DAY TWO (morning)

[judgejudy]

DAY 2 (morning) Complex Population: 34 It's 8AM, and rather than waking naturally, you awake to the sound of an odd tone ringing through the intercom. As you wake from that deep, dreamless sleep that enforces curfew as always, Judy's voice speaks up a few moments after. "A death has occurred. Safety Protocol 6227-A is now in effect. Protocol now available on Complex terminals." That ominous message might prompt you to leave your room more quickly. You can check out the terminal, where a new file is available, but as you head into the atrium, you might notice something else. The viewing stage is open. It seems that someone was busy during the night. — This post is for the second day as defined in the schedule. This post is for investigation and general mingling before the trial that takes place in the afternoon IC. ic rulebook character statuses character profiles private conversations graveyard

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[judgejudy]

[ The Viewing Stage is open, but there's not that much to investigate. The overhead door hides a small stage where you can look through a glass wall. Half a landing down, there's an odd, labratory-like room. You can see doors on the left and right sides of the room, and the right side seems to have a two-way mirror.

However, you might notice the blood first.

There's a fair amount of it, looking like a trail across the floor, but at the end of it, there's a body, and nearby there's a nailbat.

Charles Fei-Ong has been killed. ]

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OOC Note: Because of the location of this kill, characters will be limited to "investigating" only what they can see from the viewing stage, as the room on the other side isn't conventionlly accessible. If your character is taking a closer look at something or is talking to Judy, please note it in your comment's subject (i.e., "investigating" or "judy" will work), otherwise I'll be treating responses as general reactions.

However, as a reminder, this is a mafia-style murdergame where everyone's insane and the evidence doesn't matter. Less jokingly, evidence will be minimal at best for murders in this game, and is unlikely to point towards a killer. You'll have to figure out whodunnit in different ways!

investigating

[antietam]

[ Yes that blood sure is something. From his place at the viewing stage, he's going to try to examine how Charles's body is set up. What does it look like? Where has the nailbat been used? Yikes. ]

[judgejudy]

[ His body is laying in a heap on the floor. There's a small trail of blood that looks like Charles was dragged a short distance. Based on the blood on his clothes, it seems like he might have been struck in the leg with the bat first.

However, it was definitely used on his head, as his skull is cracked, and there are deep lacerations on his neck from where the nails went in. It's not a pretty sight.

Also, one of his feet is missing. Weird. ]

[antietam]

[ YIKES. Adam puts a hand over his mouth due to the gruesome sight but. Fine. He can do this.

Does it look like the foot was cleanly cut off or ripped off or nailbatted to the point of disintegration? Does he still have the ankle monitor on him? ]

[becauseimacoward]

[Yikes, that's certainly a body. Dojima searches around for a way to go inside, horrified, but there's just no way in! What the hell?! Is he going to have to do his job from the outside? You know what, may as well do it.

Dojima has some experience with bodies, but not enough to be able to see that much from this distance. Hmmmm...that's why he looks around, trying to see any non-obvious ways the victim and the culprit - or the corpse and nothing else - to be into that place. Are there vents, or suspicious points that may indicated hidden entrances?]

investigating

[injectors]

[The body is gross and Angel has definitely seen nastier scenes before, but it doesn't stop her from scrunching her nose in disgust once she catches sight of the missing foot. Did... someone get the munchies for human meat? Is that why his foot is missing? It probably says a lot about Pandora that her first assumption upon noticing missing body parts is "cannibalism."

Oh, well.

Identifying the doors on both sides of the room, however, she steps out of the viewing stage after a moment's pause. There was only one door in the kitchen, so that's probably not it. The locked room across the cafeteria, though — is it possible to open it now? Probably not, but she'll try even if it's a moot point. Also... regardless of that, does it look like the door was opened or tampered with lately? Or are there any obvious stains of blood or markings/scratches in the general area?]

[judgejudy]

[ They're still locked, and there's nothing odd about the doors to suggest they were broken into. ]

[injectors]

[Well. She tried the obvious way in.

Time to figure out how to bust down some doors and/or windows. Probably. Do the locked door and the glass window in the viewing stage look like they could be potentially broken, or does it look like anyone who tries to punch it/shoot it/kick it/whathaveyou will end up with a serious case of the booboos?]

talking to judy

[selfdenying]

[Sometime later, when he's not having a mental breakdown, Alfendi makes his way to the terminal. Judy should be able to provide some answers, right?]

Judy, do you mind telling me what that room was? Where we found the dead body?

[judgejudy]

Of course. This room is designated as the "Operating Theater."

[selfdenying]

Why would an apartment complex have an operating theater? Has it ever been used before?

talking to judy!

[selfsufficiency]

[Alice goes straight to the person most likely to have information - meaning Judy, of course. She'll talk to the others once she's finished here.]

how long has he been dead?
can you tell us that?

[judgejudy]

Approximately six hours.

[selfsufficiency]

i guess that's why brats shouldn't be up so late

[That's rude, Alice...]

the rulebook we got said that we'd be sharing rooms with up to three residents
does that mean that in the rooms where there are more than four people, one of them isn't a resident?

talking to judy

[adlucem]

[First and foremost, Leo has one very important question.]

does this mean we can leave now

[judgejudy]

It does not. The Complex cannot be left until the mandatory period has passed.

[adlucem]

cannot as in, "it's physically impossible", or cannot as in "you are forbidden from doing so"? They're very different things.

[newlugers]

hey judy time to give me my guns back now

[judgejudy]

I do not have your guns, Steve. You did not bring them as luggage, so they are not here.

[newlugers]

Then put one in the commissary or something! Im not getting killed here like this

talking to judy

[puffing]

So.
What's stopping us all from agreeing to abstain so that we can complete an investigation on our own time?
Seven hours in a courtroom with little evidence isn't enough to justify voting someone as guilty.

[judgejudy]

There is nothing stopping you from doing so. It is a perfectly valid choice.

Though I should note, I doubt you will be able to investigate too much. The operating theater will be decontamined this afternoon.

[puffing]

...
That's counter fucking productive.
Why?
Don't clean up a crime scene until evidence has been taken.

talking to judy!

[karachan]

[ back at it at the krispy kreme

Since Ookurikara is technologically challenged, he's going to try and talk into the terminal otherwise they'll be here all day with his attempts at typing. Just in case that doesn't work, he has brought along The Local Mitsutada to type for him if need be. First and foremost, he wants to ask one (1) thing. ] How do these ankle monitors work...exactly?

Or how are they monitoring us in the first place or whatever. [ A+ for effort. ]

[mitsubou]

So, how do our ankle monitors work?

Actually, scratch that, how are we being monitored excactly?

[Mitsutada is doing his best to be the scribe!!]