the mock investigation

[airlockedmods]

[The week at the space station has trickled by slowly. Friday morning after CECE awakens everyone with her usual cheery announcement over their PIPs it's dead quiet, the oppressive threat to their homes still lingering in the air. There's still hours to go before the deadline but will someone really have the guts to go through with it in such small quarters?

Or is the better question has someone already gone through with it?]

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Zero Gravity Room

[airlockedmods]

[Step carefully, there was a bit of a blood shower and it was gross.]

[stitch_in_time]

Oh, dammit.

[Yeah, that's definitely a body.]

[The Doctor takes a second to look over the assembled people, including Shadow's milkshake-soaked face.]

No points for guessin' who found him, I take it.

[semperperatus]

[Shepard doesn't go immediately to the body. First aid kit first. First aid gloves, on. He comes in several minutes after, looking at the body.

Damnit...]

We...need to be careful. I can look at the body.

[damnfourthemerald]

[Gonna...need a shower gross his fur's going to mat someone will have to take a brushie to the furball. He looks down at his bloodied hand where he'd tried to wipe some off, and then back to the room sharply. This is all...super awesome.]

Someone was crass enough to kill this man and stick him in this room last night. ['Someone' implies 'not me', for the record.] Does anyone know who was here last?

And there was a...sound, something broke when he landed. I'd be careful of something sharp. [Gestures to himself.] I hope this doesn't make me evidence.

[semperperatus]

Depends. Don't wipe off your face.

[Sorry, man.]

[stitch_in_time]

I don't think you'd be stupid enough to fly face-first into your own crime scene, if that's what your asking.

[Still doesn't look good, though.]

[And speaking of blood, let's take a look over the general splatter of it all. It's enough to get a good coat on Shadow, does it also look like about the amount you'd expect from a gaping stomach wound?]

[Does it look like it was actually all spilled here, is what he's looking for.]

[misinforms]

I hate to ask but... it has to be done. That blood... it was from the body, yes?

[She doesn't sound that really sorry to be asking actually. She sounds very calculating and analytical about it; as if she's shoved her initial emotions back into a box for the investigation proper.]

[stitch_in_time]

That'd be the place to start, yeah. Pass me some of those gloves.

[He might not have an actual medical degree, but he's still the Doctor.]

[And like hell he actually trusts anyone else on this station in this moment.]

[semperperatus]

Yeah, here.

[There's a few pairs in the first aid kit, at least. After handing them over its time to look over the ex-McCree, carefully turning him to get a look at him. So.

Anything about the wound stand out?]

[misplacedxsheath]

[Yep, that sure is a corpse. Margulis is just going to step into the room to look the body over.]

If you don't intend to be useful, leave.

[damnfourthemerald]

Don't touch the body. [Not that Shadow ever looks happy--he's not bad, he's just character modeled that way--but he particularly looks unhappy. And a little matted.] Mind you don't step in the blood, either.

[misplacedxsheath]

I wasn't intending to. It's going to be difficult enough to identify the murder weapon without moving the body further.

[At least, he's assuming from the blood spatter that it was floating.]

[strikemonster]

[.............. she already has a piLe of regrets, WHAT'S A FEW MORE!!

Mai steps into the zero g room and looks up. Does McDead look like he just dropped down once the zero g was turned off?]

[airlockedmods]

[Well he sure wasn't dropped out of a wormhole which is to say yes. If Mai squints she'll be able to see a smear of red on the ceiling and something embedded there as well.]

[strikemonster]

[........ man. man.

can she climb the walls or is she gonna have to point that out to everybody and see if they'll let her go get it?]

[lycoctonum]

[Ginko glances up.]

...I could lift you up.

[Ginko, you're strong but neither of you are tall enough to reach that?!]

[airlockedmods]

[There's a ladder on each wall high enough to reach the ceiling. She might not necessarily be able to reach what it is but she'll be able to get a closer look.]

Time to make a hat confess its sins

[humanitarianherbalist]

[Alright, he recalls some fuss being made about the hat at first. And oh look, it's right here. He's going to pick it up and examine it.]

[airlockedmods]

[It's a well, well-loved leather hat with a buckle on the front and shell casings secured by a leather strap.]

[humanitarianherbalist]

[Any evidence that one of the shell casings is missing? If not, he's going to look inside it, checking for stains in general.]

[airlockedmods]

[Nope, the hat looks like it's probably intact.

There is some flecks of blood on the rim, but only enough to indicate proximity to the body.]

[damnfourthemerald]

[Well, while he's standing here, grumpy, cold milkshake on his face, being told he can't shower and snapping at people he doesn't trust not to touch things and not moving because he's evidence (or covered in evidence anyway), Shadow is going toooooo examine the controls. Is there anything pulled out, out of place, a smear of blood he didn't put there with his clean hand?]

[mikooon]

Are you... are you going to walk around like that?

[Truly, dedication.

Anyway, Tamamo looks at the controls too. She probably counts as someone he doesn't trust. Whatever.] There's a blood splatter on the ceiling, too. Say, in this room, can you... switch gravity?

[Hm?]

Are there controls that can make the ground we stand on the sky and the ceiling above where we fall to?

[humanitarianherbalist]

So instead of being thrown, the pole would have been dropped? [A thoughtful expression] That would certainly make up for lack of strength.

AREA CLEAR

[airlockedmods]