Third.

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This week has been eventful for the lot of you, if a bit political for some; another resistance meeting, petitions everywhere, group dinners, and the new addition of a bunch of chickens to the group have ensured that at the very least, you've all had reason to keep busy. Of course, there's still that incentive to keep in mind, as well as the fact that there's been a murder every Friday since everyone arrived. Either way, the clock chimes in the morning, as it always does; the doors to the kitchen and the mail room unlock themselves, and all seems quiet. Thankfully, today the ballroom is blessedly corpse-free, as is the rest of the first floor. Maybe it would be good to move upstairs, though, just to make sure the rest of the Academy is likewise. >Explore?

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SEWING ROOM

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[At least it isn't the ballroom??]

[zomgboom]

[........ honestly if we think tabby is going to do anything useful during body investigation besides steal the key, we're kidding ourselves.]

now with the right account

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[Checking her body for that, then, Tabby?]

[zomgboom]

[Yes. SHE NEEDS THE KEY, EVEN THOUGH SHE CAN PICK THE LOCK, BECAUSE THIS IS ASHLEY.]

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[Well, given Tabby's general expertise in stealing shit, she will find the key reasonably easily. Go forth and...go through her stuff, I suppose.]

[zomgboom]

[great. GOTTA GO STEAL SOME STUFF, BYE.]

[clearasmud]

[ well she's here, Ashley's fucking dead, let's do this and do this quick before Logan gets here.

time to investigate her first dead body. ]

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[All right. Let's do this thing, Youko.

Where are you wanting to start? Checking out the body itself, or the surrounding area first?]

[clearasmud]

[ the body, because she's a straight to the heart of things kind of girl!

metaphorically, because that sure is a lot of blood around ashley's head. ]

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[It sure is.

Checking her forehead out will show that the entry wound there was caused by what looks like a gunshot. The bullet is a reasonably small caliber, so it wasn't one of the exploding deathbullets from the machine - thankfully for poor Ashley's face.]

[clearasmud]

[ ...a gunshot, huh.




maybe she can't do this.

let's keep going anyway. ]

Okay, so she... she fell, from somewhere. Fell down. Where would she have been standing?

[ don't mind her, just trying not to lose it. ]

[oftheland]

[...ALL RIGHT LET'S DO THIS FIRST OFF AND GET IT OUT OF THE WAY

IS THERE BLOOD ANYWHERE OTHER THAN ON HER HEAD.]

[ninehundredlives]

[Susan...actually kinda really doesn't want to do this, holy shit.

But it's helped before. Hasn't it? Looking at the body helps find the killer - and helps get them painfully executed. Also, she'd rather do it than let someone else go over there and -

WAIT]

Don't you even fucking dare.

[oftheland]

...

[...oh uh]

...right, somewhere else, then...

[ninehundredlives]

[THAT'S RIGHT YOU BEST LEAVE. Susan took a trial to realize that last blood sample was never relevant, but now she's pretty sure it's just like...in his room somewhere.

Creepy bastard.

Okay, let's, um. Is there anything she can tell about the body while...standing over it and putting her gloves on...and kinda shaking a little and generally trying not to look directly at it?

Man this is bad.]

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[As was noted by Youko, if you can get past the blood everywhere, what's going on with her forehead seems to be an entry wound from a gunshot - reasonably small caliber, not like the exploding deathbullets from the machine or anything, thank god.

As our resident Medical Professional Who Has Seen Some Shit, how good are you with gunshots, Susan?]

Re: SEWING ROOM

[icysemblance]

[Eventually Weiss will start looking around, making a beeline for where the crochet needles and yarn are kept. Anything out of place?]

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[Well, as you're moving away from the body and toward the far wall, Weiss, it seems something is kind of amiss - not with the supplies, granted, but with the wall itself. Want to go check that out?]

[icysemblance]

[Yes. Absolutely.]

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[There's a bullet lodged in the wall; it's reasonably small-caliber, maybe a .22.]

[crimsonchin]

[ Shot in the head, then?

So where is the gun? ]

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[The gun is lying a short distance away from Ashley's body - like it was discarded as opposed to deliberately set.]

[crimsonchin]

[ Just...dropped to the floor, then.

How many bullets left in it? ]

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[There are four bullets still left inside.]

AREA CLEAR

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