sixth victim

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[At 7 AM on Friday, the mini-maps that allow the teleporter to be used all turn back on. Like any other time that the status quo has been abruptly restored at the end of the week, there's something ominous about it all the same. Especially on the fourth floor.]

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[imnotfat]

[Okay, what's going on here. Togami walks very slowly around, just...trying to keep himself awake. He's making a round, and currently going in direction of the dance studio]

[airlockedmods]

[Well, Togami, once you get to the Dance Studio, you're in for a bit of a rude awakening.

Namely, the sight of rust-red splashes of a whole lot of blood.]

[cyan_maid]

[Jane's too exhausted to even notice something like that, PIPs coming back online or ANYTHING YOU TWO IDIOTS MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HAVE DONE. Are you kidding me? She's been trying to stay awake for three days straight. So, for anyone looking for her, you'll find Jane in the bar, arms folded on the closed piano and her head down.

From the distinct snoring, it's correct to assume that she's fallen asleep.]

[kingshaming]

[When the PIPs turn on Xander rushes to find everyone- heading to the fourth floor first.

...it's there he hears Jane snoring and carefully approaches her, lightly shaking her shoulder. He'd love to let her sleep, but he suspects she will be happy to see a non-Togami face- plus he doesn't want her to get zapped.

He apparently hasn't noticed the possible murder happening down the hall yet.]

[curdle]

[ Thomasin is burying her finished embroidery in the greenhouse garden when her PIP comes back on, and while that is decidedly unsettling, she's not going to go to the fourth floor! She's going to attempt to go back to the first floor and take a goddamn shower. Y'all have fun up there, you hear? ]

[stitch_in_time]

[Okay, PIP is back on. That's. A mixed blessing, to say the least. So first thing the Doctor's going to do is scour the second floor and make sure everyone there's still alive.]

[If there's actually anything to find, he's going to start in the gym and work his way through the rest of the floor from there.]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika is dozing in the gym, it seems... Wait, she's just sitting there meditating.]

Discard worldly passions... Wait, does that even cover sleep? Is being tired a worldly passion?

[theoverseers]

[Jamie misses the PIPs coming back to life. He's missed a lot of things in the past few hours because, despite the best efforts of every kind of weird energy drink and caffeinated tea he's shoved into his body since Tuesday, he's dead asleep in the cafe. He's slumped over a table with his head pillowed on his arms and a cold cup of black tea resting by his head.

Who wants to tell him?]

[kingshaming]

[Jane was too shellshocked to listen to him, but he couldn't bare for Jamie to hear about this from a possible body announcement.

But who would even do it, now?

It takes him awhile to find him, sleeping. And like Jane he almost wants to let him be. And like Jane, he lightly shakes him]

Jamie...

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Attention, Champions. The Champion Barista's body has been found. After a short period of investigation, please proceed to the courtroom for a trial. Thank you!

Case File

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[The​ ​Case​ ​File​ ​will​ ​be​ ​loaded​ ​onto​ ​each​ ​Champion’s​ ​PIP​ ​to​ ​examine.]

Victim:​ ​Bolton​ ​White

Location​ ​of​ ​body:​ ​Dance​ ​Studio

Estimated​ ​time​ ​of​ ​death:​ ​3:00​ ​AM

Cause​ ​of​ ​death:​ ​Suffocation

Wound diagram.

Clue Count

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Total: 41/41

Dance Studio: 13/13
Blood and tears
They were here first
Mmm whatcha say
Ooh that you only meant well
Well of course you did
Mmm whatcha saaaay
Ooh that it's all for the best
Of course it is
Mm whatcha saaaaaay
Mm that it is just what we need
You decided this
Mm, what'd you say?
What what what what what did you say~

Pool: 1/1
I can't believe Vitya killed Bolton across game canons

Incinerator: 5/5
This is not how you make meat pies
This house is on fire
No disco infernos here
Ooh shiny
Mmm, gross!

Fourth Floor Hallway (and Teleporter): 1/1
Definitely not breadcrumbs

Bolton's Room: 14/14
Drove downtown in the rain
Nine-Thirty on a Tuesday night
Just to check out the late night record shop
Call it impulsive
Call it compulsive
Call it insane
But when I'm surrounded I just can't stop
It's a matter of instinct
It's a matter of conditioning
And a matter of fact
You can call me Pavlov's Dog
Click a pen and I'll salivate
Dr. Landy tell me you're not just a pedagogue
Cause right now I'm lying in bed

??? Jamie's Room 0/7

If you'll be my star
I'll be your sky
You can hide underneath me
And come out at night
When I turn jet black
And you show off your light
I live to let you shine

Dance Studio

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[imnotfat]

[Okay, this is going to be a bit difficult, but here we go. First things first:]

I may have stepped on blood before. If there are footprints around, some may be mine.

[There. But now that he thinks about it, it's unlikely the culprit entered and left without touching blood. Are there any footprintsaround here, besides maybe Togami's?]

guess who's finally gonna touch a body

[cyan_maid]

[Let's. Let Togami do his thing. He's already gotten himself bloody and possibly contaminated some of the crime scene, but. Jane decides that's not his fault. It's not. So...she goes to Bolton's body and kneels down.

On a cursory glance, how does he look? Can we see any bruising or marks or where he bled out from?]

[refusedtoleave]

[Either with Yurika's help or by the sheer power of rage Natsuhi makes it out of the anti gravity room. And charges off to the dance studio.

Other than the body and the blood, is there anything else odd about the room on first glance?

[stitch_in_time]

[Okay, he's here, finally. Thankfully having abandoned his blankie poncho and spacesuit... belt, thing, and down to just the slacks and sweater the Benefactors finally graced him with.]

[He's gonna take a second to look over the scene as a whole, before carefully picking his way over to the body. Anything new he might spot on the way?]

AREA CLEAR

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Pool

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[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika runs up to the pool and bursts into the room. Time to see what's going on. Anything immediately off, are the banners still up?]

Incinerator

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[curdle]

[ She doesn't want to see Bolton's body, and this is where the blood seems to go first. Here come the Doctor and Thomasin, following it like a trail of bread crumbs! Or Reese's Pieces, I guess, since he's... an alien... whatever. What's it like inside? Hot or not? ]

Fourth Floor Hallway

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[stitch_in_time]

[So the Doctor's heading through here on his way to perform Corpse Touching Duties™, anything out of place that he'd spot?]

Bolton's Room

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[theoverseers]

[After the conversations in the cat cafe, Jamie leads Jane and Xander down to the first floor and to the doors he and Bolton have exited and entered so many times but the others have never seen the other side of. The doors unlock with relative ease using Jamie's PIP despite his loss of Overseer privileges and he takes a few slow steps inside.

Welcome to the other side, Xander and Jane.]

BONUS: ???

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[Talk to Jamie to unlock]

JAMIE'S ROOM

[theoverseers]

[ Welcome to Jamie's room , Jane. The man himself is just gonna go ahead and curl up on top of his unmade bed for a few minutes.]

INVESTIGATION CLOSE

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Attention, Champions. [C.E.C.E.'s rings from their PIPs about twenty minutes after the last of the evidence is found.] The time for investigation has ended and the time for a trial has begun. Please report to the teleporter with any relevant evidence for transportation to the court room.