first investigation

[arsholes]

[On Friday morning, the second Friday for the Thanatos Institute apprentices in the tower, the outside sun rises and spreads its light through the arrow slit windows in the tower’s stone walls. People rise from their beds, some earlier risers than others, and shuffle along to begin their day.

Things are quiet, even with the lowkey air of anxiety that’s lingered since Tuesday when the Alchemist made his offer and Bryn attacked Bruno with an animalistic fervor. It’s probably fine, this hanging silence in the air.

Probably.]

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LIBRARY

[arsholes]

[The fool is dead, long live the fool.]

[cakerights]

[Well first things first, the body!!

No not that. Red Velvet walks past all that to go check on his Book Fort. He has priorities and they are Not Wu]

[arsholes]

[The Book Fort is blessedly unharmed! Not a page is out of place.

Well...one thing is out of place. Take a closer look?]

[cakerights]

[SOMEONE TOUCHED HIS BOOK FORT.

WHAT IS IT!!! WHAT!!]

[arsholes]

[That's strange...

It's a compact. It should look familiar - after all, Red has one too. Well, except that this one has a blue gem.]

[cakerights]

[Someone's compact? From the Abjuration dorm, it seems. If he opens it, can he see if there's any pictures or notes inside? Or are these suckers user locked.]

[philomachy]

[He's fine around corpses and he's just ignoring that we have an Actual Detective here, lol.

What do we got here, how'd our Prince die?]

[spitessier]

[Yeah, let's find out the cause of death, yup]

[arsholes]

[Well, the knife handle sticking out of his back seems like as good a candidate for cause of death as anything.]

[philomachy]

[.......yeah that'd do it huh]

I doubt this took much force at all, considering his rather feeble self.

[rip. just a kitchen knife, yeah?]

[arsholes]

[Are you moving the body or pulling out the knife?]

[spitessier]

[So, while Zenos over there tampers with the scene and Katsuya futilely tells him not to, he'll check Wu's pockets, yup]

[arsholes]

[There is nothing interesting in Wu's pockets!

But while you're down there... there's something fun on the floor.]

[encelevenemus]

[so this whole thing fucking sucks.]

[Let's investigate the general area; blood spatter, signs of a struggle, the usual suspects of sudden violent death]

[arsholes]

[There are two wine glasses on the table next to the body, both of them knocked over.]

[encelevenemus]

[oh. fantastic.]

[Is there anything off about them—say, any stain or residue indicative of poison?]

[arsholes]

[No. The main detail is that one seems like it was empty when it fell, while the other still has some wine inside as if it was full.]

[encelevenemus]

[how very inch resting]

[By 'knocked over', does it appear like they were bumped in a scuffle or someone dramatically knocked them over specifically?]

[rikonstructed]

[Nuadha is eyeing the body, but that seems to be well-handled for the moment. Instead he'll do a broader sweep of the area, looking for traces of who might have been there last. Dropped items, books on the tables, anything out of place?]

[arsholes]

[Books on the table, you say? Well, you're in luck! There is a book on the table next to the body.]

[rikonstructed]

[Huh. Anything exciting enough to stab someone over? He'll check the cover and the inside.]

[arsholes]

[It's Leadership for Dummies.]

[rikonstructed]

[Blood on the book, or any other traces on it?]

[sunshade]

[ You better bet the second Patchouli hears about this she marches her ass on down here. ]

Unbelievable.

[ who the fuck killed a guy in the library

she's going to commit a murder herself ]

AREA CLEARED

[arsholes]