important is that Choir has been involved in like no drama in the past couple of years so them being a murder investigation is BIG! We have to be super hush-hush about this and make sure none of this reaches out to the public or else Henri will our heads man." When we ask him why the sewing machine had a Choir tag on it, he tells us that Dara must have been a Choir worker and was using one of their sewing machines. He tells us that the main one who manages the sewing machines is the lead fashion designer, Charles Pilsnerfled. When then leave Pascal's room to report back to Henri about Choir's involvement. He responds with "HOLY SHI- I mean, WOW! Choir is involved with her murder? and it's Charles Pilsnerfled himself! Wow! I'll ask Mr. Pilsnerfled to come to the station immediately so we talk to talk to him.". He then tells us to visit our coroner, Camille Aveline to view the results of the body. We arrive at her room and she greets us the same way Chloe did. We ask her for the cause of death and she responds with blood loss. When we ask her why she responds that the victim was stabbed in the stomach. However, she did find traces of nail polish on the victim's clothes. Since the victim didn't have nail polish on, this must-have came from our killer. We write this down in our killer's profile and we report back to Henri. When we ask him what's next, he says that visit Chloe again as she has the results for the earrings. We head back to her lab and we ask for the results. When we ask her for the results, she responds with she couldn't find anything but two tiny engraved letters in them that she thinks are initials. We take a look at them and the initials are "EM". We analyze the initials some more and find out that the earring belongs to a certain Eleonora Macaron. We invite Ms. Macaron to the station and we wait for her and Mr. Pilsnerfeld to arrive. After some time, both of them arrive and we take them in to interrogate them. We first interrogate Mr. Pilsnerfeld about the sewing machine to which he responds with that he allowed Dara to take it home for the night. He then says that he's sorry for Dara's death and he'll send his condolences to her family. We then interrogate Ms. Macaron and she responds with didn't know who Dara was. We then bring up the earrings and she responds with Dara probably stole them from her. We let them leave for now and we ask Henri what was next.

Chapter 2
Before we leave, Henri tells us he's going to be busy for a while so you'll be taking your partners, Maurice Laurent and Sylvie Colette to accompany you for the rest of the case. We leave the station and arrive at the workshop to find Charles Pilsnerfled and another lady arguing. Before we break them up, we hear something from Charles saying that the woman was just as incompetent as Dara. We break them up and we both take them in for questioning. We then investigate the workshop and find two things. We find a threatening note addressed to Dara and a pin cushion covered in blood. We have our profiler, Mathilde Mirabelle analyzes the handwriting on the note and finds out that Dara's best friend, Nikki Crux wrote the note. We then send the pincushion to the lab for analysis and we go and interrogate Mr. Pilsnerfeld and the lady. We start with Mr. Pilsnerfled and we ask him why he said Dara was incompetent. We reply with Dara was always messing up even with the simple things. He even states that one time he asked her to bring him his Lobster Bisque in his office for him but she tripped and spilled it all over him. We leave the room and we add to his profile that he eats Lobster Bisque. We then go and interrogate the lady and we first ask for her name. She states that her name is Alexa Vega and that she was arguing with Charles because he had lied to her that her daughter was dead. We tell her that Mr. Pilsnerfled was telling the truth and we console her as we ask her a few questions. We start the questions off with did anyone want to hurt Dara and she replies no stating that Dara was the sweetest girl and that she even makes Lobster Bisque for her when she was sick. We leave the room and we add to her profile that she eats Lobster Bisque. We then go and interrogate Nikki about the note. When we ask her why she wrote it, she replies that a long time ago, Dara and Nikki were fighting for the attention of Charles and in the end, Dara won. Ever since then, Nikki always had a grudge over Dara but she got over it when they started to become close friends and do activities together such as eat Lobster Bisque and paint. We leave the room and we add to her profile that she eats Lobster Bisque and we visit the lab to get the result of the Pin Cushion. We get the results from Chloe and find out that the blood for the pincushion was Dara's and that it must have been picked up by your killer to try and dispose of it. However, they pricked their finger on it which left a little bit of DNA. Chloe managed to extract the DNA and analyze it and we find out that our killer is female. We leave her lab and go ask Henri what to do next. He tells us we should investigate Dara's Apartment again to look for more clues. We visit her apartment and find only one thing, a bloody knife. We send the knife to Chloe and get results. She tells us that she couldn't find much however she tells us that the knife belonged to a certain Chantelle Fontaine. We question Chantelle about the knife and she tells us that she gave it to Dara as a gift and had no idea that it would be used as a murder weapon. She tells us that she can investigate her Street Cafe as Dara would always visit. We investigate her Street Cafe and find one thing, an ominous note. We analyze the ominous note and find Eleonora's DNA on it. We question her about the note and she tells us that it was a warning to Dara for stealing her earrings. We leave her for now and go over the clues we have so far. After some time, our beat cop Timothee Algernon tells us that there's been a report of a break-in at the Choir Workshop. We leave the station and visit the Choir Workshop to secure the scene.

