WEEK 1 - Investigation

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the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (1)

friday (?) survivors Friday careens around the corner soon enough, much like every day preceding it does. This morning, however, is greeted with a surprise — your datapad is making a strange noise. Perhaps it's buried under the duvet you're sleeping under, or at the far corner of the room, maybe you're the forgetful type and left it in the bathroom, or maybe, just maybe, you have it right next to your ear when a song blasts at full volume. Upon inspection, you'll find the accompanying video is playing as well. The song seems to loop, this time being overlain with a voice recanting the history of the band in a steady, robotic tone. Was it the AI? You probably didn't care, and, instead, decided to leave your room. Once you do, the song finally ends. You are free. You may feel rather manipulated right now, or you are just satiated to be away from the music. Either way, it's clear your day has only just begun. ENTER COMMAND_

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Corpse Room

[tevinteriscoming]

[Top level for corpse room investigation after the body robots have already taken it away.

Thanks to some smooth talking, Dorian has gotten himself a coveted ticket in. Of course, once he's inside, there's no body to be found, but that doesn't mean he won't have a look around, and try to get a feel for the scene. He doesn't exactly know what he's looking for, though.]

[qundercover]

[Thanks to bulging muscles and sheer animal magnetism, Bull has also gotten a ticket to the murder zone. He hadn't been in the play room much - it was all stuff that was sort of too small for adult humans to have fun on, let alone an adult qunari, so yet another sized based microaggression added to the list.]

Need another eye?

[tevinteriscoming]

[Yuck. He's going to, at usual, be the classier person and pretend he didn't hear that awful joke.]

They've already removed the body. But the victim was a woman, Callista Few. I thought it best no one be left alone in this room. As keen as Jesse may have been to keep it that way.

[qundercover]

[ hyuck hyuck. Whatever, clearly Dorian has some learning to do on great jokes for great people. ]

Some people just can't handle their dead bodies. Yeah, best to take a look around, before too many boots get all over it.

[unasking]

[just guys being dudes at the crime scene.

Frankenstein's going to get his nice lab coat all bloody at this rate, from his observation of the ball pit and now the carousel itself. When Dorian wanders close, he looks up and still manages a smile - though his eyes are still not nearly so relaxed, given the situation]

You know, from the sound of it, you didn't even need Machias to vouch for you in order to gain entrance.

[nice.]

[tevinteriscoming]

Is this the face of a murderer? Besides, I only wanted to have a look around.

[unasking]

A murderer can wear any face they want.

[But well, Frankenstein at least doesn't look opposed to Dorian's presence - so he doesn't seem to consider the other to be the perpetrator. At the moment.]

Caught sight of anything interesting? I was hoping to get a look at the body itself but that was a bit too optimistic.

[tayu]

[Huh........]

Multi-talented, aren't you.

[first tea, NOW MURDER SCENES]

[unasking]

[GOTTA KEEP IT FRESH]

Even you must admit that the alternative sounds unfortunate.

[who wants to be useless???? nO ONE]

[brooches]

[ Look, Elizabeth is VIP so she definitely is coming back. Anyone that may have heard her coming from room to room to announce where the body was can join her since her and Jessie are eventual BFFs.

Everyone may be concerned with the actual location of where the body once laid, but Elizabeth ventures back to the ballpit. She is back to the ballpit getting to her knees and carefully beginning to look through the mountains of multi-colored and blood stained balls.

And she just washed her damn hands too. But - why? Why was this bloody..? ]

[unasking]

[Elizabeth, please.

Frankenstein's already removing his own medical gloves as he crouches, then offering them to her.]

Please don't leave any more of your fingerprints here. It's understandable since you were the first to arrive, but I'd rather not deal with additional complications.

[brooches]

[ She takes the glove and will carefully slide in on, both of the medical gloves looking ridiculous with her attire. ]

I'm sorry. I should have been more careful.

[ But, she'll explain. ]

I approached with Jessie and Machias because the door was open. We went in... and... and the ballpit was deflated.

[ And she's going to dig through the balls now, trying to find the bottom only to have them hilariously pile back ontop of her arms. Oops. ]

I found blood here, but the body was - [ She glances to the crime scene. ] Maybe there was something here that I missed - I ran over when Jessie screamed.

