Conversation · The Hanged Man · Page 9

Kim Kitsuragi

"N/A."

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"5. Age:"

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"5. Age:"

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"Hmh," the lieutenant corrects his glasses: "roughly 50."

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"N/A."

Kim Kitsuragi

"Hmh," the lieutenant corrects his glasses: "roughly 50."

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Try 40. The damage is so extensive it's better to err on the young side.

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"5. Age:"

Visual Calculus

Try 40. The damage is so extensive it's better to err on the young side.

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"I'm gonna write: ≈42."
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Write: ≈50.
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"Hmh," the lieutenant corrects his glasses: "roughly 50."

You

"I'm gonna write: ≈42."

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He nods.

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Try 40. The damage is so extensive it's better to err on the young side.

Kim Kitsuragi

He nods.

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"6. Race:"

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"I'm gonna write: ≈42."

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"6. Race:"

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"6. Race:"

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"Mondial. Subgroup: Occidental -- as per your observation."

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Kim Kitsuragi

"Mondial. Subgroup: Occidental -- as per your observation."

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Write it down.

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You

Write it down.

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The pudgy mess looks neither Mondial nor Occidental. It doesn't even look human. The next line says:

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"Mondial. Subgroup: Occidental -- as per your observation."

The Hanged Man

The pudgy mess looks neither Mondial nor Occidental. It doesn't even look human. The next line says:

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As you read it you think: that leaves out dark haired Mesque, Sao, Saramirizian, Kedreatic.... Lighter skinned Occidental means this man could be... Vespertine? Oranjese? Messinian. Those three are on the table.

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Write it down.

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As you read it you think: that leaves out dark haired Mesque, Sao, Saramirizian, Kedreatic.... Lighter skinned Occidental means this man could be... Vespertine? Oranjese? Messinian. Those three are on the table.

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The pudgy mess looks neither Mondial nor Occidental. It doesn't even look human. The next line says:

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As you read it you think: that leaves out dark haired Mesque, Sao, Saramirizian, Kedreatic.... Lighter skinned Occidental means this man could be... Vespertine? Oranjese? Messinian. Those three are on the table.

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A solid guess, Mr. Racial Profiler!

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A solid guess, Mr. Racial Profiler!

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Also of note -- your unconscious racial profiling machine ruled out Messinian before. Despite all the copporoonies and cobos. That leaves Vespertine or Oranjese. Continue.

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Also of note -- your unconscious racial profiling machine ruled out Messinian before. Despite all the copporoonies and cobos. That leaves Vespertine or Oranjese. Continue.

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"7. Sex:"

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You

"7. Sex:"

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"Fucky-fucky!" the little monster exclaims, energetically.

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Cunoesse

"Fucky-fucky!" the little monster exclaims, energetically.

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"Male."

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"7. Sex:"

Kim Kitsuragi

"Male."

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"Pigs gonna have sex?"

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"Fucky-fucky!" the little monster exclaims, energetically.

Cuno

"Pigs gonna have sex?"

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Write: 'fucky-fucky'.
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Write: 'pigs gonna have sex'.
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Write: male.

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"Male."

You

Write: 'fucky-fucky'.

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Naively, the lieutenant does not double check your notes.

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"Pigs gonna have sex?"

Kim Kitsuragi

Naively, the lieutenant does not double check your notes.

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Naively, the lieutenant does not double check your notes.

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El Bigo Mistako, lieutenant!

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Horrific Necktie

El Bigo Mistako, lieutenant!

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"8. Date of death:"

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You

"8. Date of death:"

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"We're still going with March 4th, '51."

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Kim Kitsuragi

"We're still going with March 4th, '51."

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Write: 04.03.'51

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"8. Date of death:"

You

Write: 04.03.'51

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"What else?" He looks over your shoulder. "9. Body identified by is non-applicable. 10. Case number is the same as the coroner's case."

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"We're still going with March 4th, '51."

Kim Kitsuragi

"What else?" He looks over your shoulder. "9. Body identified by is non-applicable. 10. Case number is the same as the coroner's case."

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KK57-0503-0815 listens, motionless -- with the cargo belt still around his neck. Only one box remains:

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Write: 04.03.'51

The Hanged Man

KK57-0503-0815 listens, motionless -- with the cargo belt still around his neck. Only one box remains:

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HDB41-0803.1111 listens, motionless -- with the cargo belt still around his neck. Only one box remains:
HDB41-0803.1015 listens, motionless -- with the cargo belt still around his neck. Only one box remains:
HDB41-0803.1300 listens, motionless -- with the cargo belt still around his neck. Only one box remains:
HDB41-0803 listens, motionless -- with the cargo belt still around his neck. Only one box remains:

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"11. Evidence of treatment:"

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"What else?" He looks over your shoulder. "9. Body identified by is non-applicable. 10. Case number is the same as the coroner's case."

You

"11. Evidence of treatment:"

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KK57-0503-0815 listens, motionless -- with the cargo belt still around his neck. Only one box remains:

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"11. Evidence of treatment:"

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"I'm not seeing anything yet -- but we know there's tampering here." He thinks. "Write down: Yes. Non-visual. Corroborated by witness (see report)."

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Kim Kitsuragi

"I'm not seeing anything yet -- but we know there's tampering here." He thinks. "Write down: Yes. Non-visual. Corroborated by witness (see report)."

