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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[cherryblooded]

[Cherryblod has seen some blood in his day, so he'll do that.

What's weird about it?]

[trustharder]

[Nice try, but nope. There's nothing there.

Since Stan has the closet open you might notice that there's something on the floor.]

[trustharder]

[There's no pattern to it. If you're familiar with how blunt objects smacking people in the heads work and the blood patterns they leave behind, you'll note that this doesn't match up.]

[trustharder]

[The shape is actually hard to discern, though it looks like some places either took a harder hit than others or are otherwise reasonably shallow puncture wounds - not like she was stabbed in the head with a knife or something, more like whatever hit her probably had a sharper edge to it on one side.

Most of the blood is dry; while there's a decent amount of it on the keys, though, there isn't nearly enough there considering that she had her head turned toward the piano. There's some, but not nearly as much as you'd expect from a combination of a literally skull-crushing injury and gravity doing the rest from the way she ended up.]

[trustharder]

[Actually, no.]

AREA CLEAR

[trustharder]

[sleepingkogoro]

[Stan opened the closet and there's something on the floor. That...could be important. May as well take a good look at it]

Move aside.

[He said that to Stan. No mood for being courteous]

[cherryblooded]

[Cherryblod would absolutely be familiar with that.]

Strange...

[So did someone just dunk these in blood, or what? How much blood is on each item?]

[trustharder]

[It's an outfit! A very familiar one. Also it's covered in blood which is probably pretty important.]

[amygdalae]

[That's something, at least - now there is something that can better identify the weapon used.

...and after examining the blood, Bruce does find it pretty strange as well that there isn't as much blood as there could be. So he'll be checking around her head and face now if there's any sign that the blood could have been wiped off. And if not, he'll be checking the blood trails from her head to see if they stop at any weird point.]

[trustharder]

[It's impossible to tell if it was used responsibly or not, but the bottle does have a little liquid left in it.]

AREA CLEAR

[trustharder]

[trustharder]

[A good amount.

You've found everything here, so unless you have other questions, you're done!]

[captainobnoxious]

[Then it probably wasn't used responsibly at all.

Is that all that's to be found here?]

[trustharder]

[Yep, you're good unless you have other questions!]

[isafraid]

[Just checking.

Well, we... might need this. Anything's possible at this rate. Let's just spirit the toolbox away into our inventory of wonder and keep looking.

Anything else?]

[notjustawriter]

[As soon as he hears all of the shouting, Gabriel comes running.

Why does this keep happening?

Eventually he has to tear his gaze away from the body.]

[captainobnoxious]

[... None that I can immediately think of, which will come to bite me in the ass no doubt. Time to take these things and get ready to throw ideas at people until one sticks.]

[trustharder]

[GOOD LUCK, SIGRUN]

[trustharder]

[Good thinking, Bruce.

Given that she's in her dress from the masquerade, which involves bare shoulders, once you get past the initial bloodsoaked horrorshow that is her head it's pretty clear that there's been blood wiped off from her skin - her face is clear, and it looks like there are older streaks of blood beneath the current dark ones on her neck and shoulders. There's also very little blood on her dress - there's some on her lap from where it dripped off the keys, but otherwise the dress is clean.]

[trustharder]

[Since we're over by the piano and working our way up without actually checking over the body itself, there's also an object sitting on the bench with her.]

[goodforsomething]

[Obviously this is Stan's cue to start going through things as well. It's not like he knows what Aqua's closet is meant to look like to begin with, but is anything glaringly out of place?]

[trustharder]

[The bloody clothes Mouri found are the only thing left and there's one more thing to find on them.]

[isafraid]

[...Well. As long as we're down here, we might as well investigate that too! Why don't we!]

[goodforsomething]

[Well, is there anything in the pockets?

...do her normal clothes have pockets?]