First.

[trustharder]

Friday dawns much like the rest of the week before it – that is to say, obnoxiously. The klaxons are as loud as ever first thing in the morning, and anyone wandering out into the main corridor will be pleased to know that- ...Oh. It's a straight shot down the hallway, meaning that everyone's line of sight is likely to be immediately drawn to the unholy mess going on past the threshold leading to the dorms. There's some hints that someone may have been busy out here last night – for one thing, there's a chair lying on the ground for god only knows what reason. That's obviously not supposed to be there. Come on, guys, clean up after yourselves. Of course, there's also a fucklot of blood. That's probably important. It seems concentrated on the far end of the hallway, closer to the elevator than the dorms. There's also a large trail of it leading somewhere. That's probably also important. Despite everyone's best efforts to keep themselves busy and optimistic about escape, looks like somebody got restless last night. >Explore?

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[cherryblooded]

[Cherryblod's not the type to sleep in, so as always, he gets up with the klaxons, looking forward to a brand new day-

...Well, that certainly is a thing.

The only proper response is to follow the trail of blood, as much as Cherryblod would rather not.]

[notjustawriter]

[That's just not good at all.

He'll do the only thing he can do, follow that blood.]

[trustharder]

[It seems to be going toward the dining hall.

There's a good amount of blood leading you there, don't worry.]

[isafraid]

[It was a normal day in the vault, like the few others.

Except when Speedwagon laid eyes on that bloody mess, he immediately knew something was wrong.

There's a trail? Does he want to know where it leads?]

[trustharder]

[Well...]

FROM THE HALLWAY...

[amygdalae]

[Jesus Christ what even--

Not that Bruce isn't used to blood, but still.

Alright let's see. Following that blood trail now. Where does it lead him?]

[trustharder]

[About that.]

[wokeupdead]

[FOLLOWING WITH HIM. BECAUSE THIS IS BULLSHIT.]

[sleepingkogoro]

[As soon as Mouri steps out of the room, yawning widely, he sees the fucklot of blood. His instincts kick in.

As soon as anyone opens the door Mouri is going to shout at them]

Don't move! Enough people have gone through already. We can't afford everyone to crowd around somebody who is potentially hurt.

[He uses 'hurt' because that sounds less grave, but he doesn't have hopes this is a mere wound.

Mouri starts to follow the trail, soon getting to the hallway where the common areas are. Where does the trail lead into?]

TRUST HAS BEEN BROKEN.

[kingmakereffect]

[A loud blast of that obnoxious alarm should catch your attention. It's followed by two shorter blasts, and if you were lucky enough to sleep through the first one this morning, these three might wake you up.

If they don't, the Kingmaker's announcement probably will.]

It seems like someone was busy last night. They decided to act on Rule Seven and one of your fellow Survivors has paid the price.

From now on, it's all of you against the culprit. Should they successfully fulfill the requirements of rule seven, they will complete the exercise. Can you all really allow that though, after they've taken someone's life?

You all have time to investigate the Vault. Make sure it counts. Once you're done, the elevator doors will open and you'll be allowed into the courtroom to begin piecing together what happened and figuring out who's responsible.

Adaptable is dead. It's up to you all to figure out what happened and bring the person responsible to justice.

[The Kingmaker doesn't sound pleased or displeased with the current situation. He won't answer even if you yell at the PA system, so you might not want to waste your time with that.

After all, you have a murder to solve.]

[kingmakereffect]

EVIDENCE LIST

TOTAL 15/15

HALLWAY (3/3)
- I WONDER WHERE THIS LEADS
- Clean up after yourselves, dammit
- Why is this a thing

DINING HALL (10/10)
- So much for being the best assassin
- You should have hidden those knives
- Stabby McStabs
- Stabby McStabs II
- WHY WON'T YOU PEOPLE CLEAN UP
- Well that's pretty gross
- Okay, when I said "clean up" I didn't mean this
- Zagi deserved every bit of this
- This might be important
- Why did you do this when there's already so much blood

LIBRARY (2/2)
- #aesthetic
- Why this, why any of this

HALLWAY

[trustharder]

[cherryblooded]

[After he's said his goodbyes, Cherryblod leaves the dining hall, but - he definitely doesn't want to leave the entire investigation up to three people.

So, about this trail of blood. What's it look like? Like somebody was dragged along, or like somebody was running away while bleeding, or...?]

[happysweets]

[ So this whole thing is a goddamn mess and Misa wants absolutely none of it so she'll be heading right back to her room, but, aside from the huge trail of blood, is there anything of note that she'd catch along the way? ]

[pokexplorer]

[Figuring that the detectives and doctor can handle a human body better than he could, Colress follows the order to head on out.

Maybe he can find something useful in the hallway though? He at least wants to see if he can figure out how all this went down.]

[garudynamic]

[Yosuke isn't exactly investigating yet, but he is here. Hands pressed against the wall, head down and breathing deeply to get himself under control.

Once he manages that he will join in looking around]

AREA CLEAR

[trustharder]

DINING HALL

[trustharder]

[amygdalae]

[Alright first things first, let's get this underway--

Time to start examining Zagi's body. What wounds are there?]

[wokeupdead]

[So Lynne is right down there checking for a pulse.

Is there anything specific around the head and neck that she would notice?]

[notjustawriter]

[Gabriel is getting the hell away from the body in favor of looking for anything else in the dining hall that is immediately off and out of place.

Like more blood or knives or something.]

Re: DINING HALL

[sleepingkogoro]

[It is Zagi.

The last encounter Mouri had with him was discussing Zagi's fighting prowess and getting tormented with bad puns. Mouri will try to find the culprit.

And for that reason, it is time to start. Time to stay in the Dining Hall and nowhere else]

Bruce-san, please check the body.

[It is a request. Bruce is a doctor, he should be able to find anything he or Lynne wouldn't.

For now, Mouri is going to scan the floor and between the chairs to try to find the murder weapon]

[isafraid]

[Seeing as Speedwagon's signed up for body guarding/more freaking out about a corpse, the best he can do is make himself useful while the doctors go to work.

Any thing about the dining hall immediately out of order? A mess?]

[captainobnoxious]

[Mages are the ones who do death rites where she's from, so after her short stint in fumbling around with a Norwegian one for Zagi (she's a hunter, dammit!) Sigrun will ensure all those who can't handle the body are out of the way of the important people who can and focus on looking for signs of a fight.

Zagi liked fighting as much as she did. There's no way he wouldn't have done some damage to whoever it was.]

LIBRARY

[trustharder]

[ignorantly]

[ Even if he was allowed to, Shirazu wouldn't want to stay near the body. He doesn't want to look at it.

He wants to go back to his room and cry, to be honest. But he can't do that, he needs to investigate and search for clues. So what's up over here? Anything out of place? ]