RECORDING 11: THE FOURTH MURDER.

[foundationmods]

A fourth week, and this is now definitely routine. Waking on friday, with the knowledge deep down that your number has yet again decreased.

You must still pull yourself from your bed, and discover who is now forever gone.

...But, wait.

What's that smell...?

((OOC: 2 people max under a heading, please! Just to keep things easy on the mods. You can switch out with someone else during an investigation if needed.))

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[golden_dream]

[Rosa turns out of her bed and looks around...

Shit, it's one of those days. At least she wasn't hung-over. Why not patrol a little bit?]

[foundationmods]

[There is the smell of blood coming from outside...]

[golden_dream]

...

[That's already triggering flashbacks, but she lifts an arm over her nose and presses onward into the hall...

She'll go up and down to check outside all of the rooms.]

[foundationmods]

[Well.

As she opens her door, She'll be greeted with a grisly sight.

There is blood pooled against the door of room 2 and onto the hallway - a lot of blood. The worst of it is close to room 2, but the rest seems to flow out towards the lower half of the hall.

Rosa will be able to see that there are no footprints in the puddle.

[golden_dream]

[Blood...

She can't hold it back, she screams...

Or at least, tries to, but with her throat like it is, all that comes out is an anguished little cry.]

Arrrchkhccghckg...

[She stares, and stares... who was in room 2? Only one way to find out.

She'll gingerly try to step around the blood and reach the door of room 2, to push it open.]

[ghostricked]

[Sissel carefully hops around the splatter, nose twitching at the, to him, pleasant scent]

Careful Rosa- don't slip.

[No prints... that's weird. While Rosa handle room 2, he sniffs around the rest of the hall]

[golden_dream]

[She turns and give him a little nod, though she reaches for her notepad and scratches it with her nails to get him to wait.]

...

[She writes:

"No footprints. The murderer may still be inside the room."]

[ghostricked]

[He can't read the message but he can smell her worry- understandable with all this gore]

... in the room? I can check as a ghost if you want?

[He's thinking more the body might be leaking out under the door more than the killer still being there, but still]

[golden_dream]

[Oh, right. She forgot.]

...

[She shrugs?? "As a ghost"?? Was the cat dead the whole time? Well, she'll think about it later.

She... gently opens the doorknob, enough to push the door open.]

[foundationmods]

[Well, as Rosa gets closer, she will see that There is a lot of blood on the door - but also, that the doorknob has a bloody handprint on it.

It looks like it's from a left hand.]

[golden_dream]

[She'll freeze before touching it, then!]

...

[She'll hold her arms out, offering to pick up Sissel so he can get a better look?]

[ghostricked]

Oh! Thank you.

[Once he's up he will observe the print. How are we looking on size?]

[foundationmods]

[It looks like the handprint of an adult male.]

[ghostricked]

[And does it look like it was gripped in the usual way- curled thumb etc, or more like it was slapped while say, bleeding out on the floor?]

[foundationmods]

[gripped in the usual way.]

[ghostricked]

[Good to know. Anything else of note with the door/door frame while he's up here at people height?]

[foundationmods]

[Nope!]

[ghostricked]

Okay Rosa, I think I'm good!

[Once he's back on the ground time to examine the blood. Does it seem like a huge pool or like a splatter?]

[golden_dream]

[She sets him down.

Once he's down... she'll take out her notepad and mime setting her hand on it? Then she'll elaborate by making as if she were to touch the blood, then touch the paper.]

[ghostricked]

Oh, it's... I'd say a man's hand. Definitely bigger than yours.

[golden_dream]

[shakes her head, mimes pressing the paper to the handle]

[ghostricked]

...oh! If it's wet enough it can't hurt to try!

[foundationmods]

[Unfortunately, it's mostly dry.]

[ghostricked]

[Oh speaking of the print though- were there any scars or 'voids' in the mark? Something easier to compare than actual prints. We have a lot of fighters after all.]

[golden_dream]

...

[She'll hedge her bets by giving it a glance over and trying to draw what the hand print pattern looks like...

...Rosa's so very much not an artist, though, so it comes off looking like a fish flipper with squiggly lines.

She'll try to bring another paper to press against it and get a hand print after.]