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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[mockmods]

[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.]

[mockmods]

[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.]

[mockmods]

[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?]

[mockmods]

[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?]

[mockmods]

[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?]

[mockmods]

[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.]

[mockmods]

[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.]

[mockmods]

[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?]

[mockmods]

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

[Open, y/n?]

[mightdoriya]

[Y, Izuku wants to see if whoever grabbed this actually managed to use anything inside.]

[mockmods]

[Someone used it for something, at least. At any rate, there's a lot of bloodied gauze shoved back into the case in wads.]

[mightdoriya]

[That's gross...but at the very least informative in some way. So maybe they tried to patch up a wound, but gave up and hid the evidence at the last second. That, or had a very big lack in foresight as to how much blood gauze can actually absorb. Anything else bloodied and/or missing in this kit?]

[mockmods]

[Some of the other supplies have blood on them, but it looks like it came from the gauze? Otherwise, there doesn't seem to be anything obviously missing.]

[mightdoriya]

[There seems to be a lot more than meets the eye here, but Izuku can only go on what he's seen. And what he's seen is a hell of a lot to try to sort through. He wonders just how much else there might be that he didn't discover. Once Izuku is finished checking out the kit he'll close it back up with the intention of finding something somewhere to maybe transport it. It doesn't seem wise to just leave this here, but he will for the time being as he makes another cursory sweep of the area with his eyes. Is there anything else he might spot to check out, or is the Foyer clear?]

[mockmods]

[Looks clear, unless you want to help poke at the body a little.]

[mightdoriya]

[He can't say it'd be his top pick on a list of things to do, but...even though he only spoke to Yaiba a little, he feels...indirectly responsible, in a way, for his death. All Might told him once that even he couldn't save people he couldn't reach...but what excuse did he have here? He didn't even hear the sounds of a struggle...it's upsetting in a way that's going to bother him for a long time, he knows. So eventually he does wander back to Yaiba's corpse, having to steel himself before he kneels back down beside it again. What sort of state are we looking at, here? He knows the body was discovered at a specific time, but are there any signs of him having been long dead?]

[mockmods]

[Well, you were the one who discovered it.]

[The body's cooling? But not cold. And it looks like rigor mortis has started setting in. Presumably Izuku's not a mortician, but this death definitely wasn't SUPER recent, at least.]