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?

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AQUARIUM

[umbralant]

[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...]

[pr159]

[ Ugh... ]

Hold on a minute.

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

[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.]

[pr159]

[ Welp. Anything notable about the position of her left hand since he sees that's marked on the autopsy report's diagram? Assuming probably not if she was originally floating and is now... decidedly not floating ]

[umbralant]

[Her hand is palm down and more or less slumped on the gravel like the rest of her! Her right hand is doing more or less the same thing, so their positions are more or less comparable.]

[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.]

[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?]

[baitless]

[...yeah, it’s not too hard for him to just reach in and pull her out so he can set her on that bench for the more qualified people to take a look at. It’s not like she’s heavy or anything...]

[umbralant]

[Seteth needs a break...

As he's pulling her out, there might be a small something that drops from her sleeve. Otherwise, there's nothing outwardly obvious about her body besides the knife in her back.]

[baitless]

[...okay. What is the thing that fell out.Maybe investigating can take his mind off all the everything.]

[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.]

[umbralant]

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

[apothecares]

[Since Seteth took her out of the tank already, maybe Alfyn should take the body touching job...?]

[umbralant]

[He can! On initial examination, there's nothing too outwardly off about her besides the knife in her back; her eyes are closed and maybe she could almost pass for being asleep because there's no real damage to her clothing at all.

Is there anywhere that he would be looking in greater detail?]

[apothecares]

[Any defensive wounds? Are there any signs he can use to determine time of death, or has the water had too much of an affect on the body's rigor mortis?]

[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]

[They're...! Fish bits. Or maybe fish salsa if you want to be crude about it, but either way it's obvious all these pieces came from whatever used to inhabit the tank and not, say, Lysithea.]

[inordertobelieve]

[ Mikami can, of course, not pass up a body. Not because he particularly likes bodies or because he has a very strong stomach for gross things... but because of JUSTICE. He's still on this trip, nobody has yet knocked him down.

But Lysithea is already surrounded by people and you know what... that's fine. He wasn't that eager for soaked deadness.

So instead he'll join Suzaku in peering at the... ]

.... ew.

[ Alright, deep breaths. GOOD THING HE PILFERED A FACE MASK THAT HE CAN NOW TRY AND USE AGAINST THE SMELL.

How big are our chunks and do they look like they've been cut or torn apart? ]

[umbralant]

[Mikami is going to have to shower twice and wash his clothes thrice after this, because everything is pretty disgusting all around. But anyways, the chunks laying in the puddle on the ground are pretty irregular in both size and shape. Torn apart is closer to the mark than cutting; there's nothing neat about these although for a couple of fish that look comparatively undamaged (that is, aren't reduced to bits), it still looks like a chunk or two was blown out of them.]

[inordertobelieve]

[ Okay.He hates this. Why did his God leave him and let this happen---- no, he can't finish that thought. He knows. So all he can do is endure, right.

He's going to mentally say goodbye to his current pen here, because he'll use it to poke at the fish a little to get a better look at those comparatively okay ones.

Blown apart... how? Are bits missing more from the center or corners of the fish? Did someone eat these?????? ]

Let's try a fish experiment

[deadlygoals]

[ He's grabbing a bucket and bringing it to the aquarium. Scooping up some water and a couple of the living fish before he locates Shiro. ]

You said things burst after you used your powers, right? Mind showing me?

[galrarm]

On your bucket?

[ It doesn't occur to him until he looks in the bucket-- Oh.... fish. :( ]

... You're sure about this?

[deadlygoals]

On the water that's in the bucket.

[ He gives a nod. There's other fish in the tiny sea- or tank ]

It might not do anything, but that'll help eliminate it.

mods pls!

[galrarm]

Right. Sorry about this, guys.

[ Shiro has never done this, so it's a learning opportunity for everyone! Let's try to make that water heavier. He then snaps his fingers.

What happens? ]