Week 2 - April 13th

[cartesio]

Week 2: Investigation

The Sergeant's deadline is tonight. An offer to get in contact with people you know, yet also a threat. Given how fed up he was, it's unlikely he's joking about the kind of cruelty he's willing to go through for the sake of getting what he wants.

That's why it may not be so surprising that, early in Friday morning, there's this air of tension, despite the bright sun in the sky. It doesn't help that a firetruck and a couple patrolcars race through the streets, passing in front of the motel and going west. The reason why is clear after a single glance:

There's a thick column of black smoke emanating from somewhere inside the Junkyard.

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[cartesio]

[ When you arrive at the junkyard, it doesn't look like the police or firefighters have dug into the scene too much. Probably because they seem too baffled to?

Something very wrong seems to have happened here, evident by the burning, broken-down car they're stopped in front of. That's the source of the smoke, but it looks like...there's something inside it, as well. ]

[pursuitofdeath]

[Can the door be opened?]

[cartesio]

[ Not unless you want your hands burned off! You'll need to find a way to extinguish enough of the fire...or hey, maybe ask the bewildered firefighter with the hose? ]

[pursuitofdeath]

[Jeez-- ya'll and your safety precautions. Fine. He'll play it safe for now since Oda and the others are watching him.]

Firefighter-san can we get some assistance here or would you like me to do it myself?

[See he's so polite. He's helping!!]

[cartesio]

[ Well, Dazai doesn't even need to ask. Your boyfriend's got it covered, a lot less politely. ]

[robitussin]

[From nearby:]

Be careful.

[carbide]

[While Dazai tries the dazoor, Olympia peers through the window. Who has managed to get this vehicle into this fantastically terrible failure state?]

[cartesio]

[ It's a bit hard to get close enough to both see through the smoke and avoid getting caught in the flame yourself to tell. ]

[carbide]

[Yeah, she doesn't particularly feel like being on fire right now. Time to wait on the people who are better at being people people, then.]

This vehicle seems unsafe.

[doublelammy]

Y'don't say?

[carbide]

Being this flammable is a bad feature.

[odasaku]

[ well, oda's not really going to wait for dazai to open the fucking door and possibly burn himself because as soon as he sees something inside, he immediately turns back to the firefighters with an uncharacteristic amount of emotion in his voice. ]

Hey! DO SOMETHING AND PUT THE FIRE OUT!

[cartesio]

[ The man with the hose gasps, and suddenly they're all scrambling. Shouting to one another, and within seconds a steady stream of water drenches the burning car, until the fire is out. ]

[pursuitofdeath]

[Oh cool. Now he can try to open the door without adding to his bandage problem.]

[odasaku]

[ and oda's also going to look because god he hates himself. ]

[doublelammy]

[+1 small child to the body viewing show]

[cartesio]

[ It's still definitely a little toasty, but you can open it well enough.

Once you do, the hazy figure inside the car's a lot easier to see, as he's lying across the front seats. Like someone laid down without any care to take a nap, in the worst place possible. However, damp with both some kind of liquid and blood around the abdomen, it's easy to see, something a lot more sinister happened here.

And a lot more fatal. Face caught in an expression of pain, the man's head tips as the door opens, to look Dazai right in the eye.

Moloch von Zinzer is dead. ]

[doublelammy]

[. . .]

Welp. That sure is a dead body.

[Nailed it!]

[carbide]

......

[Well, that was strange.]

Was that not what you came here to do?

[relieable]

[don't get too close]

Why were they just standing around, staring? [this is insane. he's trying to see inside the car now]

[icariot]

[Hawks will come closer, keeping as many of the people in view as possible at once. Is there anything the smoke blocked before that he can see now?]

[cartesio]

[ Besides the body inside the car, the smoke doesn't seem to have particularly obscured anything. ]

[pursuitofdeath]

[HE ALMOST DOES SOMETHING STUPID ONCE AND YOU GOTTA BE LIKE THIS???

Wow.]

[protectandselfserve]

[....hmmm. He’ll also address the firefighters, albeit more calmly.]

If you all can’t quite figure out how to handle this, maybe I can be of assistance...?

[He flashes the badge he got from the party!]

[cartesio]

[ While they rush around, a few people apologize to Gant, and others murmur their thanks. It seems like this is nothing the firefighters have seen before. ]