[Fin] Murder U Too - Endgame

[Huney]

"Wh-... I did know that, or... I assumed anyway! I was asking for him! N... Nevermind, it's not worth it."

[wahoothis]

Ranma looked at the toilet. ". . . . ." Oh hell no. This better not be leading to what he's thinking. But. . . It seems like it is. Something's clogging the toilet it seems. Before he makes a brash decision

>Look for a plunger around the bathroom, he's praying on his knees here he doesn't have to dig his hands in the toilet.

[wingedcatgirl]

>Look for a plunger around the bathroom, he's praying on his knees here he doesn't have to dig his hands in the toilet. [Ranma]
Of course there's a plunger. What kinda third-rate bathroom doesn't have a plunger?

Ranma plunges the obstruction out of the toilet... it's a pair of rubber dishwashing gloves.

[wahoothis]

Oh thank god he looked. For a moment he thought he had to dig around in the toilet water, which probably would've triggered his curse. Grabbing some paper towels, Ranma picks up the gloves with a slight bit of disgust on his face, walking back to where the group was. "Look what I found in the toilet."

[Dookie]

Cookie Monster sees the gloves, which were apparently in the toilet for some reason.

“...Huh? Why would somebody put gloves in the toilet?”

[wahoothis]

"Get rid of evidence. Does someone else want to take them?" They're still wet, so Ranma doesn't exactly want to risk touching them without a paper towel.

[Florien]

HEY! EVERYONE! TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SHIT!

Kellesea yells out from the kitchen.

Found some blue fuzz under the untaken knives. Perhaps you can see this as... vindicating of my thoughts on the matter? Or, at the very least, interesting that it could be found on the untaken knives.

>Investigate the fuzz more closely, to see if it looks like it was placed there or accidently left there.

[wingedcatgirl]

>Investigate the fuzz more closely, to see if it looks like it was placed there or accidently left there. [Kellensea, 4]
Kellensea looks at the fuzz from under the knife, but honestly can't figure out how she'd even tell whether it got there by accident or on purpose.

[Kennifer]

>Look at the gloves Ranma found and compare to the marks on Doug's neck, could they have been worn by the killer?

[wingedcatgirl]

>Look at the gloves Ranma found and compare to the marks on Doug's neck, could they have been worn by the killer? [Alexis, 7]
The gloves are rather stretched out by their failed journey down the toilet, but if one accounts for that, they do seem plausibly the right size and texture.

[Caret]

Meanwhile, Bow decides to...

>inspect Cookie Monster for any signs of his hair being forcibly cut

[Kennifer]

"Well, that potentially solves the case of the missing gloves, at least. Although any number of people could've taken and used those gloves."

[wahoothis]

Ranma tooks a small collective groan hearing Kellensea trying to "vindicate her point." "Hey genius. I found the gloves in the toilet. If Cookie Monster was wearing them, then there shouldn't be fuzz there. Besides that, why would he need a knife when the cause of death was a snapped neck?" Wouldn't surprise Ranma if she faked that piece of evidence out of desperation and pettiness.

[Kennifer]

"No, one wouldn't need a knife for a neck snap... but it could easily be used to cut off some fur in order to frame someone."

[wingedcatgirl]

>inspect Cookie Monster for any signs of his hair being forcibly cut [Bow, 6]
Bow inspects Cookie Monster's fur, but can't see any signs of his hair being cut off anywhere.

[Florien]

Wow. I thought you were perhaps a bit not clever, but I didn't realize you were outright incapable of figuring out what happened. Obviously, if the cookie monster, or anyone else, was cutting off the cookie monster's fur, they'd get some on the knife! How do you think the fraying came to be on the potentially planted thread? Now, Ranma, if you really think I did it, you can attempt to settle it with violence right here, right now, like I know you want to.

Kellensea's goading of Ranma is tinged with a level of almost incomprehensible bitterness. First, people aren't believing that an Eevee threatened her life, then they take it to mean that she's accusing the Eevee of actually DOING murder. Clearly, she needs to find something, and quickly, else they'll decide that she's a murderer just for her views.

>Take a look at the gloves, turn them inside out, and look if any prints survived on the inside.

[Caret]

OK, I'm stumped here. How would the killer get the fur required to frame Cookie? Unless...

>check storage for any signs of items being taken from it

[wingedcatgirl]

>Take a look at the gloves, turn them inside out, and look if any prints survived on the inside. [Kellensea, 5]
Kellensea takes the gloves and inverts them. Inside she finds a few more strands of blue fuzz.

>check storage for any signs of items being taken from it [Bow, 7]
Bow looks through storage, but doesn't see any obvious signs of items taken that she didn't already know about.

[wahoothis]

He takes a deep breath. "As much as I'd love to, I'm not. I'm keeping my pride right where it needs to. Besides, we never said you killed Doug. We said you're probably involved." Ranma may or may not be contemplating throwing the nearest thing at Kellensea. That being Bow, unfortunately. Though he won't. For now at least.

[Florien]

Kellensea says nothing, but stares directly at Ranma. Her goggles are far too tinted to see her eyes, but the sheer smugness which is radiating from the heavily plated adventurer is utterly enraging, as she displays the fuzz from inside the gloves.

[wahoothis]

". . . How interesting how you've found the fuzz twice. You're really this desperate, huh?" Ranma said, facepalming some.

[Kennifer]

"Hmm..."

>Go to the kitchen and see if there are any more dishwashing gloves like the pair that was used. If there are, she'll get Cookie Monster to try it on and see if it fits.

[Caret]

Bow walks back to where everyone else is.

OK, I'm starting to get a little bit suspicious about Cookie Monster. I couldn't find any evidence of fur being forcibly flayed from him. Cookie, what did you do last night?

[wingedcatgirl]

>Go to the kitchen and see if there are any more dishwashing gloves like the pair that was used. If there are, she'll get Cookie Monster to try it on and see if it fits. [Alexis, 5]
Alexis digs through the kitchen cabinets and eventually does find a pack of dishwashing gloves. One pair has been removed.

She grabs them and brings them back to the scene of the crime.

[Kennifer]

"Hey, Cookie Monster? Would you mind trying one of these on to see if they fit? Because if they don't, someone is obviously trying to frame you."

>Hold one of the gloves out towards Cookie Monster.