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09/17 06:00

It's early Friday morning, the silence lifted but still a while before npc students will start coming to school. The door to the student store remains locked, despite always being propped open by a doorstop first thing in the morning, like clockwork. In the pool building, the lights automatically switch on for the day, illuminating the water below.

A large black shape floats in the middle of the pool, air trapped in the fabric wrapped and tangled around it.

OOC

✽ Please use the toplevel below for investigations
✽ This mini event ties into last week's murder, which ICly occurred Sunday morning, and clues from both investigations in conjunction will help point to a culprit
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The blood stain is towards the door end, and then the smear starts through the chalk circles, passing Narumi's body, and up to the window. And yeah, he can see that the direction is towards the window, comparing the smeared chalk to the solid portions on either side.

So with the way things are laid out, is the blood stain close enough to the start of any visible smear signs to reasonably assume MAYBE the same person whose blood that is was either the one being dragged or the one doing the dragging? Or is there still some distance between the blood and the circles that maybe... it isn't conclusive and one should keep that in mind?

It's maybe possible, yes? The blood smear is a bit away from the chalk circles, but it's a short smear and there aren't any other drops of splatters to be found that would suggest active bleeding for a very long time. The circles are both smeared by something being dragged through it and also with footprints of somebody walking around, but in no particular/discernable direction.

OKAY that makes sense, I guess I was wondering since there's a vague direction for the smears, does it look like whatever got dragged was coming *from* the blood, or does it look more like the blood is somewhere on the sidelines while the direction suggested just kinda runs past it?

Idk if this is the actual layout so it's just an example but I thiiink this should illustrate what I mean bc listen... sometimes words alone fail me I'm crying.