SECOND INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Friday morning rolls in and when you awake, your memories have been returned to you. No ceremony or anything, they're just... back. The Captain is silent, the ship is silent...

Probably a good idea to go check and see if anything happened while you all were asleep. You might not have to go very far at all.

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LAZER TAG

[bathymetric]

[ pew pew, etc ]

[jibunwo]

[you know what the hallway’s crowded so he’s going to assume that’s handled and head elsewhere]

[are we looking at signs of a struggle or is he going to have to poke around]

[bathymetric]

[ It doesn't take long at all! Looks like there's some stuff scattered around the arena! ]

[jibunwo]

[fffantastic.]

[Let’s start with that; he’ll check out what’s making a mess of the place and see if it’s stuff that even belongs in here or not]

[bathymetric]

[ So! The first thing here is that there are four lazer tag guns scattered around - they seem pretty scuffed up. ]

[jibunwo]

[he only has so many pockets but he’ll take at least one and start taking notes on the rest]

[Scuffed up as in having seen normal use, or as if they were chucked around or something?]

[bathymetric]

[ The latter! The walls have some scuff marks too, for what it's worth. ]

[jibunwo]

[well then that’s sure a 1+1 right there]

[do the marks on the wall appear to coincide in any way with the marks on the guns, or are they generally ’gun thrown against a wall’-sized otherwise?]

[bathymetric]

[ Yeah, they do seem that way. No notable matching marks, though. ]

[jibunwo]

[that’s cool, he just wants to make sure the reasonable apparent conclusion is sound enough]

[Anything else of note we have out of place other than Gunchucks?]

[bathymetric]

[ Well, in addition to all the guns, there's two vests on the ground as well! One seems undamaged, and the other has scuff marks that line up with the ones on the guns and the walls. ]

[jibunwo]

[very inchresting indeed.]

[Do the vests have sizes, and if so what are we looking at here?]

[scythegun]

[WHO FUCKED UP HIS FAVORITE ROOM ON THIS GODFORSAKEN BOAT

Anyway yeah, Yeager's here, definitely not as a distraction because he thinks there will be no evidence here. Anything immediately off in here?]

[bathymetric]

[ Well, there's the living strawberry with eyes doing a not-so-great job of hiding in the equipment area, for starters. ]

[scythegun]

[...you know what, this might as well happen. His life is already so goddamn weird.]

Hey there, little guy! I'm sorry if we frightened you. [zero is v frightening it's true] Are you doing okay?

[He's going to crouch down nearby, without trying to reach out to grab the poor thing just yet. This is definitely Evidence (probably) but like, no need to be rude about it.]

[jibunwo]

[the strawberry can probably beat him in hand to hand combat]

[scythegun]

[strabby - 1, zero - well i mean it's his name]

[bathymetric]

[ The strawberry seems very nervous!

There is also, set down somewhere in the area, a red and white orb. You know the kind, oocly. ]

[scythegun]

[oh boy I sure do!!

But Yeager doesn't, and he does see that, so he's going to go pick it up. Huh. What the hell is this. Should he push the button in the trial or right now, because either way, that is a button and he is going to push it at some point!!

Oh and also, where was the Pokeball's location? Was it like, purposefully placed somewhere or was it like, underneath something like it had rolled away?]

[bathymetric]

[ He is free to push the button whenevs! But it seems like it was deliberately placed here. ]

[scythegun]

[Good to know! So he'll go ahead and push that button!]

[bathymetric]

[ Who's that Pokemon???

It's Vaporeon! Unharmed and immediately busy trying to comfort the panicked living strawberry. ]

[scythegun]

[.............you know what this is fine. someone's gonna have to explain pokemon to him once we get to the trial.

Anything else to note about these two or the area over here, or does Zero have the rest of the evidence?]

[bathymetric]

[ Zero's got it! You're good, buddy. ]

AREA CLEAR

[bathymetric]