15strangers | The Second Victim

THE SECOND VICTIM

[It was getting unbearable. The illness, the stress, the threat of death, either by oneself or by another. The worry about finding a cure for a disease that, in this comparatively primitive world, might not even exist outside of the Depths.

However, on Friday morning - or what the Titled could at least conceive as Friday - all the Titled will wake up with the remnants of a very soothing sensation in their throats. Cool and at the same time almost burning, like someone had dropped liquid menthol down their throat while they were sleeping.

They will also find something else, especially if they had been infected: their perception of time is back to normal. Which means one of two things. One of the Titled actually managed to create the potion needed to cure the disease, or...the Titled might have an Inquisition looming on the horizon.

There is only one way to find out.

((OOC: Just a reminder that, due to the nature of the motive this week, there may be references to self-harm and suicide, along with other possible triggers, during this Inquisition, including during the Investigation, and that potentially triggering comments should (and comments by the mods will) be given a trigger heading on those comments.))]]

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[That means only the body is left right?

What sort of condition is it in?]

[For now, we'll say yes. Body time.

The most obvious thing is that Harley's head is very awkwardly positioned over her neck. It seems to bend at an unusual angle even when lying on the ground.]

[Lovely...She hates everything right now.

Any oddly shaped bruises?

[There is a very large, swollen and square bruise on the left side Harley's face, from jaw to crown.]

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[Well, Eric swallows hard when he sees this body (it's surreal, she had been so determined to clear her name at the last trial, and now she's already dead like this) - but he's here to compare the bruise to this warhammer, so check it out, Rubedo and narrator.]

Does it look like a match?

[It definitely looks like it could be a match.]

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[Rubedo will take a good look at the hammer, committing its dimensions to his (admittedly diminished from usual) memory, before crouching down to look at the body.]

It's hard to tell for sure, but it definitely could've caused a bruise like that.

Yeah. It doesn't look like it's not the hammer, anyway...

Edited 2017-06-03 04:15 (UTC)

[So, aside from the obviously broken neck and the nasty bruise, is there anything unusual about the body?]

[Harley's body is cold and rigid. Maybe not unusual, but still something to note.]

[Cool cold like an hours old corpse, or cold cold, like it's been chilled?]

[Hours cold corpse.]

Edited 2017-06-03 04:31 (UTC)

She must've been dead for a while... [Well, his work here is done with the hammer so he's gonna step back and... supervise this corpse touching, like a responsible adult.
Yeah.]

[While you do that, Eric, would you like to take a look around?]

[...Sure, why the fuck not. What's around? He'll step away a bit and glance in every direction.]

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[He might notice something up with the tree and the ground beneath it as he does so.]

[Well, let's look up into the tree then. Is there a murderer up there waiting to pounce?]

[Well, geez, Eric, spoil the surprise!

Actually, the lowest stable branch on the tree looks damaged.]

[Iiinteresting. Did it crack?

He'll look on the ground, too.]

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[Given the time of death, that doesn't seem unreasonable. Is that all that's obvious?]

[In terms of the body, that's all there is aside from what's already been noted with the neck.]

[Well then, what about the area immediately around the body? Assuming Raph didn't move it too far...]

[There's nothing immediately around the body, or where the body was. Granted, Raph didn't really move it far, but there you go.]

[Would Rubedo like to do his own quick examination of the body on a whole?]

[Noted, she's going to take this time to freeze up and just go back to idly looking at potatoes.]