fourth victim

[airlockedmods]

[It's a new day, and everyone who was sabotaged finds themselves free of the sabotage - the electric locks on Jane's mittens, Lightning's skates, and Xander's spreader bar all come free. Xander will even find a familiar-looking outfit in his closet, almost as an apology for what he's had to endure over the last few days.

But there does appear to be something wet on the floor of the males' side of the first floor hallway...]

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[airlockedmods]

[There sure is a thin trail of blood leading into and/or out of the room.

We'll just save some time here and note that it's going towards the pool.]

[cyan_maid]

[Well that sure catches her attention. She glances along the trail towards the pool...then looks the other way into the bar and begins to follow the trail. How far do we get?]

[airlockedmods]

[There's some bloody partial footprints on the floor of the bar along the trail.

While there isn't enough there to get an exact measurement, the prints are clearly small.]

[voltrounds]

[Having followed the trail of blood here, Ricky will just pop up and take a look for herself. Jane seems to have the details of the trail itself covered, but is there anything of interest near where it begins?]

[airlockedmods]

[The beginning of the trail is near one of the bar stools. On the ground nearby is half of a broken bottle. The sharp ends have blood on them.]

[voltrounds]

[THAT SURE IS OF INTEREST. Shadow did you get into a barfight.

She'll just nab that half-bottle. YES NATSUHI SHE'S BEING CAREFUL WITH IT. Is the other half (or any assortment of glass shards thatlooks similar) anywhere immediately in view?]

[airlockedmods]

[There's also assorted broken glass scattered around the area, and the rest of the bottle isn't far away. It seems no effort was made to hide it.

However, also in immediate view is a scrap of bloodied cloth on the stool itself.]

[voltrounds]

[What are we looking at, here? A tiny scrap, or something closer to washcloth-sized?]

[airlockedmods]

[It's not very big. Upon inspection, Ricky will probably recognize it as part of a Champion's unitard.]

[voltrounds]

[Yeah, she's still wearing hers, so that's an easy enough realization as soon as her hand gets close enough that she can see it next to her sleeve.]

There was definitely a fight here.

[A damn barfight. Honestly...

The answer to this is probably obvious, but does it look torn (as opposed to having been neatly cut off for some reason)?]

[airlockedmods]

[It does.]

[cyan_maid]

[Small prints...are they roughly Shadow-size/shape, or different? Or is it too hard to tell?]

[airlockedmods]

[Shadow's got those weird enormous Sonic feet, so let's go with different.]

Paging Ricky!

[cyan_maid]

[And by different we're going to have to assume human-shaped, because that's as different as we've got around these parts. Alright...

Oh hey there's Ricky, better clue her in to what's up.]

Ricky? Hey, there's some footprints over here, and they're definitely not Shadow's.

[voltrounds]

[Oh good her player was starting to run out of ideas.]

They probably belong to whoever he was fighting, then. [Presented: one broken bottle, one scrp of unitard, both bloodied.]

and now PAGING MODS

[cyan_maid]

[Fighting? What evidence is - oh, yeah, that's definitely some evidence.]

Goodness gracious! You think he got into a bar fight?

[Out of curiosity, is there any label on or specific smell around the broken bottle that can tell us what exactly the contents were?

[airlockedmods]

[It's definitely alcohol. Probably strong, too, judging by the smell.]

[cyan_maid]

Ooph!

[PULLIN BACK FROM THAT SHIT]

Okay, so, that definitely came from in here...

[voltrounds]

Whoever was using it probably wasn't expecting a fight, then. Normally if you were going to attack someone you'd bring a weapon with you instead of finding one there.

[cyan_maid]

That's true, but they certainly picked something good in a pinch. Broken liquor bottles are pretty common in bar fights in movies.

[voltrounds]

It's hard to say whether that means anything, though. It might have just been what was convenient.

moooods

[cyan_maid]

True - very true.

[Jane does another cursory look around. Are they missing anything?]

[airlockedmods]

[There's some broken colored pencils sitting out on the bar counter.]

[cyan_maid]

[!!

Gravitating towards those! What color are they? How are they broken - like somebody snapped them on purpose or were they stepped on or did the tips just fall out? Also, is there any sign of what the pencils might have been used for, whether it be drawing or writing or something awful and messed up?]