( INVESTIGATION - WEEK 3 )

[abhoth]

Promptly at 8:00 AM, both of the Grandfather clocks will begin to ring, the sound traveling to every corner of the motel. All residents will wake up as if it was any other morning. There's the usual hum from the air conditioner units and the sound of harsh wind blowing against the windows. While the sun may not have ever set, the amount of times the Grandfather clock rings makes it clear: it's time to get up and greet the brand new day. However... something seems off. Maybe it's a shiver of cold leaving a trail of frost on your skin or a burning sensation in your chest — but it feels like something is drawing you out of your room and into the outdoor hallways. Where will you go? Welcome to the investigation log! Please put the name of the location your character will be exploring in the subject header. If you plan on grouping up with someone else for a location, we ask that you keep it to 2-3 characters maximum. Mod replies will be sent out at 6:10 PM onwards, so we ask that you hold off having lengthy threads until then just in case there's a corpse smackdab at the entrance of a room. Happy body hunting! ( quick navigation ) ic rulebook | locations | statuses | room assignments private conversations | ic profiles | graveyard | full navigation

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[disinterested]

[Wow, thanks??

... but damn it did they just lose their doctor—

aka Girge will be pausing, before stepping forward. Is it Rachel, is Rachel dead...]

Well, I suppose an uneventful night would've been improbable...

[fauxtetsu]

[ He shakes his head but looks sorrowful. ]

Apparently not.

[ He walks over to examine the figure in the wheelchair too. What's up, metatext? ]

1/2

[abhoth]

[ Well, because I totally didn't mess up. Despite the focus on the wheelchair and the poor person taking a nap — one of the boys can easily make out another body outside nearby the lounge.

As soon as the individual steps in, they see large bloody footprints into the ground. Mostly around Rachel who is slumped forward, lifeless and well... very much taking the eternal nap. The walls are all decorated with a red substance. The eastern, western and southern wall have KILL, MURDER, FALSE MOTHER written all over like a mantra. However, the wall that faces the entrance will have another message written on it: weaK heArTed refenCeD ectopAraSITe.

But, back to the body outside... looks to be... uh, a thing. Get to it!

For the person investigating the lounge, reply to me. For the person investigating outside of the lounge, reply to the 2/2. ]

[fauxtetsu]

[ Girge can deal with the body outside the lounge, Nagasone will investigate Rachel. Also the room because- ]

What the hell...?

[ He takes note of the blood on the walls, the floor's footprints... back to Rachel. How does it look like she died? ]

[abhoth]

[ With Rachel's frame oddly slumped in the chair, it's pretty obvious on how she died. She has been stabbed several times in the stomach, a lot of her blood soaking her clothes and lap. Her limp fingers drip in blood, trickling to the floor below. ]

[fauxtetsu]

[ That's... brutal. Poor Rachel.

He'll give her wheelchair a good look-over, and then chek around around the lounge, mainly the bar counter and tables. They're mirrored and shiny, after all. Anything out of place besides blood and a body? ]

[abhoth]

[ He's in luck! Aside from the large bloody footprints around Rachel's chair leading out of the lounge, if he shimmies behind the bar counter, he'll find something super fun!

A pair of blood covered gloves and a bucket coated with blood inside and outside. Looks like it may have something to do with the wall too. Want to take a look? ]

[fauxtetsu]

[ This takes the concept of a bloody mary to a whole new low... Okay seriously, what the fuck. Obviously he won't know where the blood came from (if it's Rachel that's terrible), but being a sword gives you the perks of not wanting to pass out or lose your lunch at the sight or smell of blood. Still gross though

He'll take a look, but not touch it. Don't know where it's been :( ]

[abhoth]

[ Look, even a sword can appreciate that this is A Lot. As he inspects, he'll notice that everything is rather legible.

On one the messages on the eastern wall — KILL — will be slightly smudged, unlike the rest. ]

[fauxtetsu]

[ Duly noted, "Kill" is weird...! Back to the gloves and bucket... Ugh, time to check those too. Are they like cleaning gloves of a certain size? Also, how much blood is left in there? Did it leave any mess from being moved, because it seems like it was hidden. ]

[abhoth]

[ Looks like they're a one-size fits all! There's not much left in the bucket, though. It looks like it may have been used for other things, re: the wall. It looks like there's a few thin trails of blood — not smears or footprints — that can be assumed from moving the bucket around the room. ]

[fauxtetsu]

[ Of course...

While we're here and since you can't take a bloody footprint to evidence... how big is it compared to his? ]

[abhoth]

[ The width of the footprint looks similar to his, but the length is smaller. ]

[fauxtetsu]

[ Oh boy... Anyway, is there anything else to find in the Lounge of bloody cocktails?

EDIT: nope he got everything, thanks mods! ]

2/2

[perceptions]

[The body is Mira.

Slumped outside the lounge on the ground, face up toward the ceiling, and a knife halfway through the left-side of the chest where the heart is.]

