WEEK 5 INVESTIGATION

[killerwaves]

INVESTIGATION

Good Mourning. Unlike the previous weeks, there's no musical serenade to greet you, just the ambient sounds of the island and the stirrings of those you spent the night with, if you were the type to want company. For those of you on certain islands, the background thrum (and siren laments, for those unlucky) of the warp phenomenon may also have sung you to sleep; but will they sing you to waking? You know how this goes by now, so is anything on this of all mornings really comforting? And is everyone you spent the night with still with you...?

Indeed, the not-so-dulcet tones of the ever-present haze fill the morning; you may not want it accounted for, but here it is nevertheless.

(( OOC: Welcome to your final murder investigation, let's get this party started☆ ))

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[dupiety]

[After tending to Beel the best that he could, Temenos takes a deep breath and prepares himself to examine Nona's body.

What do we have here at a glance? Temenos will focus in from there.]

cw: head injuries/gore

[killerwaves]

[Hang in there, Beel's emotional support priest!

It's quite easy to notice that Nona's face and skull aren't exactly intact -- her face is messed up even at a glance beneath all the blood, and there's a pretty bad laceration across her left temple in addition to the skull being misshapen on that side as well.

There's other injuries that overlap with those injuries, but at a glance those look the worst. And of course, there's the coat covering the rest of her from view, making it look like she was laid out carefully here.]

[dupiety]

[Oh...good gods.

He'll get to the coat once he checks out her head. One thing at a time. He's going to get a closer look at those skull injuries. Is there anything he can ascertain about what might have caused these?]

[killerwaves]

[One thing at a time indeed.

He can tell that there was considerable blunt force impact to the side of her head, a wide enough blow to cover the entire left side of her forehead, blacken her eye, deform that side of her face slightly, and also leave a nasty-looking two-inch-long laceration across her left temple.

There's also considerable bruising and bloodying, of course, perhaps that goes without saying at this point.]

[dupiety]

[...Okay literally who would do this to Nona of all people? Temenos is definitely glad that her cabanafam did not spend too much time examining her.

He'll go ahead and very carefully move her head around as necessary to look for any other outstanding injuries. Ears, nose, mouth, hair, etc. He'll also take a closer peek at the laceration to see if it's clean or messy.]

cw: head injuries/gore

[killerwaves]

[A question for the ages. And for trial, of course.

Moving her head will yield a couple of new revelations: despite everything that's happened there, her hair is only really messy in the region of worst injury. Everything else is carefully brushed back... and in fact, neatly fashioned into braids that look like they were done pretty recently. Also, more unfortunately, the movement will reveal that the bones are a bit crunchy on the side of her eye and temple -- not terribly so, but there's definitely stuff moving there that shouldn't be.

As for the laceration, it's rather clean.]

[dupiety]

[Hm. He's taking mental notes and...taking pictures, unfortunately...

Once he has finished with her head, it's time to deal with that coat. First off, is there anything noteworthy about its appearance? Or does it simply look like a regular coat that can be grabbed upon entering this place? After that, he carefully removes the coat, examining the side that was resting on the body as well.

And since the coat is gone, how is the rest of Nona's body looking?]

[killerwaves]

[While he's documenting everything, I should elaborate and say that in addition to all of the head injuries he's been seeing, they're also layered on and overlapping with what look like traces of older injuries in the same region -- mostly-healed cuts, scrapes, bruises across the head and face. The edges of the fresher wounds and bruises also look unusual -- that part of the bruises looks closer to the older injuries, and the edges of the wounds look almost like they're already scarring.

The coat looks like one of the regular coats from the storage locker outside the cold storage (which is separate but connected by the hallway outside). Examining it and the scant snow on it closely will reveal a number of glass shards sprinkled and stuck in the fabric of the coat, so it's a good thing he didn't just go for it right off. Examining the reverse side of the coat will reveal that its inner lining is spotted and smeared with blood.

Beneath the coat, Nona is wearing comfortable sweatpants and a hamburger T-shirt -- there's the glint of glass shards here and there on this outfit too. There's some frays and tears in the fabric, but there's no visible wounds otherwise.]

[dupiety]

[Wow, he sure doesn't like the implications of these overlapping injuries.

Hey, may as well check to see if there is anything in the sleeves or pockets of the coat too because you never know.

Once he's fully done with the coat, he'll set it aside to get a better look at the body. Will he find anything on the skin underneath where those frays and tears are? In addition, how does her skin look in general, anyway? She's in a cold room, so does it look like she's been here a while?]

[killerwaves]

[Nothing turns up in the sleeves nor the pockets of the coat, for better or for worse.

The frays and tears are fairly minor and so are any random bloodstains that accompany them -- so perhaps it's less surprising that the skin beneath is unblemished. That said, thanks to the removed coat, only Nona's head and neck have really been fully exposed to the elements. Their appearance is consistent with having been in this room for several hours, including some cold damage on the ears and so on.

The rest of her visible and examined skin doesn't display the damage, but simply displays the usual deathly pallor.]

[dupiety]

[All right...

He'll do a more thorough investigation to look for any hidden injuries under her clothes. Afterwords, he carefully turns her over to see if she sustained any injuries to her back side.]

[killerwaves]

[Checking her back will yield some bruise-like patterns -- principally on the the nape of her neck, the backs of her shoulders and the backs of her legs and arms.]

[dupiety]

[Well, that's certainly a discovery! What exactly do these bruise-like patterns look like? Do they make up some kind of shape or idea as to what caused them?]

[killerwaves]

[It looks like most of the bruises outline the area around where her back contacts the bench -- in fact, some of the patterns correspond to irregularities on the bench as well.]

[dupiety]

[Got it. While he's looking, is there any blood to be found on the bench itself? Or does it seem to mostly be apparent around Nona's head injury and the inside of the coat so far?]

[killerwaves]

[Most of the blood on the bench appears to concentrate around where Nona's head is laid (and the inside of the coat) -- and there's not a great quantity of blood.]

[dupiety]

[Definitely doesn't seem like enough to match an injury like that, goodness. He'll keep all of this in mind as he finishes up the body invest.

If there's nothing else here, I can slide over to the non-body thread to keep things tidy?]

[killerwaves]

[Sure, keeping things neat in a murder scene is important ~ ☆]