SECOND INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Your third Friday in the facility dawns like the last two, where you've historically had a 50-50 shot at not, you know, having someone be murdered somewhere. Needless to say, the atmosphere is probably tense. You've already lost someone, but... is that enough? There's a whole chest of maybe literal pirate gold at stake, here, and for all of you who have derided the motive there's no doubting that money isn't exactly something that nobody out there kills for, right?

The lights of the facility click on to signal the end of nighttime, and one by one you start to wake. Things seem pretty normal as you all leave your rooms, but... didn't you feel this way last week, too?

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[archboxer]

[Sorry, Ema, this is in her room and she's over the body and not moving. Time to look at the body... Does he appear to have any apparent wounds?]

[snackooed]

Sorry this happened in here. I know it's not right...

[ She's not particularly religious, but anyone can see that a body in a place of worship is just wrong. ]

If you want to take this one, I won't stop you. But I'm going to supervise, if it's all the same to you.

[archboxer]

That is. I apologize but even if this place is not just dedicated to the Goddess...

[She sighs.]

It feels like I must do my part as well, this time.

[snackooed]

Heard. I'll cover your bases. Second opinions in this field are always a good thing to have. We'll get to the bottom of it in no time.

[ She hopes. ]

[archboxer]

Thank you, Ema... I am sure we will.

[bogwife]

Do you want any help? [She was going to assist Ema with the body investigation but Rhea looks pretty intent on doing this herself. Still, she can at least offer.]

[archboxer]

Thank you... What do you think of this?

[bogwife]

[She's gotchu, Madame Pope.]

[bathymetric]

[ OH BOY DOES HE

how many wild animal attacks have you seen in your life, Rhea? because the man has bite marks on his neck, and no chunks have been removed but it's still not... pretty. ]

[archboxer]

[She... is very familiar with beast attacks and this just curls her stomach.]

Bites...

[Time to inspect his neck closer. Do they look human?]

[blackmass]

...I'm sorry, what?

[archboxer]

Something bit his neck. Strange, all the flesh is there...

[Eugh.]

[blackmass]

[Cool! Great! Awesome!]

[Kirei visibly hates that.]

[But he's sure not saying anything else.]

[archboxer]

[She isn't as upset as him but she definitely doesn't like this either. Probably for very different reasons.

The clergy hate this.]

[bathymetric]

[ They might be! It's hard to tell for sure without more time to clean things up and look at the pattern, but "human" is well within the range of terrible possibility!

There's some other weird things about the body, too, if the bite marks are a little Much. ]

[snackooed]

[ Mind if she handles the cleanup? And checks his rigor mortis, while she's at it? ]

[archboxer]

[Go right ahead. Rhea is a bit... disturbed about the bites.]

[bathymetric]

[ Would you like to take a look elsewhere on the body, Rhea? There's other less disturbing things to note, I promise! ]

[archboxer]

[Okay, what about his hands? She'll just take a look to see if it looks like they were bit or cut.]

[bogwife]

[Welp, this is a good time to have the lady who literally lives among wild animals and has treated her fair share of bites, mostly on herself.]

Ouch. [She slides over to Ema's shoulder, pulling out a scrap of fabric from her shoulder bag to pass to her.] Here, in case you need it.

[archboxer]

[She won't say anything because what does a sheltered holy woman know of animal attacks, right? Still. This... is definitely something she's going to watch even if she won't say much.]

[snackooed]

Yeah, it's bad, right?

[ She'll gladly take that fabric, though. Thank goodness there's a sewing room around here... ]

Never do have it easy on this job...

[bogwife]

Do you think it could have been one of his whats its, his animals...um...Pokemon?

[bathymetric]

[ As near as you can tell from the onset of the rigor mortis, Ema, we're again looking at at least a couple hours since death! ]

[snackooed]

[ Understood! She's going to clean up the area around his neck and take a nice look at those bitemarks, then.

Can we tell what kind of pearly whites we're looking at? ]