Third Investigation

[parasomniacs]

Week 3

Friday

[ Another week has come and gone-- albeit with a great deal of excitement. It wouldn't be strange if by the end of the week you had nearly forgotten the week's new motive altogether with everything that's been going on since the middle of the week. But even if you did, that didn't make it go away. It was still there. Waiting. For just one person to give it the proper consideration.

...had someone decided that one person's life was worth erasing to get rid of another?

It no longer seems so crazy, does it?

As another morning dawns, people will rise-- perhaps with every intention of going about their daily routines same as always. But somewhere, a surprise is waiting to be discovered. But what oh what will they find this time? Just maybe it won't be so bad. Or maybe it will. ]

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[nevergraduating]

[And while they're on a backtracking quest now that it seems like they're not on a timer... Back on the ground floor, are there any traces of water leading from the pool to the elevators?]

[valimar]

[ Yep, you can bet Rean's here too, and he'll be checking the elevator that went up to the third floor in particular. Any traces of water outside? ]

[parasomniacs]

[Nothing really. Given the water in the elevator was not much, it's possible that any water that could have been left here would be too small to notice, or already dried up.]

[nevergraduating]

[Welp, back to the start of the trail at the west exit of the garden. There was something about the doorframe, right...? Let's check it out more closely in case.]

[valimar]

[ WHILE SENPAI'S DOING THAT, Rean is going to make a detour to bring the fingerprint kit over to check Shingo's room key while we're at it. Sorry, Kevin, but hopefully it's going towards a good cause...! ]

[parasomniacs]

[So after using the powder on the entire card...

Well. This card was apparently handled a lot, because the prints on it are just... a fucking mess. It would probably require actual skill in fingerprinting to even tell how many there are, let alone tell them apart.

But hey. Maybe you can be a forensic scientist. In your dreams, kid.]

[valimar]

[ cries in motherfucking erebonian i knew this was a bad idea WELP

time to just submit the card to evidence then. and the remaining fingerprint powder. ]

[parasomniacs]

[Yep! There's a trace amount of blood. Looks like something bloody brushed against it as the door was opened. It's not a handprint or anything though, just a slight smear.]

[nevergraduating]

[Welp. They should probably get a photo of this. Time to call over everyone's task bitch Rean.]

Hey Rean! When you're finished with that, mind getting a picture of this?

[valimar]

Got it.

[ Why is he everyone's task bitch lately! Oh well, guess what Rean's snapping a picture of! After he's returned from that failed fingerprinting adventure, that is. ]

Huh. Wonder how that got on there...

[ How far up on the doorframe is the blood smear, by the way? From either Rean or Crow's relative heights. ]

[parasomniacs]

[Quite a bit lower compared to both of them.]

[valimar]

[ How lower? Down to their waists? Legs? ...Ankles?? Is it slanted in any way? ]

[parasomniacs]

[Kinda by their chests. It's not slanted - it's more like a curvy object hitting the frame straight.]

[nevergraduating]

[And just to be sure, is it on the side of the frame facing the garden?]

[parasomniacs]

[Yes.]

[nevergraduating]

[Alrighty. Time to do some documentation.]

Hey Rean, get some of those... weird ass rulers they have, would you? And some tape. [Because being Zemurian is suffering when everything around you is in the goddamn Imperial measurement system.]

[valimar]

Uh... sure? I guess it's not a bad idea to measure it, but... [ s i g h ] Be right back.

[ What in Aidios' name is this Imperial measurement system? Rean's been boggling over that ever since he saw how the heights and weights were listed on the profiles. But all right, since he's the resident task bitch that means he's more than happy enough to dash off to the gift shop.

Minutes later he'll be back with tape and... rulers. A handful of 'em!! ]

Sure hope we know what we're doing here, because I know I can't make heads and tails of whatever system they're using here.

[nevergraduating]

Eh. From the looks of it, I think at least a couple of people know how to read these things, so hopefully getting a picture should be enough for someone to tell what's goin' on.

Line 'em up and I'll tape them.

[And then suddenly this crime scene is looking a lot like those scales parents use for measuring their kids' heights?? What is this.]

[valimar]

Sure hope so. Anyway, I'll just go ahead and... set them up.

[ Welp, this is what happens when you leave measuring shit to the Zemurian kids. Starting from the bottom, Rean will hold up each ruler for Crow to tape them up. Each are taped one by one all the way up to where the bloodstain is.

Because neither of them know how to read these rulers, Rean will just ask Crow to standby while he snaps another picture. ]

That should do it. I think we're done here.

[nevergraduating]

Yeah, I think everything's--

[Wait... Maybe they could.]

Hey. Think we can figure out how this measuring system works if we measure ourselves against it? [Because clearly this is the only reasonable thing to do when you have a bunch of rulers taped up against the wall.]

[valimar]

...You mean right now or later?

[ i mean. they already have a bunch of rulers set up. ]

Well. I don't see why not, except... are we sure we even have time to figure it out?

[nevergraduating]

It can't take more than a few minutes, right? [It's just Sunday School level arithmetic!! How hard could it be??]

We might as well. And who knows? Maybe it'll come in handy eventually.