the mock investigation

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[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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Cafeteria

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[voltrounds]

[Ricky's about to rush off to The Scene, but since this is where she already was: is there anything obviously weird here that she probably would have noticed already, that might suddenly seem more significant after the announcement?]

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[Nothing too obviously weird but it looks like someone left something one of the chairs.]

[voltrounds]

[OH GOD IS IT THE ONE NEXT TO WHERE SHE'S SITTING

Ricky's pretty sure she was the first one in here after C.E.C.E.'s wakeup announcement, so anything that was already here was probably here all night. That doesn't necessarily mean "connected to the murder," but it's a possibility. So she'll just go ahead and take a closer look.]

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[It's a small notebook, similar to the one Ricky may or may not have found in her private quarters if she did a little poking around.]

[voltrounds]

[She hasn't had much use for hers, since the PIP is more convenient, but yeah, she recognizes it. She'll just flip through that sucker and look for signs of who this one might belong to.]

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[It looks like a couple of pages have been torn out near the front and most of the pages are blank.]

[voltrounds]

[Crap. Well, at least if anyone's discovering some torn-out sheets of notebook paper at this very moment, they'll know where they came from. Anything else of interest to be spotted in this notebook? Blood drops on the cover, "SEE YA SPACE COWBOY" scrawled on the last page, it can be used to save the game in case they mess up, that sort of thing?

Also, the timeline on this question is kind of screwy, but is this chair at the same table as the food packets that Ricky hasn't thought to question but she'll end up discussing them with Thomasin?]

[curdle]

[ Eating is the last thing on her mind, but she definitely doesn't want to be near the body -- and she cannot sit idle. She finds herself wandering into the cafeteria, slightly dazed, and starts taking inventory of the chairs and tables. Is anything missing or obviously out of place?

More importantly: ]

Ought not we come together to lay hands on... on the body? Each in turn.

[ OK then! ]

[have_a_heart]

[Kanade looks at the body announcement and then... blinks.]

Is that what they do in your country?

[curdle]

'Tis of a custom, aye.

[ She looks truly confused. Is this one of those "only her" things... like not using forks and openly breaking out into prayer... ]

Is't not said that a victim of murder will bleed afresh, when the culprit come close?

[voltrounds]

[Okay so now there are people in the way so Ricky guesses she isn't rushing out just yet after all.]

I've never heard of that.

[curdle]

Well... it works ofttimes. Or so they say.

[ She pauses by whatever the utensil dispensal situation is. ]

I am from England. Whence were you born?

[voltrounds]

I'm originally from America, but lately I've been living in what used to be Japan.

[have_a_heart]

I am from Japan. But I have not been there in a long time.

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[As a matter of fact, there is something out of place: some torn open food packets just lying around on one of the tables.]

[curdle]

[ Oh boy!! Are they empty? And is there any labelling that indicates what was in them? ]

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[They are empty and the labels say "rice and beans". There are two packets.]

[voltrounds]

Come to think of it, these were already here when I came in.

[Kind of a sad breakfast, if that's what it was.]

[curdle]

If two ate together, it should be easy to divine. Unless one is now no longer with us. [ She pauses. ] Ah, wouldst thou read what they say?

[voltrounds]

They both say "rice and beans." Doesn't sound like breakfast.

[So probably not breakfast, actually. Could indeed be murder dinner.]

Do you think it was the killer and the victim?

worst investigator ever

[mikooon]

[fucking JESUS why do they have to blast an announcement like hate FUCK this day]

Ugh.

[Tamamo drags herself into the cafeteria, almost unwilling to investigate. But, well, investigate she shall.] Now...are there anything on the walls? Drunken writing or something equally dubious.

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[Nope, the walls are clean as they ever are.]

[mikooon]

[Lickety-spit. Delicious.

Now fuck this she's gonna eat--]

I should at least check the chairs, I suppose. Lest there be anything hidden under the tables.

AREA CLEAR

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