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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[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?]

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[The book is indeed at the same table as the food packets! The notebook is still blank all the way through however. Unfortunate.]