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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[snackooed]

T-that's correct.

[ ??????? ]

He's normally a pallid person ["Pasty," even-- ], but this level of paleness, coupled with this wound...he should have died from blood loss.

[ But where is it... ]

And it doesn't look like the body was moved.

[philoxenia]

[ hey what up it's your photographer--

Oh. Ema sure looks in a state. ]

... Ema? Do you need me to take photos again?

[snackooed]

[ We sure are having a time up in this piece-- ]

I really, really do, Mira.

[ She does look frazzled, but she's trying her hardest... ]

O, only if you're up to it, of course. But they would be extremely helpful, just because this...

[ Doesn't make sense? ]

Well, I'll explain as best I can as we go along.

[philoxenia]

Of course.

[ As up to it as she can be... but she's got this. ]

Just direct me like-- last time, and I'll do my best.

[snackooed]

You're the best. When we figure this out, your dessert is going to be twice as good as that pie was.

[ Thinking about decadent sweets is so, so, so much easier. ]

That's a promise from me, alright? General scene of the crime first, same as before. Then Piers from multiple angles. I'll be with you the whole time.

[philoxenia]

It's really no problem.

[ ... right off the bat, she can tell something is like. Off. But she snaps the photos, and when she gets to Piers's body... ]

Are those-- bite marks?

[snackooed]

Bite marks, yes. The, er, cause of death is blood loss.

[ Welcome to the guessing game, Mira. ]

You can tell right away by the color of his skin. That extremely pale, pink livor mortis...it's consistent with severe, severe anemia. And that wound is almost certainly the cause of it.

[ Sorry, Mira. ]

[philoxenia]

[ Oof. No, it's fine!! Everything is f i n e. ]

But-- where is the blood?

[ What the fuck!! ]

[snackooed]

[ Yeah, see, you get it!! ]

I really don't know. The obvious implication would be that he was killed somewhere else, but normally you'd see some sign of that on the body. Some indication that he was dragged away, or that he was carried off...something. But unfortunately, there don't appear to be any signs of that, in this case. And of course, there's no indication that it was here at one point and cleaned up, either. Even without my luminol, I can tell you that.

So, well...here we are.

[bogwife]

So...where's his blood...?

[snackooed]

Well, that would be the 48 million dollar question.