MOCK ROUND - WEEK 2 INVESTIGATION

[foundationmods]

Even though they had already been through this once before, the atmosphere in the air as they woke up on Friday still felt incredibly ominous.

Yet again, they would have to see the death of one of their own, and investigate as much as they could to find the culprit among them... 🗈

But unlike last time, today felt much more....intense. Like an odd smell in the air, or a palpable feeling of tension, something horrible hanging over them with a knowing sneer.

Even the sounds felt different, though all that could be heard is the normal sounds of the morning...
...

After this - after the final trial - things would be over.

Yet, has this....really been worth it...?

((OOC: Characters will need to bold locations/put it in the subject header to look for clues...or the body!))

Comments

[ladyscarred]

There's... A few things it could be. Unfortunately I'm not sure which one killed her.

[The claws and the stomach tear are pretty bad.]

I hope that it was near instant though. Bleeding out like this...

[She's still looking without touching. Was there anything in the blood pool?]

[foundationmods]

[Nope! Just that it isn't circular like you'd expect it to be. It's actually rather smudged, like there was a lot of activity around it.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ He's crouching down, frowning a little as he leans to take a look at the smaller cuts.

The guy isn't an expert (at least he knows what a knife cut looks like now! :D), but he's curious, for now. Do these look like they were done by a blade? ]

[foundationmods]

[They Do not! Though to get an accurate look, he'll have to look closer.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ Them not looking like knife wounds is enough to have him curious enough to look closer, yep. ]

[foundationmods]

[He'll notice the wounds seem to be a little more deeper than they need to be, like they were made with something not very sharp.

As he looks, he'll also notice that the bite marks on her feet and hands are actually kind of small, though they seem a little warped.

However, the biggest thing is brusing on her neck suggesting she was grabbed, and her neck seems broken.

There does seem to be something a little off with the claw marks on her chest, but it's hard to tell without trying to look closer.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ WELL, OKAY, this is definitely turning into way more than he'd expect someone to need to do with Luna-freakin'-freya, of all people.

He's curious about both the bite marks and the claw marks...

... but, let's just start by getting a closer look at the claw marks. ]

[artificialhighness]

[Eyyyy did someone call for the robot eyes that wandered off into the bushes for like 500 years. If Luna checked out the trampled rosebushes for this long did she find something!

She gives Vanitas a small nod when she spots him.]

Come to look at the death, I see.

[There's no shade there, she's just stating facts.

Sometimes ex-not-quite-murderers gotta look at bodies the next week. She'll move around the blood puddle and try to see what might have been happening in it while Vanitas gets a closer look at the body. Just let her know if you want her to come stare at it too.]

[foundationmods]

[Re: rosebushes, not much - just that it looks like someone might have leapt out from there.

The blood puddle is too smudged to tell what exactly went on in it, or even if there are any footprints (or hoofprints).]

[artificialhighness]

[Rosebushes, why you gotta betray her expectations like this.]

[foundationmods]

[PLAYER CHOSE: 5
ROLLED: 10

CHECK....EHN?

It looks...a little unnatural. Someone wouldn't normally put their hand like that when they're slashing, and since Vanitas has his little darkness monsters, he can easily tell that.

Beyond that, though, all the...uh....shredded flesh in the way makes it hard to tell, but you get the sense something else might be off about it.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ Ah... hm. Yeah, that gives him something to go off of, at least??

Before moving to take one more look at the bite marks, since he's already up here, he's going to put his hand around her neck...

How does the bruising compare against his own hand? He's thinking namely in size and shape... ]

[foundationmods]

[Looking more carefully, it looks more like someone grabbed her neck and broke it using their arm. It's a straight line across the neck - though it does look decently thick, though not super thick.]

[artificialhighness]

They certainly took their time, didn't they?

[And effort. This is so much effort to kill one girl that it's very unlikely all of these injuries contributed to the issue here. Luna's just been standing back observing Vanitas' Forensic Adventures; but once he's moved on to the neck, she'll step in a little closer and crouch, keeping her dress carefully out of the blood puddle.

She'll change shoes later.]

Do we know what abilities she might have had?

[How's the look on that stomach wound from here, in the meantime?]

[foundationmods]

[Due to Luna's expertise at wounds, she'll be able to tell that it was made by a blunt object, and that some of her guts are missing, with some of them having been bitten.]

[artificialhighness]

[Somebody was feeling real peckish last night.

She shakes her head briefly to herself and keeps up her examination. Do the bite marks on the guts match the others on her body? AKA do all the visible bite marks match... Is there any significance to which part of the guts are missing?? Honestly. There is way too much going on here.

And just to speed things along a little, she's going to check on the small cuts and then the claw marks and the broken neck as well. Any new information? Is there some way to tell what actually killed her?

Her nose is wrinkled in a deep frown all the way through. Y'all owe her new shoes for this shit.]

[foundationmods]

[The bite marks do match! And there doesn't seem to be any significance to the guts that are missing, honestly - it seems almost like they were chosen at random.

Luna, with her medical knowledge, can definitely tell that the broken neck killed her first. The other wounds seem to have been made post mortem.]

[artificialhighness]

[Just gnawing randomly on the corpse seems to match the wild nature of the kill, though something with such small teeth shouldn’t be capable of doing this much damage. What was this, a yaoi goat??

Next, she’s going to examine the claw marks more closely, since Vanitas mentioned them specifically. Boob judge #2 is present and accounted for. What’s the deal here?]

[foundationmods]

[They look in the wrong hand position for slashing someone with a hand, but with Luna's medical knowledge, she's able to easily tell that while the slashes line up with Bruno's paws, they're too uniform. There's also clear evidence of someone having to use more force than normal to do this, as if they were using something that wasn't overly sharp.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ Huh.

WELP.

(Alas, he won't think to check anything else...)

Time to look back at the hands, first. What kind of small and warped are we talking? To be clear, are they remotely human-sized or human-like? ]

[foundationmods]

[Just small and a little warped from the other smaller cuts, though it looks like it might be from a small animal, or something.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ RESPONDING TO LUNA, BELATEDLY: ]

They did... and I actually don't know her powers, but my guess is it was something to do with helping people?

[ ... Small animal, huh?

Heh... Well then.

There's a wave at Luna, btw. ]

Want to take a closer look at these claw marks? I'm gonna go check something out.

[overlordad]

[You heading to Takashi's room Van?]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ YEP. He will try door, first, but we all know he's not above trying the window, too. ]

[overlordad]

[The door and window are locked, but I mean we already know the windows are shit.

Baby goat is asleep on the bed, surrounded by pillows so he can't roll off]