SEVENTH INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Friday morning comes as it so often does. The hallways of the ship are still. Things are... surprisingly normal. As normal as they can feel on a cruise ship populated entirely by a few surviving members of your number and whatever the heck The Captain has become.

And on top of that, it's quiet. The voices of your loved ones no longer ring in your ears, gone as suddenly as they came.

But that would mean...

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[scythegun]

[Saved yet again... How's first aid doing?]

[bathymetric]

[ There's something off in here, but not a body! ]

[scythegun]

[Well, uh. Since it seems like poor Data may not be the only one... What's going on downstairs? How's the workshop looking?]

[bathymetric]

[ It looks body-free! In fact, so does all of Floor 6. ]

[scythegun]

[Floor 7 it is! Did anyone mess with the armory...]

[bathymetric]

[ Your beautiful house is clear! ]

[scythegun]

[Thank god the weapons are safe. But anyway, how's the morgue purple key room doing?]

[magycks]

[ yeager honey we gotta stop meeting like this!! ]

[scythegun]

[listen you also thought it'd be funny to find a body in the morgue don't lie]

[magycks]

[ listen you can't blame a duck for wanting to see a goth murder... I mean, definitionally, you can, but that aside! ]

[scythegun]

[honestly, that's a mood, magica...]

[bathymetric]

[ The I Can't Believe It's Not A Morgue is still body-free, which is probably still weird! ]

[scythegun]

[Definitely still weird. How about the pub?]

[bathymetric]

[ There are no bodies in the pub! ]

[scythegun]

[Huh. The photo lab maybe...? Did we miss someone on a different floor............]

[bathymetric]

[ Well, uh...

It's hard to make out in the darkness, but... is that someone sitting in the darkroom? ]

[scythegun]

[No, that's definitely someone dead in the darkroom, but!! Is there a light switch in here or something, he didn't examine this room closely...]

[bathymetric]

[ There's at least the red light, which lights things up in a suitably atmospheric way for all involved!

It also makes it harder to see all that red stuff on the man in the chair.

Regardless, the wounds make it clear what's going on here. Jasper is dead. ]

[scythegun]

[Oh good, no ruining potential evidence because Yeager never bothered to ask anyone about the darkroom!! But well, here's poor goddamn Jasper...]

Two again... I really do hope there isn't anyone else to find.

[jibunwo]

[let’s pretend i wasn’t at work with a migraine clearly lelouch overslept]

...It was going to be someone before long.

[he hates this shit actually]

[magycks]

Well, yes. But--

[ oh, and there's the announcement! ]

... wait, what?

[scythegun]

Ja, of course, but...

[But like!! Data and Jasper??]

Anyway, I suppose we should get started.

[magycks]

[ She also didn't really check this room out and is now paying for it... ]

Let's see. We've got Constantine, Zaveid, you, me, Data's dead...

[ She doesn't have enough fingers to count this off, actually! A classic Magica error. ]

[scythegun]

Which leaves Filbo, Flayn, Zelouch, and...

[Well. Jasper.]