Comic 581 - Look closer at the canister
Posted on 14th Nov 2017, 9:00 PM
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As you're carrying the corpse, you update the others--specifically mentioning the red thread. You ask if any of them have heard about any serial killers with similar behavior.
"I'm afraid I'm not too well versed in the world of serial killers," Dr. Finch says, "but but but I DO ████e a computer handy. I'll see if I can dig up anything invo██ing that particular modus operandi."
You feel... a buzzing? Like a humming noise that seems to drown out some of his words. It almost sounds like radio static, but... in your head.
"You alr██ht in there, Blondie?," Michelle asks. "I ██ly got part of t█at."
With the body moved, you can see the canister more clearly. There is a Zone Fifty logo printed on the side of it.
Fuse looks to you, having taken a glance through the window of the bloodied door. "There's, uh... an eyeball stuck to the desk in there with a needle. Looks like there's something written on the chalk board, too, but I can't make it out from here."
Your hair begins to frizz and rise again.
Get away from the canister, hurry over to Fuse (so he's got our back) and tell everyone you're experiencing some weird buzzing in your head?
Should we ask Red what the heck is going on in our head right now? >_> She tends to have a better grasp on these sorts of things.
Otherwise better focus on blocking it out because this is not good.
I just figure she's less likely to trigger Explosive Runes or Sepia Snake Sigil or whatever nasty stuff must be written there, but we need to look to see in case there's some kind of clue.
We need info on countering psychic powers, stat. Ask Fuse what he knows, ask Finch, Caius, Michelle, and while we do that, look for the psychic so we can start distracting them from using their powers as soon as possible.
Let's continue towards the "front" of the school, weapons ready (I think the fire extinguisher works nicely as a shield as well as a weapon so mainly just gun out for Fuse). At this point we've got a good idea of what we're dealing with (mutant/lab experiment) and should try to meet up with Michelle and Caius.
As long as they're grouped up, we should probably have them try to come to us as well; provided we can still communicate with them.
Also we should quickly rest that floating eye back in the plant facing the exit backdoor to keep an eye on that.
Since I'm punning already and an update too late: I've heard of being strangled by the red string of fate but this is ridiculous.
...hrm. Do we have any devices.
Check the spatter pattern against the angle of attack and measurements of the droplet dispersal to find the angle of original incident.
Errr... I mean....
If the pattern is clean enough, the source of one or more injuries that produced the blood could be found, as well. (That is, the position inside the room the blood came from.)
The shape of the spatter tells the velocity (longer= more force) The impact disruption)smaller splats around the core splat, can tell the height that the blood fell, and the direction of the spatter can give a direction to triangulate as the source.
Is the blood being hacked somehow?
They might have made something equivalent to lead that blood transmissions cannot pass through etc.