Chapter 3
After securing the scene, We take a closer look at the sewing machines and find two things, an empty can and some ripped up embroidery. We send the can to Chloe for now and we analyze the embroidery. We find the DNA of Alexa Vega on the embroidery and we leave to interrogate her. When we question her about it, She tells us that Dara just as ungrateful as she was growing up. So when she showed up at her workstation with the embroidery, Dara ripped it up. Alexa even tells us that Dara threw the can of Popsi she brought her on the ground and that she just gave it to a random lady named Eleonora. We leave for now and go get the analyst from Chloe. Chloe tells us that the can must have been from the Killer as Dara didn't pop. Chloe then tells us that the brand of pop was Popsi so the Killer must drink Popsi. We write this down in our Killer's Profile and Alexa's Profile as she confessed to drinking it. We then talk to Henri to try and get help and he suggests that we check out the Street Cafe for any last-minute clues. We check the Chairs and Tables of the Street Cafe and find two things, a dirty soup ladle, and a tape measure. We send both of them for the analyst and we wait for the day. After some time, we get the results from Chloe. Chloe tells us that she found the DNA of both Dara and Chantelle on the ladle and she found Dara's Blood on the tape measure. We ask more about the tape measure and Chloe tells us that the killer must have used it as there was a mark at 5'4" but Dara is 5'7". Because of this, we add to our Killer's Profile that there 5'4". We then question Chantelle for the ladle. When we confront her, she says that Dara always loved her other food but not her soup. So when she served Dara her soup, she spits in the ladle. This made Chantelle angry so she threw out the ladle and had a can of Popsi with Dara's Friend, Nikki Crux. We head back to the station to discuss clues and possible motives and after some time, we come up with the decision on whom to arrest. The Killer turns out to be the Victim's Best Friend, Nikki Crux. Upon admitting to murder, Nikki tells us that she had enough of battling with Dara for the attention of Charles. So when Charles started to get more attached Dara, Nikki couldn't bear to see it. So she went to Dara's Apartment and killed her then pretended to be innocent. She was sent to life in prison.

A Size Fit For A Queen, 1/5
After arresting Nikki, Charles arrives at the station in a panic exclaiming that he ruined the company's reputation. We calm him down for a bit but before we can help him, Henri wants us in his office. Once we're in his office, Henri congratulates us for our first murder case. He then tells us he wants us to properly be on the team so we must show our application. When we turn up empty handed, Henri questions us why we went in the station in the first place. We tell him that we were just looking for directions. Henri understands up since we were whisked in the situation by accident and asks us if we want to join the team. We reply with yes and we get welcomed aboard the team by our team mates. Soon after, we visit Charles and ask him why he thinks he just ruined Choir's Reputation. He tells us that he just lost the letter he was going to publish about his involvement with the murder investigation. He tells us that he think he lost somewhere in the Workshop but can't find it. We find a faded letter at the sewing machines and recover it for him. We then return it and he thanks us. He leaves the station and we take a break for now. The next day, Charles calls us up saying that one of his model's was just severely injured. We leave the station in a hurry hoping they might be okay.

