Fifth.

[trustharder]

The klaxons blare out early on Friday morning, as always. Depending on how late you were out at the party last night, they might not be very welcome, but at least it seems the Kingmaker isn't having any difficulties with them today. The Vault's setup has always been a bit unfortunate on Fridays – the fact that the view from the dorms is a straight shot down the corridor tends to make it completely and immediately obvious when something is wrong. It isn't blood this time; there are no large crimson stains splashed around the hallway or leading outward from one of the rooms. What is there, however, is a person lying on the floor near the stairwell. That doesn't bode well, does it. >Explore?

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[happysweets]

[ Nah we're good!!! ]

[trustharder]

[Thankfully, there is usually not much in saunas! It's usually just the floor, the benches, people in varying stages of undress, a large white bottle that probably contains some sort of noxious chemical -

...wait.]

[trustharder]

[Chemical bend???

You've found everything there is to find in this room, so unless you have questions you're done here!]

[trustharder]

[There isn't, actually.]

[amygdalae]

[...oh.

Well then.

Time to--check his neck then. Just how much breaking is involved? Like full 180 degrees (even though why) or just enough to cause fatal damage. And is there anything else off about his neck? ...aside from the fact that its broken.]

OK REDD SORRY THE BOYS WANTED TO GOSSIP ABOUT HOW DUMB MURDERS ARE, WE'RE GOOD FOR INVESTIGATION

[penduli]

If it was planned, they should know better than to use the incinerator, especially after last week. [ Goodness. ]

But you're right, it is. [ ...okay but speaking of that, they're just waiting for it to cool down, so uh, let's check on that.

Is it cool enough to open up and check? We're not looking for "yes it's all cold and shit" we're looking for "it isn't going to kill a man to check it if he wants to" okay. ]

[captainobnoxious]

[... Well, time to put this body into a new state of undress.

Very carefully.

She doesn't want to touch the damaged parts too much, but she sure is stripping Lynne down to look for anything unusual, because people generally do not allow themselves to get burny water fluid stuff poured on them.]

I feel like now would be an appropriate time for a gossip girl joke

[trustharder]

[It is! It's still warm, but you definitely won't die if you open it!]

[trustharder]

[More along the lines of "just enough to cause fatal damage" - it's broken, but not nearly to the degree that it would be if someone grabbed his head and tried to make him pull a Linda Blair.

There's not much else that seems off, though - ...well. Actually, now that you've played with his hair and clothes a bit, it's probably noticeable that there's glitter that's come off on your hands from somewhere.]

a good a time as any tbh

[penduli]

[ Thank goodness.

Opening it then! What've we got? ]

[isafraid]

[Well he'll surely keep an eye out for anybody in varying stages of undre--OH.


How the hell did they miss this coming in.

He moves to pick it up, testing to see how full the bottle was, and generally just wanting to investigate it.]

[trustharder]

[There aren't any marks on her - she wasn't stabbed, she isn't bruised, it doesn't look like she was in a fight.

Actually, there aren't any signs of a struggle in here at all.]

[trustharder]

[Scraps of paper? Yep, that looks like paper.]

[trustharder]

[In fairness, it's closer to the door and most people don't immediately look behind them when faced with a dead girl on the floor.

The bottle is empty, though; judging from the label, it looks like it contained bleach at one point.]

[penduli]

[ COOL... PAPER...

...can he grab those out and see if they're readable? ]

[amygdalae]

[That would be something to see, admittedly.

Bruce blinks in surprise at the glitter, since he sure doesn't remember having that on his hands earlier, and he stares at it closer--just to be sure, this is probably glitter from the art room? Unless there's another place in here that provides it.

...and he's going to dust off one hand before running it across Tarrlok's clothes and hair again, pausing in-between sections to see if 1) the glitter is really coming from Tarrlok and 2) if it appears only at specific parts of his body.]

[captainobnoxious]

So just these burns then, huh...

[It got on her face, yes, that is clearly seen... and from the looks of it, it might've got poured into her mouth and just spilled over. Like regular water.

Just a check though! Inside the mouth.]

[pokexplorer]

[Huh. So neatly placed, is it...

Colress decides to take an even closer look. Is there anything on any of the bottles? Aside from labels and all that, of course.]

[trustharder]

[Yes you can! For investigation purposes. Would this work in the real world? WHO KNOWS, CERTAINLY NOT ME I DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT INCINERATORS.

Anyway, these scraps are almost too singed to be legible... but you can make out two words if you try really hard.

TARRLOK and ACCIDENT are what you're looking at here.]

AREA CLEAR

[trustharder]

[garudynamic]

...shit, maybe this WAS planned more then I thought.

[isafraid]

[Not unless you're about to get MURDER-No, that's sounds about right. Lynne was a very attention-grabbing corpse.

Seems like lugging this evidence around won't be too difficult. He eyes the label suspiciously.]

"Bleach", eh...?

[He... doesn't know what that is. Is there anything else of note lying around?]

[penduli]

[ WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT, BUDDY, I DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT THEM EITHER.

But thank goodness, he had to read some really faint shit earlier this week and now he gets to make out almost too singed... oh.

well. ]

...Tarrlok and accident? [ ........... ] I wonder if that's referring to his [ uh ] fall. But why would it be in here if that was the case?

[ STRANGE SHIT, MAN. ...He's not pocketing these because he has skinny jeans so that'll probably ruin these poor scraps, he's smarter than this. :'| ]

[penduli]

Then they should've planned on turning off the incinerator when they were done so no one would immediately suspect there'd be something in it.

[ STOP CRITICIZING THE MURDER, BLACK ]

[trustharder]

[GOOD MAN, BLACK. BE THE SMART ONE.

You're all done here unless you have other questions!]