Sixth.

[trustharder]

Friday morning dawns in much the same way it usually does in this place: with klaxons blaring and a sense of unease settling over the Vault. As much as people put their best efforts toward trying to discourage anything from happening on Thursday nights with parties and get-togethers, Fridays really don't have a good track record around here. But initially, things actually seem rather quiet; the first and second floors are remarkably free of blood and corpses today. Unfortunately, the third floor might not have fared so well. >Explore?

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Re: MUSIC ROOM

[sleepingkogoro]

[Mouri cracks his knuckles. It was time to get serious. Supposing Bruce is going to deal with the cause of death examination, it is time for Mouri to deal with everything else.

First than all, he wants to see if there are defensive wounds. Aqua wouldn't go down without a fight, he is sure of that]

[trustharder]

[Yes, but it doesn't look like a fight took place here. It seems like someone went through here... but there are some strange out of place items too.]

[garudynamic]

[She had just been helping him look for clues. Had showed him how to crochet. Yosuke is a little numb as he wanders around looking for clues, eventually ending in the workshop]

Cherry... [He's here to help]

[cherryblooded]

[He's been in the workshop enough to notice what doesn't belong. So what's new?]

[captainobnoxious]

[Sigrun knows she can trust the detective and the doctor with the body, anyway, and the tightness won't go away no matter how much she tries to drag her thoughts into order...

So yes. Here she is, going to the restroom to splash her face. Anything immediately wrong?]

[cherryblooded]

...I'll mourn when the culprit is caught.

[But he appreciates Yosuke's presence a lot, and it's shown by the way he briefly grips Yosuke's shoulder.]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan hasn't been finding many clues on these things, so he just heads back downstairs to get ready for the trial. His room is one of the first, so he doesn't really have any business going down near Aqua's...but he remembers Megumi. Maybe there's something in there?

Or hell, maybe an old con just has a sixth sense for unlocked doors. He goes to test hers, jiggling the handle.]

[isafraid]

[Speedwagon's probably not going to be back in this room for a while, once all this is settled. But he is here now. That's going to count for something.

Bruce is probably inspecting the body, time to look around the general area for signs of a struggle.]

[trustharder]

[There are definitely defensive wounds, along with a lot of other minor injuries - it looks like she's really bruised up, actually. It definitely seems like she got into a fight before she went down.

It's also a lot easier to see those defensive wounds, given that she isn't in her default outfit this morning.]

[amygdalae]

[...after that moment Bruce manages to regain himself, although its clear that this loss is affecting him probably just as much as King did. Both of them, now dead...

They didn't deserve this at all.

...he will mourn her later. For now... he needs to help solve this. For her sake.

He's gentle as he moves first to brush away her hair in order to check her head for any signs of injury. There is blood, after all, so again the probability of there being an injury is high.]

[pokexplorer]

[Colress hears a commotion on his way up to the chemistry lab. Oh, well that sure doesn't sound good. He stops his ascent to detour to the source of the sound...

Oh

Miss Aqua.

He knows she wanted him to drop the formalities, but it's just what flashes through his mind as he stares at the scene. A deep, shaky sigh follows.

It begins again.]

[trustharder]

[Vending machine items...? Yep, there are definitely some vending machine items around. Specifically: a vibrator, a tuning fork, and a broken ukulele. There's also blood on them. So that might be important.]

[trustharder]

[You'll notice immediately that the door isn't closed properly so you can get in!]

[trustharder]

[Good idea, Speedwagon, and there are - ...lord, there are so many signs of a struggle in here. We are looking at a bunch of upended instruments, basically - a lot of them have been pushed aside or knocked over, some of them have been straight-up broken.]

[sleepingkogoro]

Well done, Aqua. I knew you wouldn't let yourself be killed so easily.

[Mouri is proud of you. But the outfit is something to note. Is there something noteworthy about it other than...it not being the default outfit?]

[goodforsomething]

[Awesome!

...sort of.

Okay, he's not actually planning to steal her things so it's not actually that awesome. He still can't help that spark of curiosity. Is there anything immediately amiss upon entering?]

[trustharder]

[Two things are immediately wrong! The first is the item on one of the sinks and the second is what's in another sink. Which one do you want to look at first?]

[cherryblooded]

[Why would you even get blood on a vibrator unless you're using it very wrong.

He hates that that's his first thought, but humor is a defense mechanism, so he hears.

What way is the ukulele broken? 'Oops I rocked out too hard and snapped some strings' or 'oops I smashed this over someone's head and the neck snapped'?]

[trustharder]

[...Well, given that she's looking to the side, the immediately visible side of her head isn't too damaged all things considered.

...You might, um. Want to be careful in turning her head to check the other side, though.]

[trustharder]

[Her room isn't wrecked or anything, but everything seems to have been moved around.]

[amygdalae]

[...oh. Is this another case of a broken neck we're seeing here?

Either way, yes, he make sure to be... gentle.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Wow, what a selection! Let's see what's in sink number one. With the item.]

[garudynamic]

[While Cherry is looking at the ukulele Yosuke goes for the tuning fork]

[isafraid]

[Alright. That is... that's good. Aqua clearly didn't go down without a fight. He'd expect no less from a protector of worlds like her. It might make him feel a little better when he thinks about it.

But it doesn't.

Music rooms are usually filled to burst with instruments, it has to be pretty easy to knock a couple over, especially in a fight. What instruments were straight up broken?]

[trustharder]

[It's her outfit from the masquerade, as opposed to one of the jumpsuits. The simple but pretty dress she made. She's also got one of the gold bracelets from the machine on her right wrist.]