speaking of against the law - who wants to talk about murders?

[samuraiwomen]

Who: :3
What: Discussing the murders of 9/12 and 9/17
When: 9/18, Evening after all classes and clubs.
Where: The common room of the dorms.
Warnings: Will update...but we're discussing a murder!




[ Some times the next day, Sara starts finding as many people as she can and asking them to please try to be in the dorms this evening. Everything has been chaotic since Clamor's death, and she'd like some clarity.

By sometime after clubs, she's moved Narumi's body out in the common room (perhaps with Akira's help if he was willing), and has started a fire in the fireplace. It's getting chillier at night, and any discussion of a murder mystery plot deserves some ambiance.

She forgot to go get some snacks, but please, feel free to bring some. ]

Comments

[decrypter]

Yes, but with the fact that there were rocks in the pockets of the robe, I think our faker wanted to weigh it down. The eating must have ripped them open, and the floating then came later...salt water is very buoyant, I've read. Things want to float in it more easily.

[can a science guy check this? she can only guess.]

[starrypoint]

[oh interesting salt water facts]

Yeah, but, thinking about it... The other thing that doesn't really match up with the timeframe is how strong the locker rooms and such smell of cleaning stuff, so maybe I'm on the wrong track~.

[decrypter]

Then the corpse wasn't old. The faker must have dropped it in recently, and not expected the eating at all.

[she gestures with the hand that's not holding the cane.]

They knew enough to know the pool was very deep, and could conceal a sunken body. They didn't know there was something inside it that might be hungry - most of us did not, before this. Dumping the body and then cleaning....it would take time for it to sink down that low. Long enough, maybe, to clean as much as you could and then run away.

[silentabyss]

I was asking because, um... I read in a detective novel once, [shut up shuichi is his locker buddy and he wanted to know more about detectives okay,] that corpses... do that. If it was in the water for a couple days, it probably...

[Waves his hand around; what Noah's trying to say is that they can determine how long the body had been in the water prior if corpse bloat is accounted for, which is a disgusting thing that we all have to think about, because the only thing grosser than a burned corpse is a wet burned corpse.]

[decrypter]

That's true...I've read books like that as well.

[hmmm.]

Who actually handled the body when it came up? I didn't - I know there was a crowd around it, but I was distracted by other things.

[mermaidcursed]

Rika-chan and I were the ones who did... But I don't think it was bloated? Just... burnt all the way through.

[starrypoint]

Gross. So I guess that's moot, huh?

[hmmmm... mmmmm.]

I guess... we don't really know all that, so we can leave it aside for now and focus on what went down with the fake Clamor-san himself?

[since they have a better picture, and at the very least the connecting factor is the cult activity between the materials found and the robes.

-- oh right he'll, direct the next bit to noah.]

If you're good to listen in on all this, I mean. The person who did it got what was comin' to them, but it's not great that Clamor-san ended up the way he did 'cause of it.

[silentabyss]

...I'll be fine.

[Like, as fine as he can be about this whole thing.]

I want to know what happened. Otherwise... I'll just be lost and upset forever.

[crystallomancy]

( noah's courageous. natsume sighs, shifting awkwardly with subaru against his side. )

...Well, let's try to clear some things up THEN.