Exam 3

[lockdownmods]

Exam 3.

[ Once again, the exam begins with the desks arranged in a perfect circle; one desk for each person that's participating in the program. There are nameplates for everyone, and they have been bolted to each of the desks, facing the inside of the circle...

...including the deceased. Their chairs have been placed on top of their desks, signifying that they will not be needed. Above of their desks are holograms of their portraits from their profiles, grayed out and bloodstained.

Today Han is absent-- only Megumi is present at the front of the classroom. ]


Today you are responsible for finding the culprit responsible for the death of Maya Fey, the Apprentice Falsely Accused.

Your exam begins now.

Victim.






Suspects.



[ The physical evidence tray sits in the middle of the circle of desks; you all have the Evidence app on your tablets to access photo evidence. ]

Examination START.

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Evidence

[lockdownmods]

[swordsinternally]

[ And Shirou here leaves one of the beads. ]

I found this in the common room; also the tables and chairs were overturned as well.

[unhalting]

[He doesn't have any physical evidence to bring along with him, but he does place the tablet on his desk, with pictures of a footprint trail displayed on the screen.]

Someone tracked in some dirt and blood when they went from the garden to the music room. The prints they left behind were about the same size as mine.

[And his feet are pretty large, so.]

[devotingly]

[ waver will submit a report on the state of the body, including the missing necklace and sandal. ]

[throwabookatit]

[ We've got pictures today, pictures of a broken guitar. It's in its stand, body cracked as if it was smashed into something. There's blood on its handle, smudged handprint-ish. Another picture shows the unbroken guitar next to it, with a smudge of blood on its side. ]

Music room. That's where this was.

[covertizer]

[ Akira just sets down a bloody knife because of course he found the knife. ]

It was in the kitchen, returned to the knife block. I couldn't see any fingerprints on it.

It was pretty messy in the kitchen too - a lot of chairs were scattered around, kinda like they'd been thrown towards something?

[donotlick]

[ MMMMMMMMMM well Hank does not like that suspect list one bit. But he also trusts Connor intrinsically, so he won't start there. ]

Alright, me and Waver were in the garden. Waver got a better look at the body than I did, but one thing's for sure. Maya was knocked out first. She had a bump on the back of her head that was definitely before she died, so whoever did this didn't even go for the kill on the first blow.

[ Hank shakes his head. Oh, he also has a shovel with him. ]

This thing has blood on the handle, but nowhere else, so that rules out it bein' used to knock out Maya. But there were also some flowers that were laid flat and had blood on 'em. I think that's it for what I found, anyway.

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[buriedearth]

[ Hi peeps, Terra is here with photos of the blood trail from tablet, an actual Japanese-style sandal, photos of puddle of blood, and another of bloody smudged/sliding handprint at least. ]

There was a blood trail leading out the door to the hallway going all the way to the back of the cafeteria and close to the kitchen. The sandal I found nearby the kitchen door where there was a huge puddle of blood and...there was this outline like a body's shape in the blood.

And then there was this smudged bloody handprint on the same kitchen door, and it looked like it slid all the way to the floor. I'm guessing as if someone had placed their hand on the door and...

[ Yeah. Okay. ]

suspect ama

[preconstruction]

[ this week was already shit and now he's a suspect AND his human isn't here that's ): ]

I expect you'll want to ask me some questions.

[swordsinternally]

I don't think we heard your answer at the meeting, but what exactly did you lose for the motive?

[ Let's start with something simple, then. ]

[donotlick]

[ Hank rolls his eyes. ]

This murder ain't your style. You're an android. You could kill Maya in one hit.

[buriedearth]

[ It's been a bad week hasn't it? Well, let's start with something simple. ]

What were you doing Thursday night?

im a suspect ama

[devotingly]

This is stupid. Why would I be a suspect for this?! And Ale— Rider, too!

[donotlick]

I'm guessing since she was knocked out first, it had to be somebody who didn't feel like they could just kill her in a fair fight.

So, y'know, you're kinda scrawny.

[sendintheclown]

Did Monday's events awaken something in you, Waver?

[something stabby]

ASK ME ANYTHING IG

[pathofconquest]

I suppose it was only a matter of time.

Very well. If you have questions, then I shall answer them!

[He's taking this way too well. Ah... but then. That's just who he is.

To a future king and conqueror, being accused of a single death probably isn't much.]

[swordsinternally]

I'll ask you the same thing I asked Connor-san: what did you lose for the motive?

suspect 2: eletric boogaloo

[12d3]

[WHO KEEPS PUTTING THIS BOY ON THE SUSPECT LIST]

I uhhh.. I guess I can answer questions if you got 'em.

[He doesn't sound entirely too happy about being a suspect but at least he's not fuckin' unable to hear people's questions.]

