TEXT ♞ IT WASN'T ME, MA

[optimistical]

If Retrospec gives you an item that you suspect is a murder weapon, what do you do with it? Should it be turned into the police or do you just keep it somewhere...? And what if you accidentally already got your fingerprints all over it...?

... hypothetically asking.

Comments

[optimistical]

Can you really inspect it?

[thisloveisjustice]

Yeah, I can. Dusting for prints is easy enough to do at home and I can bring other samples to work with me.

[optimistical]

If you’re willing to do all this for me, I would really appreciate it!

[thisloveisjustice]

I'd be happy to. I've looked at items for a few other users before, including somewhat questionable weapons. Someone who used to be on the app kept finding knives all over her apartment.

[optimistical]

Knives all over her apartment?! That sounds like a serious danger hazard. She didn't get hurt from it all, did she?

[thisloveisjustice]

As far as I know, no. They'd just turn up in drawers or other random places.

[optimistical]

That still sounds really dangerous... I'm glad that they're not hurt at least.

If I got this murder weapon in my drawer or somewhere in my apartment, I think I would have freaked out a lot more than when I picked it up in the mailbox.

[thisloveisjustice]

Well, she's off the app now, so she's about as safe as any other napper.

That is one advantage to Maurice's mailbox, in addition to the option to redepositing unwanted items. Though it would be nice if the item descriptions were a little more helpful.

[optimistical]

Yeah, mine just said a "dirty knife" when I went to go pick it up. If I knew that it really meant a bloody knife then I wouldn't have even gone near it, much less pick it up.

Is it possible to tell which prints came first and which came later? Because I would definitely have my fingerprints all over it now...

[thisloveisjustice]

Sometimes, to a certain extent. Fingerprints degrade over time, depending on the surface. But generally the most you can do is separate one person's fingerprints from a second person's.

[optimistical]

Okay, that's good. I hope that'll be enough able to prove my innocence.

When and where should I drop off the knife?

[thisloveisjustice]

[Tatsuo inserts his address here, at a perfectly respectable block of apartments in Tisse]

You can bring it by tomorrow morning.