Sixth Investigation

[bathymetric]

Another Friday. The air is strangely cold as you wake, potentially wondering if this week will follow the trend of the last two. How can you afford to keep bleeding people like this? Surely this isn't sustainable. One way or another, some kind of reckoning has to be coming.

But before that reckoning, there's one more time you need to go back into the breach. You hope not, but... it was one hell of a motive this week, after all. Up and at 'em, gang. Helios Suites is body-free, so you can grab a breakfast or something before heading out, but... for one last time, there's something out there for you to find.

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[honeyedtea]

[ Okay. So. She absolutely under no circumstances wants to do this but Zinda sure as fuck can't do it and she's not leaving such a disgusting job to Mafuyu alone.

So.

... My god, we're investigating the body. Apart from You Know, what's the sitch? ]

[bathymetric]

[ So, avoiding Catastrophic Head Wound Junction for now, there's just a tremendous amount of blood all over the place, sourced directly from said unnaturally occurring blood spring. Splatter patterns are going to be a bitch to find, even if you were anywhere close to a pro at this. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ I guess without Nandor, we have no way of knowing if it all came from him...

Apart from You Know, are there any other injuries anywhere on Nandor that look related to the murder? ]

[bathymetric]

[ There's not much, but there is a strange torn bit on his shirt? ]

[honeyedtea]

[ OH BOY...

Strange how? Does it look like it got ripped in a struggle? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Not in a struggle, necessarily - it seems more pierced by something? And under it, if shifted aside a little, is a small, localized burn. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ The fuck?

... ok it's killing me that Mielle wouldn't know this but I will ask for Claire's benefit: does this look like a tazer burn? ]

[bathymetric]

[ It would match a tazer burn, yes! ]

[honeyedtea]

[ Well, Mafuyu can helpfully ID that later. Teamwork!!!

Apart from the tazer burn, is there anything else on the body that needs to be taken note of or should she start investigating their surrounding area? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Makes the dream work!!

There are a few things to note about his clothes, first, if you'd like. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ Lay it on me! ]

[bathymetric]

[ First off, this isn't his usual outfit! He's wearing a vending machine Hawaiian shirt and some black pants from the department store. His boots, however, are the same, and there are a couple things to note about them, the first being the crushed glass in the soles. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ He was really leaning into the whole cool hip stepdad aesthetic huh

Any way of telling what kind of glass it is? Like, a mirror compared to a drinking glass. ]

[bathymetric]

[ Mirror seems right? Could have something to do with the disturbed mirror section nearbyish, but there is one more thing in his boots to note before moving on. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ PLEASE give her the last of the betails (boot details) so she can get the HELL away from this body ]

[sastruga]

[teen girl squad is gonna do SO MUCH repressing after trial's over]

[bathymetric]

[ One of them has a throwing knife in it! The other does not. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ . . .

WELL, ALRIGHT THEN!!!

Is this a case of the other throwing knife being missing? ]

[bathymetric]

[ At present, seems like that could be the case! But maybe he just took one out? Unclear! ]

[honeyedtea]

[ The inner machinations of his mind truly are a mystery......... is she free to go check out the other, none-corpse evidence now ]

[bathymetric]

[ ... I have missed one (1) thing, apologies, which is that his sword, which he has on now as he has since he got it from the vending machine, is slightly but not fully drawn! Now you may move on from the body. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ ... ok before we move on, does it perhaps look like maybe Nandor got ambushed or at least surprised? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Tough to say just looking at him! The body has been uh. Disturbed, by the head trauma, and most any patterns have been upset by The Day Of All The Blood. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ alrighty, moving HASTILY AWAY from the body, what's up with this Mirror Evidence ]

[bathymetric]

[ So there's like. A mirror display nearby, and several of the mirrors have been Upset. A couple are knocked askew, and some have fallen completely over and shattered! ]