Wouldn't it be easier to pick a word to use in the subject area of a post? Like if you said "Right then"?

>>4
Yes, that could work too. It doesn't really matter what it is as long as everyone agrees to it.

>>5
A word in the subject field seems the best to me too, it's noticeable on first glance but its meaning can only be picked up by those who know, if it's something like "Right then".
I think that using "Anyway" on the subject field as the start of a sentence is as good indicator as any. whaddaya think

>>6
Sounds reasonable.

>>6
Also, I have the lingering doubt that something's gonna happen if I'm alone with Takano. Can't say I trust her very much right now, nor any of the staff, actually. So if the culprit shows up, I doubt she's gonna be of any real help.

Also, about the culprit and Ozaki's slash, I have some doubt about whether Ozaki was actually slashed or not by the culprit or if he didn't do it on purpose, dunno why.

Anyway, if it was someone else, then does that forcefully means a person X is in the clinic ? Maybe it was one of the kids, but... I dunno, seems unlikely, at least for Ozaki's assault.

>>8
Mm, he does seem pretty suspicious. His story doesn't make a lot of sense, and Takano should have seen the culprit who assaulted him. Of course she could be lying too.

The fact that his story happened "off-screen" (i.e. outside of the main thread) would seem to suggest that he is at least hiding something about it, otherwise why would that part of the story not have been in the main topic like with the intro? The very fact that we didn't see his PoV makes it suspicious.

At any rate, we can reorder the groups if you really don't want to be alone with Takano. I'm starting to wonder what the point of splitting up was in the first place, but oh well.

I believe splitting up would work best. This ensures that the culprit, if still around the area we're in can't just constantly switch rooms over and over again until we lose him. If all of us were in one room, the culprit could easily exit and head to another room.

>>10
That's true, although I'm kind of doubtful that we'll actually find the culprit. He could easily have retreated into the basement or office by now. Looking for him is more of an excuse to go and investigate the area than anything.

Splitting up is probably worthwhile if only because the thread runs more smoothly if different people are doing different things. If everyone's crowded into one room we're all probably just going to end up performing the same actions as each other and the investigation will just move slower in general.

Let's just drop the arguing for now, this is getting nowhere and it's just going to block us if we keep this up. If we really want to check Takano's files, we better make this here, like someone sneaking out of the group ( for bathroom or some shit ) and then using this board to look through the files.
Ozaki's even more suspicious now, and it seems he has some guideline that he needs to follow, according to his behaviour just now.

So for now, let's just check out everything, but leaving the kids and Chie alone isn't smart, someone guarding the door from the outside should suffice for now.
Izanami can continue to do it as long as he doesn't try some shady business again~

Also, "Anyway" might be too noticeable if we keep this up. Let's change it to something else, putting ":" at the end or beginning of the subject field.

>>12
Mm, I suppose, but I'd rather not concede the point if I don't have to. Also, it's going to be pretty obvious what we're doing if someone heads to the bathroom...Ozaki would probably insist on having someone watch us to make sure we didn't go anywhere else, or something.

Ideally we would be able to get Izanami to go check the files while we're busy elsewhere; it would be worth leaving that room unguarded for a few minutes for him to do that. But I don't think he's checking this board so he won't be in on the keywords for him to check. Obviously us specifically alerting him to check the board is going to make Ozaki suspicious. Not really sure how to handle that...

>>13
Come to think of it, maybe I should just say 'Everyone check the secret board, I want to discuss something'. If we don't draw attention to Izanami specifically then Ozaki shouldn't realise what we're doing. Then we can get Izanami to check the files while we investigate some other room. Assuming he is even active right now that is.

>>13
Well, that was just an example, getting Izanami to do it sounds good, same goes for how to make him read here.

As I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear, [green]while I am in the entrance area I check the medical files in Takano's desk, assuming they're still there.[/green]

for your convenience, I added bl, r and green to this board as well

Rudolf, could you make the basement description here ?

>>18
You notice a stockpile of weapons, some just thrown about on the floor, many hanging on the walls. Everything from smoke grenades to tasers (why are they all nonlethal?)

You see through one of the windows into a room over and see that there is a large assortment of testing devices. It also looks like there is a huge rack of just containers upon containers of blood.

Additionally there are 2 people lying down. Takano and presumably Irie (I don't think you guys ever actually met him formally).

>>19
Scratch that, no grenades.

>>19
"Well, what a perfect and healthy environment for medical purposes only, here."

I inspect the room : Is there anything else that I missed at first glance ? Any exits ? How many ?
I examine the weapons and try to determine what exactly there is, and I take with me 2 tasers and hide them in my pockets. Are they charged ?

I examine the bodies, take their pulses and search them to see if they are holding anything of interest.

>>21
The only entrance/exit seems to be the way you came in.

One of the tasers works, albeit not very well. The rest of them seem to have either short circuited or run out of charge.

Irie has no pulse. Additionally the only things in his pockets are pens.

Takano is tied up. She has a very faint pulse. Her pockets contain nothing of interest.

>>22
Oh right, there was a cool machine near all the blood samples, but it looks like someone attempted to destroy it. Either way it seems unusable.

>>22
I'll just hold on to the working taser for now.
I untie Tanako and try to see whether or not she is wounded.

>>24
There appear to be no external wounds. She is still unconscious.

>>25
I inspect more closely the blood samples and the machine.

>>26
They're all labeled according the subject and experiment number. Seems like someone tried to destroy these as well while they were destroying the machine.

It's almost as if someone just kicked the machine several times until things stopped working.

>>27
I get closer to the testing devices and examine them as well

>>28
Damaged. Looks like they were used for growing cultures. Were they researching some sort of bacteria here?

>>14

Alright. I'm here, late as usual. I caught on after Erika mentioned about the secret board.

Well, how are we going to be going about this then?

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