INVESTIGATION 2

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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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[pr159]

[ WELL SINCE HE HATES HIS LIFE AND IS WANDERING AROUND HERE NOT TOUCHING ANYTHING NOW does this burning smell like wax/like it would have come from the candles, or is it more like something got burned? ]

[umbralant]

[There is definitely some burning smell coming from the candles although that's only near the tank. As Rideaux entered, he would have also noticed a strong, burnt and coppery smell by the wall.

You know, the one with the holes in it.]

[pr159]

[ Checking that out, then... does the burning smell come from the holes themselves? Is anything singed around where the blood is leaking out? ]

[umbralant]

[The burning smell does indeed seem to be coming from the holes! It's... honestly he's going to have to kind of shove his face fairly close in there, but since I imagine Rideaux has experienced his fair share of... interesting scenes when it comes to bodies, it's more like the smell of burning blood. As for what he sees, there's nothing visibly singed around the holes, nope.]

[pr159]

[ Cool... Is there any blood on the wall that isn't coming from the holes? ]

[umbralant]

[There isn't! There's always a hole to go with the blood, it's like ketchup with hot dogs or wasabi with sushi or corpses and murdergames.

You know.]

[pr159]

[ wow some of us aren't philistines and prefer mustard with our hot dogs tyvm

If he goes back to the tank and compares the hole he saw Seteth make to one of the previously existing ones, are there many differences when he gets up close? Are there any traces of blood on either? Is there any hint of a burning smell on the old ones? ]

[umbralant]

[wow this is discrimination against ketchup smh

As far as size goes, the holes in the glass and in the wall would be of similar size; the ones Seteth made presumably wouldn't have blood on them unless he decided to like... leave some there, but that's just as well because the other holes in the glass are bloodless either.

The burning blood smell is only really next to the wall and not the holes in the tank.]

[pr159]

[ all right CHECKING THE CANDLES THEN...

How far are they burned down? Is there anything on them? Do they have any specific scent? ]

[umbralant]

[They're burnt... somewhat far down? It's enough to notice that there was some wax pooled at the base but it's not like it's been entirely melted down. At the very least, it was probably lit for a decent amount of time. The candles have a slightly fishy smell coming from it, which is less because they're scented and more because it's also slightly damp.

If he reeeeally takes a sniff of the candle itself, it'll be apparent they're the unscented kind!]

[pr159]

[ Okay first off how many candles are there, exactly? Is there any kind of candle holder somewhere around here?

If not, how big are these candles and how easy would it be to hold all of them at once... ]

[umbralant]

[There are three of them and yeah, they're in candle holders like this, we're not heathens here, don't worry Rideaux.

He could probably hold one in each hand and like... jam the last one between his hands maybe? They're not huge though.]

[pr159]

[ Hm.

And they're all like, equally burned down? Is there a used match or anything around here? Were they just dropped or dumped here haphazardly, or were they actually set down? ]

[umbralant]

[They're burnt down fairly equally, there isn't like a huge difference between them at least. The candles were definitely set down though, they weren't lying on their side or anything.

If Rideaux wants to comb around on the floor for used matches, he will find them! They kind of got pushed around by all the waterworks going around here but they are around and soaked and fishy smelling.]

[pr159]

[ And these candles are where, exactly? Like, which side of the tank/how far apart are they spaced? ]

[umbralant]

[Using this diagram as a reference, the candles are more to the bottom left corner of the pic, near the tank. Basically they're not on the same side as the holes on the wall.

The candles are only a foot away from each other at most, all pretty close to the tank itself. That said, it's not like they were spread out super evenly either?]

[youspinmeknightround]

[Just in case, Suzaku's going to check to see if Rideaux needs any help in this area. These candles are almost too innocuous-seeming given everything that happened here. He'll check to see if there's anything else around them, or anything beneath the tank.]

[umbralant]

[Seeing stuff in this darkness is not easy. It may be a minor miracle that Suzaku is checking these candles and the area beneath the tank. If he hadn't done that, he wouldn't have seen the notebook lying there beneath the tank.

The notebook looks just a little bit wet, but mostly undamaged. Which is rather lucky, given its proximity to big water containers and what not. Take a look inside the notebook?]

[youspinmeknightround]

[oh wow, a notebook... that definitely seems like it would be more illuminating than these candles in their current state. Heck yeah he'll look inside, with a little self-glow to help.]

[umbralant]

[Looks like the first page is torn, the torn page doesn't seem to be anywhere in the vicinity. Oh well. The next page, though, it has something on it.

'Friday. Fall? Lysithea von Ordelia.

I will attempt to find out by trial and error. What I discovered:'

Even though there's a colon at the end of that sentence, there's nothing else written here]

[youspinmeknightround]

[Suzaku will check the rest of the notebook just in case, but... it certainly seems like she was interrupted, doesn't it.

He'll be taking this with him to the trial.]