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This week isn't a good week - for anyone, it seems. The death doesn't seem to have gone over particularly well with anyone, whether captive or captor; it's difficult to say, for the time being, what will ultimately come of it - and how well the case will be solved, given that this is yet another hit to your number.

There are so few of you now.

Even so, there are still things to be done and processes to be carried out; the allotted time for investigation comes and goes, leaving only the sound of the courtroom doors sliding open again in their wake. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater illuminate the room as soon as the first person enters, their light bright and steady; the seats on the upper level remain unoccupied where they're surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room. Danny and Ryoji's greyed-out portraits have joined those indicating the absence of the deceased, the podiums they rest upon draped in black as they watch the proceedings through unseeing eyes.

The public-address system crackles back to life once everyone has found their place in the circle; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter. She's at least a little more composed, but her words shake.

"Amiable's...gone. Figure out what happened, and- and do what you have to. For his sake.

Good... Good luck."

Nine Patients remain. However many leave here today is up to you.

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Okay, um, I found some stuff? And it looks like this stuff will be important, so just...take a look.

[And indeed, Wheatley brought a couple objects to the trial. He shows the caliper]

I have this thing. It's a...I don't know what this is. But look how banged it is, someone must have used it to hit stuff. And I found this unicorn too. [He shows the wooden unicorn] Ryoji must have made it, because he's the first person who mentioned unicorns last time, so it must have been him.

And also, he may have been killed at the workshop, because it was a mess. There must have been a fight in there.

That's all I found.

The fight didn't end at the workshop, it just transferred over to the chapel. One gunshot was definitely fired from the workshop into the hallway.

... a unicorn though. Seems like a gift for her? But why now?

... she didn't give me an exact date, but the Transmitter mentioned her birthday might be coming up soon. If I had to guess, that's why.

I don't know why now, but when I went to investigate Ryoji's room, I found a mostly eaten sandwich, and some notes. I don't think most of them are relevant to this, but what I did find was something with this Sunday's date on it and, "This Sunday? Need to finish it!" written on it.

Maybe it was referring to the unicorn.

[He has the notes with him, but that's the only thing that struck him as important.]

That... sounds like a birthday date to me. Yep.

....Yeah. It does, doesn't it?

[ The unicorn he bypasses because he doesn't care about it, but the tool he picks up and looks at! ]

Did you find blood in there?

No, no blood at all. Weird, right? Because when humans get shot, there's a lot of blood spilled.

Ryoji wasn't human.

Oh. Right.

[Wheatley tilts his head]

It's hard not to think of him as a human? Because he looked like one and all. So...would Ryoji bleed?

Well, was there blood found on the corpse? If not, then we have the answer.

Trust me, his wounds had blood in them.

Edited 2017-07-29 16:35 (UTC)

.. oh. Alright.

That just means nobody was injured in the workshop then.

That makes sense. I didn't see any defensive wounds or anything, just the... gunshots.

...Guess I must have been too shaken to have noticed.

[He had been trying not to look too closely.]

Ryoji was the avatar of death. I doubt he bled.

... Yeah, there is.

That means he wasn't killed in there. [ Which George already said but w/e. ]

Did anyone find a lot of blood anywhere? Even a clean-up job would have involved needing to dump it somewhere, there's no possible way the killer had time to be thorough.

That and we've already seen how planted blood looks, thanks to Gant's little escapade.

And Doug's before that.

Somethin' about this seems a little off, though. If someone ambushed him and had a gun, you'd think they would've hit him. Or we'd at least see bullet holes somewhere.

Didn't Pizzazz say he was struck in the heart?

Yeah, but that would've happened in the chapel. Not the workshop.

Maybe he was ambushed in the chapel, and the only thing that happened in the workshop was him working on the unicorn?

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preciousking - 2017-07-29 17:20 (UTC) - Expand

He was hit in the shoulder and in the heart, but... that might have happened in the chapel. Maybe the gun was backup in case they couldn't kill him in the workshop?

That makes as much sense as anything. Did you find anything out of the ordinary there? Wheatley did say it must have been a fight.

Edited 2017-07-29 17:20 (UTC)

arebetter - 2017-07-29 17:23 (UTC) - Expand