INVESTIGATION 1

[umbralant]

INVESTIGATION 1

The clock strikes eight. The intermittent showers that dominated most of yesterday had, at some point during the night, escalated to a complete downpour that drenched the streets. Maybe that's why the morning might almost feel refreshing today—while it can't be said that the birds are chirping and the sun is shining brightly, the breeze is cool without being frigid while the sky is bright with the half moon.

Nevertheless. The deadline for Tuesday's motive was laid down as Friday, and amongst the pleasant earthy smell of the rain may be a tinge of something else.

Well now, how shall you spend this morning?

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[umbralant]

[The watery blood will basically be soaked through individual sheets of paper, so there would definitely be some still underneath. As for the books, the bloody water will still be underneath it but the pages touching the ground would also have absorbed some of it.]

[deadlygoals]

[ Does it look like it started from the ground to be soaked up? Is there any blood on top of any of the papers/books? Basically trying to discern if all of this mess was here before or after any kind of blood may have fallen or splattered. Does the rain obscure that?

Also just... the general mess of all the papers and knives and stuff. Does it look like they were dropped from a height or just dropped/scattered from the ground? ]

[umbralant]

[The rain does obscure that, unfortunately; basically the only thing you can tell about the sheets is that they are wet and contacted blood at some point, which ended up just kind of mixing with the water to make some kind of homogenous, dilute mixture.

The mess of papers and knives is all around Elliot's body with some of it being quite a bit of distance from him. You wouldn't get this level of spread from, say, someone tripping over and taking a spill on the ground.]

[deadlygoals]

[ Okay. So either it was dropped from a higher distance or someone was yeeting things around deliberately.

That does help in a way. And none of it is ON the body?

Also is there anything wrong with any thing near the body? With the ground/concrete?]

[umbralant]

[None of it is on the body, no!

Beyond one poor kid going splat on the ground? Not particularly. There are some more traces of dilute blood and clots and what have you stuck in some of the small crevices of the cobblestones, but that's more or less expected considering the weather. And the items scattered around could be in better condition, sure, but they're not really showing any unusual signs of damage or anything.]

[deadlygoals]

[ Okay cool. He'll leave before a certain binch in a feather boa notices him. ]

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