Take Responsibility.

[transmittable]

The past several weekends have been an unrelenting barrage of death in particularly disturbing manners; either the method or the number of people, sometimes both, have been particularly extreme. This week has seen fewer dead than the last; however, the way that that one kill seems to have happened... It's not a particularly good tradeoff. Either way, however, expectations still need to be met and investigations still need to be carried out; once the allotted time has passed, those doors in the center of the second corridor slide open once again, the sight managing to be at the same time familiar and unwelcoming. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater beam down, flooding the room with bright and steady light as soon as the first person walks in; the seats surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room remain as empty as ever. Four more are gone, their absence notated by their portraits joining the others in watching the proceedings through greyed-out and unseeing eyes, Kogami, Madison, Sakura Matou, and Osomatsu's podiums all draped in black. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, the public-address system comes to life once again in a light crackle of static; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter. "Fraternal is dead. You guys...you know what to do. Put together what you've found and try to seek out the guilty. You know what'll happen if you can't. Good luck." Eleven Patients remain. We'll see how many leave at the end of the day.

Comments

[doctorize]

I examined Osomatsu and found... well. Nothing good, I'm afraid. In addition to being lit on fire, it appears that our killer... sewed his mouth shut and stabbed him multiple times.

[things that Osomatsu did not deserve: this]

I also found an injury to the back of his head. It looks like the killer may have struck him with a blunt object: not enough to crack his skull, but hard enough to likely stun him for a moment?

[ossifragant]

.....who the fuck had that big of a grudge against the guy?

[journalname]

[Asgore covers his mouth with a paw, looking horrified and a bit ill.]

Why on earth?

[preciousking]

[ Mikoto considers this for a bit. ]

Gives us a place to start, at least.

[cadmiums]

[ A heavy sigh. ]

That settles what the needle and thread were used for.

[preciousking]

Still, weird they used a sewing needle. Or if they sewed his mouth shut while he was alive.

You'd think he'd try to bite someone if he were conscious.

[cthulwho]

He had to have been stunned or unconscious when they did the sewing... It would be very difficult to sew without his mouth being still, wouldn't it?

[preciousking]

Yeah.

Just in case, might check everyone's hands. The killer could've pierced themselves with the needle or been bitten.

[doctorize]

[Hmm]

Perhaps the killer knocked him out with the doll, and then once they restrained him to the cot, they started sewing his mouth shut while he was unconscious? [There's a pause, before Danny frowns] Though, judging by the condition the restraints were in, I don't think Osomatsu stayed unconscious for very long if that is the case.

[arebetter]

[ Haha yeah she is just gonna take another sip of her drink now that she remembers finding that mess. ]

... did someone hit him on the head with the freaking vibrator.

[crywiththesaints]

Presumably. Have you checked to see that it still works?

[preciousking]

No.

[crywiththesaints]

[sigh] I'm starting to wonder if you take anything seriously at all.

[preciousking]

Next time I find a vibrator, I'll be sure to let you know so you can check its battery.

[georgeous]

... what.

[cthulwho]

[........]

I...suppose the dagger could be the source of the stabs...?

[Holy shit.]

[positivespin]

Should be if it had blood. But, um...why stab and then do all that?

[preciousking]

If the dagger was left in the sewing room, it might be because the killer was done with him. They must've decided to set him on fire and sewed his mouth shut so he couldn't call for help.

[cthulwho]

It does seem like they could have done the sewing after the stabbing. [The dagger being left in the sewing room, the blood drops...] But...why go through the effort? Couldn't they just finish him off with the dagger?

[preciousking]

I don't know. Best guess is they wanted to distract us from one of the dagger wounds, there's not many other reasons why someone would go through so much effort.

[ Not unless they're a psychopath and liked torturing people, anyway. ]

[positivespin]

But that means he was still alive.

[ Which is horrifying to think about even if corpses aren't new to her, but gotta push through that for now. ]

...They only had to kill. Wouldn't any of those stabs be fatal?

[cadmiums]

It did.

[doctorize]

Then it's a safe bet that it's our murder weapon. Plus, from what I could tell of the stabs, they couldn't have been caused by anything from the kitchen, or from the infirmary.

[positivespin]

[ of course the sharp object did. thank you fellow yellow scarf ]

[positivespin]

[ QQ's eyes widen at that. How could it get worse than being set on fire, she thought. Well, a lot of other things apparently? Ugh, there's no way any of this is necessary.

She's going to take a swig out of a water bottle to avoid spewing out too much angrish before she trusts herself to speak calmly ]