[whatsmytalentagain]

I remember you couldn't hear, so...

you know what MODS

[swordsinternally]

[ He's not going to say that any particular person did it just yet, but Shirou does want clarification for one thing: ]

Megumi-san, if there was an accomplice, would they be put up as a suspect?

[newhire]

Yes. Their part in the crime would most certainly be noted.

the matsu is a suspect so ama

[ososoi]

[ Osomatsu had basically shut down since finding Maya's body. And now... ]

[ ...What is this? ]

...Oi. Why the fuck am I a suspect?

[whatsmytalentagain]

[... Maybe this guy isn't the best suspect ever.]

You were close to her, weren't you?

SHOE CHECK

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Rantaro taps on his desk to get everyone's attention.]

Hey! Sorry for interrupting something, but if Olga-san found footprints that looked like they were around his shoe size, then wouldn't it make sense to try and compare the shoes of the suspects to Olga-san's shoes?

[He glances at Olga for confirmation.]

It might give us a useful hint.

[preconstruction]

Alright.

[ he takes his shoe off and hands it over. the faster they get on with their physical evidence checks the better. ]

[swordsinternally]

By the way-- I should bring this up, but did anybody find the magatama for Maya-san's necklace? I found the beads and string, but the magatama doesn't seem to be found, so if nobody found it, maybe we could search the suspects to see if they have it on their person/

[covertizer]

... Would they still have it with them? It'd be a pretty suspicious thing to carry around.

handcheck! + mods a bit??

[buriedearth]

Hey, can I see everyone's hands for a moment? Just in case whoever did it might've gotten careless or something.

[ So even though Terra has an inkling that the smudged handprint on the kitchen door could be Maya's, is there any way to discern if it could match up with any of the suspects' hands? And if so, how does that do in comparison to them?

That aside, he's also going to be checking people's hands if there's anything strange going on with them. He's going to be looking intently, so show him ur palms and fingernails. ]

[preconstruction]

[ connor offers his hands, which are practically perfect in every way since he's an android and not a person. but terra is welcome to feel them up all he wants. ]

[lovedanime]

[Okay so Mitarai has pissed off Waver and Hank/Connor so now he's been sulking in the corner for a little while, writing up more notes.]

I'd like to provide another timeline if it's not too much trouble for you all to... listen...

[and WATCH because he has COLORED DIAGRAMS to display on his tablet but it turns out this is almost exactly what Waver just said]



We know that at one point Miss Fey was in the common room of the dormitory. After all, her necklace was removed - but the culprit didn't stab her at this point. Which means if they were holding any kind of weapon, it was just the guitar. (Maybe they wanted to look like they weren't armed...) The culprit chased her all the way to the kitchen, where they took a knife [nauseous] stabbed her 28 times... She lost almost all her blood here, and if she survived much longer it was probably just to leave that handprint or something... The knife was put away.

The culprit then brought her body to the garden for a burial. They were covered in blood and dirt at this point as they returned the guitar to the music room. Unless the culprit had some means of disguising their feet, the shoe check shows the person who did that part is either Connor, Alex, or 2D.

I have one more question. The culprit must have not particularly minded getting covered in blood from all this stabbing, with blood remaining on the shovel and guitar as well... so it's very odd to me she wasn't just stabbed in the carotid artery... meaning the neck... you know?

[donotlick]

Kid.... Maya was knocked out before she died. The bump on the back of he head proved it. Plus no one can survive being stabbed that many times. Maya was dead before the killer finished stabbing her, no question.

You also missed the fact that the killer picked up a perfectly good guitar and got blood on it, too.

But yeah, the rest of it makes enough sense.

gait check??

[unhalting]

[Orga takes a few steps back from his desk before speaking.]

Hey. 2-D, Alex, Connor. Come over here; there's somethin' I wanna check.

[Assuming they walk over, Orga will be paying careful attention to their gait; if there's anything unusual about it, if it's particularly idiosyncratic, how long the strides are, etc.]

[pathofconquest]

sure.

[Nothing weird here. He doesn't have a particularly long stride. More short and swift than long.]

[12d3]

[He was doing really good at this point. Trying to keep it completely together. He told himself if he lied enough it'd become the truth, and to a point he didn't even mind lying that much.. it was just like acting, which is a thing musicians have to do when they play in music videos.

But the moment Rebecca looks at him like that-- telling him to speak up he feels as though his breaking point has been hit. All at once, like a dam had been broken, he started to cry.]

I-I didn't.. I-- I didn't..!

[Really unfitting MTB start?]

[devotingly]

You didn't what? Mean to? Because no one that doesn't mean to stabs a person 28 times. What the hell did Fey do to you to deserve that?