WEEK 3 INVESTIGATION

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Three weeks had gone by, and even with the other Witch being revealed, Friday came.

Waking up on this day began to feel like the prelude to something horrible.

To a horrible sight...and some kind of deep betrayal, knowing that one of them had ended the lives of someone they'd been speaking and laughing with just the day before...🗈

...But, they had no choice. This was the game, and it had to be played - set in motion by the pair of Witches.

No matter how they felt, they had to search, to gaze upon cruel death in it's many forms.

No matter....how dear the person once was to them, today...they would be nothing but a corpse to gleam clues from, in preparation for the trial.

And so...they had to push forward. Forward...to find a terrible truth.

Comments

[goldenmaniac]

...check it for poison. That'd be an easy way to kill people from a distance. Easier than pushing two in shape teenagers without a struggle.

[byanyother_name]

It looks like they were already standing on the damned railing like a pair of idiots. But I will.

[Kurama is going to sniff the tea traces. His nose is not what it's supposed to be but he's pretty sure he can still tell if the tea smells the way it should.]

[foundationmods]

[It does indeed look like the tea smells like how it should.

However, since Kurama has experience with herbs, he'll be able to tell one smells like chamomile and the other smells like both chamomile and valerian root.]

[byanyother_name]

...

[How much valerian root? He's well aware it's used for relaxation and help sleeping but too much is poisonous.]

[foundationmods]

[Enough that would be good for tea - a normal dose if you'd want to sleep.]

[byanyother_name]

[So not poisoned but almost definitely groggy...]

...it isn't poison. But these teas are for help with sleep. Akira- he asked me to help him with this...

[Kurama's breathing hitches for a second before evening out.]

If they drank this before whatever happened, they would have been groggy. Slow to react. One of them more than the other.

[Any sign of who might have been sitting where?]

[foundationmods]

[Not really, no. Beyond the teacups and a blanket on one of the seats, there's nothing to tell who was where.]

[byanyother_name]

[Any signs of someone else on the balcony? Anyone he can't account for, that is.]

[foundationmods]

[No.

It's almost like....this whole thing happened, and the culprit just....vanished.

...

Did....Nirrti do this?]

[byanyother_name]

[Kurama doesn't believe Nirrti did this at all but he doesn't like the other possibility.

At all.

He's going to go back to the railing and check the direction and any pattern to the prints there.]

[foundationmods]

[Here's where it gets interesting. The prints are facing towards the balcony and each other, like they were being stupid teenage boys and balancing on it.

...However, it's clear that they both got very close to each other and then -

from the marks, it looks like they were pushed off. At the very least, one set definitely looks that way.]

[byanyother_name]

[He doesn't like that one set part. Kurama is actually going to do that balcony math himself, judging the position of the bodies from here and what that says about their arc of fall, based on them standing on the railing.]

[foundationmods]

[It's consistent with someone being pushed off from the balcony, not a fall, though it seems a little short, most likely due to two people hanging onto each other falling instead of just one.]

[byanyother_name]

[......which set of prints looks pushed? Akira or Ryuji?]

[foundationmods]

[Ryuji.]

[byanyother_name]

[Looking at the prints and the various angles, could he get an idea of where the person pushing might have been?]

[foundationmods]

[No. Though he's good, he can only tell that they would have probably been near where the two types of footprints come together.]

[byanyother_name]

[Damn it. Kurama will move away from the prints to avoid messing them up and lean over the railing to see if it's climbable around the balcony.]

[foundationmods]

[Technically, yes. How do you think Sora got on the roof all those times?]

[byanyother_name]

[Look. There are things you don't question and how Sora gets anywhere is one of them.

Are there any signs of recent climbing?]

[foundationmods]

[Not as recent as last night, no.]

[byanyother_name]

[Hmph. He's also going to look up, because people never fucking look up.]

[foundationmods]

[Nothing is on the roof, or anything else in the vicinity of up.

Beyond, say, the sky. Sure is sunny this morning!]

[byanyother_name]

[It's always sunny in Murderdelphia. Kurama lets out a quiet curse and looks around.

Let's take a closer look at the seat covered by the blanket, like pulling the blanket off it to examine both.]

[foundationmods]

[The blanket is...a blanket! It smells like Ryuji and Akira.

There's nothing else to be gleamed from it.]