[disinterested]

[Guys, can we all chill for one week.

He was actually kind of hoping to find nothing so that he wouldn't have to put in the effort of reporting it, so this sure is a lot of murder!! But Girge will be crouching to check for a pulse (and will avoid taking the knife out, for... obvious reasons...).

So, hot dead or not.]

[perceptions]

[When he grabs Mira's wrist, her body is cold but not clammy. There is a very slow and faint pulse, easy to miss but there. She is still alive.

Moments after the touch, Girge can see Mira's eyes lazily flicker and trying to stay open. Her eyes are glossy and face swollen, she can't even see the person looking at her. What she does feel is her body in horrifying pain, her head screaming. Yet she's too weak to do anything but whisper:]

H...help...

[And her eyes close again, unconscious.]

[bownthisway]

[Having followed the trail of blood, Aloy's eyes widen and she rushes over when she sees the body stir.]

Mira! She's - she's alive? [that is super super shocking tbh] Girge, can you do anything for her? [because honestly she's out of her depth here aside from """herbs"""]

[disinterested]

[Welp, since Aloy asked it of him, he supposes he actually has to try and be a good Samaritan now.]

I have supplies from the clinic in my room. I'll see what I can do.

[...]

In the meantime, try and keep her alive—so please refrain from pulling the knife out or doing anything suspicious that may lead to her death, or I'm afraid I might have to accuse you in tomorrow's trial.

[But with that, he'll be turning away to head to his room!! ... Don't feed Mira weed, Aloy.]

[bownthisway]

[well that is a boatload of responsibility she is not prepared to deal with!!] What am I supposed to do, just sit here and pray the blood goes back into her body?!

[But alas, Girge is already gone, leaving Aloy with nothing to do but talk to herself under her breath.] Great. Keeping her alive. You can totally do this, Aloy. It's just one stab wound, it can't be that bad, right? Right! Think about all the people you've seen walk off a couple of arrows to the chest!

[Yeah, it's probably a good thing Mira isn't conscious for this...anyway, in lieu of anything else to do, Aloy will very carefully start inspecting her wounds. Was she stabbed with a standard kitchen knife, and how deeply embedded is it in her chest? Are there any other injuries on her? How much blood is on her body, and does it look like it's all from the stab wound?]

[abhoth]

[Godspeed, Aloy, because Mira is kind of in a puddle of her own blood right now. There is blood smeared all over her torso, no doubt from the stab wound that narrowly missed her heart. Three to four inches more, and Mira would have been dead in an instant. Not that she's faring any better right now, considering she will most definitely join Marty and Rachel in the afterlife if she doesn't get medical attention soon.

Along with the obvious stab wound, there are several cuts on her arms, collarbone and shoulders. From their positioning and depth, it's easy to imagine Mira might have tried to shield her face with her arms when she was initially attacked. Still, a couple of smaller cuts and scrapes adorn her face and the rest of her upper body. There was only so much she could defend herself from, as Aloy can probably guess.]

[disinterested]

[Sorry, Aloy, but he's back now!! Look, he even rushed, though presumably, Aloy has done her examination of Mira's wounds at this point.]

Move aside, please.

[and now jan admits to basing this all off of wikihow because hell if i know medicine

After swapping his uniform gloves for sterile ones, he takes out his scalpel... and before this sounds extremely alarming, he uses it to cut up Mira's shirt up to where the knife is (sorry if you liked that shirt, Mira), as he'd rather not have to remove the weapon just yet. Instead, he presses the gauze around the knife, in an attempt to stop/slow down the bleeding.

ASSUMING THAT GOES WELL and Mira doesn't, like, die in the process, he'll be asking Aloy:]

Lift her so that she's in a sitting position, will you?

[bownthisway]

[She'll just trust that Girge knows what he's doing (or at least knows what he's doing better than she does), since her only contribution here would be 'eat herbs' and 'maybe use bandages idk'. So she'll carefully lift Mira up as he tells her to, doing her best not to jostle the knife any further or aggravate any other injuries.]

Be careful. It looks like whoever attacked her just barely missed her heart.

[disinterested]

I'll do my best not to become the final murderer of this week by accident.

[Ideally, Girge could just get their actual doctor to remove the knife and do what she needs to, but since she's dead, that's not really an option anymore, is it?

So carefully, he takes the knife out; afterwards, he's promptly ready to stop the bleeding. Once that's done and dealt with, he cleans the wound, before (assuming the wound doesn't need to be closed) covering the dressing with bandages.]

Anything else of interest this morning?

[bownthisway]

[dryly] I'll try to convince everyone not to vote for you if you do.

We heard a woman screaming around ten minutes before eight this morning, but our doors wouldn't open. If it was Mira screaming, she's incredibly lucky to still be alive. Aside from that...going by our record of not being able to get through a single week without murdering, I bet there's gonna be plenty of things of interest.