fifth investigation

[stagemanagers]

[Friday dawns, seemingly normal despite all of your recent discoveries. There is no blood in the hall. There are no bodies immediately visible when you first exit your rooms.

But when you think about going to get some breakfast...you get a bad feeling in the pit of your stomach.]

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KITCHEN

[stagemanagers]

[let's have some together breakfast?]

[heathencall]

[Maybe he will... carefully weave around Christine to block her sight of the body and.

Alright. Let's corpse touch? Anything... off about the body other than being stupid cold? Is there blood in the body? On the body? Bruises?]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Puck. Puck this. Christine isn't here to swear but she is here to... to make amends to her Watson. If she couldn't keep him safe... the most she can do is find out what happened to him.

So she's returning to Mephisto's side, gently pulling his chair out.]

[stagemanagers]

[Well, as stated, the body is sat up at the table in a fairly natural position, all things considered.

There are no immediately visible wounds, or even bruises, but his skin does seem faintly blue.]

[heathencall]

[Faintly blue as in... if Mephisto rubs his fingers on the skin, it will come off or. Blue as in cold and dead?

... For that matter what color are his lips? And his nails? Are we getting Oxy revenge today?]

cw: overdose description

[stagemanagers]

[His lips and nails are also tinged blue! There are flecks of foam on the former.

Although - it seems that you should look closer at the nails?]

[heathencall]

[Motherfucker.....

Guess we're lifting that hand very carefully. Kinda sad that he just used those hands to hug Mephisto. God he's having an emotion, help him.]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like there's a thin crescent of blood beneath each of his fingernails.]

[heathencall]

[Huh....

If he turns Steven's palms over, are there identical nail marks? Or matching nail marks anywhere on Steven's person?]

[stagemanagers]

[There are not! He does not seem to have any other wounds.

Although...while checking, you feel a sense of foreboding when you go to check his torso. Lift his shirt anyway?]

[heathencall]

[That's not weird of him to do at all!

But yeah sure, let's pull up the kid's shirt.]

[musacal]

[ While Mephisto is checking out the body Nana is gonna... turn away from it and look around the rest of the kitchen. She's been in here enough that she sort of knows it like the back of her hand by now at least...

Does anything else here catch her eye to investigate right away? ]

[stagemanagers]

[Well, most obviously, it seems that the trash can has been tipped over. All the trash from yesterday has spilled out all over the floor.]

[musacal]

[ Okay she's going to go check that out then. WHAT'S IN THE TRASH besides me ]

[stagemanagers]

[It's you! The meta has returned!

No, it's not, but you should be careful when digging through trash cans. Someone might have thrown away some improperly packaged sharps.

Some pink, crystalline sharps.]

[musacal]

[ Wait what? Her first thought is Spinel but her pieces were gone now weren't they?

...Wait. ]

Uncle Mephisto! [ WHERE DID THE UNCLE COME FROM-- wait not the time ] Try and see if there's anywhere on Steven's body where there would have been a gem like Spinel's if you can!

[stagemanagers]

[He's on it! Maybe look through the trash a little more?]

[musacal]

[ Can do! She's going to look through more while also attempting to gather the shards up. (if they're even big enough to do so?) ]

[stagemanagers]

[There's nothing special here re: the size of the gemstones, so I suppose we can say they're big enough?

While searching, you'll also come across a cloth. There is some sparkly pink dust clinging to it, as well as a lingering chemical smell.

We know how you all are, so let's just advise against smelling the cloth right here.]

[musacal]

[ Yeah definitely not doing that, in fact she's gonna try and like... wrap it up in something later. Maybe like... a plastic baggy if there's any or something smart like that.

Anything else? ]

[heathencall]

What did you -- [Priorities.]

Right. Of course.

[madgiganticfeelings]

[WAIT THERE'S SOMETHING SHE CAN DO-

She pipes up from her spot behind them, just panicking.]

He does have one! On his stomach! He told me about it! What's, what did you...

[heathencall]

Uh.

[Well this is awkward.]

You're certain it was on his stomach?

[musacal]

There's... there's crystal shards... over here...

Like Spinel-san again...

AREA CLEAR

[stagemanagers]