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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EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Don't worry, this isn't Polythreme.

The key card isn't going to bite back.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[No, but this being like Space Quest is also not out of the realm of possibility, and you know how Sierra games are.]

Hm. That's interesting.

[He'll just pick that up and examine it more closely then.]

[strangerpeople]

[It's just a normal key card. A key card that grants access to open the pen and deactivate the force field, essentially.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[So that means that this was intentional, and probably intended as a distraction to mask the murder occurring. He'll just be pocketing that then.

Anything else suspicious around that he can spot?]

[strangerpeople]

[Well, he might notice one of the animals approaching him from outside the pen.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[Oooooooh no. He's just going to slowly stand back up, try to look non-threatening, and prepare to bolt the moment it looks like it might get aggressive.]

H-hello there, friend. Lovely day for it, isn't it?

[strangerpeople]

[DUH DUH DUHDUH DUUUUUUUUUUUUH. This is one of the soul-eating ones, and it's going to come right up to RGB and--

...give him a lazy look and...do the monster equivalent of a stoned yawn.




FEEEEEEEEEEEARsomething's kind of off about this obviously.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[...Well, alright then. He's not going to relax in the slightest, but this kind of does suggest that it doesn't see him as a source of food. Whether that be evidence of a lack of soul or simply that he doesn't carry snacks on him is something he'll have to debate for later, but he supposes he'll just... back up slowly, while looking the thing over for anything that sticks out about it.

You know, other than the massive, tooth-filled jaws.]

[strangerpeople]

[It is...way too docile to be any kind of a threat, to be honest. No matter how terrifying it looks at the moment.]

[technicolourdifficulties]

[Cool, cool. Still not letting his guard down. He does not want to end up with more punctures, thank you very much.]

[dragonmouth]

[ yes hello RGB she has a wooloo cuddling up to her ]

...I don't suppose the Conductor wouldn't mind if we brought our friends to whatever mockery of a trial awaits us now.

[technicolourdifficulties]

Yes, I suppose the goat last week set a bit of a precedent, didn't it?

[He might be not-entirely subtly moving so that Tali and the wooloo are between him and his toothy "friend", tbh.]