Victim

 * Dara Vega, Found Stabbed To Death

Weapon

 * Kitchen Knife

Killer

 * Nikki Crux

Suspects
 Profile 


 * This Suspect Eats Lobster Bisque
 * This Suspect Drinks Popsi

 Appearance 


 * This Suspect Has Nail Polish

Traits - 5  Profile 


 * This Suspect Eats Lobster Bisque

 Appearance 


 * Nothing Is Known At The Moment

Traits - 1  Profile 


 * This Suspect Drinks Popsi

 Appearance 


 * This Suspect Has Nail Polish

Traits - 3  Profile 


 * This Suspect Eats Lobster Bisque
 * This Suspect Drinks Popsi

 Appearance 


 * Nothing Is Known At The Moment

Traits - 3


 * This Suspect Eats Lobster Bisque
 * This Suspect Drinks Popsi

 Appearance 


 * Nothing Is Known At The Moment

Traits - 4

Killer's Profile

 * The Killer Eats Lobster Bisque
 * The Killer Has Nail Polish
 * The Killer Is Female
 * The Killer Drinks Popsi
 * The Killer Is 5'4"

Chapter 1

 * Investigate Dara's Apartment. (Clues - Victim's Body, Broken Earrings, Perfume Bottle, Sewing Machine, New Suspect - Nikki Crux, Victim Identified - Dara Vega)
 * Question Nikki about the victim. (1 Star) (No Clues Unlocked)
 * Analyze Perfume. (01:00:00) (Attribute Added, The Killer Eats Lobster Bisque)
 * Analyze Sewing Machine. (01:00:00) (New Suspect, Charles Pilsnerfled)
 * Analyze Earrings. (00:25:00) (New Suspect, Eleonora Macaron)
 * Talk to Charles about the Sewing Machine. (1 Star) (No Clues Unlocked)
 * Analyze Victim's Body (03:00:00) (Attribute Added, The Killer Wears Nail Polish)
 * Question Eleonora about the Earrings. (1 Star) (No Clues Unlocked)
 * Visit Henri at his office. (1 Star) (New Crime Scene - Choir Workshop)
 * Move On To The Next Chapter! (1 Star)

Chapter 2

 * Investigate Choir Workshop. (Clues - Charles Pilsnerfled and Mysterious Women, Threatening Note, Bloody Pin Cushion)
 * Interrogate Charles about Dara's Incompetence. (1 Star) (Attribute Added, Charles Pilsnerfled eats Lobster Bisque)
 * Interrogate the Mysterious Women. (1 Star) (New Suspect, Alexa Vega) (Attribute Added, Alexa Vega eats Lobster Bisque)
 * Analyze Threatening Note. (03:00:00)
 * Interrogate Nikki about the Threatening Note. (1 Star) (Attribute Added, Nikki Crux eats Lobster Bisque)
 * Analyze Bloody Pin Cushion. (Attribute Added, The Killer Is Female)
 * Investigate Living Room Sofa. (1 Star) (Clues - Bloody Knife)
 * Analyze Bloody Knife. (New Suspect - Chantelle Fontaine)
 * Question Chantelle about the Knife. (1 Star) (Attribute Added, Chantelle Fontaine eats Lobster Bisque)
 * Investigate Street Cafe. (Clues - Ominous Note)
 * Analyze Ominous Note. (05:00:00)
 * Question Eleonora about her Ominous Note. (1 Star) (No Clues Unlocked)
 * Move On To The Next Chapter! (1 Star)

Chapter 3

 * Investigate Sewing Machines. (Clues - Empty Can, Ripped Up Embroidery)
 * Analyze Empty Can. (06:00:00) (Attribute Added, The Killer Drinks Popsi)
 * Analyze Bloody Embroidery. (09:00:00)
 * Interrogate Alexa about the Embroidery. (1 Star) (Attribute Added, Alexa Vega drinks Popsi) (Attribute Added, Eleonora Macaron drinks Popsi)
 * Investigate Tables And Chairs. (Clues - Dirty Soup Ladle, Tape Measure)
 * Analyze Dirty Soup Ladle (07:00:00)
 * Analyze Tape Measure. (10:00:00) (Attribute Added, The Killer Is 5'4")
 * Interrogate Chantelle about the Ladle. (1 Star) (Attribute Added, Chantelle Fontaine Drinks Popsi) (Attribute Added, Nikki Crux Drinks Popsi)
 * Arrest Killer! (1 Star)

A Size Fit For A Queen

 * Calm down Charles. (1 Star)
 * Visit Henri in his Office. (1 Star)
 * Question Charles about Choir's Reputation (1 Star)
 * Investigate Sewing Machines. (Clues - Faded Letter)
 * Analyze Letter. (1 Star)
 * Give the Letter back to Charles. (1 Star)
 * Move On To A New Crime! (1 Star)