First Investigation [Night 3]

[calloperators]

[Having a good sleep, everyone? Hopefully it wasn't that good because around 3 AM there will be a loud explosion from outside the motel. Even those who sleep like the dead couldn't sleep through that. And if you're thinking of just pretending that you imagined it and going back to sleep, there is also a faint glow, like from a fire outside the motel.

Well that's probably not a good sign.

Investigate?]

Comments

[calloperators]

[Rather fittingly, the kind of mask they're wearing instantly identifies them: a gas mask. But the mask seems strangely warped now, like it was hit by something.

The Pyro is dead.]

[rangerslayer]

[ Biting back a curse, Kimberly arrives shortly after, slinking forward to get a better look.

And then wishing she hadn't. ]

Oh, no... Oh, buddy.

[advancements]

[Hi, Kimberly. Xander will take a step back, since he's not exactly good at dealing with bodies.]

I had really hoped nothing would happen to them.

[Or to any of us, but especially Pyro.]

[rangerslayer]

Yeah. Me neither.

[ She, on the other hand, doesn't step away. She's...actually pretty used to bodies. ]

[orforfun]

[...aw shit, he’s aboe to observe from some distance.]

...would he want to be cremated?

[boxingbuff]

...Huh. He's dead.

[Taking this utterly brutal scene in, Ladd shrugs.]

Looks like that suit of theirs did a fat lot of good.

[iote]

[Michalis will...well, he'll be there eventually; all of this is a little difficult to ignore. He doesn't seem to be having much of a reaction, however; he just...watches - the burning vehicle, the people nearer to the body.

He's seen and done this before. Dealing with death, the finding of a body like this. He's here, but he's not exactly available right now.]

I was wondering how long it would take before this started happening.

[boxingbuff]

[Oh joy, another person that's used to All Of This.]

Yeah? Guess some people just needed the right incentive.

[iote]

It would appear so. Although I wouldn't have been surprised if this had happened without, given the circumstances.

[boxingbuff]

No matter what, it's definitely an explosive start to things. Someone must have really wanted that masked schmuck dead!

[Yes, he went there.]

[iote]

[That's. Fine. That's a thing that you just said, but fortunately for everybody it's entirely too early for him to slap the disrespect out of your mouth so he's just going to keep staring at the fire and the...that, the all of that.]

...I'm not certain about that.

[boxingbuff]

[It definitely is a thing that he just said. Ladd is, fortunately, not firing on all cylinders right now, either. So that's about as far as he'll go for now.]

Come on, look at the big picture! Explosions like that just don't happen for any dumb reason.