January mini-event

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01/12 06:00

✽ The silence breaks at six to welcome in another crisp Wednesday morning. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and there's a surprise waiting for anyone who decides to sludge through the snow to inspect the area in front of the auditorium outside. There's a deep indentation in the snow, just large enough for a frozen, charred body to fit in.
✽ There are a total of three bodies to find. All three bodies have now been found.

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[notsosou]

Checking here so that the aforementioned fan-spraying can continue uninterrupted, but do the mysterious blonde hair and Miyuki's match?

[adsum]

It's a perfect match.

[notsosou]

Okay asking also because it just occurred to me, what colour is the Vice President's hair?

[adsum]

The Vice President has the standard black hair and brown eyes.

[crystallomancy]

crawls here at almost 7am to ask some things i finally remembered to

1. i am not looking this up but i figure there's probably some kind of difference visually between hands that have had nails hammered-in vs once that have had them put in via other means (like a nail gun or brute force or some other implement idk). is there any kind of trauma or bruising to suggest the former anywhere where the nails were, or is it pretty clean, or etc?
2. how long are the nails used here, i'm just curious, every time i try to look up framing nails for visual reference they're like The Really Long Ones and i'm like closes eyes

[adsum]

The entire job seems to have been neatly done. The puncture wounds themselves are clean; however, there are probably impressions from where the nail head was on her skin. Clean, but overdone, as the nails seem to have been dug in deeper than necessary. It doesn't seem all that different than when a person taps a nail into wood just a couple times too many, causing it to sink into and splinter the wood.

They are long nails! What you're seeing is more or less accurate. They're long enough to pierce through skin and joints and secure it to a ceiling.

[notsosou]

Double checking since Komaeda asked during the meeting, but is Maya's hair burnt or singed in any way?

[adsum]

Nope! Her hair is neither burnt nor singed.

[notsosou]

Another thought connected to the same thing, but was Maya's uniform wet apart from the blood?

[adsum]

No, her uniform was otherwise dry.

[notsosou]

Another thing I'm declaring he's retroactively checked; were the windows open or showing signs of having recently been opened, like the latches left up, signs of an object scraping/brushing against the sill or a handprint pushing them outwards?

[adsum]

There are no obvious signs of an object having brushed up against it; the window is locked tight and wiped clean. There are signs of corrosion on the latches.

[notsosou]

There is.... so much rust, hot damn. Also CAN the student council room be locked from the inside?

[adsum]

It can be locked while a person is inside of the room, and it can be locked while a person is outside using the key. But it can only be locked from the side the person is currently on - so it wouldn't be possible to, say, click the lock and pull the door shut behind you.

[notsosou]

Also double checking, we know the mysterious blonde hairs are in there, but are there also black hairs, like Ishimaru and the rest of the student council would have, and how are they distributed if so?

[adsum]

There were the typical black hairs in the room as well from the other student council members, including Maya and Ishimaru. It's roughly what you'd expect in a room that's frequented by the same people - there might be some scattered near furniture or on it, such as on the chairs, or a person might have gotten their hair caught on a furniture joint and now it's just there forever, etc.

[notsosou]

Another quick Q, Shin only vaguely knows of rigor mortis, but when he was looking at the hand and they were taking the body down, was it stiff?

[adsum]

Yes, the hands would have been stiff. The body is in a state of postmortem rigidity.

[notsosou]

Sweet, while I'm here, were there signs of it's less famous cousin, livor mortis? Shin doesn't know about this one, but if there was discoloration and that blanching while they moved the body, it's something for him to be 'huh' about at the time and someone who does know about it to potentially ask later.

[adsum]

Yes, there would be fully discernible livor mortis in addition to the skin damage.

[notsosou]

We're kind of having trouble with what's meant by fully discernible. Is it lighter or darker? Is there blanching? Also while I'm here was the stiffness just starting to set in or like, fully there-there?

[adsum]

I'll need more details on how thorough the search was, if they checked under clothes, which body parts, etc, in order to answer this.

[crystallomancy]

crawls back here

me: natsume wouldn't look under her clothes he respects her


anyway,

he checked the obvious areas first: head, back of head, neck, legs, and as for anything else... probably lifted the back of her shirt to look at her back too, but he wouldn't do the front because he has propriety even if she's dead. frontside more of the same for the limbs (face rather than head though, neck, legs, etc). thorough but he's a proper young man

[adsum]

Natsume is a good kid, I give him and Hiro permission to kill the person who killed Maya.

The body has red splotches covering it already due to the blistered areas, but there will be bluish-purple patches on the front side of her limbs, and the non-damaged parts of her skin are pale. The skin is blanchable. I'm assuming that there were impressions on the extremities and joints as they're squished between nail heads and a ceiling. The stiffness is there-there. It's fully settled into the extremities and is present in the limbs/larger muscle groups.

I'll also note that the blisters and skin damage that were observed on the visible skin are also present on her back.

[notsosou]

Rotating back in time to when Shin was checking desks and things, was there anything on the desks themselves?