Seventh.

[trustharder]

The klaxons blare out bright and early Friday morning – granted, given the lack of windows in this place, it probably just feels early. Once again, things are quiet on the lower floors – the first-floor hallway isn't covered in blood, there aren't any bodies lying around, and things seem fairly normal to those just leaving their dorms. Of course, that doesn't mean that nothing is wrong; seven weeks in this place have probably taught everyone at least that much. Overall, though, things seem pretty sane until you get to the higher floors – where there are traces of blood on the fifth, in the general direction of the locker room between the saunas. >Explore?

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[cherryblooded]

[Cherryblod knows not to expect a Friday where no one dies. He goes up the stairs first thing - second floor's fine, third floor's fine, etc. - until he reaches the floor with the sauna and the visible blood.

He knew it. He's not surprised by that anymore, and he can only hope it's not someone he knows well.

He heads to the locker room.]

[isafraid]

[There's that tension, an almost menacing kind, in the air this morning. Speedwagon was glad to see no trace of a corpse on the lower floors, but as he went up, there was no mistaking the evidence of blood leading into the sauna.

He didn't want to do this again...

> head to Sauna locker room]

[amygdalae]

[...why is it always the higher floors now.

Bruce was on the way up to the chemistry lab but the sight of blood at the fifth floor makes him pause. The dread is already there, like always, but he pushes it aside and goes to the blood. Is it leading in a particular direction...?]

[notjustawriter]

[That's a bad sign. He'll follow the blood-- which locker room does it seem to be coming from?]

[captainobnoxious]

[Why is it the saunas again. Leave them alone!!!!

... So what's wrong with the locker room. What horrors await.]

[trustharder]

[And upon arriving there, there are traces of smoke detectable in there - not like there's an active fire burning, but it's pretty obvious something happened in the direction of the men's sauna.]

[trustharder]

[Godspeed, Speedwagon.]

[sleepingkogoro]

[Time to do the funerary procession to the saunas. Who is in there? Mouri looks at the people gathered and takes a deep breath.

Another Friday, another dead body...may as well get it over with]

[cherryblooded]

[That's weird, and definitely something he picks up on.

Nothing to do but enter the men's sauna.]

[trustharder]

[Looks like it, yeah.]

[trustharder]

[Men's side, from the look of it.]

[trustharder]

[Smoke, apparently.]

[isafraid]

[why can't the sauna ever have nice things?

Speedwagon's right behind ya, cherry]

[trustharder]

[Wow, that's kind of-

okay no lbr you're probably not wrong.]

[amygdalae]

[FOLLOWING BEHIND TOO...

Time to brace ourselves, more or less.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Following!! Why is always the men's. There's some sexism up in here, man, taint the women's too.]

[goodforsomething]

[Shit, is something on fire? It - plus being near the saunas - reminds him uncomfortably of his conversation with Lynne the first week.

Better go check this out, team.]

[trustharder]

[There's a definite undertone of smoke in this room as well - it seems to have settled in a light haze in here, and said smoky haze is...weirdly purple?

As strange though that is, though, it isn't dense enough to obscure the fact that there's a person lying in here.

...

Most of a person, anyway.]

[cherryblooded]

[Well. Okay. That sure is something that's going on here.

Are they recognizable?]

[sleepingkogoro]

What happened here?!

[This is completely unnatural. Mouri puts a handkerchief against his face, just in case, and approaches the...'most of a person']

[captainobnoxious]

[... Weirdly purple smoke.

Alright, so. Who is... mostly there.]

[isafraid]

Gaah!

[WHO IS IT?!]

[captainobnoxious]

[-- Oh that would be smart, don't mind if she just. Her jacket does a thing like this too.]

Looks like a smoke signal gone wrong.

[amygdalae]

[Purple smoke what even--

Bruce doubles back at least to ensure that the door is left open - don't want to risk any toxic fumes - then returns to... well. See if this 'most of a person' is recognizable by any means.]

[notjustawriter]

[Jesus, this isn't good....

What's with this smoke?]