onceuponacomm | FIFTH INVESTIGATION

FIFTH INVESTIGATION

INVESTIGATION V

After a party with many festivities and particularly eye catching attractions, many will have retired for the night before sleep takes them. It's a blessing even if this is routine by now, because after everything you've been through, dying from frostbite would be an anti-climatic way to go.

By the time you wake the sun is fully in the sky, it's light serving as your guide for the events that happened the night before.

The time is 8:00 AM.

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[For once he doesn't have sunglasses on so he'll just stare at the clouds instead!! It's fine!! We'll assume that nobody has written the murderer's name(s) up there, though, so...

Anyway, what. WHAT DID YOU GUYS DO TO THIS FOUNTAIN. GUYS. Where are these gouges on the fountain? Is there some way to tell roughly what made them...?]

[ Jack...

The gouges aren't particularly uniform, and they're pretty spaced out along the fountain too. As far as specifics, it would have to be something sharp to nick the fountain. ]

[What!! Why is the meta judging him when he is making a perfectly reasonable investigative decision???

Okay, so, something sharp -- but when you say not uniform, is that referring to the width of the gouges or the space between them? Is it possible to tell the approximate size of what made them? Also, what are the characteristics of these gouges -- does it seem like it was some kind of blade, claws, something wider, or...? Are they parallel to each other or in random directions? And are they on the side of the fountain or across its face?

Or I guess, does it look like anything he might have seen before?]

Edited (sorry more questions as I try to picture this) 2021-07-02 21:35 (UTC)

[It's time to answer a myriad of questions. Let's do our best!

*Not uniform as in the space between them.
*Can't tell approximate size but it does seem like some kind of blade made these.
*Random directions
*They're more on the corner of the fountain instead of on a wall or on top of anything. Sometimes there may be a stray gouge somewhere else like on the side, but in general they're in the outmost corners.
*Probably doesn't look like anything specific he has seen before.]

[The mods are giving us fruitful answers! Go go mods! ☆

Okay, so looks like the signs of a fight maybe.... is there any blood or anything else inside the gouges or any other strange or noticeable things about them? I assume it looks like the fountain was struck and these were impact gouges rather than somebody like, deliberately decorating the fountain. He'll try to examine them as closely as possible just in case.

Also, are they on the same side as the blood or close to the blood? How high up on the fountain do these go? Just the base or does it hit the central fixture too? Just covering our attempt at spatial coordination here I'm sorry for the million questions......

And, do they all look like they were made by the same thing?]

[ No signs of blood or anything else inside the gauges. They are on the same side of the fountain as the blood, though. As far as height goes, they hit the base and not the central fixture. Finally, they look like they could all be made from the same object, yes. ]

[Well, that's about all I've got for this! Unless there's anything else going on with this fountain.

Oh, one last thing. He's just going to... climb onto the fountain rim and jump up and down a few times like some kind of ridiculous jackrabbit trying to see if there's anything hidden in the central fixture? You never know??

Don't judge him, Tenn-in-the-other-thread.]