Eighth.

[trustharder]

Seven in the morning comes and goes as it always does – namely, loudly and a little obnoxiously, given the usual blaring of the klaxons. Today marks almost a full eight weeks since the Survivors awakened in the Vault; more than enough time for people to get used to how things tend to work around here on Fridays, and yet not so long that there isn't any hope that maybe (maybe) this Friday will be better. The first-floor corridor is generally quiet, in that it's free of blood; however, there are some scattered books in the hallway, near the library. Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it isn't. It might be good to make sure, though, right? >Explore?

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[captainobnoxious]

[... Really, the only thing she can think about being in the hallway are those books, and she's not particularly good with books, so she's stepping right over those things and heading to the dining hall.

What's out of place here at first glance. Besides possibly everything.

Fuckin' Gabriel.]

[garudynamic]

[Sorry Black you almost get closelined]

[cherryblooded]

[What terrible sleep.

By the time Cherryblod manages to drag himself out of bed, he vaguely processes that there hasn't been a body announcement yet. So there's probably two people dead, or more. Wonderful.

He sees the commotion over in the library, but before he can be at all useful here he needs to wake up. So he goes to the bathroom intending to splash some water on his face.

Is there anything immediately off?]

[goodforsomething]

[...Stan turns to shout in the direction Yosuke went] Black's here!

Long story short, kid, looks like someone did their best to kill Gabriel. But he pulled through.

[isafraid]

Blacked out, knocked out, is more like it!

[Those marks on his neck looked rather nasty... geeze.]

But... against all odds, we didn't find you dead today. [And he sounds pretty thankful for that.]

[garudynamic]

[Sorry Cherry, you get a Yosuke jumping on you]

Holy shit, there you are!!

[cherryblooded]

[Yipes. But at least Yosuke's not among the dead, so that's something.]

Sorry, I'm not awake enough yet to help investigate. How many people are dead so far?

[trustharder]

[There isn't much that's all that off, actually. It looks like someone might have been working at one of the table at one point; a chair is pulled out and there's something on the table.]

Re: LIBRARY

[sleepingkogoro]

[So it was decided Gabriel was going to be brought here, wasn't he? This is not a murder, but there's no time to relax. It is time to do detective job.

For the first time in two months Mouri is going to talk to a witness. After Gabriel gets comfortable - as comfortable as one can be after almost being murdered - Mouri will sit and try to start an interview]

Knight-san, please tell us everything you remember from the moment you arrived to the Library.

[goodforsomething]

[Someone's GONNA be dead if you put Stan's old man heart through any more emotional whiplash, holy Moses in a bucket

But okay, Gabe's fine and Bruce is gonna look after him. Great. Seemed like he didn't remember what exactly happened though, and even if there's no mass executions to avoid here, Stan would really like to know. He moves over to the chair Gabriel was sitting it, looking on the ground around it. Any handy strangling tools or anything?]

[garudynamic]

NO ONE!

[He's almost crying and sorry Cherry you have a sloth on you with how hard he's dangling on]

[trustharder]

[There is, yes! The sink you're using is still on. It's just a tiny stream of water but it looks like someone didn't turn it all the way off. Rude.]

[cherryblooded]

[Gently petting his back.]

Really? We actually made a Friday without a murder?

[captainobnoxious]

[How nice. Unlike their very first case, the place isn't a goddamn wreck. You sure know your book ends!

Sigrun gives the area a glance before spotting the oddity there, heading on over to see what's on the table. You half-lying bold text.]

[penduli]

[ HE'S DUCKING OUT OF THE WAY holy shit, yosuke, what the fuck— ]

[trustharder]

[No handy strangling tools, but that doesn't mean there's nothing there.

Namely, there's a throwing knife on the floor near the chair.]

[cherryblooded]

[That's super rude indeed! But he's still going to splash some water on his face (once Yosuke quits clinging to him) unless there's like, blood in there or something.

...Well, it looks like this might be an investigation location again, so he's going to open up all the stalls.]

[garudynamic]

S-sorry!

[Look man he was running full tilt, his Agility stat is good but he can only do so much]

I gotta go find Cherry, I'll be back!

[notjustawriter]

Unfortunately, I don't remember much.

I was in the room, readin', because the library is quiet, and then the next thing I know, I've apparently been knocked out and y'all are standing around me thinking I've died.

[Testimony seems like it's not going to get very far. Maybe you should try something else?]

[garudynamic]

Yeah! Looks like someone attacked Gabriel but he's alive!

[He finally untangles himself from Cherry so he can assumedly piss]

[pokexplorer]

[Well...with all the commotion going on in the library, Colress figures he may as well check out the hallway so it doesn't get too crowded in there. He's really glad that Gabriel is alive, though.

Still...why would someone attempt to kill him now?

He ponders that as he looks out into the hallway to see if anything is immediately off apart from those books he decided to check out instead of just wandering into the library earlier.

He's tired, okay.]

[penduli]

[ ...oh did he go looking for him? that is so sweet. reminder: yosuke is sweet.

and stan's words have him blinking for a moment before he smiles, relieved. ]

Thank goodness for that. [ THANK GOODNESS HE'S OKAY... not that someone tried to kill him. ]

[trustharder]

[WHAT IF I JUST PUT EVERYTHING IN BOLD TEXT WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST THEN

The stuff on the table is red fabric and stuffing from the sewing room.]

[amygdalae]

[WELL GUESS THEY'RE JUST DOING IT IN HERE... at least not everyone is crowding around Gabriel.

Bruce goes off for a bit to get Gabriel some water while Mouri questions him, returning soon enough with that and some Advil in case he needs it. He passes the water over and keeps the Advil in hand.]

Here, drink this.

[goodforsomething]

[That is...okay. Stan leans down to look - is there blood on it?]