Hope you like seeing lots of wild teens during your stay here.
The University is the fourth district investigated in Criminal Case: Grimsborough.
Encompassing a main building, several schooling fronts, a football stadium, and both an event and concert hall, most of the people you meet in this district are, naturally, students and staff alike. While at first it seems that the cases you've been solving here are just your typical murders, soon you discover the works of a mysterious Serial Killer behind a handful of them.
Cases Set in the University
- Murder on Campus: A freshman is tied and left to asphyxiate next to an ant hill within campus grounds.
- Killing Me Softly: A musician is poisoned and stuffed inside a drum on a concert stage.
- Dead Man Running: A football player suffers a man-induced heart attack on a stadium during a game.
- At the End of the Rope: A student apparently hangs herself inside the university's library.
- The Devil's Playground: A student is stabbed and turned into a scarecrow within an Amish farm.
- The Reaper and the Geek: A cosplayer is found impaled with a statue inside a Sci-fi festival.
- Spring Break Massacre: A student is eaten by piranhas during a party at the lake.
- Marked for Death: A student is stabbed inside the dean's office.
- An Elementary Murder: A Russian au pair has her throat slit inside an elementary school classroom.
- The Rorschach Reaper: A cheerleader has her head blown up by a rigged tiara during Prom Night.
Tropes:
- Academy of Adventure: Even if most of your "adventures" deal with solving murders, you'll sure have a lot to do in this district.
- Arc Villain: The Rorschach Reaper AKA Tess Goodwin, a Serial Killer who hypnotizes students into killing their friends or relatives they hold a grudge against.
- Arc Words: "The right thing" is said multiple times by various killers as their justification for why they decided to murder. We later learn that this originates from the The Rorschach Reaper's hypnotism.
- Big Bad Friend: Even if she's a crazy Serial Killer who tried to kill you, Tess' admiration for you seems to be entirely genuine by the end.
- Chekhov's Gun: The inkblot test which appears several times as an inconspicuous non-clue in various crime scenes of the district is later revealed to be a part of the Rorschach Reaper's MO, acting as their Calling Card.
- A Day in the Limelight: Alex gains a lot of prominence during this district, mainly due to his friendship and eventual relationship with Cathy. He even gets to be your partner during a case.
- Elevator School: Implied during Case 40, since the murder happens in an elementary school within the campus grounds.
- Recurring Character: The recurring characters you meet throughout the University are Tess Goodwin, Madison Springer, Donna Walker, Cathy King/The @rtist, Chad Baker, and Caroline Fitzgerald.
- Serial Killer: The main focus of the district is catching The Rorschach Reaper, a serial killer using hypnosis to brainwash people and make them commit murder against their loved ones.
- School of No Studying: Subverted. Despite some cases taking place outside of school hours, most of the students you meet make references about their classes or grades. Even Tess' motivations for her murders are about writing her thesis.
- Wacky College: Let's just say that a lot of the people you encounter here are... special, and that's without taking the murderers into account.
