WEEK 5 INVESTIGATION

[foundationmods]

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This was....what happened every friday.
A new body to discover.

But...why was there a scream in the halls...?🗈

It echoed on and on, with the person screaming apparently never needing to stop for breath...

It was a fitting soundtrack to what they'd see today, wasn't it...?
Like what you would hear in hell itself.

So, in the end...they had to search, to find the body and find the clues that would bring them to the killer themselves in tomorrow's trial.

...What kind of horror will they find today?

What kind of death did one of their number face?

And what sort of horrible, heart-rending truth....will be the end result, at the end of this week...?

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[foundationmods]

[...The person has clearly been through...quite a bit.

There's blood pooled under his body - and more than that, it's clear his right arm has been severed.

Sitting up slumped against the wall, which is also bloody...his normally slicked back, black hair messy and hanging down.

Sherlock Holmes is dead.]

[cryosurgeon]

............

[Erhard drops to his knees, staring, unblinking. He doesn't hear anyone approach. There's nothing in the world except the body and the smell of blood and the sickening hole where something should be in his chest.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ seriously why is this hallway like this ]

Ah...

[ Well. Shit.

... ]

I'm going to investigate, okay? You can do an examination with me now or jump in whenever you're ready to.

[cryosurgeon]

[He doesn't seem to hear her. He's not even blinking.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ Well, she'll take that as a yes and get to work. ]

[incrediblystressedout]

[Oh hey look it's Joey's first time not being able to force herself away from a crime scene and holy shit what happened to Sherlock.]

[Oh. Erhard's there too. Oh no. Joey's old-fashioned, but she's not an idiot. She knows exactly what it means to see Erhard staring at...that...like that.]

Erhard?

[Joey approaches cautiously.]

Can you hear me?

[cryosurgeon]

[He doesn't move, doesn't flinch, doesn't blink. He doesn't even seem to be breathing, it's so shallow and quiet.]

[incrediblystressedout]

Erhard.

[She knows better than the touch the guy, but she will try to carefully make herself visible to him while he's staring at the body.]

[cryosurgeon]

[His pupils are dilated, and even as she moves to stand in his line of sight he seems to be looking right through her. His eyes are watering, but whether they're tears or just because he isn't blinking is impossible to tell.]

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey's only half sure of what to do here. She's a would-be vet, not a would-be doctor. But next to Erhard, she's the closest thing to a medical doctor here, and she knows shock when she sees it.]

[Cautiously, she reaches out a hand to put on his shoulder, ready to jump back if he reacts violently.]

[cryosurgeon]

[He doesn't jump or flinch. If anything, the shoulder under her touch is as rigid as stone. He finally blinks once, slowly, but continues to stare at Sherlock's body. Considering how upset he was over Natsuno's death, this is almost eerie.]

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey's also extremely sure it's bad from a medical standpoint, but at least he's not actually having a seizure or something. Probably.]

[She leaves, then comes back a minute or two later with a blanket from her room to put over his shoulders.]

[cryosurgeon]

[Once the investigation of Sherlock's body is done, Erhard finally moves. He gets to his feet, Joey's blanket wrapped around his shoulders, and slowly walks over to the corpse. He kneels down again, closing his eyes and leaning forward to touch his forehead to Sherlock's, heedless of the blood on the man's face. He whispers one thing, hollowly:]

Auf Wiedersehen....

[And that's the last thing he'll say until the trial.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ All right... first off, is the severed arm present or is it not even at the scene? ]

[foundationmods]

[Not even at the scene.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ Well, that's a thing.

Let's check other visible injuries besides the missing arm. ]

[foundationmods]

[Well, it's clear it looks like someone basically stabbed him from the back all over his torso.

As she inspects, she might notice a glint of metal showing from the wounds on his back, though it's hard to tell while he's still pressed up against the wall.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ Great...

As we go to turn him around for a look at his back here, tell me what we can infer about the time of death here -- rigor mortis, body temperature, state of the blood? ]

[foundationmods]

[Well, he's definitely in rigor mortis - and the associated body temp and state of blood implies he was killed after curfew.

As she inspects his back, she'll notice the metal is bits of twisted metal imbedded in his back.

Also I realized I had positions wrong earlier, and the stab wounds actually look like they're on his front. DIRECTIONS ARE HARD]

[youkaiwatch]

[ Directions are hard.

So do the locations of the metal in his back seem to correspond with the stab wounds on the front then? Like are these the other side of the same wounds or different ones ]

[foundationmods]

[No, they're different wounds. They don't even remotely match up.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ Are these metal bits recognizable as anything? Does it look like they're intentional wounds from something that was used as a weapon, or more like he got dragged over or pushed against something? ]

[fullbodied]

[ann emerges from Emi's room and-- well, places her hands to her mouth.]

No...

[cryosurgeon]

[Hey, maybe Ann can get Erhard to respond.

... okay, maybe not.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ :( this is why she didn't wake you up before she left, this hall sucks ]