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

[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]

[strikemonster]

[honestly you people SHE'S EIGHTEEN, SHE CAN CLIMB A LADDER]

Too bad. I got here first.

[lycoctonum]

She's fine, growl growl.

[Hey, she's not that young.]

[semperperatus]

At least wait until I can spot you!

[WHEN HIS DAUGHTER WAS 18 SHE WAS NEARLY DECAPITATED BY A SHARK AT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS DON'T YOU GIVE HIM GUFF]

[lycoctonum]

[HEY SHE WAS SHOT OFF A ROOF AND WAS FINE IT'S FINE]

I'm spotting her.

[strikemonster]

Mr. Shepard, does it kind of look like he got stabbed with a pool stick, only the pool stick was metal?

[She's not touching the thing. It stays in the ceiling. What if pulling it out causes a breach in the hull or something???]

[semperperatus]

[OH HI THERE GUTS-ENCRUSTED SHAFT AS HE LOOKS UP TO WATCH AND MAKE SURE NO ONE ELSE DIES]

Pretty much run right through with something decently long, yeah. I think its safe to say you found the weapon that killed this guy.

[strikemonster]

He . . . he might have been alive-ish when the gravity turned back on. [She sounds kind of disgusted, which is more emotion than she shows 95% of the time.] The blood on here is still wet.

[semperperatus]

I...don't think that's the case. Our file says he died last night, much as I hate to trust it much, and even then zero gravity messes with how blood clots.

[humanitarianherbalist]

It would be dangerous for you to pull it out as well. I will handle that.

[humanitarianherbalist]

[He glides down a while later with the pole in his claws.]

Whoever did this possesses significant strength. The end has not been sharpened, which would have been necessary in most cases to actually pierce both the flesh and the wall.

[semperperatus]

[Ok, wow, Shepard looks both impressed and shocked.]

Damn.

[humanitarianherbalist]

Indeed. Although I am not sure we have the tools to sharpen metal in here at all. [Although he supposes that fire-controlling guy might be able to shape it, depending on how hot his fire can get.] Still, I feel that eliminates several possible suspects from consideration.

[semperperatus]

Yeah, geez. Who the hell is even strong enough to do this?