the third victim

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[Friday has reared it's head again and, come 7 am, things are quiet. But haven't they been quiet the last two times as well? In the Champion Excellence Program, quiet means nothing. Unlike the sabotages last week, everyone who received a boon earlier in the week will find them exactly where they left them the night before. It seems the boons are thankfully more permanent than the sabotages.

Still, there's a general feeling of off-ness that permeates the air. Not so much on the first or third floors but definitely on the second floor.

>Investigate?]

Comments

[voltrounds]

[Ricky heads right for the diner this fine morning. Natsuhi can't stop her from having a breakfast she likes! Look, she'll even order the strawberry pancakes so there's a fruit involved. It's technically healthy!

Surely this Friday will be different from the last two Fridays.]

[stitch_in_time]

[You're not the only one looking for breakfast, Ricky.]

[The Doctor's got a long day of trying to repair his screwdriver ahead of him, might as well start off with some actual food from the diner. Hopefully it won't be covered in milkshake by the time he gets there.]

[airlockedmods]

[The diner is spic and span and death-free, so long as you don't mind the lingering memory of Sadie's final moments chilling in here.]

[damnfourthemerald]

[Welp, time to go chill out in the zero-g room and do some floaty acrobatics, nothing could possibly go wrong in here!]

[curdle]

[ samesies

She was fine last week it'll be fine this week too!! right ]

[airlockedmods]

[There is an abandoned cowboy hat floating listlessly through the air-

Nah, the zero-g room is untainted by death this time around.]

[bylight]

[Lightning wants to dispose of something in the trash compactor... please tell her it's free of dead body.]

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[No compactor corpses here!]

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Time to skip breakfast again and head for the gym. Are we going to find a corpse in there again?]

[yukionna]

[ Rukia heads there every morning anyway. Let's not find a body, Kurumi. ]

[airlockedmods]

[Oh, Kurumi, you have chosen...poorly.

There is a prone figure covered in a sheet lying in the middle of the gym floor.]

[cyan_maid]

[Hey, you know what'd be nice to do today to lift some spirits? Playing piano. Jane's up and going right to the music room - what's her prize?]

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[Her prize is a music room free of dead bodies! Enjoy, Jane.]

INVESTIGATION START

[theoverseers]

[Over the last two weeks at these death announcements, Bolton had gone from shaken to indifferent and back to shaken again. But this... This is the closest to Motive Bolton that he's sounded since the killings began.]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a body has been discovered! It looks like the Champion Flaming Swordsman has...burnt out. There'll be a brief period of investigation before, as usual, we proceed to the trial.

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EVIDENCE LIST - 19/19

GYM - 11/11
- The first cut is the deepest
- Burn, baby, burn
- Now everyone can see him burning
- It's a punching bag, idiots
- There's technically no rule against a fire playing basketball
- WHERE'S THE BLOOD
- Shoutout to Jean Valjean
- Turns out Margulis was...a second-string player
- YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH also a knife
- He was not brought home
- It's the circle of life!

TRASH COMPACTOR - 3/3
- We are children of dust and ashes
- It was Christine Jr.'s best friend
- Oh no, the fashion police were here!

ART ROOM - 2/2
- Were you all raised in a barn?
- Stop stringing us along

MARGULIS’ ROOM - 3/3
- You could bounce a dime off it!
- We put down on paper what is happening in our minds
- It's like some kind of clarity when the letter's done and signed

CASE FILE

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[The Case File will be loaded onto each Champion’s PIP to examine.]


Victim: Margulis

Location of body: Gymnasium

Estimated time of death: 3:28 AM

Cause of death: Blood loss from multiple wounds

Wound diagram.

GYM

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Re: GYM

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika is so not here for this. She'll check out the body -- anything weird about the sheet?]

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Kurumi is just going to stare at the body some more. Is there a pool of blood around the body or is it just on the sheet?]

[stitch_in_time]

Dammit.

[He hadn't talked to Margulis much, but he seemed to have a pretty solid head on his shoulders.]

[And really? Three Fridays in a row, really?]

[He's gonna step around Yurika and Kurumi carefully and check the body itself. How much overkill are we talking with these wounds?]

[cyan_maid]

[- Oh, shit.

Jane runs out of the music room when she gets the announcement, not torn up, but still very shocked. She - she literally just spoke to the man this week, and already Margulis is...

No. No, it's...going to be okay. It'll be okay. Jane takes a deep breath and looks for people wherever they're closest - aka the gym - and enters.

Besides that body and the women swearing over it, is there anything immediately out of place she might notice?]

TRASH COMPACTOR

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[imnotfat]

[A culprit would get rid of evidence.

That's why Togami is here. Are there any compacted things here?]

ART ROOM

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[curdle]

[ She'd go on sheet duty, but it looks like that's covered, so instead she crosses the hall to the art room. Is any of the furniture disturbed? ]

MARGULIS’ ROOM

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[almightyconflagration]

[McBurn got woken up by that announcement and since he's so not into effort, he'll just quietly slip over to Margulis' room with it being so close by.

It's obvious that he just woke up too, he's still yawning loudly and looks like hell.]

INVESTIGATION CLOSE

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Attention, Champions. [The mechanical woman's voice makes a return once the last piece of evidence is found.] The time for investigation has ended and the time for a trial has begun. Please report to the teleporter with any relevant evidence for transportation to the court room.