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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[amygdalae]

[...yeah, things are not adding up here. Bruce has an idea but he can't be sure unless he can check with what the others have found.

Anyway. Time to move on.

He'll progress down to the bruises that Mouri had investigated earlier - once more, were the bruises formed before or after death? ...also he'll be taking off that gold bracelet from her wrist, just to be doubly sure nothing is hidden.]

[cherryblooded]

[Can he bring the ukulele and the tuning fork to the trial? ...And the vibrator, okay, why not.]

[goodforsomething]

Yeeeeesh, okay.

[But he does step aside. Let the detective deal with the blood-covered clothes.]

[trustharder]

[That... is a very good question and one I don't know the answer to!

But more important are the bloodstains.]

[sleepingkogoro]

[In what area is most of the blood located? Knowing Aqua was attacked on the head Mouri knows where to expect it to be, so better check, just in case]

[goodforsomething]

[Okay, where are they concentrated? Is there a noticeable pattern?]

[trustharder]

[That's just it - it's everywhere. There doesn't seem to be any sort of pattern to it - if anything, it looks like it was used to mop up blood.]

[trustharder]

[Not at all, actually.

Congrats guys, you're all done here unless you have other questions!]

[goodforsomething]

[SO MANY QUESTIONS

but we'll save that for tomorrow fare thee well]

[sleepingkogoro]

[This doesn't make sense in any of the scenarios Mouri had thought.

Mouri is done with the bedroom and leaves without even saying a word to Stan]

[sleepingkogoro]

[Mouri returns from his short expedition to the laundry rooms and to Aqua's room. It was fruitful, the default outfit was found, so may as well check one last thing, as improbable as that is.

When the blood was wiped, were there any fibers left behind? Or...anything that could indicate the material that was used for that?]

[trustharder]

[GOOD LUCK, YOU'LL PROBABLY NEED IT]

[goodforsomething]

[COMFORTING]

[trustharder]

[Why not indeed!

...It looks like one of those devices the Kingmaker handed out at the start of these little exercises. The ones that double as room keys and also phones to annoy the crap out of him with.

This one's turned off, though.]

[trustharder]

[The bracelet isn't hiding anything, it's just something that she's got on.

The bruises, though - they're largely concentrated on the right side of her body, though there's a large and unnatural one on her left shoulder and a good amount low on her legs as well.

There's more damage overall to the right side of her body, but the ones on the left side are darker - like blood collected there for a while.]

[trustharder]

[No fibers, unfortunately, and whomever did this looks like they did a decent job cleaning up. Sorry about that.]

[isafraid]

[Oh! It's... that thing. The thing Speedwagon could use to talk to the Kingmaker. The thing that's as hard as a brick.

It... could be Aqua's? In a dress like that, there can't be many places to keep it.

...Can he switch it on?]

[amygdalae]

[...well its good (or bad?) that there's nothing hiding there, but he'll be keeping the bracelet anyway. It could be useful, somehow.

But now, the bruises... that is indeed strange. Bruce will check the unnatural looking on on her left shoulder. What exactly is unnatural about this bruise? The shape? The texture? ...something else this player probably can't think of because its past 3AM?]

[trustharder]

[It looks like another impact injury - like either something definitely connected with her, or she definitely connected with it. Either way, a bad physical connection was made at some point.

It's also a good size, and again, it looks like blood settled or collected there for a while. Kind of an odd injury for someone who was found in her position sitting at the piano with the right side of her head down, in other words.]

[amygdalae]

[It looks like a pretty bad impact, alright. From the dress to the lack of blood and now this, its clear that something is off here. But that can be for later. Now is the time to get as much information as he can.

He'll be gently pressing his hand down across her left shoulder as well as where the shoulder blade should be at her back - is there any kind of swelling or whatever to show dislocation or a fracture of any sort?]

[trustharder]

[You can try! ...It's not turning on, though.]

[trustharder]

[Actually, there is not!]

[amygdalae]

[Awesome, that is good to know.

He'll move on to check the bruises at her right side, since there's more of those there. Is there any kind of pattern to the bruises? And are they generally big or average or small sized, just to get an idea of how hard she might be struck.]

[trustharder]

[The sort of thing you'd expect someone to get in a fight - not anything particularly out-of-place and they weren't done with weapons, from the look of it, just basic softer impact injuries than the one on the left.]

[amygdalae]

[Good to know as well!

...and probably one last thing: to check the bruises on her legs. Is there anything off about those, or are they the same as the general bruises on the rest of her body>

(Why the hell are there even bruises there, anyway...?]