The Fourth Investigation

[airlockedmods]

[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?]

Comments

[playthedamncard]

[It's all so unnecessary. He pales and reaches out to grab Akira, to steady him--to steady the both of them.]

He'd have to be tied down well to...manage any of this. Unless they drugged him up.

[Any marks on the wrist to indicate as much?]

[airlockedmods]

[There are no marks on Max’s remaining wrist.]

[le_mat]

Check and see if any drugs are missing. Though fuck, with how doped we were who even knows the count anymore.

...Max was the one keeping track of it, I think.

[playthedamncard]

On it...

[airlockedmods]

[You don’t know the normal drug count, Kaiba, but at the very least it doesn’t look like anything has been moved around and there’s no obvious gaps.]

[le_mat]

[While Kaiba is checking the drugs, Akira gives the body another deeper check. Including that, gulp, gut wound]

[airlockedmods]

[What exactly are you looking for with the gut wound?]

[le_mat]

[Just trying to see if it looks like he was blasted by a weapon or SMALL BOMBS blown out from inside]

[airlockedmods]

[He definitely appears to have been blown open from within! Everything kinda comes outwards. Watch for any sharp rib pieces sticking out.]

[le_mat]

[Anything else here noteworthy, torso-wise?]

[airlockedmods]

[The way the blood has pooled, it doesn’t look like he moved an inch during whatever happened here either.]

[le_mat]

[So he was restrained or unconscious. Never struggled. But no bindings or obvious drugs....

Akira trembles, teeth bared. Are his eyes open?]

[airlockedmods]

[Max’s eyes are wide open behind the dirty, clouded lenses of his glasses. There’s dried tear tracks down the sides of his face.

The rest of his face is completely slack and relaxed.]

[playthedamncard]

[That's not okay none of this is okay???

You know what? Kaiba's got this. He removes the spattered glasses, resting them on what's left of his chest, and closes Max's eyes.]

...What the hell does this mean. [His voice is fairly monotone.]

[le_mat]

[thank god for Kaiba right now cuz Akira isn't sure he can keep this up. Seeing those tears... He can't stop his own]

He was... Paralyzed somehow.

[he carefully tries to move his head, see if he can feel any damage that might have caused this. Like an ice skate wait wrong round]

If... Unless it has to come out to catch this sick fuck- we... We don't have to tell anyone else he was conscious. They don't need to know.

[airlockedmods]

[Max's head and neck do not appear to have been damaged! There's no visible sign of injury, and though his body is still pliant enough that you can move his head easily enough, it's within the normal range, not enough to indicate a broken neck.]