Week 6

[parasomniacs]

Week 6

Monday - Thursday

[ There is a particularly somber atmosphere in the quiet hotel. The day before ended with a terrible miscalculation and an innocent life lost in the name of the “experiment”. Emotions certainly ran high and it would not be strange for those effects to linger into the dawn of the new week. Until now they had successfully determined and executed three other murderers. But the fourth got away. They may not want to face the future yet—but the experiment stops for nothing. 

The opening of a new wing would probably be of little solace to them. But it's not long before they are granted a small distraction.

Early Monday morning -- before they’ve even had a chance to properly examine the new floor and it’s rooms -- a text announcement arrives, following a small jingle. The sound is new; different from the announcement tones used during the investigation last week. It’s just as loud and persistent, but there’s an annoying set of four repeated notes in a pattern that lazily imitates a song assigned to this notification.]

Hello participants. 

I hope you are doing well this morning and are well rested for the day ahead. There will be a meeting held in the lobby fifteen minutes from now. You will all be required to attend. Any person who is absent will be appropriately hunted down and brought to the meeting place by whatever means necessary. An important change has been made to the experimental proceedings, of which you must all now be made well aware.

See you all in fifteen minutes. 

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[valimar]

[ A bullet... Rean goes pale upon seeing it. It couldn't be. If someone tried to shoot Kevin in the ballroom, then why didn't they hear anything? ...But they wouldn't hear anything - not if they were all asleep in their rooms that night. ]

This... I can't believe this...

[ Let's take a closer look at the injuries. Rean will carefully examine them, anyway. What are we looking at here, knife wounds? Though at one point while examining, Rean pauses momentarily, closing his eyes with a remorseful look. This didn't feel right. ]

...I'm sorry, Father. Please forgive me.

[parasomniacs]

[The wound in the chest is a little to Kevin's left, very clearly a stab wound through the heart - or, in the heart: it's very deep yet without an exit wound through the back. It's extremely clean, almost undoubtedly the result of exactly one strike, but also a good couple inches wide. A weapon large enough to do this in a single strike, according to most people, would not be a knife. There is a downward angle, entry higher than the sloping edges, he wasn't pierced orthogonally.

The wound in his right thigh is small and round. As anyone would suspect in the hotel where they lost Foley and Al and so on, he's been shot. In fact, there looks like a bullet is still lodged in there.]

[valimar]

[ The stab wound grabs his attention for sure. If Rean eyeballs it for a bit, would it look similar to a wound his tachi would make? Or is he going to have to actually test his own tachi on it to find out?

He's not taking out that bullet just yet. Because we're going to wait for someone else first, like Mikami's timely arrival!! ]

[parasomniacs]

[Sorta similar but his tachi is a little smaller.]

[valimar]

[ Then it can't be a katana because those are generally smaller in size. So we're looking at something even bigger here - that is, assuming a sword is even involved in this.

Is there any way Rean can get that bullet out on his own? He's not going to try just yet, he's just examining it. ]

[parasomniacs]

[It's pretty deeply embedded you would almost need to cut it out. And it looks like it may have hit bone, potentially being the reason it's stuck in there instead of having zipped through the body cleanly.]

[nevergraduating]

[Okay, so, let's assume that Crow has already documented all of the wounds on the body with his camera, and that he frisked the shit out of the body in memory of Leo.

Welp time to... remove that bullet then. All he has is a shitty pocketknife but he'll be as careful as possible!! But will he be able to tell the trajectory of the bullet from the wound as he cuts a priest up or what.]

[parasomniacs]

[ Rean will find that he has nothing on him at this point. His pockets are empty.

It looks like the bullet went down into the thigh from a slightly higher point consistent with someone standing up straight when they shot at his leg, and hit the bone on it's way in. ]

[nevergraduating]

[Welp okay. So what about the bullet itself? What's the caliber? What other info can they get from this?]

