First Investigation

[airlockedmods]

[It's been five days since the Champions woke up in the space station, and three days since Bolton's first incentive. And this morning, like the day of the incentive, Bolton is not in the library for his morning office hours. Unlike the day of the incentive, there is no breakfast being served either. The space station is still open for the champions' exploration, but there's something eerie about the suspension of routine, like unfinished business hanging in the air.

The Art Room door is ajar. Maybe someone's channeling their inner art student and pulling an all-nighter...?]

Comments

[kingshaming]

[Xander doesn't stop her, since she is going straight to work. But he keeps his eye on her- both for purity of the crime scene and...

... well, it's an awful scene in general for anyone to see]

[cyan_maid]

[God, she's not going to fuck up the crime scene, mister princely butt.

Any looks her way that she meets will be returned with a very sharp, cold anger, though. No one is okay with this. Acknowledge that and find the party responsible and smack them the fuck around.]

[kingshaming]

[He keeps up the eye contact for a long moment, as if waiting to see if she'll break away first.

When she doesn't he nods, acknowledging her, and goes back to work- leaving her to do the same]

[cyan_maid]

[...An understanding, then. Jane's face softens, if only minutely.

Back to work. Besides that knife in the wall Xander's looking at, what else is amiss?]

[airlockedmods]

[There's no big, obvious things about the room that aren't being investigated right now. But maybe you could check around a little more carefully? The floor might be a good place to start.]

[cyan_maid]

[The floor it is, then. Are there any scuff marks, bloody footprints, markings...?]

[airlockedmods]

[It looks like there's something on the floor behind the legs of the easels.

Upon closer inspection, it's a few pieces of wood. They're splintered and busted now.]

[cyan_maid]

[Crouching down to get a closer look at that wood...is it a match for the easels? Or could it be from something else?]

[airlockedmods]

[It does not match the easels. Given their condition, it's hard to tell if they're from any items in particular, but the wood's different.]

[cyan_maid]

[Let's carefully pick up one of the pieces. First - does it look like the wood will splinter easily? Second - the feel of the wood, is it rough and natural or smooth and lacquered/stained? Third - relative size, are we talking chunks or small bits?]

[airlockedmods]

[These are several chunks of finished wood. They aren't too fragile, and Jane probably can't break or splinter them with her hands. They're also generally rectangular in shape.]

[cyan_maid]

[So it's not like it's a broken paintbrush or something...how about the way they're shaped into rectangles? Could they, say, have been made that way by a knife?]

[airlockedmods]

[Nah, looks like that's just the cut of the wood.]