Third.

[trustharder]

There's tension in the air come Friday morning; the time limit posed by the Kingmaker isn't quite up yet, but as the deadline draws closer, the more anxious several Survivors have been about it. The first floor seems largely fine today; at the very least, there are no signs of a scuffle or a body lying around. It might be good to make sure that the upper floors have fared so well. After all, Fridays haven't had the best track record around here. >Explore?

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[garudynamic]

[Well, he has an arm full of his LMB outfit, so he heads to the machines to put them down and see if anything is being washed]

[wokeupdead]

[The detectives have been alerted and Lynne is on the scene. It's a gruesome sight but she decides it's best that she deals with the body while everyone else looks at the art room proper. So.

Before she touches Mion what's obvious about the hanging? Anything odd about placement? Anything knocked over? A struggle?]

[trustharder]

[As Gabriel's noticed, the room is a wreck. Is there something specific you want to look at?]

[trustharder]

[Nope. It seems as though it hasn't been turned on at all.]

[notjustawriter]

[If there wasn't a fight, how is the place damaged?

Does it look like someone got mad at checkers or something similar?]

[trustharder]

[Well, Aqua did take her down, but if you got a look at her before that happened, the placement regarding the body was indeed odd.]

[penduli]

[ Black's here to round up the back, figuring he'd pick up some supplies to paint his fabric with and-- oh

oh. That's not pleasant. Even Aqua getting the body down doesn't help that.

...it couldn't have been a suicide, could it? ...Mion didn't seem like that sort of girl, though he can't say he knew her particularly well either, so maybe...

...no, he's going, he can't think of anyone just taking their life like that. ]

[ignorantly]

[ As soon as Shirazu.exe starts working again, he leaves the art storage as fast as possible. He heads downstairs, wanting to lock himself in his room for a moment, but changes his mind because they have a murder investigation to do and decides to see if there could be anything in Mion's room.

What's going on over here? ]

[trustharder]

[Lucky you, it looks like you found the one machine in use. Though it's not actually running, it just looks like someone shoved something in there.]

[prismbloom]

[ This is where Aqua heads. Is there anything to note right off the bat? ]

[amygdalae]

[From the way that Cherryblod says his name, the dread in his stomach only intensifies further.

What he says next only confirms it.]

Crime-- [Crime scene. Murder. Somebody was dead.

Somebody was dead.

It's not the first time nor the second, but this hits even harder than the rest. A series of emotions passes through Bruce - shock, sadness, and for a brief moment, anger - anger that he quickly shoves back down even as it boils at the back of his mind.]

...I see. [His voice is quiet now, almost too quiet, nearly devoid of all emotion.] I'll head there at once.

Re: ART ROOM

[sleepingkogoro]

[Aqua has already put down Mion's corpse onto the floor when Mouri arrives]

Avoid touching it, Aqua. Please let me deal with this.

[It is more of a polite request than an order. The first thing Mouri, as investigator he is, will do is check the cause of death. Is there anything that could show she died from any other cause?]

[trustharder]

[The first thing that you'll notice is that the door to Mion's room is ajar. That's weird.]

[isafraid]

[Well, he'd figured that starting at the edges and working your way in tends to help in an investigation. How about we look at the cabinets? What's happening there?]

[garudynamic]

[Not knowing the set up of the murder... Yosuke's first thought is of course-]

Oh god, please don't be a head.

[Open...?]

[cherryblooded]

Thank you. I'm sorry to have to rely on you like this.

[God knows he'd rather not dump most of the burden of investigation on a small handful of people.]

[trustharder]

[As Shirazu has noted, the door is slightly open.]

[wokeupdead]

[Guys! Moving bodies is so not allowed!

Let's say Lynne was there for that, what was weird? Detective eyes would probably notice it.]

[trustharder]

[For clarification's sake - what are you looking at, exactly? Are you checking the rope itself, or are you looking over the rest of the body?]

[amygdalae]

[THE DOCTOR HAS ARRIVED--unfortunately he only came in after the body was taken down, and he's kind of fifty shades of pissed but he's trying to ignore that for now in favor of focusing on the body.

First thing - signs of restraints. Are there any besides the obvious ones on her neck? Wrists, arms, ankles, etc?]

[cherryblooded]

[Now that the detectives and doctor have been found, Cherryblod would like nothing better than to sit down - but, no, he can't rest unless every inch of the vault has been investigated.

So he picks a random room.

Anything immediately off in the first floor storage room?

[trustharder]

[WELL GUESS WHAT, YOSUKE, IT'S A HEAD--

nah, just kidding.

It's actually a towel. Just be careful taking it out...]

[goingdigital]

[Darn, still no harm in taking a look inside before we see if there's anything out of place on the floor or wall.]

[sleepingkogoro]

[The body, I'd say]

[trustharder]

[Possibly? It's hard to say for sure. Checkers isn't the right game though, it looks like someone was playing cards.]