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

[despairing_hope]

[ A person too smart for his own good but didn't know it. ]

We know she suffocated so for the moment that's all we need to know. The details of how will be relevant later. The motive can probably be deduced after we know more about what she was doing here, which was most likely research. However there are a number of things that don't seem to match up... so organizing those would be best. And of course exploring every inch of this island and especially the space ship and the camp site.

We also need to uncover who the foot prints belong to. Right now they're the most likely culprit.

[bonomial]

Dirk said that there wasn't any info in the records about aliens on board. Do you think Footprint Guy showed up after? Of course, then we'd have to wonder about why the Pulse didn't bring their ship down...

Maybe a stowaway? [Don has experience being one of those.] Not that that'll help us narrow down what kinds of aliens humans are in contact with. That sounds like something URSULA might know, though.

[despairing_hope]

I have some outlines of the foot, as well as photographs so perhaps we can find a ma5ch. Either way identifying that person is probably one of the most important things we can do. After that we need to know what she was doing that was worth dying over. Since it looks like she was doing some sort of research it's probably something she found or something she was close to finding or looking for.

[bonomial]

[Don nods, pondering exactly what would fit these descriptions.]

Okay. So the first thing we need to do is figure out what this guy is. I don't know whether we can get a lock on URSULA this far out, though. Has anyone tried?

[despairing_hope]

We'll have to consider a lot of things and make a list to follow up later when we go back. So, instead of focusing on the questions that can only be answered once we leave here, we need to focus on the questions we can answer while here. Also, keeping an idea of what might have happened will make investigating different from not having any.

For the moment it's safe to assume that the owner of the foot prints had been there a while and had worked with the victim at the very least. If not worked with, familiar with. There's far too many warn areas to assume they had only been here once.

[bonomial]

Good point. So what does that mean? If they were friendly, is there maybe evidence of them turning on each other? If they weren't, are there separate sites where they were living, until whatever happened with this death?

If we could find evidence of separate living sites, that might help make one hypothesis more plausible than the other.

[despairing_hope]

We'll assume they were friendly and work from that angle first. With that in mind we simply have to figure out the why of it. Again, I feel this incident is rooted in whatever was being researched. If we keep those things in mind when investigating it will be easier to either dismiss those ideas or confirm them and then narrow down what else we need to look into.

[bonomial]

The most obvious kind of research here is biological - those animal dissections were clearly looking for something, and the records were very thorough. Do any of us know what Mimi was supposed to be doing on the Aurora? Maybe she's some kind of geneticist.

[despairing_hope]

I don't, but I'm sure the others might. Of course my actual knowledge of this place is really limited, but I'm sure I can at least offer my observations.

And who knows, maybe I'll end up in the right place at the right time to find something useful!

[bonomial]

That's just about what any of us are hoping for this case. [Don laughs a little bit.] I have a habit of being in the right place at the wrong time - or vice-versa. Here's hoping that doesn't work against us now.

[despairing_hope]

Oh, that is a bit unlucky isn't it? Well, if we do end up at the right place but wrong time that would also be interesting, and I would like to see that potential too.