FIRST INVESTIGATION

[faentasy]

INVESTIGATION I

Good Morning. Did you sleep well? It certainly feels like you have, perhaps too well, even for those who don't normally sleep. Maybe that's to be expected in this fairy tale, maybe it was only a matter of time.

Regardless, rise and get ready for your day, and keep your eyes to the sky. For who knows if someone fell to temptation?

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[hellochildren]

[Well, he did find the body, and he's probably one of the more qualified people to look it over-and least likely to get horribly upset over it.

First, the neck. Is there just signs of strangulation, or anything more?]

[faentasy]

[Professor Pericle's professional pathology power hour is here to save the day!

Anyways, it pretty much is just the ligature mark that goes around the front and side of her neck, which look to be about an inch wide. The scratches mentioned earlier are also quite light and there are some above and below the ligature mark.]

[hellochildren]

Intriguing...

[He knows what that means-that scratches, anyway. He'll have to find out the weapon later.

So, the gut wound. Stab wound? Or is clothing covering a notable bruise?]

[faentasy]

[The gut wound is... not visible with her clothing on, so yes, he will need to remove her uniform shirt somehow. Once he does, he'll find that there's a large bruise there, which is about the size of a baseball or something similar.]

[hellochildren]

[A punch to the gut-or something similar-before being strangled with something. He can't help but wonder why the former was necessary...

Something to figure out late. Now, if there are no other wounds, he'll be checking her hands. Skin under the fingernails? Any chance there's a signed note from the murderer?]

[faentasy]

[Checking her hands might take a little bit of extra work considering she's pretty stiff, so he'll need to unravel more of the cloth and rope that's wound around her. Once that is done though, he sure will find some skin and a bit of blood under her fingernails!

No signed note from the murderer though, unfortunately! We can't always get what we want.]

[hellochildren]

[He figured-for both things. It's difficult to get the rope and cloth undone, but he manages.

Are there any other notable things about the body itself? Something about her shoes? The rest of her clothes? Or can he focus on the cloth?]

[faentasy]

[There doesn't appear to be anything else that really stands out about the body itself. Her sneakers are peeking out the one end of the cloth bundle as noted previously, but the rest of her clothes seem pretty much intact.

He can move onto the cloth if he wants!]

[hellochildren]

[Alright, the cloth. It's red, presumably naturally that way rather than because of blood. Two immediate questions come to mind when observing it.

1. Is it notably wrinkled anywhere? It's probably wrinkled in general due to being tied around a dead body that was left on a roof, but are there any sections that seem especially so?

2. Does it look like it could've come from the boutique? Admittedly, he hasn't been there much, but is there really anywhere else the cloth could've come from?]

[faentasy]

[It's definitely red because it was dyed that way and not because of blood, yes! The color is too bright and too even to be anything else.

As for the other questions:

1. It's not notably wrinkled anywhere outside of the whole 'being used to wrap a body' thing, but he might notice that on one end of the cloth, the ends are very much tattered although it seems like this is more because of age and wear rather than, say, being cut with scissors and left to fray or anything.

2. Well, not so much the boutique; it's a little thick and heavy for that, actually. If anything, the texture and make sort of resembles the stage curtains from the ballroom, but those ones would've been black.]

[hellochildren]

Curiouser and curiouser.

[Wrapping a corpse in curtains-probably not uncommon, but still questionable, considering the curtains he's most immediately familiar with being black. If he thinks about it, can he remember where any red curtains were located?

Additionally, something else the player the parrot realized-the bruises on her neck. Are they all around the neck, or just around the front, near the important parts like the windpipe, veins and arteries and stuff?]

[faentasy]

[There wouldn't been any places around here that have red curtains on display like that, nope. A mystery!?

The bruises are only to the front and the side! So not all the way around, just over the important parts, yup.]

[hellochildren]

[A mystery indeed, unfortunately.

It probably shouldn't be a surprise, but he can't help but question it for moment. Perhaps this wasn't exactly death by strangulation...

Later, later. Now, back to the curtain. It's thick and heavy-he'll roll up a free portion of it.

How much is needed for the width to become 1 inch, enough to match the ligature marks?]

[faentasy]

[It's pretty thick, so he can definitely roll up something that wide with the free portion he already does have!]

[mathodical]

[ do the ropes on the body match the ligature mark? ]

[faentasy]

[They do not! If he compares the rope with the ligature mark, he'll find that the rope is too narrow to have made the bruising.]

[mathodical]

[ is there any obvious residue as to what would have made the ligature mark - whether it was a coarse fibre, silk, etc.? knot indentations?

he would probably be able to tell based on the shape of the marks left behind (e.g. whether it was a smooth line, scratchy material etc. etc. ]

[faentasy]

[No residue, nope! There also aren't any noticeable imprints of knots or anything either, but it is notable that the marks are not completely uniformly dark? There are some places in the middle of the mark where it's lighter, which run mostly in parallel to the mark itself.]

[mathodical]

[ hm, Interesting.

do the scratch marks near the ligature mark match sami's fingers/nails (aka were they inflicted in self defense or trying to struggle free) or did the killer leave them behind? ]

[faentasy]

[The scratch marks certainly look like they could come from fingernails although whether it's from Samidare or the killer would still be up in the air. They're not super deep or anything though.]

[mathodical]

[ i'm sorry i have to ask this because william is nosy and thorough so he would but

if he puts his fingers up to sami's neck, would the scratch marks be bigger or smaller than like, average male fingernail size? he'll call koto over later to check for a size comparison for her fingernails scratch marks too, just to establish a comparison between whether it was a male/female/child/adult killer ]

[faentasy]

[The scratch marks are thin and superficial, so they're not really 1:1 with any nail size in particular. Regardless if whether or not he or Koto does the comparison, the scratches will appear thinner than their nail sizes.]

[mathodical]

[ good to know, but also, concerning.

he'll move onto the rope around sami's body itself, actually, while pericles is looking at the cloth! since they don't match the ligature marks...

does the rope look immediately identifiable? did it come from the workshop, one of the furniture shops, maybe even the curtains in the lodgings/mansions?? spitballing.

also, can he take the rope with him. ]

[faentasy]

[The rope looks like something he could find in the furniture store! Moreover, there's a trailing end that leads into the roof's gutter too. It looks like something's in there...?]

[mathodical]

[ mental note to bring that up if or when relevant!

... IF THERE'S SOMEONE GOING TO JUMPSCARE HIM AT THE GUTTER--

ahem, he's definitely going to follow the trailing end towards the roof's gutter. also for completionist's sake, what's the approximate distance/length of the rope between the body and the gutter....... and does the rope cross over the hole in the roof I'M GOING TO HAVE TO DRAW THIS PLACEMENT OUT AT SOME POINT AREN'T I

what's he going to find when he approaches the roof gutter ]