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Write down: Yes. Non-visual. Corroborated by witness (see report).

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You

Write down: Yes. Non-visual. Corroborated by witness (see report).

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"Good..." The lieutenant falls silent. He places his gloved hand on the corpse's chest, as if in preparation...

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"I'm not seeing anything yet -- but we know there's tampering here." He thinks. "Write down: Yes. Non-visual. Corroborated by witness (see report)."

Kim Kitsuragi

"Good..." The lieutenant falls silent. He places his gloved hand on the corpse's chest, as if in preparation...

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Write down: Yes. Non-visual. Corroborated by witness (see report).

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Your central nervous system recognizes this gesture. It's the Stations of the Breath -- ecclesiastic, religious in nature. A holdout from Pre-Dolorian burial rites. It takes him two seconds to perform, then...

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"Good..." The lieutenant falls silent. He places his gloved hand on the corpse's chest, as if in preparation...

Composure

Your central nervous system recognizes this gesture. It's the Stations of the Breath -- ecclesiastic, religious in nature. A holdout from Pre-Dolorian burial rites. It takes him two seconds to perform, then...

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Your central nervous system recognizes this gesture. It's the Stations of the Breath -- ecclesiastic, religious in nature. A holdout from Pre-Dolorian burial rites. It takes him two seconds to perform, then...

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Somewhere in Jamrock North, a small wood shed behind Rozenkrantz Row, Lieutenant Nick Feuerbach puts his hand to the chest of a small corpse, no larger than a monkey. It's raining outside, light drizzle. There is darkness in the shed.

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Esprit de Corps

Somewhere in Jamrock North, a small wood shed behind Rozenkrantz Row, Lieutenant Nick Feuerbach puts his hand to the chest of a small corpse, no larger than a monkey. It's raining outside, light drizzle. There is darkness in the shed.

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Somewhere in Jamrock North, a small wood shed behind Rozenkrantz Row, Lieutenant Nick Feuerbach puts his hand to the chest of a small corpse, no larger than a monkey. It's raining outside, light drizzle. There is darkness in the shed.

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Elsewhere yet, an obese female sits in a wicker chair, her silhouette ball-like against the window. Outside: Grand Couron. The day is turning dim for Sergeant Mack Torson. Hand extended, he approaches. To make sure she is dead, more than anything else...

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Esprit de Corps

Elsewhere yet, an obese female sits in a wicker chair, her silhouette ball-like against the window. Outside: Grand Couron. The day is turning dim for Sergeant Mack Torson. Hand extended, he approaches. To make sure she is dead, more than anything else...

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The building is tall, seven stories wind-wrapped in solitude; most of the apartments are unoccupied. This was a suicide. The other an accident -- the small one.

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Shivers

The building is tall, seven stories wind-wrapped in solitude; most of the apartments are unoccupied. This was a suicide. The other an accident -- the small one.

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...and so all across Jamrock, Coal City, G.R.I.H. Forty two deceased persons found today -- forty two Stations of Breath.

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Elsewhere yet, an obese female sits in a wicker chair, her silhouette ball-like against the window. Outside: Grand Couron. The day is turning dim for Sergeant Mack Torson. Hand extended, he approaches. To make sure she is dead, more than anything else...

Esprit de Corps

...and so all across Jamrock, Coal City, G.R.I.H. Forty two deceased persons found today -- forty two Stations of Breath.

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"We should start the postmortem."

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The building is tall, seven stories wind-wrapped in solitude; most of the apartments are unoccupied. This was a suicide. The other an accident -- the small one.

Kim Kitsuragi

"We should start the postmortem."

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You

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"We should start the postmortem."

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The corpse cannot feel Kim's hand on his chest. It no longer meaningfully interacts with its surroundings. A thicket of boxes and lists on red copier paper tries to answer why:

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The corpse cannot feel Kim's hand on his chest. It no longer meaningfully interacts with its surroundings. A thicket of boxes and lists on red copier paper tries to answer why:

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"We should start the postmortem."

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"We should start the postmortem."

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"None -- at least not after the initial examination."

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Kim Kitsuragi

"None -- at least not after the initial examination."

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A strange word... treatment.

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Inland Empire

A strange word... treatment.

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"None -- at least not after the initial examination."

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You

"I agree. Lividity pointed to a lynching."

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"Then again -- the right lividity is easy to produce, if you know what you're doing." He places his hand on the dead man's chest, as if in preparation...

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Kim Kitsuragi

"Then again -- the right lividity is easy to produce, if you know what you're doing." He places his hand on the dead man's chest, as if in preparation...

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Your central nervous system recognizes this gesture. It's the Stations of the Breath -- ecclesiastic, religious in nature. A holdout from Pre-Dolorian burial rites. It takes him two seconds to perform, then...

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"I agree. Lividity pointed to a lynching."

You

"I'm not so sure. Didn't the footprints look like he was carried over?"

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"They'd have to have incapacitated and carried him over -- this man was more than a match for untrained dockworkers." He places his hand on the dead man's chest, as if in preparation...

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Kim Kitsuragi

"They'd have to have incapacitated and carried him over -- this man was more than a match for untrained dockworkers." He places his hand on the dead man's chest, as if in preparation...

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