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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[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.]

[stagemanagers]

[Blame it on your instincts? Your finely-honed sense for evil?

Steven's stomach is whole and unblemished! Didn't there used to be a gem here?]

[heathencall]

[Would Mephisto know that? Great question

... that being said, here's another great question. does he have a belly button at all? Or are we just looking at smoothness all the way down?]

[stagemanagers]

[Smooth like a shark, bay-bee.]

[heathencall]

[Fucking weird.

He's just gonna... pat the rest of Steven down? Look for Gems I guess? He has a sneaking suspicion that he won't find one but. maybe he just has a knee gem?]

[stagemanagers]

[Nope, no gems here! Steven is remarkably un-bedazzled.

There is, in fact, nothing further to note about the body, so proceed how you like there.]

[heathencall]

[Well, the girls are busy crowding around his house right now so he's going to... kneel down and look for anything amiss around Steven's feet or in the area leading over to said trash?]

[stagemanagers]

[Nothing!

You will note, in fact, that there are zero signs of struggle in here.]