Week 6 - May 11th

[cartesio]

Week 6: Investigation

At around 2 in the morning, a steady rain of hail started to cover the town of Cartesio. The night continued, however, with the motel unbothered, aside from the plink-plink on the roof and windows.

This morning, you'll find the weather's started to let up, though the streets are still blanketed by hail. Mercifully, that's all that's outside the motel this morning. No corpses, no robot remains. That alone should make you feel better, right?

But no. It seems...the town's very alert this morning. There's a strange energy in the air, not just from the Sergeant's horrible threat. Something's off in Cartesio, and you probably recognize that feeling. This has happened four times before, after all.

Investigate?

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[marmoron]

[This is awful okay. Keith's not a medical examiner!!

But bruises, got it. Are all the bruises consistent with him being pinned under the bookcase or are there are few stray bruises that look like something else caused them?]

[cartesio]

[ Most all of them are consistent with him being pinned! However, if he looks a little closer at Dazai's lower half, he'll find a bruise on the right side of his abdomen that doesn't match up with any of the bookcase shelves. ]

[marmoron]

[Hrmm. Is there anything particular about this bruise to note other than its inconsistency with the others? What shape/size is it and can we tell what might've caused it?]

[cartesio]

[ While the other bruises are across his body like the marks of the shelves (and also paired with some broken or fractured bones, from the weight of the bookcase), this one is smaller and isolated. Less of a line and more of an oblong shape?

Other than that, you can't tell just what caused it. ]

[marmoron]

[Ouuuuuch. Broken bones ... are we talking ribs or are there other fun breaks in arms/legs/neck?

So assuming that's all there is to talk about with the bruises, he'll look at these burns next. Anything to note about their distribution and severity?]

[cartesio]

[ Ribs! They aren't incredibly severe, like they definitely did not kill him, but. Well, how easy do you think it would've been to get out from under a bookcase?

As for the burns, they appear to be all over his body. They're quite severe. If Keith has any experience with burns, he'll be able to tell, they are third-degree. ]

[marmoron]

[....Great, so if the cause of death wasn't necessarily the blunt trauma caused by the bookcase, then he;s just going to mutter a couple of choice curses under his breath because someone might've roasted Dazai alive. Shit, man.

Dad was a firefighter, so he can probably... stage burn wounds pretty well, yep. Is there any place that's... less charred? Like his back or something? Keith will be turning Dazai over to check.]

[cartesio]

[ If there's any specific place that's less charred, it would be Dazai's back. The fire still reached there, but it's more centered on the front of his body.

Keith will also probably know enough to be aware that, at the very least, it wasn't the fire that killed Dazai but the lack of air, as the fire would've choked out all the oxygen in the area.

Better, or worse to know? ]

[marmoron]

[...Let's just not think about this for too long. Keith's not squeamish or anything, but he's starting to see why Oso scarpered.

Okay, so anything else on poor Dazai's back?]

[cartesio]

[ Nope! It seems you've found everything on the body there is to find. ]

[marmoron]

[Great, so he'll just be getting up now to get this out of his mind for a bit,

One last question! If he turns to the firefighters to ask around what time the sprinklers went off, would they tell him? Trying to work out a rough time of death here.]

[cartesio]

[ Well... See, that's a bit of a problem. It's not that they won't talk to you. It's more that they have a hard time knowing. It seems when their console was destroyed, some of the sprinkler and fire alarm alerts were knocked out as well.

The best estimate Keith can get is between 2:30 and 3:30 in the morning. ]