DAY SIX (morning)

[judgejudy]

DAY 6 (morning) Complex Population: 27 It's 8AM, and you wake from that deep, dreamless sleep that enforces curfew as always. There's breakfast avaliable in the cafeteria if you want it, as well as meals from 11AM-12PM and 7PM-8PM, but otherwise? 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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[mansplains]

..... I can't look at the body, but I can give someone a lift inside and outside. The glass isn't a problem for me.

[A beat]

...Provided they're not a woman. [wow, sexist, Guy!!] Sorry.

[tearable]

[ Because, you know, why not. ]

Don't let your bias show too much.

[ Good thing Elizabeth has fashioned the bedsheets into a tightly rolled fashion. She offers one end to Guy. ]

Least you could do is hold this and let me down easy?

[mansplains]

[why you gotta dox him Liz]

It's not bias! It's fear! I'm not doing this on purpose.

[He gets as close as he can and makes a snatch for it, shaking like a stupid baby]

Right, right. I'll try to clean up the glass to get you a safe passage.

[tearable]

Fear is something to get over, isn't it?

[ GUY FUCKING STOP BEING A YAOI? ]

I need some big strong guys to hold onto this and not let me slip. I already cut my knees up once.

[ Please lower her down like she's someone from a big tower, Guy?? I mean, sweep glass too but - ]

[mansplains]

Trust me, I've been trying. [He feels like he should have even managed it, or something.... memloss is such a tricky beast]

[anyway he's pretty sure Liz is mocking him, but he'll parkour over to corpseland with the the sheet and start clearing glass with his feet and free hand]

I'm not as unreliable a guy as that! I won't let you fall, fear or not. I promise.

[betraitor]

It's alright, I can give the ladies a piggyback in your stead, if they really want it.

[which they probably don't.

not that he wants much to do with checking out the body either, but someone has to pick up guy's slack here.]

[mansplains]

Sure. Let's go with that.

[it's the skeeze or the gynophobic loser..... your Tales protags, ladies and gentlemen]

Just don't hit on them while you're doing it.

[are you in a fucking position to talk, Guy]

[betraitor]

[they're taking one for the team? it's fine?]

Hey now, I'm a man with some integrity, you know. We're just trying to help each other out here, right?

let's combine threads

[tearable]

Hey, the more eyes we get on the body, the better. I'm not some detective but -

[ She thinks maybe they can all find something about this? After Guy tries to help with the situation by clearing the glass, she's just so ??? confused??? Why won't he touch a woman or be near them -

she looks to Alvin with a nod as she takes her heels off because jumping/ climbing is a bitch in them? ]

Think you're up for helping me again, mister?

[ Charm level: 900. Please watch her as she carefully hops down and nearly stumbles right into Guy. ]

time for a threesome

[mansplains]

[it's too bad Guy doesn't know how ironic that Alvin statement is]

[anyway Liz's doxxing aside, he's done his best to clear up the glass and has a steady hold on the sheet, even though Liz is riding the Alvin express and doesn't even need it anymore, smh]

[but sure enough Liz does stumble near Guy. Despite his obvious terror, he wills himself to stay still and catch her]

[despite the Johnny Yong Bosch noises coming out of his mouth]

AAAAAUUUUUGH!

[he tried and therefore no one can criticize him]

[betraitor]

Hey, we've made a good team in the past. No point in messing with a good thing, right?

[listen, okay. the alvin express is a solid ride in all ways—so he's got this under control.

well, except for the part where she practically goes careening into guy, but that's not not entirely his fault here.]

...You should probably save your screams for having a look at the dead body, don't you think? [morbid humor is the way to go here, naturally.]

[tearable]

Right.

[ Oh, look, she doesn't stumble too much to need Guy's help. She is a foot or so away and looks at him with a skeptical expression. ]

...Sir, there's a dead body. Can you show some re-

[ She cuts herself off when she finally realizes who the hell it was. She feels her blood run cold. Elizabeth said she'd kill the woman herself and now she's dead. ]

She put herself as a target. [ She says confidently, walking over and carefully kneeling to the body to look for the first sign of blood? Where it be? ] Revenge kill, I'd say...

[judgejudy]

[ The first thing she'll notice is that there's not a lot of blood at the crimescene this time. Franziska's body lays crumpled on the ground near the gurney, and most of it seems concentrated around and on her head. ]

[mansplains]

T-This is worse than that! [wow, Guy]

[Anyway, with Elizabeth moving away, he lets himself breathe a little (the loser), and then edges as close as he can to the ladies without freaking out]

[he's trying so hard, you guys]

...Yeah, she really did. I bet they were angry about Luke. Or Lara.

