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]

[It wasn't detonated, and it was dropped kinda around where the other scattered lighters are.]

[iote]

[Duly noted.

Anything else of note?

[calloperators]

[A couple more things:

First, perhaps lets notably, is a blood trail.]

[iote]

[Ah, that's happy! That's very happy. Presumably that's the same blood trail everyone else has been looking at, leading toward the McDonald's...

...Actually, question about that, just to verify - not like he knows anything about forensics, but he's seen A Lot Of Shit on the battlefield so he'd know the difference, is the blood trail the sort that implies dragging or the sort that falls from a bleeding person moving under their own power?]

[calloperators]

[It's the very same blood trail! And from looks alone, it seems like whoever was bleeding was moving through their own power.]

[iote]

[All right. Obviously it's not possible to discern everything, but apparently this is more "blood falling on ground" and not "somebody dragging a corpse while whistling Dixie." Cool.

Anything else obviously amiss?]

[calloperators]

[One more thing:

There's a cigarette lying on the ground.]

[iote]

[Huh. One that's been lit?]

[calloperators]

[It hasn't been lit, actually.]