Psychic all-points bulletin [open]

[in_summer_leaf]

Hello? This is Hisoka Kurosaki, transmitting on the psychic band, and this is an emergency. There is a woman somewhere in the house who is badly injured or dead. Anybody who receives this message, please alert whoever is near you and go and search for her. Gunji apparently jumped her in a stairwell and chased her into some hallway somewhere, and

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[ebonyjaenelle72]

Jaenelle relays the message on her own Blue thread, letting the Blood know if they didn't hear it before. Moments later, her answer comes back to Hisoka. *I don't recognize the rhyme, no. Do you have a name? Or know where she lives?*

It would be easiest, of course, if she had a psychic scent. Jaenelle's mental voice is all business, short and direct.

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka replies, Gunji didn't give a name, and it isn't clear to me that he knows it. So, no, I don't know where she lives. He did say something about keeping himself from falling, by hooking his claws into the wall. So if you find some claw marks, you're getting close. He left a trail of his own blood, too. So if you start from where we are, there may be a clear track right back to that woman. We're on the second floor, about thirty yards down the main hallway from the west wing staircase.

[Making up a location, lol. And I'm assuming that Hisoka's responses can be heard by all the psychics, so he doesn't have to repeat the same information to each.]

[ebonyjaenelle72]

Jaenelle is already moving before Hisoka finishes his message entirely. *I'm on my way.* Not, for the moment, dealing with what should be done about the attacker. After all, there is a lot of allowance in Blood law for necessary violence, and whoever is hurt comes first.

[in_summer_leaf]

[Later, after Aramat has been found.]

Subdued voice: Ms. Angelline? I've got a problem. Can I ask your advice?

[silvereyedphage]

Muraki's voice comes through loud and clear, a little puzzled, perhaps a bit surprised and decidedly concerned. "I haven't had any patients with metal claw wounds turn up, so it would seem her prospects are grim to say the least, unless she can be found," he replies.

"But that poem you've mentioned seems to be a feminized version of Hughes Mearns's 'Antagonish'. It would appear to be a clue as to the identity of the woman, but I'm puzzling over that one..."

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka's psychic voice is louder and clearer than usual. He's got the volume turned up so that all the information goes to everybody. I, too, am really worried about what state she might be in, if she's alive. Is there anybody else in the house who knows the poem, I wonder? I'm thinking it's possible that the woman knew it, and recited it at some time or other when Gunji happened to be listening.

[silvereyedphage]

"It's a fairly well-known poem, so there are likely a fair number of people who at least are familiar with it. Most critics think it deals with a certain level of insanity in either the 'I' of the poem, or the 'man who was not there', so perhaps we're looking for insanity in either the killer or ...his victim." There's something hesitant on that last bit.

[in_summer_leaf]

Well, Gunji's a lunatic. I don't know about the victim. I'm sorry for them both. And I guess your theory could be right...

[gettin2old4this]

Genkai, being the massive psychic radio that she is, probubly heard everything (including the infernal portal that pulled Aramat in) that happened in that hallway. But she was asleep at the time, so she doesn't quite know everything.

I'm not sure about the rhyme... I may call upon the Agency to do a search, is that fine?

[in_summer_leaf]

Of course, Genkai! I think that any Agency member should be free to summon the others at his or her discretion. Did you happen to pick up anything strange in the atmosphere in the last few hours?

[gettin2old4this]

Of course, I'm picking up fellow agents right now...

Since most of the agents aren't Psychics, Genkai's summoning is very simple: she goes to each agents door, kicks it without breaking it, and shouts something along the lines of 'Get the f*** up'. The Typist wishes she could call all the members via telepathy with a cool catchphrase like 'Agents Assemble!', but she can't. (Unless pissed or not in control of her power... which are the same things.)

Yes, but I can't give you speifics, as I was asleep at the time. Gunji said she was already being chased and hurt by another person... that wasn't a person in a physical sense. In was in her mind, playing tricks on her, making her injure herself.

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka winces as he feels the first of the doors being kicked, through Genkai's mind. Oh well, whatever works.

The first attacker was in her mind? Do you mean we have a rogue telepath around here somewhere, who hurts people by invading their psyches?

[death_dawg]

Jacquel's voice replies, deep and sonorous: "I found a woman badly cut up: she's in the basement lab on the autopsy table," he says. "I put up a note on the message board for the Agency: I'll be running an inquest soon."

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka says, I am sorry to hear that. I had hoped that Gunji was wrong. But can you give me a description of her? Is her face recognizable?

[death_dawg]

"She is a small woman, just over five feet tall, perhaps a hundred pounds, slender shoulders, wide hips, tightly waved auburn hair, pale skin, greenish eyes."

[in_summer_leaf]

Oh. Small sigh. That would be Lady Aramat. Did you know her?

[in_summer_leaf]

Dammit, a little bird just told me that Titus is missing, too!

Sonofabitch! How did I manage to have missed that news???? I feel like an idiot.

And I don't like it that Aramat and Titus seem to have gone missing around the same time. I don't think Gunji is responsible for Titus, but what's going on here? We're having an epidemic or something?? This is NOT GOOD.

I'll be out looking, too, as soon as I can. Whoever's been searching, have you combed the woods, yet? I volunteer for that, if the house has already been searched and ruled out.

[This is after Jacquel announces he's found Aramat.]

[gettin2old4this]

I have...

If Hisoka cares to notice there's a note of barely contained rage, unlike Aramat's case, Genkai was awake and alert in Titus' disappearance. Feeling your students life be extingushed painfully and without mercy is a horrifiying thing, especially since she didn't know WHAT the hell was going on at the time.

I've checked the house... no sight of him. I believe the forest is our next best bet.

[in_summer_leaf]

He notices.

I'm getting terrible vibes from you. Is he dead?

I will be out in ten minutes. I would check the lakeshore first, the near side. Murderers seem to prefer to walk downhill when they decide to dump...a body. Do you know who else is looking?

[gettin2old4this]

I think he may be...

Genkai sighs, trying to hold back pure rage. (And sadness for the boy.)

Two people, his sister and perhaps another protector of his. I think her name is Utena... Personally, I don't think we should tell them. Especially if Titus is dead.