INVESTIGATION 2

[umbralant]

INVESTIGATION 2

Sometime during the late hours of the night, the clouds rolled in with their load and let loose upon the unsuspecting streets down below. It's the end of another week in Krakow, another week in this unending night and another week where The Lady's motive lay in wait. As the bell tolls seven, the rain continues to soak the city below as fog crowds the air, although it's not nearly as suffocating as the kind found blanketing a large portion of the city.

Are you awake this fine morning? And if you are, just where are you hanging around today?

navigation

profiles

rules

locations

shop

location changes

full navigation

Comments

[umbralant]

[ Nothing is obviously off! Best to look around. ]

[deadlygoals]

Who said anything about trying to cheer you up?

[ He was just trying to see if he would have done anything in that state. Wow.

He's heading inside though to check things out. ]

Re: MUSEUM EXTERIOR

[wishuponazoi]

[No time to admire the art then-Sirius is going to look at the entrance first for any footprints or markings of entry.]

[deadlygoals]

[ Let's do this systematically then! He's starting with the dressing room like stalls first, looking around on the floor for foot prints, anything on the floor or any signs of them being used. ]

[baitless]

[...sigh, okay. Time to figure out how to get Lysithea out of the damned aquarium, because like hell he’s leaving her in there! Ugh where even is the way to get up in the tanks...]

[apothecares]

[Alfyn will move to join the party that's near the body. He can be the medical stand in if needed or just someone to wander around the soupy mess of a room.]

[pr159]

[ Ugh... ]

Hold on a minute.

[ BEFORE WE DO THAT -- clarification on the body's position in the tank? ]

[umbralant]

[ Yeah, Iago has made a smart call. Nothing is immediately off about the museum exterior, gonna take a tour of the perimeter? ]

[umbralant]

[ No time at all.

Considering it's raining and the entrance is paved, there's no signs of footprints or any other markings. ]

[youspinmeknightround]

Mr. Seteth...

[Suzaku came over as soon as he heard the news, because... well, him going there seemed inevitable, given the victim was from the same world.

Though even with his soldier training, he can't help but feel sick stepping in to a building that reeks like this. Does he look like he's keeping it together, at least? They can start from there.]

[psychophant]

[Of course! He's looking for anything off - he's spent entirely too much time in this damn place so he can probably recognize anything that sticks out. Anything off anywhere around the building?]

[umbralant]

[This is definitely not what Seteth needed this morning. Or any morning, really. But thankfully, the tank cover is already open and the top of it isn't so high that he can't reach it; if anything, it only does up to his upper chest so he can stick his arm in, even if he wouldn't touch the bottom. Still, there's a visitor's bench right next to it, so maybe he can use that to get a better angle if he wants to pull her out?]

[umbralant]

[Will Alfyn be looking around or is he going to just be focusing on the body retrieval party happening upthread?]

[wishuponazoi]

[Well then. He'll circle the wall a bit and look for broken windows or scuff marks on the wall.]

[umbralant]

[ Not so much off but peculiar at least—one of the windows on the ground floor is open. Not the best idea to leave a window open like that, especially when it's raining. ]

[umbralant]

[ Not a broken window but an open one. Hmm. ]

[psychophant]

[Hmm!! That's definitely weird! How far off the ground is this window - is it something that most of us could reach or is it something that could have only been opened from inside the museum? Also where exactly in the museum does this correspond to, somewhere in the aquarium?]

[wishuponazoi]

[Can he try to deduce how long the window's been open by how wet the room inside is?]

[umbralant]

[The body is more or less in positioned in the middle of the tank, basically with her face in the gravel at the bottom. Also I forgot to mention it before but it should've been obvious so I'm mentioning it here; there's a blatantly a knife sticking out of her back.]

[umbralant]

[ The floor is a pretty good place to start: there's a trail of water leading to the dressing room stalls. ]

[baitless]

...ah. Apologies.

[he’s seen plenty of corpses, but... yeah, he’s not a coroner or a doctor or anything. He’ll step out of the way to let Rideaux do his work.]

[deadlygoals]

[ What kind of trail do we have? Is it drops of water from someone being wet and coming in? Are there footprints? Does it smell normal in here? ]

[umbralant]

[ The window is roughly 3 feet off from the ground, it's a vertical window that only opens from the inside, can't encourage thieves to steal the T-rex inside for ice skating lessons or anything.

As for the relation to the general museum layout, this window is on the same side of the building as the Aquarium. ]

[youspinmeknightround]

[Suzaku wants to be more helpful this time... so what the hell are those chunks, let's just start there. He'll take one for the team.]

[umbralant]

[ Since Sirius is ridiculously tall it's something he could easily discern from leaning over, but as he approaches the window to do so, he might spot that the grass here looks disturbed. ]