Second Investigation

[airlockedmods]

[This week should have been quiet enough. There was no motive, after all, and all anybody had to do was go to their group therapy session. But the dwindling food supplies have left things tense, and the screaming robotic animals haven't helped much either, have they?

There's no blood outside the cells today. But there is a strong and rather unpleasant smell lingering in the air...]

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[airlockedmods]

[Where specifically are you going to look?]

[goldrighthand]

[let's go head down. Also this is gross. Like he's seen bodies before has made plenty himself but usually they don't smell like THIS.]

[airlockedmods]

[Erika has been burnt from the shoulders up, specifically. The delineation point is pretty clear, and it makes it difficult to tell exactly what is going on up there.

If you look very close, though, you may notice something about her neck.]

[goldrighthand]

[...well let's take a look there. What's up with that neck problem do we have another breaking like last week?]

[airlockedmods]

[It looks like puncture wounds.]

[goldrighthand]

[...interesting.

Are there any signs of a struggle? Defensive wounds?]

[airlockedmods]

[Not really, no. But while looking for them, Akande may notice that the unburnt parts of her body seem shockingly pale.]

[goldrighthand]

[...he's going to consider this.

Consider his PIP. Cause of death.

And then look to the rest of the room, seeing others with some knives-]

Give me one of those. I need to confirm something.

[tokencanadian]

A-alright...?

[Here, Akande. Take one of the knives. She's not doing anything with it.]

[goldrighthand]

[well, Akande is.

He promptly stabs it straight in to Erika's unburnt chest, by her heart. And then pulls it out, eyes moving between wound to blade.

Is it bloody?]

[empathiser]

[Will just looks up from where he's half in the incinerator.

Akande, wtf.]

[tokencanadian]

[BRO we know you have to work out some issues, but-]

[ebonyknight]

You could have just moved the body to see if any blood dripped out.

[Wow.]

[airlockedmods]

[Where is the blood?]

[goldrighthand]

[JFC. Akande then looks towards the others, holding up the weapon very calmly.]

If she had any left, it would have been on this. She's been completely drained.

[Beat]

There are two wounds on her neck. Puncture.

[ebonyknight]

Considering the hag just got announced as well, I think it's obvious what happened.

[goldrighthand]

To Erika, perhaps. What have the rest of you found?

[He'll do a final check of the body to see if he's missed anything. Burns, check. Punctures, check. Lack of blood, check. No defensive wounds, check...]

[ebonyknight]

Knives.

[airlockedmods]

[You got all three evidence bullets!]

[goldrighthand]

[there's no bullets here tho]

[tokencanadian]

There's... none? At all?

[Well what do you know? That's even worse]

...Kiss-shot got announced as well. And she said vampires drink blood to survive.

[goldrighthand]

As I said, if there was any, it would have been on this. [He sets the knife down by him as he does his final check] And if she was responsible, someone might have seen it and decided to take matters in to their own hands.

[tokencanadian]

The blood must be somewhere then. It can't just... [Mmmmuuugh that's a thought she doesn't want to think about. She shakes her head.]

It's... likely that there was a third person here, at least. Kiss-shot wouldn't have killed herself.

[Maybe. She doesn't get vampires.]

[goldrighthand]

In the vampire girl, perhaps.

[He'll go ahead and set the body down. RIP Strange Girl, he might have considered paying for your college if he knew ye better]