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fandomhigh2010-09-09 10:10 pm
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The Science of Deduction, Friday - 9/10
Today, the class was left a note to meet in the Danger shop instead of the normal classroom. Because someone had been given the chance to recreate a crime scene for the students without all those pesky little details about child endangerment and contaminating evidence.
The room was empty save for a woman in an alarming shade of pink from head to toe. She lay prone, face down and unmoving on the floor.
"One of my more recent cases," Sherlock said in lieu of greeting the class. "Suicide. In a manner of speaking. Like this woman, three others before her had gone to a place they had no known reason to be and taken the exact same poison. No signs of force, they've clearly taken the pill, chewed and swallowed it all on their own. Serial suicides according to the police."
He stepped around the body with the care of someone accustomed to crime scenes. "Unlike the previous three, this one has left a note scratched into the floor as she died. R-A-C-H-E was carved into the wood with her fingernails." One might take note at the chipped, worn down appearance of what had once been perfectly manicured nails on the hand next to the letters.
"Your task is to pair off and ascertain as much about the scene as you can manage," Sherlock informed them, pulling out his phone to check it for messages. "And for anyone who may have discovered my colleague's blog, you will need to explain your reasoning for each step. Doctor Watson left a number of the important details out in his attempt to make it more--" He sighed. "--romantic."
The room was empty save for a woman in an alarming shade of pink from head to toe. She lay prone, face down and unmoving on the floor.
"One of my more recent cases," Sherlock said in lieu of greeting the class. "Suicide. In a manner of speaking. Like this woman, three others before her had gone to a place they had no known reason to be and taken the exact same poison. No signs of force, they've clearly taken the pill, chewed and swallowed it all on their own. Serial suicides according to the police."
He stepped around the body with the care of someone accustomed to crime scenes. "Unlike the previous three, this one has left a note scratched into the floor as she died. R-A-C-H-E was carved into the wood with her fingernails." One might take note at the chipped, worn down appearance of what had once been perfectly manicured nails on the hand next to the letters.
"Your task is to pair off and ascertain as much about the scene as you can manage," Sherlock informed them, pulling out his phone to check it for messages. "And for anyone who may have discovered my colleague's blog, you will need to explain your reasoning for each step. Doctor Watson left a number of the important details out in his attempt to make it more--" He sighed. "--romantic."
Re: Examine the Scene
"Okay," she said. "I think I've got it, Delirium. See, the name on the floor was written in the passionate throes of death; Rache is clearly the name of her dashing, foreign lover. She's married, see, she has a ring, so obviously it was an affair and obviously they had to hide it, not only because it's wrong but also because she's clearly a well-to-do rich woman and this is Rache's place, so he's clearly a poor artiste. But she doesn't care! She loves him too much! But when she came for their last rendezvous, right before they were going to run off to some Caribbean resort and forget the world, she arrived to find Rache gone, and she couldn't live without him, so she killed herself. We should look for a note or something; he probably would have told her that he actually ran away to join a crew of pirates and could no longer be with her."
Finished, she glanced over to her roommate, eyebrows lifted and eyes wide to see what she thought.