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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[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.]

[pr159]

All right.

[ He'll step back for the moment while Seteth drags her out of there, then... and while I drive home lmao ]

[umbralant]

[It's cool, can't have Rideaux ruining his nice clothes anyways!!]

[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.]

[umbralant]

[It's...! A knife. It looks like a small one that was taken from McDonald's because Seteth is lovin' this investigation, obviously.]

[baitless]

[he cannot even do LYSITHEA WHAT DO YOU HAVE? A KNIFE! NO because she’s too dead to yell it.

Is there anything obviously weird about the knife itself?]

[umbralant]

[Not particularly! It's wet and fishy-smelling because it was in her sleeve, but it's not too notable otherwise.]

[baitless]

[goddess Lysithea did not deserve this. Alright. Let’s see. What else is in the tank now that Lysithea’s out of it.]

[umbralant]

[Well, for starters, it would probably be good to mention the state of the tank as is. Because of Raven's... enthusiasm, there is a nice, big, jagged hole in the middle of the tank, with some spiderwebbing cracks extending from that area. However, Seteth may also notice some smaller holes dotting the top of the tank, with some cracks originating from those points as well.

Inside the tank, there's not really much beyond your standard gravel and some now-drooping aquarium plants. And of course, there are some rather sizable fish chunks that were not purged onto the ground when the hole was made.]

[baitless]

[...hm. You know, he kind of doubts it, but he’ll see if the McKnife matches the smaller holes at all in terms of size. At the very least, it’ll give him a point of comparison.]

[umbralant]

[It doesn't match at all! While the knife would make a more slit-like hole, these are almost perfectly circular, with radial cracks extending from the centre. If he looks through one of them at a slight angle, he might even see a hole on the other side of the tank that matches.]

[baitless]

[... well, that’s fucking strange. How many holes are there?]

[umbralant]

[There's quite a number of them in the glass, but maybe around 10 or so if we exclude whatever is lying shattered on the floor?]

[baitless]

[...you know, that makes him wonder about something, so he’ll turn to the others in the room.]

Does anyone have a knife that hasn’t just been soaking in aquarium water for however long?

[pr159]

I do.

[ hands over one of the folding knives that are always in his jacket pocket, which isn't concerning at all ]

I strongly suggest you don't do anything to damage it.

Does this require a self harm cw, well it’s there just in case

[baitless]

I won’t require it for long.

[He’ll look over his left hand and debate a moment before giving himself a small cut in the back of his hand, then using Sanguis to, uh, try and puncture a hole in the more intact glass.

...it’s a little clumsily done because this is his first attempt at using his weird blood powers, but can he do it?]

[umbralant]

[He can indeed do it! Depending on how fast he goes with the blood, he can probably make a pretty similar mark with some trial and error; if he's too slow, he'll probably just kind of... knock against the side of the glass or crack it lightly rather than piercing through though.]