FOURTH INVESTIGATION

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INVESTIGATION

Good morning!

...Except it really isn't a good morning for the students at Ira Academy, after all. The deadline prescribed in this week's motive came just as quickly as the one's before it. It might be difficult to repel the sinking sense of dread that bleeds into Friday's early hours. That secret written on a slip of paper might even feel heavier for some. Perhaps it's Father's hate-filled words instead: I’m getting a little antsy about your performance. Do something to spice things up, won’t you? By now, is a grisly discovery every Friday morning a guarantee?

Though you're surely awake at the same time as usual--if you slept at all--there's a certain gloomier, late-year feeling to the artificial light keeping the Academy illuminated and providing the illusion of a complete world outside. There are no real seasons to speak of in this part of Closetland; one step into the playground proves that easily enough. And yet, as you emerge from your rooms, free to go wherever you wish today, it's hard to deny it. You've been enrolled here for quite a while, and time has passed.

Will autumn come and go before you get out of here?

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[Nothing about the bubble wrapper itself but rather where it's hooked around his neck--there's ligature marks around his neck except for the right side where the bubble wrapper is.]

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[...Ligature marks.

Do they look like they could have been made from something specific? Or are they too generalized to tell?]

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[If you compare them to the jump ropes in this area, they seem about the same width.

Also, clarification! The Puppy Bubble Wrapper is very beat up looking. Dings, scratches, dents. Maybe the mod forgot light tricked you. There seems to be other things off about this body.]

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[He will absolutely be checking those ropes after the body, but.

Yeah, that the wrapper is beat up is very...hm. And he'll go back to it to double-check something, but first, body.

What else is up with his friend?]

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[For one, he has cuts and bruises all over his body, with glass shards embedded in the cuts.

There's a piece of plastic in his teeth that looks a little odd. There's... more, too. Continue looking?]

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[Hang on a sec, he's going to get a plastic baggie from the nearest Plastic Bag Depository(TM) and get that...weird piece of plastic out. Also noting those shards and cuts and...and bruises.

He's not liking the picture this is painting at all.

He then continues looking.]

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[As you get that piece of plastic from between his teeth... there's a bio-hazard symbol on it.

There's wooden splinters in his paw pads and also his tail looks bruised if you press his fur out of the way. It's not broken but it looks pretty beat up. The only real place without injury is where the Puppy Bubble Wrapper was.]

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Man...who did this to you...

[This is all getting written down with Nicole, that's for sure. This is just. Insane. Who would do this to him!?

Is there anything else on the body?

And, if there isn't.

Does the Puppy Bubble Wrapper even work anymore?]

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[There doesn't seem to be anything else on the body. It does work, though!]

[canreallymove]

[Well, he's going to bring it back to his room, then.

Is there anything else in the room while we're at it?]

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[It's clear!]