FIFTH INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Morning dawns on Friday with the same sense of horribly mundane not-quite-dread it must by now, everything normal as you wake to leave your rooms and yet... well, the weeks haven't been kind to this usual favorite of days, have they? It's been over a month now since your last normal Friday.

But maybe this one will be different. Maybe you'll all find that despite everything, you've all finally made it to the end of one of The Professor's motives. You've outlasted him, and can see what happens when you all do so.

Or maybe not. Only one way to find out.

Comments

[ladygeryon]

[Oi?]

There's about half missing, just so you know.

[hardnosed]

You don't get it. Even with that -- this isn't her. The back is wrong. She must have faked it somehow--

[ladygeryon]

So her gem had a pointed pavilion. But it would have been hidden at the angle hers was at, wouldn't it? What kind of Gems would have that kind of cut? [Though...Nira's definitely noticed something unusual about the shatter pattern as well.]

[hardnosed]

I don't know. I don't...

[ Yellow is for sure the one who she's seen most frequently, and her gem is diamond-shaped, so in combination with that and her patented Jasper denial the actual answer slips through her mind without her seizing upon it. ]

It was something brittle. This isn't how quartz breaks.

[ladygeryon]

Yes, it's definitely something with a higher grade of cleavage than quartz... [And we can assume she finds that drill bit to test the hardness at some point.]

...harder, though. That's not that much of a surprise. Durability and hardness aren't always correlated.

[nothingcanstop]

Faked it? [ Della looks up from the furniture she's inspecting. ] How do you fake something like this?

[hardnosed]

I don't know!

[ It probably doesn't need to be said that all of Jasper's tenuous grasp on volume control has gone flying out the window. ]

She got some gem from the machine or the museum, she shattered it, and now she's just -- hiding out somewhere, laughing at us!

[nothingcanstop]

That doesn’t...sound like her...

[ But something about this doesn’t sit well, nevertheless. ]