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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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!]

a good a time as any tbh

[penduli]

[ Thank goodness.

Opening it then! What've we got? ]

[trustharder]

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

[penduli]

[ COOL... PAPER...

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

[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.]

[garudynamic]

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

[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 ]

[garudynamic]

...or just eat the paper.

[penduli]

[ ... ]

Or just... eat the paper, yes. [ That's kinda gross though. But effective?? I mean, I guess if you murdered someone you'd want to get rid of it asap. ]

[garudynamic]

You've never heard of doing that? Like you're cornered with the vital information and just chomp!

[This isn't a movie, Yosuke]

[penduli]

[ This isn't a movie, Yosuke!! ]

I've never heard of someone actually doing that, no. [ ...EXCEPT— ] I did have edible paper when I was a kid. It came with a detective kit. Get rid of your notes before anyone could take them.

[ ........... ]

I guess it's not that far-fetched, then.

[garudynamic]

Paper is just wood, it can't really hurt you unless you eat a lot. It'd be pretty gross though.

[penduli]

[ Mmhmm, a nod in agreement.

...and since we're done here, let's get out of here. Go help the ONLY TWO PEOPLE IN THIS VAULT WHO DON'T KNOW CHEMICALS THAT HAPPENED TO GO INVESTIGATE THE BODY WITH THE CHEMICAL BURNS oh my god. ]

[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. :'| ]

[trustharder]

[GOOD MAN, BLACK. BE THE SMART ONE.

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

[penduli]

[ nope, we're good! ]