Hunting 101 - Class 6 (Wednesday Period 7)

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

When the students came into the Danger Room, they found John leaning against the by-now familiar black car, the mainstreet of a small town behind him.

"Good afternoon," John said when they all had arrived. "First an announcement. I won't be having office hours tomorrow as something has come up and I need to go out of town for the weekend. If you have anything you need to discuss, you can see me after class or wait until my office hours next Tuesday.



"As promised last week, behind me is the town of Hume. As the information you were given tells you, recently two teenage girls -- Ashley Taggart age 15 and Valerie Brown age 16 -- died under identical mysterious circumstances. They were found dead in the town's dance studio after having been practicing alone. There was no signs of violence on the bodies, according to the autopsies, their hearts just gave out.

"This is typical of the kind of information a hunt starts with. So let's see what you can make of it. Your assignment is to find out what killed those girls and stop it. You paired off last week so go to it." He smiled at them. "Impress me."



[ooc: wait for the ocd's are up. Have at it. Oh and this class? Dedicated to Callisto. :)]

Comments

Re: Dance Studio

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"That makes sense," Peter said, looking around. "Not that I'm seeing anything that matches the description, but still."

Re: Dance Studio

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, me either," she frowned. "I guess we have to move on to somewhere else? Maybe talk to their families?"

Re: Dance Studio

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Probably, yeah," Peter said. He had a nagging feeling that he was missing something, but he and his player had no clue what. "Who should we start with?"

Re: Dance Studio

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

A man came out of the back office. "Can I help you?"

Re: Dance Studio

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Um, hi," Dawn straightened and tried to look like she knew what she was doing. "We're trying to find out about the girls who died here? We're writing the story up for the school newspaper and wanted to get the facts right."

There, that hopefully sounded convincing. "So, what happened?"

Re: Dance Studio

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

The man shook his head sadly. "It's such a tragedy. Ashely and Val were both such gifted dancers..."

Re: Dance Studio

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"The tragedy took place here?" Peter asked.

Re: Dance Studio

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

He nodded. pointing to the clear space in front of the floor length mirror. "I was the one who found them. Right over there. Just... sprawled on the floor like puppets with their strings cut."

Re: Dance Studio

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

As anologies went, that one was very weird. "Did you notice anything unusual when you found them?"

Re: Dance Studio

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"What wasn't weird about the whole situation?" the man asked. "These were girls at the peak of health and to just collapse like that..." He paused. "They were covered in sweat. And their feet were bleeding."

Re: Dance Studio

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Okay, that sounded like a clue. "Their feet were bleeding? How long had they been dancing that day? Were they en pointe? And how much blood are we talking about here?"

Re: Dance Studio

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

The man stared at her. "You're a morbid little thing, aren't you?"

Re: Dance Studio

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Uh..." Dawn fidgeted, "It's important to get all the facts. For the paper. And, uh, that just seems pretty unusual. Being sweaty isn't that weird, because they were dancing, but bloody? Not really a dance thing unless they were practicing en pointe for a long time and their toes were bloody."