closed mingle: welcome to amity island.

[highflights]

[ Kara has cleared out a landing site just outside the area of the ship Mimi was camped in. Each member of the party has been given a rough map marking the more thickly forested areas, contours marked for hills, and an arrow in the water indicating the general direction back to the underwater base. There are Xs for where the old shipwreck emerges through the green, but only those visible from the air, if you're on foot you're on your own. In Kon's handwriting, the maps are all labelled Amity Island in block letters. The wildlife is friendly unless provoked; we can't vouch for the plants. ]

[ The body itself is in a sturdy wood coffin resting on a bed of freshly dug earth, the lid can be easily pushed off. Time to get cracking. ]

[ ooc info about the island can be found here and here. any questions should be directed to the mods at the second link. ]

Comments

After the autopsy

[despairing_hope]

[It was unpleasant to look at the body, though it was a thing that had to be done. He really wished the body had been left undisturbed. But, he supposed this just made the whole thing harder. Challenge was suppose to be a good thing, right? They would all have to work together, using their best skills and insight. It was a good situation.]

Tsumiki san, did you find any details?

[naughty_nurse]

Komaeda...

[She sighs, leaning back.]

I'll want to look at it again back at the medbay, maybe with miss Valentine, but... What I can tell right now is that she died due to a lack of air. Her lungs collapsed.

[despairing_hope]

Collapsed? So she suffocated?

[It would be easy to drown here, but she was found on land, at least he assumed so. Also there wouldn't probably be water in her lungs instead of simply being collapsed.]

Was that the only significant sign? No burn marks or anything?

[naughty_nurse]

There weren't any signs of external injuries or struggle. The temperature makes it kind of hard to really say when she died... B-But I'd guess it's been for at least a week.

[despairing_hope]

[No signs of injuries, but something deprived the woman of oxygen. It could be the fire he heard about. But surly if she were in the middle of something that would cause such a vacuum there would be external signs.]

How many ways can a person suffocate and collapse their lungs on land?

[He was mostly asking himself, though Tsumiki's input was most welcome.]

this was one weird morbid google search let me tell you

[naughty_nurse]

W-well, there are certain ways. If they were inhaling something toxic, though we'd have to run a blood test to determine that. If they were somewhere that ate up the air, like smoke. Plus, there needs to be room for the chest to expand. Even if there is air, if a person's chest can't expand with their lungs, they can still suffocate.

Haha, sorry to ask all the difficult questions.

[despairing_hope]

I see, I guess we should take as many pictures as we can before preparing the body to be taken back to the base.

Right now however I'll consider the possibility of smoke as being a leading cause.

[He wasn't going to explain why he was considering that as a more likely scenario.]

Oh, there's also some notes about looking for enzymes and a bunch of animal specimens. They should probably be looked over as well. Though I know it's not really within your sphere of expertise, I'm sure your medical background will be more useful there than anything I could figure out.

[naughty_nurse]

Oh, um, I'll look into whatever I can...

But do you think she died of smoke ventilation? There would have to be a lot of it in a confined space, or if she was directly in it...

[You can't just drop a theory like that and expect nothing!]

[despairing_hope]

Oh, according to Strider kun there was some kind of huge fire around here somewhere. Though I'm not quite sure where it was.

This is why people shouldn't move bodies.

[He was visibly annoyed by that.]

[naughty_nurse]

Eek! I'm sorry! I j-just thought that, maybe, I should...

[despairing_hope]

Not you Tsumiki san. The people who discovered it.

[naughty_nurse]

O-Oh... right... Of course...

[Well, it distracted her from theory time, if that helps.]

[despairing_hope]

Don't worry about it. Lets just try and make this easy to take back with us. Alright?

[naughty_nurse]

Yes! I'll keep an eye on the body the entire time.

[despairing_hope]

Please don't go too far.