SECOND INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

It's easy to think, with how much... less this week's motive seems to be than the last, that perhaps nothing will happen. But then again, someone was poisoned yesterday, so perhaps you're already on edge. No one could blame you, in this place. Even on the brightest days, New Rapture is dark.

There's no blood in the elevator, at least, but... your radios are all pretty quiet, this morning.

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[bathymetric]

[ The blood trail stretches pretty fully from a very Busy area of the garden, all the way to the pool. Not really drips as though the body was carried, mostly it's long and standard drag marks. ]

[onemillion]

[Hmm! From the size and shape of the drag marks, is it safe to assume that it was likely a body that was dragged or does this look like said marks could be from something smaller? Is there anything off about any part of the trail - like someone had to stop at some point or anything like that?]

[bathymetric]

[ There's nothing to suggest it wasn't the body, and no indication of a long stop for sure! There's a few small stops here and there, but like. Who among us has dragged a body perfectly smoothly, I ask you? ]

[onemillion]

[DEFINITELY NOT HIM!!!! But no that's about what I was expecting and while Rossiu has exactly 0 experience with such a thing, that seems about right. A long pause would have a lot of blood pooled so this looks pretty consistent with someone dragging a body off to the pool to dump it, so!

Assuming someone else has the other end of the blood trail in the pool, he's going to head the opposite way back into the garden. So where does the trail start?]

[bathymetric]

[ That would be the big puddle of blood in the middle of a very messy section of the garden! You don't need to touch the ground to know that Something Happened Here. ]

[onemillion]

[IT SURE DID, APPARENTLY. Okay, so where is this massive puddle of blood in the garden? Is is near where Hagakure found the knife? Did the killer drag Obi through most of the garden?]

[bathymetric]

[ It looks to be closer to the front of the hotel than the pool, but not too deep eastward into the garden, if that makes sense? The knife is a bit away from it, though there's something in the middle of the disturbed area as well. ]

[onemillion]

[Yes, it does! Alright, so what exactly is this thing in the middle of the area? Can he get an idea of what it is from over here or is he going to have to go into the Danger Zone to retrieve it...]

[bathymetric]

[ He's gonna have to Go In, I'm afraid... though it's not like. Directly in the middle of the blood puddle, at least. ]

[onemillion]

[smh, it's very inconvenient he wears white.... anyway give him a moment to make sure he won't be accidentally dragging his coat into the blood before approaching to find the thing!

So what do we have here? While he's checking out the blood and the item contained within, what sort of pattern are we looking at here? Is there a pattern of any sort or is it just "someone was probably stabbed here like, a lot"?]

[bathymetric]

[ Someone Was Probably Stabbed Here Like A Lot, my man.

Congrats! It's another vending machine combat knife! ]

[onemillion]

[Fantastic!! He hasn't gotten one of these, but someone else will likely be able to recognize it. I'm gonna guess this one is very covered in blood. Anything else noteworthy about it?]

[bathymetric]

[ It's covered in blood, but mostly on the side that was facing up. Like it was clean when it hit the ground. ]

[onemillion]

[Huh... So it was on the ground before Obi was stabbed...?? Interesting! Anything else to note about this puddle of blood or the knife?]

[bathymetric]

[ Nope! You're all good here, Hagakure's grabbing the last bit of evidence! ]