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[trustwellness]

The past five days have come and gone, though exactly how easily they've done so is debatable; some have been trying to press onward in their optimism and faith that things will get better, while some seem convinced that things will only go downhill from here. However people have chosen to see it, though, clearly this week hasn't been all bad – after all, attempts at encouraging unity among the group seem to have been at least reasonably successful. ...Seem to have been. Friday dawns like the rest of the week before it – the clock chimes the hour at seven, the doors to the kitchen and the mail room unlock, and the building is quiet. It would seem that maybe the night passed reasonably quietly – were it not for the large red smears on the walls and floor of the southeastern side of the dormitory. It looks like somebody decided to be a damn overachiever and took some initiative of their own. >Explore?

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[modernmedicine]

[That's her next stop, so to speak. What kind of bruises are we talking?]

[trustwellness]

[The place actually doesn't seem too disorderly, though it isn't perfectly clean, either - it doesn't look like there was a fight in here, anyway, it's not messed up enough for that.

However, it does look like there are some clothes lying nearby. Not like they were discarded roughly or anything, just set out.]

[officerhops]

[Hey there, Christo. Hopefully you don't mind Judy coming up near your ankles.]

There's so much...do you see anything? Fingerprints?

[officerwilde]

[GUZMA HOLY FUCK--

But no, he'll pretty much give up one the rooms around her because really, who would take evidence alllll the way across the hall, right?

Is there anything other than the stains to keep an eye out for, though?]

[trustwellness]

[It's not wet... at least, not with water. You'll find some red stains on it. While you're looking at it, you also might notice some stray hair, so be careful!

(We'll get back to size in a second, promise.)]

[certaingiant]

[Not at all, go right ahead.]

No fingerprints or handprints, but the footprints might be useful.

[byday]

They did it poorly.

[trustwellness]

[They look like handprints. They're dark and ringing her neck, and it looks like most of the pressure was applied over her trachea.]

[trustwellness]

[Surprisingly, everything's actually there! It doesn't look like anything has been used last night (unless one of you guys did laundry, but that's not relevant to this case).]

[trustwellness]

[Aside from the chemicals being kept in the storage room, nope!]

[avoidcomplications]

[Well..could be worse, though Kira may or may not be actively resisting the urge to straighten up an actual crime scene.]

[The clothes seem like a good distraction from making an idiot out of himself. Let's check over those--is there anything significant about them or possibly anything in the pockets?]

[elepe]

[Lusamine just chalks it up to being in the denial stage. It happens to anyone who's experienced this.]

There's...nothing that can be done for her, now. All we can do...is find who did this. For her sake.

[trustwellness]

[Well, outside of the clothes Kira is finding up there, it looks like there may be something lying on top of her trunk that maybe shouldn't be there, if you want to go check that out.]

[introspects]

[ She won't resist him, simply following him while the tears start coming. ]

I...I just talked to her the other day! She wanted to help us all get out, and I told her a ghost story, too...

[ There's a smile on her face, but it's clearly one of sorrow and disbelief. She still can't process what's happening. ]

[trustwellness]

[No knives and no milk - you're actually looking at a bowl with something in it and a can without something in it.]

[officerhops]

Footprints? Those would be more than just a little useful, yeah.

[Time to go check those out, then. She'll leave Christo to the not-blood examining.]

[modernmedicine]

This is awful...

[All right, flipping her over now. Is anything unusual happening during the flip/when she's turned over?]

[trustwellness]

[The oven is clean! Pizza sounds really good right now but probably not right after a murder...]

[byday]

[Interesting. Would Bruce be wrong in presuming the red stains match with the stains on the wall? He might not have any forensics equipment, but he'll take a look at the hair in a second.]

[oyashiromama]

[An arm around Estelle, she leads her out of the room and down the hall, so she can get her sitting someplace away from all this. The foyer. That sounds particularly nice, she thinks.]

[trustwellness]

[Kira, no.

That said, they look like the school uniform that was provided to everyone here. Wonder why the heck those are out.]

[officerhops]

[Aand coming over here from where Christo pointed...]

Looks like whoever did this didn't cover their tracks.

[certaingiant]

[You do that, officer rabbit. He has this under control.

Probably.]

[feistytrader]

[Well, let's check out the bowl first. What is it full of? ...Is it ketchup or strawberry jam?]

[trustwellness]

[There's a good amount of it on the door to Adelina's room, though it's not in a splatter pattern, exactly. More like something slammed into it. There's also a trail of the red stuff leading down the hallway... but it abruptly ends further away.]