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You approach the body. You aren't going to do an autopsy or anything, but maybe if you find some sort of wound, you could derive some clue from that.
You never really knew her, you don't really know anyone here, so you aren't terribly shaken up by this. Your heart is pounding in your chest, and you've been under a cold sweat ever since you heard of a murder, but you're still able to think clearly. Secretly, you've always liked the idea of being Batman, the world's greatest detective, so you're not opposed to the idea. Seeing a dead body up close, however, is still repugnant.
You suppose that rule #1 is to not touch anything. That might disturb the scene of the crime and destroy evidence. Fortunately, she's far enough away from the table so that you can navigate completely around her, and her chair, without touching anything. From the back of the chair, you can see that it has been pierced with something. A trickle of blood oozes out the back from a small, vertical slit. Possibly from a sword?
You don't notice any holes in her abdomen, where the other side of the piercing would have been made, but that's probably normal, because her whole abdomen is saturated with blood. You'd have to move her clothes around to see if there's a slit, but you don't want to do that. You think you might disturb the scene, perhaps. Also, you'd want gloves. You conclude that she was stabbed in the upper abdomen, perhaps right in the stomach.
The blond guy is standing some distance away, letting you do all the work, apparently.
"She was stabbed through abdominal aorta, probably by a sword. Passed out almost immediately. Bled to death afterwards."
You look up at him, from your squatting position.
"X-ray portal. There's a dimension out there that's lousy with radioactivity. You might wanna stand back, you could get cancer or something"
Well, then. You look for signs of a struggle elsewhere. The top of the giant table might make a good battleground. Maybe if you see some slashes on the top of the table, the sword hypothesis would be even stronger. You hoist yourself on top, after removing your shoes (people eat on this thing), and walk around. The table, apart from the edges, seems to be carved from a solid piece of wood, like a ring from a massive tree. It's face is intricately carved with deep gouges. There are scenes and people carved into it, scenes of battle against giant monsters. The carvings are so deep, it's difficult for you to keep your footing and not roll an ankle. You don't spot any evidence of a struggle, so you return to the floor.
You ask if there should have been more signs of a struggle, or if it was possibly a sneak attack, perhaps through the back of the chair.
"It wasn't from the back, it was from the front. She pressed herself into the chair, not away from it, so she was trying to get away from the blade, her assailant. It wouldn't have been a sneak attack."
What if it was from the front, but she just wasn't expecting it? What if it was someone she trusted?
"Could have been. But then that would be a surprise attack, rather than a sneak attack. There's a subtle difference."
"...Here, there's something you should know. You'll be taught this later, in the chair, but for now, do you remember when that purple fire covered the room? That's a disruption field. It's made when portals open inside portals. The result is interference, which means you can't use powers if you're inside of one of these fields. You can apply this to objects too. You could, for example, coat a sword with a disruption field.
Let me back up a bit. You were offered the power to be bulletproof, remember? That power involves forming a portal around your skin that leads to a solid space, so bullets would go into a dimension where there isn't any space to move around in instead of hitting you.
Disruption fields close portals, so if a sword coated with one were to come into contact with this shield, it would cut through it and hurt you. We all have these shields on, all the time, even when we sleep. Nobody can really hurt us with a bullet or sword unless a disruption field is used. That's how Enforcers really fight: With physical weapons."
So either the room or the weapon was disrupted, which would bypass her defenses?
"That's what I think. It should have been the weapon, because if it were the room, she would be on the alert."
To you, that doesn't change much about the physicality of what happened. She was stabbed without a struggle. You ask if anyone is partial to the sword. He tells you that the lady uses a specific type of straight saber called a backsword. The messy-haired man uses a knife, on occasion. He uses a gun, which you would think would be the most effective, but he tells you that it's situational. You don't know what that means, but that's beside the point. Both twins have never been known to use physical weapons.
The knife would be too small to stab through both her and the chair, so your prime suspect appears to be the lady, though it's not solid evidence, as anyone could pick up a sword, couldn't they? You have means, but you don't have motive. Opportunity is a given, since nobody has an alibi.
Perhaps you could find out if anyone would have a reason for doing this
A) Interview her sister, also a suspect
B) Interview her Ambassadors
C) Interview the lady, your prime suspect for the time being
D) Interview the messy-haired man
E) Interview the blond guy
You approach the body. You aren't going to do an autopsy or anything, but maybe if you find some sort of wound, you could derive some clue from that.
