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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[It is! There's some other things in the lab that's not near the window that seem pretty suspicious. Who leaves a lint roller in a lab?]

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[ Alright, let's check that out. Where's it sitting, and does it look like it has actually been used to roll some lint recently? ]

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[It's on a table in about the middle of the room. There's white and black hair on it, centered mostly around the center.]

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[ Yeah, that's about what she expected. She'll take that with her, but for now... Is there anything else on the table that looks out of place? ]

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[There's a yellow biohazard bag that's hanging up in a corner but it looks rather beaten up.]

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[ She'll examine the exterior of the bag before checking its contents. In what way does it look beaten up? Bloodied, torn, etc? ]

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[There's blood on the inside but it looks like something bit it from the outside.

After you finish looking at the bag, there's a scalpel on the table near where you found the lint roller that I forgot to mention.]

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[ Just blood, huh? No bloodied objects or anything like that?

Also is the scalpel clean or dirtied in some fashion? ]

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[Nope.

Also the scalpel is rather clean. Maybe just a few strands of rope stuck to it.]

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[ Okay, one quick clarification about the hazard bag, then. Does the blood on the inside look like someone bled directly into it, or more like there was a bloodied object in it that has since been removed? Like is it smeared or just kind of pure splatter, basically. ]

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[More like smeared, yes.]