Third.

[trustwellness]

This week has been difficult; between the death of Milla Maxwell and the fact that this motive seems to have hit several people far harder than the last, there's been an unmistakable tension in the air for the past several days. The week is coming to a close; it's been seven days since the last murder. If no one's moved as of this morning, time is becoming incredibly short before everyone's secrets are revealed. Either way, the morning dawns undeterred on Friday; the chimes ring out, signaling the hour, and the first and second floors seem clear. For some of you, that may be enough to ensure that you start your day normally; some of you, however, may wish to be a bit more thorough and check the third floor down, just to make sure everything really is all right. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. You won't know until you look. >Explore?

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[elepe]

[Lusamine was honestly going to go into the game room this morning, and...huh.]

...What on earth? Did someone decorate the room with dolls?

[...Does she want an actual answer, she's not sure she actually wants an answer here--but goddamn if that doesn't sound creepy as hell, especially in the room with a body.]

[trustwellness]

[The shelves are fine, but you might want to back up a little! It seems like there's something on the floor near the door.]

[trustwellness]

[This, probably.]

[introspects]

[ Orihime turns to see Hanyuu, a sad frown spread across her lips. Chiyuki didn't do anything to deserve this. She didn't deserve to just...have her head popped off like that. ]

I'm sorry for leaving, Hanyuu-san...I...I just went to get something to eat, and all of this--

[matchbreaker]

[ A body.

She was expecting that, actually. She wasn't sure that she expected it in the room right next to the one she was in, but she did expect one. Elda is actually making her way over towards the room around the time that the PA ping from Wordsmith happens.

Sympathetic

Doll.

...

Elda's eyes are wide as she steps into the hall, and she moves with an obscene speed towards the body discovery room. And also Gold? Gold she's punching in the stomach as she passes ]

[introspects]

[ Oh no, what's under the table? ]

[uncouthhatcher]

Oh, they did a little decoratin' alright.

[...]

Careful where you step if you're goin' in. There's stuff all over the ground.

[trustwellness]

[It's good that you've been trying to take stock, because you'll be able to tell that nothing is missing! From the drawers, at least.]

[matchbreaker]

[ She will.

Because she dropped the die. She turns to follow the path it rolls back towards the door ]

[trustwellness]

[It looks like Judy's got something but is there anywhere in particular you want to look?]

[uncouthhatcher]

[Oh he'll take the hit, wincing as he leans on the cuestick, but that's all. He knows he deserves it. He knows, so he'll take it, whatever. Let Elda see for herself.]

[trustwellness]

[It looks like the pool table got caught up in...whatever took out Chiyuki; one side of it is thoroughly banged-up and burnt, and the general billiards paraphernalia around it isn't looking too great either.]

[uncouthhatcher]

[His cuestick is the shit right now, he's got it and using it to whack at various stuff (but not the shards on the ground, not them) and but.

He'll check out the fire stuff. It's what he works with, right? So let's see what we can find, is there a source to this blast or what.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Good boy.

And in she goes, she needs to see the body. There's no smell of blood in the room and unless- That's--

She's--

She snarls.

... That said, she's also barefoot. It's entirely possible - no, probable, given her current mental state - she's going to end up with a piece of Chiyuki inside of her ]

[oyashiromama]

[Hanyuu shakes her head and takes Orihime's hand. ...Really, she had been worried something had happened to her, but... That's not to say right now.]

Never mind that. I'm just sorry you had to see- what was in there.

[trustwellness]

[It looks like someone was playing a card game, since some cards are left out. They have pictures of drinks on the other side.

Depending on how much Jasper knows about card games, she might be able to tell what game it is! But in the event she doesn't, that's why Nick is here. The game laid out on the table is solitaire. It doesn't look like the game was finished.]

[officerhops]

[ALRIGHT, that's good to know. ...actually, before doing anything else, Judy pulls out her notebook...from...Chiyuki...and flips to a new page. She writes a quick title: INVESTIGATION, in hard, quick letters before she looks up to the cabinets.

Very carefully, Judy will use the edges of the already open drawers to climb up to where the cabinets are left open, standing up on her tiptoes to peer inside to check them as she did with the drawers.]

[trustwellness]

[It looks like there are glass shards among the pieces of white resin - some of them are on the floor near where the blast seems to have started, some of them are in the shards of what used to be Chiyuki, and it looks like a few of them may have embedded themselves in the wall.]

[trustwellness]

[Varric's already got the specific brands of alcohol, but while you're over here you'll probably notice that there's a spot on the shelf where a bottle should be. Only one bottle is missing.]

[quadruples]

[ Viktor is going to check the cabinets! How are things looking over here, did somebody take bandages again. ]

[oyashiromama]

[She's looking for Orihime, really, but Gold's shout worries her- turns out she can kill two birds with one stone. (What a bad idiom.)

She'll... She'll deal with Gold later (if by "deal with" we mean "talk about grief" but once glance and.

...this hurts a bit more than she'd like.]

[iaspis]

[Nope, no idea! So she'll point it out to Nick.]

What sort of pattern is this?

[uncouthhatcher]

[Are the pieces big enough that he can put some of them together to figure out what it used to be, or.

... He is very pointedly not touching Chiyuki.]

[tsugomori]

[ ... Well, that is odd. He thinks he did okay though, and assuming there's nothing else here, he'll just probably go and see what happened over with the others! \o/ ]

[iaspis]

Yes, I think so.

There are cards here.