[parasomniacs]

[The bullet looks pretty normal overall. Unlike the squashed bullet that had been lying on the floor, there is no funny business with the bullet in Kevin's leg. It's just there in his leg as bullets tend to be once they've been shot into a leg.

The caliber is small, about the same as that other bullet.]

[nevergraduating]

[Okay, if he measured the bullet's diameter would he like... get something like the 9mm that was found for the Estelle shooting or something else? Alternately, are there any shell casings lying around the room in general?]

[parasomniacs]

[9mm, yes. It's definitely comparable. There are indeed shell casings.]

[nevergraduating]

[Okay well... time to keep that bullet... somewhere (although maybe he should get a bag for this or something, it's still kinda bloody and gross ew). At least the shell casings might be useful...? He'll collect them later while making sure that he won't disturb any prints that may be on the body of the casing.

But one last check of the body: how stiff is it? If it shows some stiffening, is it over the whole body, or only parts?]

[inordertobelieve]

[ Despite all his recent pessimism Mikami had genuinely not expected to find anything on this morning's check round. Evidently the world loves to dismay him further lately. ]

....damn!

[ That certainly was the first swearword ever uttered by Mikami in all these weeks.

He'll rush over to Rean and the body. ]

How long have you been in here?

[valimar]

Just a few minutes. It looks like he's been here a while now.

[ He glances back at Kevin's body with a grim look. If there was anyone he trusted to have control of the scene, it was Mikami. Rean knew he was far from an expert at this. ]

I can't say for sure, but... he was stabbed all right, and shot. [ He motions to the wound on Kevin's leg. ] I think there's a bullet still trapped inside.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Time to take a closer look at that body and see the things Rean has already seen. That stab wound is... interesting for sure. ]

They weren't able to kill him as they normally kill.

This weapon... It should have been someone's personal possession, if the knives around don't fit...

[ Is there any indication as to whether Kevin was standing or lying down when stabbed? ]

[parasomniacs]

[ It appears to be at an angle that suggests the blade came down on him at an angle from above which would be awkward in both of those positions. But perhaps kneeling... ]

[inordertobelieve]

[ Huh... seems like the leg injury may have forced him down then...

Time to give a cursory glance to the knives around then. Are they bloody?

[parasomniacs]

[ The one near Kevin's head is clean. It looks as though it had just been kind of discarded or dropped. The one further away, between the alter and the door though has a trace amounts of blood on the blade. It looks like it had been wiped, but there is still some smeared on it. ]

[valimar]

[ Rean's close by, with a grim look directed at the bloody knife. Was that what was used to...? ]

...Do you think there's fingerprints on it?

[inordertobelieve]

Given they took the time to wipe the blood for some reason I'd be surprised if they left their prints...

Nevertheless I wouldn't touch it with bare fingers.

[nevergraduating]

[Welp, guess who's going to pop by after hearing the announcement? And it looks like it's right on time to have a reunion with the remaining members of the pool party! ...And Kevin's corpse. That... sure is a thing.]

Damn, what the hell...

[He was salty over the strip search but holy shit?? He actually brought a camera along when he heard the announcement so uh... maybe he should... take some pics?]

[valimar]

This is awful...

[ Well... let's just pick up that seal then. If there's nothing immediately off about it, Rean will be keeping it on him for now. Let's have a look at that handwriting on the board real quick, as well as a quick glance around the altar area. ]

I still can't say for sure how exactly this went down but... whatever it was, there was a struggle all right. There had to have been one.

[inordertobelieve]

I assume this was meant to be a clean kill, but the seal deflected the first bullet... The shot to the leg might have been what brought him to his knees where he was stabbed then.

Though considering the body has no further stab wounds, that knife might have wounded the culprit somewhere in between...

[ He pauses, musing. ]

Did Graham even fight with knives normally?

[parasomniacs]

[There are actually pretty few signs of a struggle. Weird. The weapons, the ammunition, the bloodstains, the body. That really is pretty much it.

The writing is in clear yet awkward block print. K-e-v-i-n. Obviously not Kevin's handwriting. Whose handwriting would Rean know?]