The Fourth Investigation

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[Come early morning, the station is still and quiet. Nothing seems amiss in the area around your living quarters. It's a little while yet until C.E.C.E. makes her typical morning announcement, but of course you're still free to move about the station at your leisure.

Maybe you had better look around?]

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INFIRMARY

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[in4apounding]

[Nope nope nope nope nope nope, this is bad, she's booking it to the infirmary, Shovel-kun still in hand.]

[Who's still here, anyone. Bueller.]

[dejabrew]

Pumpkin!

[Bolton looks like all the blood has been drained from his body.]

You can’t- please, don’t go in there.

[in4apounding]

Mister Bolton-

[You are being hugged, Bolton. Deal with it.]

I'm so sorry- ...but you shouldn't see this either. Someone- we'll need to-

[dejabrew]

I’ll d- I’ll do it. I just need a second to calm down.

He wouldn’t want- any of the kids to see him like this. It’s real bad, Penny.

[in4apounding]

...he wouldn't want you to remember him like- that, either, I'm sure.

[She saw the wound diagram.]

It just- shouldn't be you, looking at someone you were that close to.

[dejabrew]

[He laughs, broken and helpless.]

I found him, Pumpkin, I don’t think I can- forget about that.

[in4apounding]

[Let's. Let's assume she's at least seen Akira and Kaiba are here.]

[She hugs a little tighter.]

...Okay. I'm sorry. I can- ...just, promise you'll leave. If you have to. Let Akira and Mister Kaiba handle things, please?

[dejabrew]

They're just- you're all just kids... I don't want to put this on you.

[le_mat]

[Yes, let's leave the injured teenager to once again deal with the splattered remains of an adult he looked up to. It's fine he's fine

Let's go for Max himself first. Jeezus]

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[Well, while you and Bolton fight about who's going to do this upthread, it's very obvious that Max's torso appears to have exploded. You can even sort of see his spine!

He's lying on his back on the bed, which looks a lot roomier when half your limbs are gone.]

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...

[Okay give him a moment to reboot. He does at least hunt down some gloves before getting closer-

...are said limbs near by or are they missing?]

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[If you look around, you can see that Max's arm appears to have ended up over by the medicine cabinets.]

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[OH GOOD. He does go to see if it looked like it was blown off or cut]

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[It looks like it was blown off! While you're checking that out, though, you'll probably notice that, contrary to what you might expect from an apparent explosion, there's no burns on it.]

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... what the hell?

[Anything else of note with the arm or shall we hunt for a leg?]

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[If your boyfriend wants to check out the hand thing, you're good on arm clues.]

[playthedamncard]

[Jesus Akira please do be careful and do not touch the body without gloves maybe???

Kaiba will...stay on the outside of the worst of the splatter zone for the moment but might join him later. So um. Yeah. Let's take a look at that splatter? Does it look like he must have gotten blasted with something from a certain direction or angle? Does it look like anyone or anything might have been in the way of said splatter and might now be missing? And just how much blood is in a grown man anyway? You don't have to answer the latter.]

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[Judging from the splatter, the center of the explosion seems to have been Max's body, or something located right on top of it, at least. There's no sign that the spatter hit another person; it seems to have just gone about the way you would expect.

(It's 1.2 to 1.5 gallons or thereabouts.)]

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[thanks i hate it

okay cool cool cool that's perfectly natural and not at all fucked up or anything. Are there any uh. Any hot takes and good clues and weird shit out of place that isn't the body and subsequent gore splattered everywhere? He and Akira did spend a few days of quality time in the room after all.]

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I mean do you want the real answer]

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[listen

y u gotta sass on a day like today

Okay fine he'll snap on some gloves himself because, holy shit, and while Akira goes and plays with the body, Kaiba will dig through some of the cabinets and such for anything stashed away or supplies suddenly gone missing.

He won't move Max's uh. arm. For the moment.

...God the arm isn't holding anything is it]

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[Investigate the arm's hand?]

[playthedamncard]

[y...yyyyeeeeeesssss? What's he holding what's up]

AREA CLEAR

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