THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[The morning starts as...most mornings do. Quiet, calm. In space. Next to a jail.

That, however, changes when screams start to emanate from the entrance.]

RUN RUUUUN!!

AAAAAAAH!!

[Soon enough, droves of people are streaming out of the jail, panicking and screaming and in some cases fainting. They start jamming towards the station in a near-stampede, screeching.]

LOOSE! THEY'RE LOOSE!!

THE ANIMALS HAVE ESCAPED THE PEN!!

[...Oh dear.

Help?]

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INVESTIGATION START

[strangerpeople]

[There's a beeping sound throughout the compound once the body is properly found. Naturally, it's the Conductor's voice that echoes through the prison.]

All right, then. It appears the Midnight Cells are out of the equation now. I shall inform the Empress. And while I do that, I suggest you begin investigating immediately.

[The clock appears again on everyone's cuffs.]

Oh...and do be quick. Your audience is liable to taint the crime scene if you don't.

[Wait, what-]

BASIC INFORMATION

[strangerpeople]

NAME: Atsushi Nakajima, The Rushlight
TIME OF DEATH: 8:05 AM
CAUSE OF DEATH: Penetrative trauma
INJURY CHART: H E R E

EVIDENCE LIST

[strangerpeople]

EVIDENCE SEARCH

[strangerpeople]

COMPUTER ROOM

[strangerpeople]

[eternaldivide]

[ so since mithos is watching over the body he... might as well investigate it.

So what is the first thing that sticks out when he kneels to take a closer look

.... besides the head being gone ]

[charmingheroine]

[So, unconscious lady. Is she visibly injured?]

[biddentodance]

[.....so he's just. Going to search the room for Atsushi's head. Any chance it's here?]

ANIMAL PEN

[strangerpeople]

WARDEN'S OFFICE

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SHOWER ROOM

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[otherworldlyking]

[ Some people are trying to sleep you know.

He yawns, coming out to see the commotion. ]

...This really isn't my problem.

[ He'll just wait a bit to see if anyone else does anything. ]

[higanbana]

[Have a smol who was also trying to sleep. Rockin' that bedhead, over here.]

Mn... nor mine, but it is likely in our best interest to try to do something about it... I guess.

[katzenpfote]

[Caleb just looks at the space jail, uninterested.]

Good for them.

[unwittingking]

[SURPRISE SURPRISE, the dog is one of the first people out to see this panic. Big ears are quite handy quite a bit here, surprisingly.

So, he never went to see the animals, so how bad is it looking?]

[strangerpeople]

[For starts, everyone is screaming about the animals being lose. Especially the monsters. The ones that will eat everyone and their souls.

...

And they put those in the petting zoo. Well then.

He should probably get further into the compound to check it out.]

[charmingheroine]

[The bustle might be a bit of a hindrance, but the skirt is the worst of it - to hell with these space Limeys' ideas of propriety, Charlotte's hiking it up and running where people are running from.

It's what she's trained to do, after all, and if she's lucky this new power might be helpful. Priorities being what they are... is the unicorn visible once she gets there?]

[strangerpeople]

[It's going to take a bit once she finally passes the screaming masses and gets into the jail, but it doesn't look like the unicorn is there. At least, not in the entrance area.

She may have to look elsewhere.]

[zackthekiller]

Oh, you have GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!

[Quick question. Eliza and Zack have been sharing the same cabin for three weeks now. Is she still in the room when everyone gets woken up?]

[strangerpeople]

[She is not.]

[biddentodance]

[Minato is in mission mode immediately, on his feet in seconds and bolting directly to the animal pen, against the tide of screaming people.]

[strangerpeople]

[well]

[overworker]

Minato wait! Let me go with you.

[If you're going to do a stupid, she's at least going with you.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[This is not what he wanted to do with his morning. What he wanted to do is spend a little longer in the oblivion that sleep is for him and not deal with the world, maybe have a nice chat with someone later in the morning. Instead, it's this shit happening.

Well, he might as well get up and (very grudgingly) go directly over to the animal pen.]

Another day, and I imagine another body...

[It is, after all, day five of being in this awful prison/tourist trap.]

[higanbana]

[RGB's probably coming in behind Ris and McBurn, who were definitely the last two to arrive.]

Cover your screen, RGB. There's indecency ahead.

[She'd clutch her pearls if she had any.]