RECORDING 14: THE FIFTH MURDER.

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A fifth 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.

The Miasma is choking, almost triumphant as you search the hallways -

looking for the ones that have had their lives cut short so cruelly...

((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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[cw_suicide]

[yeah this is...






... what's going on with his chest, then?]

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[Three gunshots - one to both lungs, and one to the heart. It looks as if the left lung might have been shot first before the other two shots, and that the shots are precise - someone proficient in firearms did this.]

[cw_suicide]

[........................................... he desperately needs a cigarette right now

and he thought Ango's murder looked suspiciously like a hit job.

but no. focus. can fall apart after data is collected.

he's going to collect the bishop piece from Battler. anything noticeable about it? or just normal white bishop? then, he'll be poking at the chess board and the kings there.]

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[Just a normal white bishop from the chess set, though it is a little bloody. The chessboard is also normal, but he'll notice there's a bullet casing not too far from Battler's body, as well as a casing slightly inside the conservatory.]

1/2

[cw_suicide]

[lovely. just some nerd edgelord leaving a message, then.

ok.

need to wrap up the checking over of the body.

except he pauses again because... actually. he can't stand that Battler died with his eyes open. suffocating, bleeding out with each heart beat--]

[cw_suicide]

[... glancing up to see if Battler was looking at anything in particular. more to delay having to roll the body over than anything else, but...]

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[He's staring fixedly up at the ceiling - where all Dazai will see is the dark sky of the forest around them.]

[cw_suicide]

... ah, I wonder what it was that you would have seen instead of that...

[said quietly but, of course, there's no answer.

time to gently pat down the body and turn it over to see if there's any other clues. he knows how to do this. it was how he met Odasaku, after all. recovering things from the bodies...]

[foundationmods]

[He would have seen webbing, Dazai.

Anyway, as he pats the body down, he'll feel a piece of paper in one of his pants pockets.]

[cw_suicide]

[... pulling out the piece of paper to see what's on it, then.]

[foundationmods]

[It looks like it was ripped out from the beginning pages of a book - you know, the front pages that have copyright information.

Written on it is a single message:

'11:30 got woken up by D']

[cw_suicide]

[couldn't have been bothered with AM or PM could you, Battler?

sighs and folds the paper before putting it in his own pocket.

anything else to be found on or under or around the body? 'cause he'll wrap up by making sure Battler doesn't have to stare at the ceiling anymore by closing his eyes once he's done]

[foundationmods]

[YOU SEE HOW STIFF HIS FUCKING BODY IS YOU SHOULD KNOW IF IT WAS AM OR PM!!!

And no, not really - but as he does, he'll notice the expression in Battler's eyes is one of despair, horror, and pain.

Standard stuff, really.

Though as he finishes up and stands, he might notice a glimmer of metal in one of the plants nearby.]

[cw_suicide]

[LOOK, YOU METATEXT...!!!!

...

time to poke the plants, then.]

[foundationmods]

[He'll find the final missing casing in a fern not too far from his body.

You feel like that's all you'll be able to find here.]

[cw_suicide]

[... this is exhausting.

he's so exhausted?

he's just gonna sit for a bit near this plant and stare at the body because he can officially Just Be Sad now.]