[betraitor]

[alvin, on the other hand, chooses to keep his distance. he's taking a look at her body, but he doesn't seem particularly interested in getting too close.]

She knew it too, didn't she? She sentenced an innocent person and a staffer. That's a painted target on all sides.

[he's looking her over from where he stands—]

Looks like they went right for her head for an easy blow.

[tearable]

Right... right. [ She was thinking of revenge for Luke and unfortunately, the first person she thought of was that Adam boy. She hadn't even the strength to go reach out to him - it wasn't her place.

But, Alvin does paint an interesting theory. ]

I mean - I said I would kill her if she - ... but no, some sane person wouldn't have killed her, right...?

[ She'll casually look down to see if there's a foot...? Is the circle unbroken?!

However, tenderly, she tilts the woman's head to look at the wound - where was it? ]

Alvin, Guy - what does this look like to you?

[judgejudy]

[ There is a foot! Congrats! You've beaten the foot fetishists.

Or more seriously, yes, Franziska's foot is totally intact. As for her head, it appears as though she's suffered from blunt force trauma to the head. She's been struck in numerous places, with some blows looking heavier than others. ]

[mansplains]

[Liz isn't the only one suspicious of Adam, but Guy opts not to comment on that and instead examine the body as much as he can from his weenie distance.]

Well, they might have thought it was easy. But there are a lot of marks. She may have struggled.

....This looks pretty passionate to me, though.

[betraitor]

[he'll elect to keep his suspicions to himself as well.]

Either someone had a real happy time with making sure they took out their anger on her head.... or they really needed more than one hit to take her down. Kinda tough to say what she might've actually be hit with that'd do that kind of damage, though.

[it probably could have been anything, he's figuring. it doesn't look like it's the work of an easy weapon, after all.]

[tearable]

[ We're the best. ]

Passionate is a word. [ Except they all frysquint.jpg over the realization that this looked botched. It wasn't nearly as precise or clean as the previous ones. ] She was a tough woman - scary, too.

[ Although, it could have been all bark? Alvin's assumption of the weapon makes her narrow her eyes. ]

Do you want to look around for a weapon of some kind...? Maybe a trail of blood?

[ She'll sigh and motion for Guy to come closer. Dead girl bodies are ok, aren't they?

Liz focuses on the side that was struck - front, back, side? Which was it? ]

[judgejudy]

[ There's one definite strike to the back of her head. The rest seem a little more scattered, but are still mostly clustered in one area.

While Guy's examining the body from his weenie distance, he might notice that there appear to be two other areas of injury: her knees and shoulders. ]

[mansplains]

You can say that again. She had a whip. [A+ communication in this thread, guys]

[Also A+ weenieng from Guy, he noticed something!]

---Hang on. Her knees and shoulders were also hit. What exactly were they trying to do?

[But oh no, Liz is gesturing him him to come closer.... and so he comes like, a foot closer.]

[And that alone has him looking particularly nervous] We're looking for something blunt -- but I don't know if there's a blood trail.

[Let Guy check from slightly less of a weenie distance]

[betraitor]

I'll see if there's anything I can find, but I wouldn't get any hopes up, either.

[and so, alvin will start looking for any signs of there being something in the room. are there any signs? is it a mystery?

either way, he's still keeping his distance from the heart of the scene—guy and elizabeth can examine the body further while he pokes and prods around the room. though at the very least, he does pipe up.]

Knees and shoulders too, huh. The hell if I know—bad aim? [probably not.] Does it look like the hits to the head?

[at least he's asking questions while being... alvin about things.]

oh my god, i didnt see this, my bad.

[tearable]

What if ... ... what if Franziska was one of those special six other than the staff? Are they able to move around at night too?

[ Elizabeth stands up, carefully and sighs heavily. ]

Could have tried to get her down to finish the job - that woman seemed to put up a fight any chance she got.

[ Elizabeth says almost remorsefully. She'll be kind enough to treat her with respect. Alvin's off being vague hand gestures and it seems like they don't have any solid lead... so she'll just let the woman rest. ]

Unfortunately, most of the wounds I'm use to looking at are bullet wounds. ...On a living person.

[judgejudy]

[ There doesn't seem to be any blood trail. Nice attempted weenie detectiving, Guy. Alvin won't find anything that looks like it could have been used as the weapon in his search, either. The blood seems localized to the area where Franziska is.

As for her knees and shoulders: they're bruised. It's possible that they were hit with the same object that was used on her head. ]