Chapter 2: Abnormal Days

[iruy]

Attention everyone! A body has been found! A body! It's in the laboratory room! Hop to it! This is so exciting!

[There's an excited giggle before it cuts off.]

Comments

[kalaaveisto]

[s-so she's...]


[well that's obvious enough given the effects of the acid on her face]

[he feels like wiggly jelly, so he's not even close to moving right now, and he can't bring himself to look away]

Janssen

[(Anonymous)]

[He heard the news that the body had been found and gulped. Another one of us dead.]

[He might as well go see. There's nothing else he can do. If he sulks in his room much longer he's afraid someone will do something about it and he won't be able to escape there anymore.]

[So he comes to see what's happening, staying in the shadows and away from the vat. He knows what it contains, and feels bile rise in his throat.]

teentouch!anon

[(Anonymous)]

Oh... oh no...

/How is she supposed to get this body to the freezer? It looks positively toxic. And the poor girl, she'll be horribly disfigured, even if anything can be done to bring people back. She shudders and lifts her camera./

/She wonders who will see these photos, one day, and if they will be delighted or horrified at what they contain./

[uhn]

[due to the crackling of the fire in the incinerator room he didn't hear the cracking sound, but he did hear the announcement]

[as usual it didn't say where the crime scene is, but since quite a few people appeared to still be having a late breakfast or otherwise spending time on the ground level it seems likely that it happened on the upper floor]

[runs up the stairs, briefly glimpsing into the class rooms on the way, and skids to a stop as he enters the laboratory]


Wh-why are you just looking..!


[pushes past the others, pulls Prudence out of the vat, lays her down on her back and looks around for a towel or something]

[there isn't one in sight, so he untucks his shirt and starts dabbing at her face with it - not rubbing, definitely not rubbing - to soak the blood and the acid up]

[there are far too many fractures in her skin, and where there are none it's like the upper layer of her skin is ready to wash away, and the bleeding won't stop--]

[he's not noticing how much his hands are shaking (and starting to hurt), but there are black spots dancing in his vision, and it suddenly feels difficult to not pass out]

dead body (just to make things more orderly for the investigation)

[(Anonymous)]

[the body is now laying on the ground, left alone after the SHSL Cook got the SHSL Dendrologist away from it]

[the acid damage is pretty bad, but at least it was stopped before it could erase the victim's features]

[the wound on the back of the corpse's head is likely still bleeding, and the snapped, bloody mop is still laying next to the acid vat]

[uhn]

[after getting a break from the crime scene and being (semi-force-)fed boiled potatoes he wants to talk to as many people as possible to help find the culprit]

[but first he stops by in the infirmary to bandage his hands so he'll be able to touch thing without wincing]

[sadly he isn't too skilled, and the first attempt ends up looking more like a mitten than anything else]

[jonahh]

[Jonah was eating cereal at the time of the announcement so forgive him for not showing up right away. He'd rather finish his cereal and digest before seeing anymore corpses, thank you very much]

[But he's in the halls, headed towards the laboratory room to check it out]

[stoled]

[Doot doot wandering around ughhhh]