Week 7 - May 18th

[cartesio]

Week 7: Investigation

The night comes and goes. Whether it's quiet is anyone's guess, but the sun rises as usual, though blocked partially by cloud.

The Sergeant's weekly endeavor destroy your reputation seems to have backfired. Another ghostly communication resulted in some emotional catharsis, for some of you. Perhaps there's the sense that things may be improving...

...But the threat to keep your loved ones here still hangs heavy in the air. It's not just your lives on the line, not anymore. That must be on everyone's minds. By sunset today, Cartesio's set to have a whole bunch of new residents, if the Sergeant has anything to say about it. On top of that, your deadline to receive a medal's almost up.

For that reason, despite the steps forward you've made this week, Friday's sunrise brings dread. What chances are there that all of you are still alive? Do you even want that, with the Sergeant's over your heads?

Whatever your feelings are, the town still beckons to you. Investigate, if you feel up to it.

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[cartesio]

[ The radius is about four feet, give or take. Kinzie is...well, she's close to it? The earth under her is still charred, but the impact seems to have taken place maybe two, three feet from her, and from the wall of the lodge.

Before you do too much looking around, though, there are a few other things to note about her body and what's immediately next to it. ]

[marmoron]

[Alright. He'll look. But if it's more sex toys.... ]

[cartesio]

[ It's not, promise! This is more of the grim and gruesome nature.

It's been established, where the injuries are most severe, but Keith may want to look at other parts of her body as well. Say, the back. ]

[marmoron]

[Yeah, that'd be a good idea to not overlook that. He'll turn Kinzie over to check her back for injuries. What do we have here?]

[cartesio]

[ First of all, Keith will immediately notice: there are no burns on Kinzie's back.

Second of all, upon taking a closer look at her skin, he'll notice bruising consistent with blunt force trauma, all over her back. ]

[marmoron]

[No burns... and no cuts or gashes either then?

....and about these bruises. Are they...uh... roughly the size of an object that will not be named?]

[cartesio]

[ Oh thank god they're not. No, it's more like...almost like a big old connected bruise? More like from an impact. ]

[marmoron]

[So one large bruise roughly consistent with hitting the ground really hard then?

Any other injuries to note? Broken bones etc.]

[cartesio]

[ Consistent with hitting something very hard.

She doesn't appear to have broken bones, though it wouldn't be surprising, if some were cracked. That seems to be the extent of the injury report. ]

[marmoron]

[[Fushigi mystery....

There anything else to note about Kinzie herself and the objects in her immediate periphery, or can he go check out the rest of the blast radius?]

[cartesio]

[ A few more things about the objects in her vicinity.

First of all, there's several jagged rocks next to Kinzie. It's notable because unlike the rest of the rocks and earth, they are not burned. ]

[marmoron]

[Interesting. Do these rocks at least look similar to the rocks in the area aside from not being burned?]

[cartesio]

[ Sort of. They look like they're the same kid of rocks, but sharper. ]

[marmoron]

[Right. Time to add one of these to his inventory along with some of the shrapnel. Any signs of these rocks having been sharpened with a tool of some sort?]

[cartesio]

[ They do not, no. ]

[marmoron]

[Hrm. Alright then. Anything else in the vicinity to take note of? Any footprints perhaps?]

[cartesio]

[ Footprints, no. However, he will notice some kind of print, in the soot and blood near Kinzie's body. Like someone was kneeling, next to her. ]

[marmoron]

[Hrm. Time to check out that imprint. Is it preserved well enough to kinda guess roughly how big the person who left it was?]

[cartesio]

[ Actually, yeah! You can tell, it could match you. ]

[marmoron]

]Oh dang. Good thing that's not incriminating or anything.

Anything else to note about this imprint?]

[cartesio]

[ Nope, nothing else you can tell. Want to move on to the other items around her body? Because there are definitely more. ]

[marmoron]

[Nothing can possibly be worse than what he has already had to deal with, sooooooooo!!

Let's go check out the "party." What else is happening here?]

[cartesio]

[ Let's start with what's closest. A first aid kit. Most of the supplies are untouched, but there's some gauze left in the soot and blood, and...also around some of the more grievous of Kinzie's injuries. ]

[marmoron]

[Curious. We'll hang on to the first aid kit then. Is there any blood smeared inside the kit by chance?]

[cartesio]

[ On the gauze, yes. On the outsides of the kit, a little. Not inside. ]