THIRD INVESTIGATION

[faentasy]

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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[mathodical]

[ I'm dumb because I should have looked at makoto's thread but if he matched up the frayed bits of this string to the one that makoto found by the door, would it be a match? same string, looks like it broke off the same way, bloodstains look similar?

he'll pop over to junko's thread about wuxian's face later if she needs help!

in the meantime let's talk about clothes. no robes, but anything of note regarding the clothes? any damage etc? ]

[faentasy]

[There certainly is a pretty good chance these are two ends of the same string, indeed -- same material, same color, and some blood on both ends. Neat!

Looks like Junko has the face information covered!

Indeed, no robes. The clothes that are right underneath seem to be largely intact. Of course there's a hole that fits the location of the stab wound, though. Other than that, one of his arms isn’t in its sleeve leaving his right shoulder and most of his chest exposed.]

[mathodical]

[ wait so he was only wearing one side of a buttoned up shirt????? wwx pls????????

actually ok in that vein - does it look like the clothes were tampered with or removed before or after death? Or is that inconclusive......

speaking on inconclusiveness - do the cash on his forehead and the stab wound look like they could come from the same murder weapon? gonna assume it's from a knife at this point but would it be easy to tell or inconclusive once again? ]

[faentasy]

[The amount of cash on Wuxian's forehead equals zero yuans, haha!

Guessed right: inconclusive. It's hard to know who did what on this regard, unfortunately.

Alright, so, the cut on his forehead and the stab wound look nothing alike. The cut is just like an inch long, and it looks very ragged and uneven. The body has been moved already, but if Moriarty looks to where the head used to be at, there seems to be the edge of an object located roughly in the right area for such a cut to happen]

[mathodical]

[ ok so i am pasting this here from chat so 1.) i don't lose it 2.) it's just easier for me to refer back to this tomorrow but re: the state of wwx's robes - Basically they're robes. He wears several layers of robes. The outer layer was the one draped on the beams of the ceiling, meaning the inner robes and the underwear robes remain -- and the bandages underneath them all, of course. As mentioned, there's gashes right on the place where the stab wound is at, and bloodstains on all these clothes right on that area.

and now that tl:dr; edelgard has found a KNIFE, would the stiletto dagger match any of the stab wounds or cuts on wwx's body???

ALSO pasting this from chat: once edelgard has passed him the knife to do his experimentation, he'll probably compare the width/thickness of the blade first (to see if it's a match with how long/wide the wound is) and he'll stab like. next to the stab wound on wwx's stomach to see how the wounds compare next to each other! the one on his forehead would purely be a visual test. ]

[faentasy]

[Width! Thickness! And also a stab wound to the body -- hopefully nobody noticing Moriarty is desecrating the dead with new injuries, wow, hah! But hey, even if they do, nobody can argue with results:

Looks pretty close to what Moriarty sees. It may not be exactly as deep as the original one -- depths is hard to gauge, after all -- but everything else definitely does look pretty close to the stab wound found on the body.

Success!

The forehead cut, though, that's definitely not a match in any shape or form. It still looks like it probably came from the edge of something, possibly one of the objects on the shelf]

[mathodical]

[ desecrating a body so that he can check whether weapons made certain injuries? he's three for three now baby and it'll probably happen until he DIES--

i'm only half joking.

anyway! not to beat the dead horse but as one sherlock holmes says - when you eliminate all possibilities only the truth remains, so! he's going to pilfer the item that made the cut on wwx's forehead. what is it exactly bc it never occured to me until this moment to actually ask. ]

[faentasy]

[Looks like a box of some sort, having been partially shattered by the weight of Wuxian's head when stuff happened. The box's contents are scattered under Wuxian and onto the broken shelf, and onto the floor -- largely irrelevant contents, really]

[mathodical]

[ he'll take the broken pieces of the box just so he can present it at trial later!

and once everyone is done he's going to pick up wwx's body and whisk it away to go prepare it for burial or something with jack. fun times. ]