FIRST INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Friday, the deadline for The Professor's generous offer, dawns like any other. The automated cycle of lights, the only real indication of time passing here on the seafloor, passes into an imitation of daylight with a series of clicks and the hum of bulbs intensifying their glow.

Just last night, spirits were high as many of you watched movies and chatted. But as you leave your rooms today, there's something... foreboding hanging in the air. A quiet stillness, almost unnatural.

... Eh, it's probably fine, right?

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[bathymetric]

[ I mean, in fairness...

does The Lusty Argonian Maid fit in anywhere? It's even a little ways away from the other, denser books. ]

[archboxer]

...By the Goddess why is this here?

[Okay, she doesn't even need to read it to know that this is porn. Why? Just why. Thank everyone she doesn't know Argonians are lizard people.

Is this book the lightest one out of the group?]

[bathymetric]

[ By far. Some of those other ones look like full-on reference books. ]

[archboxer]

[Okay just one more question: was the lizard book on the floor with the other books close together or was it somewhere else? Maybe farther thrown because it was lighter or something.]

[bathymetric]

[ It was a little ways away from the others, yes! ]

[archboxer]

[That seems a little weird. Is there anything else off about these books or is Rhea good to go with just taking The Lusty Argonian Maid?]

[bathymetric]

[ Nothing else! Take your smut and go, fantasy pope. ]

[archboxer]

[She will do just that. Pope out.]

[emberserker]

[This is not a good day. Not whatsoever.

The body seems to be covered, so Anna will look into what Rhea's doing.]

It looks like someone wasn't satisfied with their reading material.

[She crouches down to flip through the books -- is anything hidden in the pages? Bookmarks, notes, someone's motive envelope, a secret message in code that will take the entire game to figure out, what are we looking at here.]

[bathymetric]

[ Nope! Just your ordinary everyday large technical texts. ]

[archboxer]

[She's definitely keeping the lizard book out of Anna's reach.]

They were probably just defending themselves in any way they could.

[emberserker]

[Hmph, not like she cares about your salacious salamanders.]

If this is an investigation, what else does he expect us to do?

[archboxer]

[This is about literary lewd lizards. Salamanders are amphibians.]

Find out who did this, presumably.

[emberserker]

[Listen, Anna cares about two things, sometimes just one thing, and animal classification is not among them.]

What a headache. Regardless, I won't let the killer get away in any case.

[archboxer]

[If she wants to insult someone, she should do it properly or not at all.]

The Goddess punishes those that kill so recklessly quite harshly. They will not get away.