You never really knew her, you don't really know anyone here, so you aren't terribly shaken up by this. Your heart is pounding in your chest, and you've been under a cold sweat ever since you heard of a murder, but you're still able to think clearly. Secretly, you've always liked the idea of being Batman, the world's greatest detective, so you're not opposed to the idea. Seeing a dead body up close, however, is still repugnant.
You suppose that rule #1 is to not touch anything. That might disturb the scene of the crime and destroy evidence. Fortunately, she's far enough away from the table so that you can navigate completely around her, and her chair, without touching anything. From the back of the chair, you can see that it has been pierced with something. A trickle of blood oozes out the back from a small, vertical slit. Possibly from a sword?
You don't notice any holes in her abdomen, where the other side of the piercing would have been made, but that's probably normal, because her whole abdomen is saturated with blood. You'd have to move her clothes around to see if there's a slit, but you don't want to do that. You think you might disturb the scene, perhaps. Also, you'd want gloves. You conclude that she was stabbed in the upper abdomen, perhaps right in the stomach.
The blond guy is standing some distance away, letting you do all the work, apparently.
"She was stabbed through abdominal aorta, probably by a sword. Passed out almost immediately. Bled to death afterwards."
You look up at him, from your squatting position.
"X-ray portal. There's a dimension out there that's lousy with radioactivity. You might wanna stand back, you could get cancer or something"
Well, then. You look for signs of a struggle elsewhere. The top of the giant table might make a good battleground. Maybe if you see some slashes on the top of the table, the sword hypothesis would be even stronger. You hoist yourself on top, after removing your shoes (people eat on this thing), and walk around. The table, apart from the edges, seems to be carved from a solid piece of wood, like a ring from a massive tree. It's face is intricately carved with deep gouges. There are scenes and people carved into it, scenes of battle against giant monsters. The carvings are so deep, it's difficult for you to keep your footing and not roll an ankle. You don't spot any evidence of a struggle, so you return to the floor.
You ask if there should have been more signs of a struggle, or if it was possibly a sneak attack, perhaps through the back of the chair.
"It wasn't from the back, it was from the front. She pressed herself into the chair, not away from it, so she was trying to get away from the blade, her assailant. It wouldn't have been a sneak attack."
What if it was from the front, but she just wasn't expecting it? What if it was someone she trusted?
"Could have been. But then that would be a surprise attack, rather than a sneak attack. There's a subtle difference."
"...Here, there's something you should know. You'll be taught this later, in the chair, but for now, do you remember when that purple fire covered the room? That's a disruption field. It's made when portals open inside portals. The result is interference, which means you can't use powers if you're inside of one of these fields. You can apply this to objects too. You could, for example, coat a sword with a disruption field.
Let me back up a bit. You were offered the power to be bulletproof, remember? That power involves forming a portal around your skin that leads to a solid space, so bullets would go into a dimension where there isn't any space to move around in instead of hitting you.
Disruption fields close portals, so if a sword coated with one were to come into contact with this shield, it would cut through it and hurt you. We all have these shields on, all the time, even when we sleep. Nobody can really hurt us with a bullet or sword unless a disruption field is used. That's how Enforcers really fight: With physical weapons."
So either the room or the weapon was disrupted, which would bypass her defenses?
"That's what I think. It should have been the weapon, because if it were the room, she would be on the alert."
To you, that doesn't change much about the physicality of what happened. She was stabbed without a struggle. You ask if anyone is partial to the sword. He tells you that the lady uses a specific type of straight saber called a backsword. The messy-haired man uses a knife, on occasion. He uses a gun, which you would think would be the most effective, but he tells you that it's situational. You don't know what that means, but that's beside the point. Both twins have never been known to use physical weapons.
The knife would be too small to stab through both her and the chair, so your prime suspect appears to be the lady, though it's not solid evidence, as anyone could pick up a sword, couldn't they? You have means, but you don't have motive. Opportunity is a given, since nobody has an alibi.
Perhaps you could find out if anyone would have a reason for doing this
A) Interview her sister, also a suspect
B) Interview her Ambassadors
C) Interview the lady, your prime suspect for the time being
D) Interview the messy-haired man
E) Interview the blond guy