THE ̧̕͝SEC͢͠͠O͏N̸̢D̵ INVE͘Ś̷̶T͏̛I͞GA̕҉T͟͡IO҉̢N̴͘

[strangerpeople]

T͝҉̡H͝E̵̢ ͝͝S̶Ę̡͞C͜͡҉OND̵̴ ̢I̶͢N͏V͝E͏̨̛ST͞I͢͞G̴͏A̛̕T͡ÌON͟

[The day has come.

..Valentine's Day, of course! Or should we now call it...ValITine's Day? Well, it doesn't matter. It's a Friday.

Hopefully, the Strangers got through this week without killing. But perhaps it's best to be sufficiently paranoid and check first, hmm?]

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EVIDENCE SEARCH

[strangerpeople]

DINING ROOM

[strangerpeople]

[unwittingking]

[King’s more or less becoming the resident body checker at this point, if only to keep any kids from doing it, so even if he doesn’t know much about alien biology...what’s Lala’s body like? What’s the damage that stands out most?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[The first thing that King will notice is the throat wound.]

[unwittingking]

[…his paws got bloody when he tried finding a pulse, didn't they?]

[comesaround]

[ While King takes care of Lala, he's going to check out things in the Dining Room itself. What is there that stands out? ]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Well, he will come upon a pool of blood once he starts looking in earnest.]

[comesaround]

[ How close to her body is it? Is it reasonably sized to fit with her injuries? ]

[incendiarize]

[Arthur will. Wander on in here and do his thing. Lala...]

"Justice".....we'll find it for you.

[He sits on the floor and focuses. Higgledy hurder show me the murder?]

[touchsensors]

[It hurts.

There's the growing pain in her gut, which feels like it's spreading through her body, and then there's the new pain in her neck. The end is coming, she knows it.

But what hurts almost as much is the crushing feeling of failure. She was so close. She could have solved everything... but then in one moment, everything fell apart. Was she just fooling herself all along? Was this always going to happen?

What about Hikaru?]

Re: DINING ROOM

[necroyalty]

[Anything else of interest here besides the body and the blood? ]

[strangerpeople]

[Ambro will notice something as she goes near where Karma has gone, though it's not the blood.]

AREA CLEAR

[strangerpeople]

CONSERVATEX/LABORATORY

[strangerpeople]

[relieable]

[might as well look around here, for now. anything look off at a first glance?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Someone's been picking plants lately!]

AREA CLEAR

[strangerpeople]

WEAPON STORAGE

[strangerpeople]

[illusionarymelody]

[Well, it kind of helped last time, but now that body has been found and Vita is dressed, let's go see if the culprit took any weapons. Anything look out of place right off?]

[backuphero]

[Given the diagram accessible via wrist... Jonathan's heading straight towards the blades. Anything missing?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is, actually.

There is a out-of place knife on one of the shelves.]

AREA CLEAR

[strangerpeople]

ERIC DOING HIS OWN THING AS USUAL

[poorlovefool]

[he's sad it's Lala, sad it's on Valentine's, and sad he doesn't know what more he can do for her... but, Eric knows one thing, and it's that Lala really loved that stupid cat rabbit everyone else hates, so the least he can do is make sure it's okay.... and on the other hand, if it can really talk like they say, maybe it will be a vital witness!! So now he's walking around the central building, both floors, looking for the cute little monster.]

Kyuu.... Kyuuuuuu....!

[this kind of feels like he's calling for 'Q'. Weird thought.]

Come out, little buddy!

[cuteandinnocentpet]

[Oh hey, there's Kyuu-lun! It's sleeping in one of the gym cubbies, of all things.]

[poorlovefool]

[That's adorable. Too bad Eric's mood is too low to really appreciate it. He doesn't know how fast this thing is so he's just gonna try and scoop it out of the locker]

Hey, you. How long you been sleeping here, huh?