[tevinteriscoming]

Elizabeth? What are you looking for?

[A little concerned, she's digging around in the bloody ball pit, what he's been led to believe is a punishment pit for misbehaving children.]

[brooches]

[ It is NOT! There were moments - much rap battles and ballpit wars. ]

Here.

[ Elizabeth lifts up one of the balls with her thumbprints on it, smeared in with splatters of red. ]

I found a few of them when I was inspecting where the ballpit was torn. I thought people were rough housing in it... however, it wasn't exactly what I thought it was.

[probings]

[she's been peeking around the room, but as harold notices that elizabeth is going back to the ballpit... well, she's going to interrupt. she won't actively stop her from looking around, but she's got questions.]

So what actually happened in here, from what you guys found? We should get that a little more out in the open first now that we know who the person is. [calisto blue? an name to match her suit? something like that.

she can ask what elizabeth is looking for in a second, but finding out the other stuff needs to come first.]

[brooches]

The door was open - it was odd because there was but a single ball out, like someone forgot to put it up. My thought was to merely toss it inside and be done with it but...

[ She recalls, sighing heavily. ]

The ballpit was deflated. Everyone had been using it - so childishly at that, it wasn't a shock it had torn.

[ Even she notes the material had been thin. ]

They discovered the body, but I discovered the blood. [ A clarification and she stammers: ] It was over by the merry-go-round.

[breakshot]

[ If anyone needs our favorite glasses-wearing body poker, Machias is here to answer all your body poking questions.

He's still in the room and hasn't left the scene, in case anyone needs to ask him about the state of the body. His arms are crossed and it's very clear he's still looking a bit grim from the discovery earlier, but aside from that he's not too shaken to answer any questions. ]

[probings]

[good, it's easier to talk to someone who isn't shaking and crying about it. maybe harold's just a little too hardened from being in the middle of a war to feel too deeply about it.

she only spoke to calisto one time, anyway.]

You were one of the ones that found her, right? [she's been paying enough attention.]

[breakshot]

[ war is heck, etc. it's not like it's the first time he's seen corpses, but investigating murders. that's another thing. ]

That's right. Elizabeth, Jessie, and I noticed the daycare in disarray, so we went in to investigate. ... That's when we found Miss Yew.

[ look. he doesn't want to disrespect the dead any more than it already has been. just who would be so low to kill a lady like that?? ]

[puzzlesss]

[ well. light is... snaking around here carefully, and while he might be blind he's definitely adept enough to figure out that someone is in this room... though he can't quite be sure who it is, just based on them standing still.

so, from the man with his eyes closed, a polite: ]

Pardon me. I was informed there were three who discovered the body in its original state — would you happen to be one of those?

[breakshot]

... That's right.

[ well that's one way to break his concentration. having been a little lost in thought before, he looks up then nods slowly, not quite remembering he's blind. at least not right away. even though clover was right next to him reading off the profile cards one by one, but she could have just been doing it for kicks. ]

We didn't have a lot of time to get a thorough look over, but I'll try to answer any questions you have.

[allout]

[ continued from here, minako was able to get inside of the room just by being her nice, charming self. she was able to see the body be taken away, but wasn't able to examine it herself. what might be surprising is that she doesn't seem to be phased at all by the blood spattered around the room.

she's gone through the main parts of the crime scene, and is now examining a data pad that she procured. a look over her shoulder will allow you to see that she's looking at everyone's information cards, but she stops at calisto's to examine its contents carefully. she looks like she's in some intense thought... could she's onto something?

or she could just be trying to look smart. only one way to find out! ]

[breakshot]

[ This is totally continued from the other thread. Machias is in the room too, figuring it might be best to remain in here in case anyone's got questions. There's a serious look over at Minako's direction, arms folded. It looks like she's stopped on something? Let's speak up! ]

Everything okay? Did you find something?

[allout]

Yeah. Check it out.

[ she turns the data pad around for machias to see - unlike everyone else, her card looks... different. ]

At least we can confirm that it's her...

[brainsqueeze]

( She's got skills that got her in, though whether it's an appreciation of Maria's skills or the skills themselves that got her in.... well, she's there now, and looking around silently for a few minutes before even regarding the other man )

How many do you think could have gotten in?