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THIRD INVESTIGATION

INVESTIGATION III

Some days are long and some days are short. If this wasn't the third week of your stay, perhaps you might think that exhaustion had crept in from Wednesday's nights activities. But you know better than that by now.

Consciousness comes to you groggily, perhaps uncomfortably depending where you were when sleep suddenly took hold of you. While the world stands on the verge of awakening as the horizon blazes with a fiery glow, the sky remains a navy blue where you are.

The time is 5:00 AM. You could return to your slumber, but do you really think third time's the charm?

((OOC NOTE: Investigation is open until 10PM EST.))

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[ For the record, her door opens out to the hallway.

The first thing Raven will spot is what appears to be a small tuft of something pink pretty much as soon as he opens the door. ]

[Thanks for the note about the door!

Alrighty, let's check out this pink tuft to see what it is... Is it on the floor or something?]

[ It's on the floor, yes! It looks like... pink cotton candy. Yay for a surprise treat? It's a pretty small amount, but since it's pink it's hard to miss. ]

[He's not eating cotton candy, let alone floor cotton candy. He will collect it to bring to the trial, though.

With that done, he'll check out the vanity and bed to see if there's anything conspicuous.]

[ Well I need to ask first: how is he collecting the cotton candy? ]

[Whoops, sorry about that! His instinct would be to just pick it up with a handkerchief for storage, if that works?]

[ No worries! Cotton candy successfully stored. While he's putting it away he'll notice theres a pink dusting on top of it too.

Now back to the furniture in here and the vanity-- there is a vanity close to the door, it has a picture of her family on it (aww). What's more noticeable is that there's a light pink dusting on that as well. ]

[...huh. The dust is interesting. He doesn't know a lot about cotton candy though- is this natural? Guess he'll find out at the trial.

The family photo gets a rather distant look from Raven as he investigates. Man, it's hard looking at it after just finding out she died. However, he does need to take a closer look for that dusting. Is it on just the photo? Not on the vanity proper or the chair that goes with it?]

[ I worded that poorly, the dusting is on the entirety of the vanity and the photo! There's also a faint dusting by the door too (or was before Raven stepped in just a bit to nab the cotton candy.

Since he's looking closer for the dusting, there's some on the doorknob too. ]

[Got it and noted, thank you!

What's the dusting like, if I may ask? Are there any visible smears or fingerprints in it? (Not that I imagine we could do a whole lot with fingerprints, but.)]

[ No visible smears or fingerprints, and it's a pretty fine pink layer of it (so literally a dusting) but there is a disturbed area near the doorway.

It's not exactly clear given the dusting around it (and some of it has settled inside it though less than the layer that's on floor) but it's vaguely foot shaped. ]

[Huh! He'll give that a look.

Just a couple questions about it: What direction is it facing? And it's barefoot rather than a shoe/boot? Is the size discernible?]

[ Facing towards the door! It doesn't look like it's visibly a barefoot print, but the shape is kind of fuzzy so it's hard to tell what it was distinctly left by as far as the foot fashion department goes. ]

The size is a little larger than Raven's foot. ]

[Ohhh okay I gotcha! Thanks!

Okay, let's see... How about any other disturbances in the room? Raven will check the bed or any other furniture, just looking for more dusting or anything that might signal to the room being gone through before him.]

[ The bed and furniture look okay (anything close to the door has that fine pink dusting) but when he gets closer to the window he'll notice uh, it's smashed through. ]

[So sorry for the delay!!

Well that's uh...hm. Is it possible to tell what direction the smash came with regards to glass shards? And is the culprit of the smash in the room?]

[ There is no one else in the room besides Raven and nothing aside from the regular furniture. Notably, there's no glass shards in the room either. ]

[LMAO I am so sorry for my wording, I meant like, an object or something that would have smashed the window.

If he were to go outside and check the area underneath the window, would he find anything there?]

[ ~~yeager pops down from the ceiling~~ you're good!

Outside Raven can find glass shards and broken pieces of wood. The area here is grass, but since there's quite a lot of debris it's hard to miss. ]

Edited 2021-06-18 23:43 (UTC)

[~~OH GOD HOW DID HE GET THERE~~

...all right he'll definitely have to come back with something safer to store that evidence in. But hm, the plot thickens...

Is there anything else in the vicinity of the window or the yard at large?]

[ No, but while he's here he can notice a patch of grass that looks flattened. It's in the same area as the glass and broken wood. ]

[Oh excellent, thank you! Is there anything about the grass that he can make out in terms of shape?]

[ If he looks up from the patch of flattened grass, it makes a pretty neat line from Yor's window. As far as shape goes it's nothing terribly distinct. ]

Edited (pressed enter too soon) 2021-06-19 00:40 (UTC)

[Got it!

All right, that's pretty much everything I can think of if there's nothing else in the debris. If there's nothing else immediately off to find around here, I think that wraps it up...?]

[ One last thing: some of the glass shards are bloody. ]

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