[continue + 2] week 1 || act: investigate

[foundationmods]

[Everything is still, silent, and dark - just like it should be.

Friday comes, and there is no angry captain waking you up, no crowd of people.

But there is still, undeniably...

a feeling of foreboding.

You know what this is.

One of your own...has perished.

At the hands of one of you.]

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[oceanicbutterfly]

[Oh, that's... probably not a good sign. Karen will go over to investigate the large, dark thing.]

[foundationmods]

[ As she approaches, she will find that she's won the body lottery this week.

There's a large pool of blood beneath a prone form. A pale hand is stretched out, almost as if they were trying to reach for something. While their long black hair is down and obscuring their features, the black robes and the flute at their side will paint a picture of who this could be without seeing their face.

Wei Wuxian is dead. ]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...fuck.

Well, she guesses she's doing this, then. Karen takes a few deep breaths, then sits down to take a look. Any signs of injuries other than the whole, you know, being dead?]

[foundationmods]

[It's going to take a moment to find, thanks to his robes and all, but he has a stab wound right under his ribcage.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[It's fine, she's taking her time.

And taking pictures, of the whole scene and all the gory details. Here, she'll take a picture of her stupid V coin next to the wound for scale. About how big is said wound?

Also, it's not her area of expertise, but can she get a rough idea of the time of death?]

[foundationmods]

[It's definitely from a knife or something similar, he done got stabbed. Karen will also be able to tell that the stab was angled slightly upwards.

A rough time of death would be difficult, but she can tell just by all the blood on the ground that the death was at least a few hours ago.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Yeah, he's done some impressive bleeding here.

Oh, was the stab wound on his front, back, or side?]

[foundationmods]

[Sort of front-side? It's definitely at an angle, not directly from the front or from the side.

Also, the bloody snow is moved around a bit, and there is blood on Wei Wuxian's hands and hair. Looks like someone didn't die immediately!]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[On his hair, hmm. Taking a couple close-up pictures.

Is the snow moved around enough to suggest he actually got somewhere, e.g. is there anything that could be called a trail?]

[foundationmods]

[Nope! Once he fell he kind of just stayed there. But the blood in his hair is more like secondary transfer, not that he bled on his hair. And that bit of blood is near the back of his head too.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Oh good, so at least he didn't fold up like a Transformer before he died.

Let's check out the flute. Anything off about it?]

[foundationmods]

[Unfortunately, WWX is not a robot in disguise :(

The flute is normal! And since I am a fool, we can say that WWX's soul is chilling there right by the flute.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Ah, that seems like a good segue into searching the body.

...

What? She remembers the first investigation. She's looking for his soul pouch thing.]

[foundationmods]

[Soul pouch thing is still there. Is she scooping up his soul?

Also, there's something off about how he looks, but Karen won't be able to figure it out immediately.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[She will definitely snap a couple of extra photos then. If she's not sure, she can find someone who is.

And she's... going to try? She's not sure if there are any weird subtleties to how the soul pouch thing works.]

[foundationmods]

[Good idea! Someone should be able to look at those pictures and tell what is off.

And we'll say that yes, she can scoop up WWX's soul and hang onto it.

And since she took those pictures, there's no other clues to be found here, unless she wants to drag someone here to get the clue she missed.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Actually, one more thing while we're here. Karen wasn't specifically checking for this, but it'd be obvious from looking all the pictures she's taken: does WWX have a mask on him?]

[foundationmods]

[He does! I'll ask Pan where specifically when she gets back, but it's somewhere on his body, yes.]