( 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]

[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.

[disinterested]

[who the hell was murdering 10 minutes before 8:00]

... Heh. Most likely.

[And bandaging done, so...]

Well, there's not much else we can do for her now, aside from keeping pressure on the wound and monitoring her. It's just a matter of where we should put her until she wakes up.

[Carry her back to her room or something?? Just leave her here???]

[perceptions]

[please dont leave her on the ground guys, be nice.

also she's still unconscious i just wanted to do meta-text.]

[bownthisway]

I'd say the clinic, but we probably shouldn't risk moving her too much. What about the lounge? It's right here, after all. [And she'll just go ahead and peer into the lounge for the first time...

...and then shut the door on that hot mess with the flattest expression possible on her face.]

Okay, so not the lounge.

[disinterested]

You mean you don't find the blood on walls comforting?

[well, in that case]

What about your room? If Mira wakes up before night falls, you can always kick her out.

[bownthisway]

Oh, was that blood? Here I thought someone just really hated strawberry jam and wanted everyone to know it.

[Oh great, her bedthings are going to get all bloody - and just when she was just getting used to having a bed at all! But fine, her compassion manages to win out against her desire to keep possible corpses out of her room.]

She can stay in my room, sure. I'll go pick some herbs from the garden for her pain if she wakes up. [aka weed] At this rate, I should just keep a whole stock of them on me at all time.

[disinterested]

[paaaaaause]

... Herbs from the garden?

[bownthisway]

[waving a hand] Yeah, there's not much there that seems to be useful, but I did recognize dreamwillow. Back home, we use it to help with pain - I gave some to Jake and Andersen last week too for their injuries.

[disinterested]

[.........]

Well, Mira is an adult and capable of making her own decisions. If she wants your... dreamwillow, I'm sure she'll be very happy.