<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/74/Vixhead.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Victrix Starshine, Vix to her friends, Medic and Mercenary<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Carrion Crow's Ship<br/><strong>With:</strong>Helena, Jennifer and Jinny (but everyone else via commlink)<br/><br/>Some people loved weirdness.  Certainly the unknown carried a degree of fascination, like how a box could just begged to be opened or a book read.<br/><br/>In Vix's experience, though, or at least in her line of work, mysteries weren't all that good.  Pulling out a syringe from her medkit, she injected each of the bodies with a small number of nanoprobes, allowing them to check around and report anything that wasn't apparently obvious.  It would take some time, but the information would be relayed to her easily enough, keeping them from having to stick around to make a determination.  With that set, she went about the physical examination.<br/><br/>"Precision attacks," Vix said, a slight tremor in her voice.  Knowing that someone wasn't a very good person didn't make it easier to examine their remains...but Vix could.  She did her best to leave out all the technical words and precise explanations for things like cranial trauma and arterial hemmorhaging.  "It's extremely difficult to tell whether it was done with augmented, technological, or even xenomorphic claws.  I don't feel comfortable ruling out anything."<br/><br/>She gestured to the two who hadn't been completely torn apart.  "I believe it's the work of a trained and sadistic killer.  Most likely these two were taken out with quick attacks, rapidly slaying this one to remove him from the equation," she gestured to the one with the clean strike to the head.  "Then this one," her fingers breezed in the direction of the one who died in a pool of his own blood, "was wounded to incapacitate without outright killing him.  One killer who had done that as discussed in CMU wanted...an..."  She cleared her throat.  "An audience."<br/><br/>Taking a deep breath, she forced herself to continue the words.  "If the hypothesis is correct, this one was last, killed slowly to make sure that the wounded fellow got to watch.  It took long enough for the wounded to die before..."<br/><br/>...well...they got the point.  No sense in going into detail on the process.  Instead, she stood back up, taking another breath.  It wasn't as though she could be certain about those kinds of details in any case.  Her suit beeped, showing a particular glyph as her attention went to the first corpse.  "Oh, and this one had a weird kind of drug in his body.  They're analyzing it now, but it'll take a while.  We should keep moving."