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eastbound2023-01-30 01:38 pm
clavesregni) wrote in eastbound2023-01-30 01:38 pm
video; un: hopscotch
[Caitlyn has found a small corner somewhere in the Wards that she's turned into a personal headquarters. Several sheets of paper, covered in incomprehensibly messy scribbles, are stuck to the walls, and there's plenty of room for more to come. She's even found some colored string somewhere and has started to make connections between the papers with the strings.
She speaks very enthusiastically. Nothing makes Caitlyn's whole being light up like detective work.]
I've begun working on solving the series of murders that have occurred here over the last eleven weeks.
The victims were all male, between the ages of twenty-two and thirty-five. There are no other obvious connections between the victims, no common physical characteristics, profession, or origin. We'll need to dig if we want to find any commonalities apart from sex and a rough age range. And, with only five victims, we can't entirely rule out the idea that the commonalities we do know of may be coincidental.
There are rumors circulating of someone referred to as the 'Reaper,' who is punishing the people here for abandoning their duty. I don't know if that's the killer's true motivation; why kill only young men? There's something more going on here.
There are two clear points of interest:
First, none of the victims have an obvious cause of death. Some have wounds, but nothing that would be fatal under normal circumstances, and none appear to have been ill. How is the Reaper killing the victims?
Second, all have a white string tied around their wrists. This must be some sort of calling card, though what it means is not yet clear. If we can determine the meaning of the string, it could give us an insight into the killer's motivations and perhaps their identity.
I suggest we collaborate in our work to find the killer.
She speaks very enthusiastically. Nothing makes Caitlyn's whole being light up like detective work.]
I've begun working on solving the series of murders that have occurred here over the last eleven weeks.
The victims were all male, between the ages of twenty-two and thirty-five. There are no other obvious connections between the victims, no common physical characteristics, profession, or origin. We'll need to dig if we want to find any commonalities apart from sex and a rough age range. And, with only five victims, we can't entirely rule out the idea that the commonalities we do know of may be coincidental.
There are rumors circulating of someone referred to as the 'Reaper,' who is punishing the people here for abandoning their duty. I don't know if that's the killer's true motivation; why kill only young men? There's something more going on here.
There are two clear points of interest:
First, none of the victims have an obvious cause of death. Some have wounds, but nothing that would be fatal under normal circumstances, and none appear to have been ill. How is the Reaper killing the victims?
Second, all have a white string tied around their wrists. This must be some sort of calling card, though what it means is not yet clear. If we can determine the meaning of the string, it could give us an insight into the killer's motivations and perhaps their identity.
I suggest we collaborate in our work to find the killer.
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It could be poison. There are poisons that leave few or no physical traces. There's also suffocation - that can be done without leaving a mark, at least hypothetically. They could have died of fright.
Without someone to conduct a full autopsy, it's difficult to say.
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And it's true that too much adrenaline could kill but is that something that can be replicated so many times successfully?
[She sighed a little.]
Ah...getting an autopsy really would make things easier...
no subject
[She scowls, examining one of the pages on which she has some of her notes about the physical condition of the bodies.]
A supernatural method of inducing an adrenaline rush so extreme it could cause a heart attack would be replicable. Under non-magical circumstances, perhaps not.
1/2
[Which is a lie because she does. (It's her.) And then, feeling a little bad she adds,] At least, not someone who would have done it! [Because, again, it's her and she thinks she'd know if she's been on a murder spree!!]
2/2
The abilities I know of are all psychic powers rather than magic so I don't think it'd leave a magical trace...and really, I don't know anyone here who is also an esper! But someone with psychometry would probably be able to detect traces.
[...but, you know.]
How recent was the last death?
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What's the difference between psychic powers and magical? And what's an esper?
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...sort of. But they really wouldn't have done anything like this! I promise!
[She definitely can promise that she didn't use her powers to kill anyone!
...not here! And she wouldn't ever do anything like that again!]
An esper is someone who can use psychic powers. Um, as for how it's different...I'm not sure I know enough about how magic works outside of books and videogames but psychic powers come from the psychic centre in the brain. So the potential to use it is something someone is born with. So the source of the power isn't any kind of magic.
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No, never mind.]
I suspect magic works differently in every world. If this sort of psychic power exists only in your world, and if you're certain that the person you know isn't involved, then in all likelihood that's not what this is.
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[She mimics how it would look like to hold a controller but maybe that's not helpful at all.]
...I am very certain it wasn't that person. [Because it's her.] But, if it's something similar that person may be able to sense it.
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It doesn't matter much, in any case, so she continues on to the thing she really cares about.]
And would... that person... be willing to take a look at any bodies that may appear?
no subject
[She'll just have to.......be discreet.]