Non-Peace Weekend - Investigation

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[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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Re: cw: decapitation talk

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[The arm and bike wheel are entirely blunt, unfortunately. If they were involved in the Furry French Revolution, it wasn't on their own.]

[And the only other thing to note about the machine itself is that it's pretty ridiculously complex. If it weren't for the gore, it would almost look at home in a more steampunk Dr. Seuss book.]

[mightdoriya]

[It's not an answer then, but it's something. This machine was clearly devised to hurt someone, and it succeeded in some manner. The complexity of the machine stuns him, though. Someone had to have been working on this all throughout the week to be able to finish it, right? There's no way it could have been put together all in one day. And how did they get all of these parts without someone seeing them do it? Izuku takes another step back from the machine. Is there any way Izuku might be able to deduce from the design how it was meant to work? Was the swinging arm the final part to be set off, or is there more to it than that?]

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[It's pretty hard to tell, but it looks like the machine was mostly built around the arm. It's probably a decent guess that making it swing hard and fast was the point of it all.]

[You don't have to figure out the exact mechanics of a Rube Goldberg device to solve this case, is what we're telling you.]

[mightdoriya]

[Listen Izuku needs to be thorough! This thing was at least part of what hurt somebody, whether it was Yaiba directly or something else entirely. Anything else need to be checked out here, or are we good to move on to the mannequins?]

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[You're good! Go check those mannequins.]

[mightdoriya]

[TIME FOR A MANNEQUIN ADVENTURE Anything unusual going on here? Other than, you know, mannequins.]

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[For one, there's kind of a lot of them. And they all appear to have been beheaded.]

[mightdoriya]

[Hey hey now let's not get ahead of ourselves- But okay, that's. Weird. That's super weird. He'll walk a bit closer to the mannequins to check them out. Is there any blood around here?]

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[Don't blow your top, Izuku, we're getting there.]

[And as seems to be a bit of a theme here, these mannequins have quite a bit of blood on them.]

[mightdoriya]

[But all of this investigating is giving him a headache!! But oh boy, that's fun. Izuku grimaces, reluctantly approaching the bloody mannequins. Does it look like they've just been splattered with blood by virtue of being near some sort of crime scene, or did someone try to blugeon someone with mannequin parts, here.]

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[There's not really any splattering, actually! Looks like the blood's been smeared on.]

[mightdoriya]

[Oh ew? Ew.] What even is this... [Just to make sure, is there any blood on the floor at all? Or just on the mannequins? And does the blood seem to be smeared on, like...on purpose, or does it seem more like they might have been accidentally rubbed against? With...a bloody something, he guesses.]

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[It looks like they rubbed up against a bloody something, all right, but it's hard to say whether it was intentional or not.]

[mightdoriya]

[Perhaps some sort of fight happened over here, then? It doesn't really explain why all the mannequins got dragged out though, or why all their heads are removed. Either someone was practicing for the real thing, or they've just gone completely insane. Is there anything else of note here?]

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[While we're talking blood, there is one more thing; there's a short trail of footprints leading away from the crime scene.]

[mightdoriya]

[Oh shit, that seems important. Izuku crouches down near the footprints which presumably are bloody? Are they bare or caused by shoes?]

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[Unless someone's tracking in strawberry m- wait, no, we already made that joke. Yes, they're blood. And while they look fairly shoe-like, they're too smeared to get an exact size or pattern.]

[mightdoriya]

[Where do the footprints lead, then?]

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[Looks like they're heading in the general direction of the dining room and kitchen.]

[mightdoriya]

[Izuku had seen people heading for the kitchen already, so that's probably covered...he'll follow the prints to the dining room, then, if there's nothing more to check first with the mannequins of course.]

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[The footprints kind of trail off after a few feet in that direction, but there's something he might spot shoved off to the side, as he's going.]

[mightdoriya]

[HM...Izuku notices something as he's on his way, so don't mind him as he crouches down to check it out.]

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[Sure is a first-aid kit. And yes, there is some blood smeared on the plastic case.]

[mightdoriya]

[That's......strange? It doesn't really seem to line up with anything Izuku has found so far, unless someone was injured and was trying to patch themselves up. He doesn't want to pick it up exactly, but it feels important to check...can he open it without having to touch the bloodied part?]

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[Yeah, there's a few smears but it's not, like, covered.]

[Open, y/n?]