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?]

Comments

[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?!]

[damnfourthemerald]

[Either way, there is a bloody hedgehog giving them both a red eyes take warning look now and then while debating with Naho until he finally turns to them.] What are you looking at? [Where the body was, obviously, and he leans in and takes a look. Hold on...hoooold on, that seems like a thing.] Don't touch anything, either of you. We'll get someone else to look.

[lycoctonum]

[She just glances at him before turning his way.]

Why not help us?

[strikemonster]

[you're not the boss of her mr hedgehog.]

[strikemonster]

I don't think we'd be able to reach it.

[Like. Five feet on five feet is still only ten feet.]

[lycoctonum]

Maybe if we have him stand on you and I carry you both.

[This idea is dumb. She is dumb.]

[strikemonster]

. . . I think I'll climb the ladder.

[no offense ginko, but she strongly feels that if they do that then there will be four bodies.]

[lycoctonum]

...Oh, there's a ladder.

[She is d u m b.]

[damnfourthemerald]

[He doesn't like anything about this. Is it because he's concerned about a girl trying to climb all the way up, or does he not trust her, or does he just think this would all be easier with zero g and let other people finish with the body? ~who knows~]

Hn, if she falls and breaks her neck, I don't want you following suit.

[lycoctonum]

[She shrugs. She's right there to catch her if she falls, anyway.]

I've fallen from higher, she'll be fine.

[strikemonster]

It's just a ladder, Mr. Hedgehog.

[honestly what's the other option? turn on the zero g and help EVERYBODY become evidence? that'll go over real well.]

[semperperatus]

I'll do it after I'm done with this!

[KIDS GET DOWN FROM THERE]

[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.]

[strikemonster]

[cool. just gonna BLATANTLY IGNORE SHADOW and climb up to get a closer look.

what is it. is it something cool. is it a pancake.]

[airlockedmods]

[That sure is a big metal shaft imbedded in the ceiling. There's blood smeared down its length, and probably also a bit of organs and tissue clinging to it.]

[strikemonster]

[well. that's.

yeah, she's not gonna pull that out of the ceiling. someone else can do that shit. what's the blood stain look like?]

[airlockedmods]

[There's a little bit of blood on the ceiling around the pole itself, but most of it either flowed downward or just didn't stick to the wall. However the blood on the shaft is shiny and wet, as if it was smeared there just a few minutes ago.

Like, say, when the gravity turned back on.]

[strikemonster]

[......................... WELL ISN'T THAT JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED.

she's regretting her decision to be a shithead and climb the ladder a little bit. definitely not touching that now.

anything else notable, or can she climb down now?]

[airlockedmods]

[Nope.]

[strikemonster]

[Excellent. She'll just get down now so the grumpy boys stop yelling at her.]

[humanitarianherbalist]

[The Griffin is going to make himself useful while the gravity is turned on and fly up to pull that pole out. Can he do it?]

[stitch_in_time]

[EXCUSE YOU HE ORDERED THE OPPOSITE OF THIS]