THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE FIRST INVESTIGATION
(~SK. 3)

[Morning comes.


It's quiet on the HMHS Gigantic. No birds sing, no sun shines, and everyone's still stuck with the threat of death. Even if the threat of death involves a ticket to a theme park. And a cheeseburger. Indeed, people went to bed last night confident in their belief that no one would ever kill for something so paltry.

Seriously, a cheeseburger. It's something people can make in ten minutes.

Anyways, it's time to wake up, and go through the motions of the day as usual.

So, Strangers.

What are you doing this fine day?]

Comments

[exequte]

[Of course shes not worried! But she is hungry, so she's heading for the kitchen.]

[strangerpeople]

[Yeah, about that.



There's blood leading into the kitchen.]

[unpossibilities]

[Well, never mind, then...he glances over, and--oh. Thank god. He's relieved Akane is safe, but...he looks at the blood.]

...Well. Let's check this out then, I guess...

[And he marches ahead.]

[godspiousjasper]

Ah, Kaito. Akane... is everything... ah...

[ Yeah he just saw the blood too. So much for breakfast. ]

[unpossibilities]

...I'm guessin' not.

[strangerpeople]

[indeed, let us give you a leg up on the sitch]

[exequte]

[O h.

Well theres.... theres a lot of blood drinkers here and there are bags of blood and everything so maybe that's fine?

Cautiously approaching.]

cw: body parts

[strangerpeople]

[Well, if this is because of one of the blood drinkers then, uh.

Things got messy because that sure is a severed leg you're looking at.]

[unpossibilities]

[Oh God. Kaito stares at that, then tries to discern...

Is it a thin leg, thick leg, does it have hair? Anything distinct about it he'd recognize as a fellow passenger?]

[strangerpeople]

[It's a thin leg, with its pants rolled up to the calf.


Or, that's the best Kaito can discern, all things considered.]

[unpossibilities]

[What color are the pants?]

[strangerpeople]

[It's a bit hard to tell because the top part is blackened. However?

The lower half is a darkish blue.]

[unpossibilities]

....

[He walks farther into the kitchen, seemingly caught in a bit of a haze.

Lay it to him straight, how bad is it?]

[valkavian]

[ Any blood splatters nearby she can give the ol' taste test to? ]

[strangerpeople]

[Oh honey.


There is blood everywhere.]

Re: cw: body parts

[valkavian]

Ugh, someone forgot to clean up.

[ Is this a familiar leg]

Re: cw: body parts

[strangerpeople]

[Probably yes.]

Re: cw: body parts

[valkavian]

[ But whomst? ]

[exequte]

[It takes a second to really grasp what shes seeing. It's like she can't recognize it. But-]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[Anyone nearby should be able to hear that scream as she stumbles back.]

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes arrives right in the middle of the scream and skids to a stop.]

What'sGoingOnWhyTheScreaming?

[jinglebros]

Akane! Are you okay?!

[exequte]

[She turns as though to run and runs right into his arms, then promptly bursts into tears.]

[exequte]

[Well theres a leg behind her. There is that.]

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes sees the leg. And then he looks around more and... Huh. Wow.]

What the fuck? They're everywhere! And I didn't even get to see what happened...

[onychomance]

[DAMN, that woman has pipes. He's making a mental note of that.]