♪ my class trial, our class trial ♫

[heroicpolonaise]

Who: Everyone + Hiro if ori wants
When: January 12th, then anytime past January 15th
Where: Common Room
What: please let's wake steph and also maybe prove miyuki innocent if he really is
Warnings: tbd

[there is no gentle way to do this on the pda.

but you know what that is perfectly fine they were doing CSI rp earlier what's one more--]

All hands, round up.

Think we've got as much as we can right now, so let's settle in and work it out -- together. Come to the usual meet-up spot as soon as you can, and we're not leaving until the perp's worked out. Bring your own joe and a wit sharp as can be, because we are in for the long haul.

Detective Akamatsu, signing out.

[...

a-anyway.

meng yao's done his best to preserve one (1) stephanie meanswell and she's currently laying on the couch in a state some may find familiar and others not at all, but she's very much alive -- if barely. have your shock and surprise, this is going to be once all evidence is collected icly. also after noah and kaede make a grave for miss vp god rest her soul.

...

hiro is allowed to be here, if he wants, if only because part of this is his sister's death and one of y'all had BETTER take care of him.

there are no snacks, no drinks unless you byoj (bring your own joe), and kaede will wait until... all or presumably all are filed in before she speaks.]

I hate to say this, but you all are easily more experienced with this than I am... Still, there's no reason to wait on this when one of our classmates has turned up dead, and another [she is assuming stephanie is theirs] is in the state that she is. I don't want to think one of us had anything to do with it, but turning away from the truth only invites more pain--

So let's lay out what we know and try not to go at each others' throats about it.

[please. even the most unbelievable, impossible happenings have roots to them, and she wants it solved -- not just for hiro's sake, who's pain is something she can barely imagine, but for stephanie and the vice principal, too.]

[links:

○ investigative miroboard
○ round up one
○ round up two

Comments

[heroicpolonaise]

[an arm... and just an arm.]

Ebalon-kun and I didn't find anything like that ourselves. [thank god.] I didn't think we had animals here though.

[at least, the other forest hadn't had any by noah's words; was it different now?]

[crystallomancy]

( .... )

Well, there was the WOLF, but I thought that was merely from a memoRY. Granted, they did bring the head back to hang up as a barbaric troPHY, but STILL.

[dokkans]

[ Her ears perked up. There was a what, now? ]

If there's one, there's no reason there couldn't be another. If any animal were to leave a vicious message behind, it'd be a wolf.

[ She sounds remarkably less happy at that idea. ]

[heroicpolonaise]

We haven't seen any evidence of a wolf around at all though, have we? Not going to school normally anyway, and it's not like something big enough to eat a person could just walk anywhere and leave no trace at all.

[sounds like someones got something against wolves wonder why]

[dokkans]

You never know. It's not like you can count on anything surrounding this school to be normal.

--But you're right. I'd be disappointed if there had been evidence that I missed.

[ That means a wolf's been alive around here, and that's not good!!! ]

[heroicpolonaise]

[well, that's true at least. this place is... unique.]

Still, it's good to keep in mind. I won't strike any possibility off the list, because you never know how likely it might turn out to be.

[even wolves. or ghost wolves.]

You don't really seem fond of wolves, but... you seem more familiar with them than most of us could be. Do they normally get big enough to eat a person?

[dokkans]

Some, may be. Truthfully, at that point you're not dealing with your garden variety wolf. I'll admit that I wouldn't be sure unless I saw it, but if the wolves here are like they were in Makai, then it's absolutely likely.

[ Not that she'd planned to actually see any Darkstalkers here, but she wouldn't be surprised. This was purgatory, after all. ]

[crystallomancy]

Wolves are just stupid aniMALS. They can't leave messages for anyONE, no more than a cat or a dog COULD.

[dokkans]

First off, dogs are very smart. They understand you and are super cute.

[ Neither of which proves her point, but the last point is the most important, naturally. ]

Second, wolves are disgusting creatures, but underestimating them like that just leaves you open for them.

[crystallomancy]

Where do you think dogs came FROM?

( the way this doesn't matter )

[dokkans]

Heaven, of course!

[ look she doesnt have pictures of her dog to show off but she'll defend him to the death!!!!

with all the relevance that has to this investigation, ofc ]

[heroicpolonaise]

We can discuss our animal preferences later, guys. Let's focus on the task at hand right now.

[though dogs are cute.]

[crystallomancy]

It's relevant to the discusSION. She can't claim wolves are beasts and in the same breath say dogs are wonderful little creatures when they're the same THING.

[heroicpolonaise]

Sakasaki-kun, you don't really think that going back and forth about the evolutionary line of canines is gonna help us save Stephanie-san or figure out what happened to Arisu-san, do you?

[crystallomancy]

( ...no, so he sinks further next to hiro and doesn't look at kaede, hands clenching and unclenching in his lap instead. )

[heroicpolonaise]

[...

she's not sure how close they were, but evidently enough. her tone softens, a little apologetic.]

We'll figure it out. What happened, who did it, how we can save at least one of our classmates... Nothing's impossible as long as we put our heads together. Don't feel like you can't speak up if you have something in mind, okay?

[crystallomancy]

Is it in fashion to give some sort of protagonistic little pep-talk at meetings nowaDAYS? First Add-kun, and now YOU, Akamatsu-san.

( I'm............. SORRY. )

[commences]

( staring......................................... )

[crystallomancy]

One-hundred-and-ten-percent WRONG. They're descended from WOLVES. Humans domesticated them tens of thousands of years aGO.

( meanwhile cats, the superior animal, are only domesticated as much as they want to be. good little angels. )

[starrypoint]

Dogs and wolves are real smart though, Natsume, you can point a laser at a cat and it'll active its prey drive.

[little idiots.]

[crystallomancy]

Opening your mouth is the direct equivalent right NOW, Baru-kun.

( :) )

[starrypoint]

[hm!]

'Kay.

[as terrifying as ever when he's mad... who is subaru beside. he doesn't care he's curling more towards them to hide hello]

[heroicpolonaise]

[...

gross.]

Right, well... that's one animal lead, but if it's dead, then it shouldn't be able to eat anyone -- much less if it's just the head they... brought back.

[bet it was a group of guys. why are guys so weird. what do you need to pick up dead things for.]

[crystallomancy]

( yes, thank you. )

Not according to a certain Ghibli moVIE, but I'll give you that was right after she DIED, rather than months after the FACT.

[notsosou]

[He does have to jump in here, even though he doesn't like thinking about the wolf At All.]

We brought back one head. It had eight.

[Seven, now. He knows how ridiculous it sounds, but this thing is real and it killed someone in front of him; he's not going to forget that even months after the fact.]

This thing... whatever it is, a wolf's really only what it looks like. And... we've known it could have been loose here since August. [Someone who went to the meeting where he detailed why jump in please.] Though why it's striking now is anyone's guess...