Non-Peace Weekend - Investigation

[mockmods]

[Two weeks have passed since your arrival. The Researcher has delivered a pair of motives, promising to reward some or punish others if rule 7 is not enacted by the end of the week.]

[Today is Friday, the deadline for your incentives. There is no morning announcement today.]

[Maybe It's nothing, but you might notice a faint, odd metallic scent in the air as you exit your bedrooms this morning.]

[Proceed with caution, Participants.]

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[mightdoriya]

[Izuku is always up early, and the past few days have been no exception. Since he's already awake and actually waiting for the announcement before he leaves his room, the lack of one is strange and very much noticed. And when he leaves his dorm, that scent that hits his nose is...familiar in a way he doesn't like. Without taking much time to think about it, he'll follow the scent down the hall to wherever it might lead him.]

[windowsexplorer]

[Meredith is... well, strictly speaking she's following Izuki, but she smells the scent too.]

Do you think something happened?

[mightdoriya]

I don't know. [He doesn't want to make any rash assumptions, but the best he can guess from there being no announcement is that if something didn't happen with them, something happened between Penny and the Researcher. And given his conversation with her before movie night...it leaves him unsettled. To that end, he won't tell Meredith to go back to her room for her own safety even if his first instinct is to do so...it might be better not to be alone right now.] Stay close.

[windowsexplorer]

I will.

[It's weird being on this end of things, but she'll behave.]

[mockmods]

[Follow your nose, Izuku. You won't need to go far; just down the hallway, towards the hub housing the security office and dining area. Boy, someone sure made a mess of things.]

[mightdoriya]

[Following his nose has never steered him wrong before, but he hates it in this instance. That's where he'll head, then, keeping his guard up the stronger the scent gets. So, when he gets to the hub he'll survey the immediate surroundings before choosing any particular place to go...what exactly do we mean by mess?]

[mockmods]

[Well, among other things, there's the body lying in a pool of blood and a pile of junk.]

[windowsexplorer]

[FUCK]

[mightdoriya]

[Hahaha what the fuck Now. Izuku is young. Most people here know that, they know he's just in his first year of school, and yet...the way he carries himself is not that of someone his age, even when he sees the body. Even with all of the blood. Even with how real and terrible all of this is about to become, his worst fears realized despite how determined he'd been to try and protect those who couldn't protect themselves. He's shaking, but Izuku moves quickly forward so as not to waste time, crouching down beside the body. He'll take their pulse before he even thinks to say or do much else, because that's what you do in an emergency situation...you have to make sure whether or not the victim is still alive. So that begs the question...who is this, and are they...still alive?]

[biolence]

[Oh, fuck. Of course the kid finds the body. Rosa is right there behind him, reaching out with a cautious hand but not quite finding purchase on his shoulder.]

Hey. I can handle this. You don’t have to.

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[Whoever checks the body, it really isn't pretty.]

[mightdoriya]

[Izuku feels Rosa's hand on his shoulder, though he doesn't respond at first. His breathing is shaky, but he's not made a move to leave or anything just yet.] ...I'm sorry, I...I c-can't leave. I'm fine.

[biolence]

Okay. Just giving you an out.

[She gives his shoulder two stiff pats and then squats down next to the body...which I will continue in the proper thread.]

cw: decapitation, gore

[mockmods]

[Unfortunately their head's not quite attached enough for them to be alive, unless they're really, really dedicated to that Nearly Headless Nick cosplay.]

[But even through all the blood, there's only one Participant who could rock that sweet jacket and those foxy ears.]

[Yaiba, the Legendary Bassist, is dead.]

[aragona]

[Sonia smelled blood and walked calmly towards the source.

Hm.

She crosses her arms and stands a ways back from the scene.]

[mockmods]

[Careful not to trip over one of the other bodies there, Sonia.]

Re: cw: decapitation, gore

[windowsexplorer]

[Hey, so Meredith's been learning lately that there are in fact things she would have been okay not ever finding out. It turns out "what a decapitated corpse looks like " is one of those things!]

Why... who would...

[So yeah she's just gonna... sit down for a moment. Is that okay? Good.]

[mightdoriya]

[Ah. Izuku had been so quick to check for life that it isn't until the overwhelming stench of blood hits him in the face that he looks up and realizes...that the huge pool of blood is being caused by the fact that this corpse is headless. His other hand comes up to cover his mouth and nose as he falters until he has to sit back on his haunches, trying to be careful not to just sit in blood even though that's a feeble effort at best. He had been worried, but he never thought....he never thought...] H...he's... [Definitely, irreversably, dead.]

[deathroadtocanada]

[THAT'S NOT GREAT.]

Oh god...

[Kara staggers, the grisly sight prompting her to nearly tun away.]

[biolence]

NYPD, nobody touch the body.

[Rosa pulls a pair of latex gloves out of her pocket, because apparently she just carries those around, and squats down next to the body. She didn’t know the kid, but damn. That can’t have been painless. ]

We’re looking for a perp strong enough to axe through all that bone and sinew. Tall enough, too. Anyone see a murder weapon?

[mightdoriya]

[Well, since Izuku is Here and it's not likely he's going to leave the body any time soon, the best he can do is try to offer information.] I came straight from my room here. M-Meredith-san was with me- I didn't....see anything else. T-the blood led here, to the body. No weapons, a-at least not...in the immediate area. [His voice is strained, and even though he's methodic in explaining every detail of exactly where he was and what he saw, it doesn't change the fact that tears are sort of just...gushing from his eyes now with no sign of stopping, dripping off his chin and onto his knees.]

[hyaku]

[Shigeo wasn't that far behind, honestly. He could smell blood in the air and he knew something must have happened.. whether it was a fight or someone actually murdered was unclear.

Until he descended upon the scene of the crime, that is.

The smell is enough to make someone gag when they walk into the area, but the sight... one of his friends sitting next to the decapitated body of another one... it's too much.

That was someone he baked a cake with-- someone he slept in the same room with. They weren't best friends or anything like that, but he saw Yaiba every single morning and night and now he lay there, with his head not connected to his body and the sight of that can't quite actually... comprehend.

He just ends up backing into something, and falling over, staring at the head that once used to speak proudly of himself before.]

[thisass]

[ Walks out, grimaces. ]

Well, that's... certainly not ideal, is it?

[doppelanger]

[ hey y'all guess who absolutely recognizes the smell of blood AND wants a danish ]

[windowsexplorer]

[WHY DID A THING HAPPEN NEAR THE SECURITY OFFICE OH NO]