onceuponacomm | FIRST INVESTIGATION

FIRST INVESTIGATION

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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[He'll look at those shady bushes in more depth just to make sure he didn't miss anything, getting his hands scratched up by bushes if necessary. No leaf unturned, etc. etc.]

[No leaf unturned!

Still no objects...but during his search, making sure to not miss anything, he'll stumble upon Edelgard, who seems to have the same idea. Nice.

Good news! You both have managed to find something. To be more precise, it seems like a group of three prints together -- two to the back and closer to the wall, one to the front and approximately one meter away from the other ones.

Suga, which one will you check?]

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[Well, first he wants to compare them: does the one separate match one of the others in size and shape? Two people enter, one person dies painfully and the other person leaves, that sort of thing.]

[Let's see what the front print has to tell.

Right away Suga will see this is definitely not a footprint. Instead, once he leans and takes a good look, he'll find five thin oval-shaped indentations. Most of them even have a bit of an amorphous shape at the bottom, connecting them together.

It probably won't take him long to realize this is a partial handprint]

[who the fuck is doing handstands at a murder scene

Okay, next question: where do the handprints begin and end?]

[Looks like the handprint ends right where it started.

Indeed, there's only one single handprint, positioned not too far ahead from the pair of footprints Edelgard checked]

[Huh. Suga compares the handprint's size to his own hand - how big is it? Suga's hands are about average size for a guy.]

[The results...are inconclusive. It seems the fingers and bit of hand aren't enough to tell for sure what size of hand this is, unfortunately]

[Hm, okay. One last thing.

Assuming that the feet on the footprints are pointing towards the handprint, he's going to put the front of his foot next to where the foot marks are and stretch his hands out in front of him like he was catching himself from a fall. Given that he's 5'11", is the person who left this set of marks shorter or taller than him?]

[That's an accurate assumption, indeed.

Thankfully, it seems this is somewhat more conclusive. Suga will find it's likely this person is shorter]

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[Her first thought upon encountering Suga is that he's been crying, indicating that this really hit him hard. Her second, more callous thought is that they don't have time for this.

She nods to him after they make their discovery. Three prints...]

I'll take the ones at the back. You take the one at the front.

[She looks over the prints, trying to figure out the size, and style of the shoe, and whether or not they match.]

[thanks edelgard he appreciates all the sympathy]

[i mean she never claimed to be nice. but also that's rough ig.]

[After her own investigation is finished, she goes and rejoins him.]

What did you find? It seems like an action in particular left these footprints, and it wasn't necessarily walking or else there'd be more of a trail... perhaps jumping?

[Or landing...]

[Give him a second, he doesn't have his paper out yet.]

Handprint

And yet only one...

Hm.

[A handprint and two footprints... landing on the balls of their feet.]

...This seems like the indentations of someone making a landing from either the wall or the roof. That's my theory anyway.

[He nods, and then puts his paper down to go make himself look ridiculous.]

[Shine on you crazy fucking diamond.]

[Okay, now that he's done that -]

Come help me get a range

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[Let's see what the prints to the back can tell you.

As mentioned before, these aren't too far away from the wall of the mansion -- around three feet away at most.

The good news is that she probably will recognize the shape as footprints! The bad news is that they're partial. In fact, it's only the frontal half of whatever stepped here. There's no heels, just the frontal half.]

[Someone walking on the balls of their feet to avoid leaving footprints or have these been tampered with in some way... but if they were tampered with, surely they'd be more thorough with covering them. Hmm.

She'll do her best to try and find something indicating a trail of some kind for her to follow.]

[It seems this is where the luck regarding these prints stop. These ones are the only ones she can find. There's an indentation a little ahead of the handprint Suga found, but nobody could say with certainty if it's a footprint or not.

All in all, looks like this pair here are the only footprints she'll find in the area]

[She'll make an estimate to see whether or not leaping off the roof or wall would be physically possible for the average person, and if not, with the right acrobatic training.

She's connecting the dots.]

[It's really hard to say, all things considered -- Edelgard won't be able to notice any sort of marks or points of interest that may hint anything in particular. Leaping off the roof or the wall indeed seems to be possible, but it seems there's nothing around that indicates with certainty what may have happened here.

Worth noting this building has only one floor, including the attic]

[She has made a mental note. She'll go check in on Rika and Makoto.]

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