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The principal seems to be in a coma, unable to be woken at this time but otherwise not in any danger of dying. They'll have to decide on what to do with him, whether that's alerting faculty once school starts on Monday so they can take him to the hospital with the potential to be awakened, or returning him to his office and hoping for the best, or whatever they end up deciding.

If Legion checks the principal's pockets, they'll find a key but is actually a house key and doesn't open the cabinets. The left pants pocket is somewhat stretched, suggesting he usually keeps his phone and/or wallet inside, but appears to be empty now. There's nothing relevant on his person otherwise.

Turing returns to the office and sees that the papers on the principal's desk seems to be printouts of forum messages, specifically the portions in which a student specifically @ 's another student. These logs date back around a decade, with the most recent printout dating before spring break this year, aka right before all messages are deleted off the PDAs at the start of the new school year. This short exchange reads:
@ R.Fujimaru
are you winning?

@ K.Seki
kill me kouji
i am
SO TIRED
of the smell taste texture and sight of jerky

which isn't at all important. Most of these forum messages aren't important or stand out in any way, as students know to keep weirder things off the forum, but if Turing were to collect these papers and ??? these somehow manage to reach Clamor or Shuichi, one message in particular will stand out to the two of them, written by "H.Tomori":

@ K.Seki
Don't be stupid and do this alone. Going after dark, when it's silent, is the best time to try. Bring a mirror and a shovel to the wisteria tree but be careful not to touch it. Stay warm.

Overall, it looks like the principal was going through forum messages and keeps a copy of them before they're deleted, but the papers aren't in any specific order, date or subject-wise, to suggest what he was looking for.

A key to the cabinets can't be found in the office, but if Turing or Legion shakes the cabinets, they'll hear the rustle of papers inside, and on the front of the cabinets on that little strip of paper labeling each drawer are dates: 1384-1461, 1462-1538, 1539-1615, 1616-1692, 1693-1769, 1780-1846, 1847-1923, 1924-2000. These aren't going to be worth the effort of accessing.

The certificates on the walls are for the school saying that it was established in 1384, and for past principals with their post/masters degrees, although instead of displaying 25890394 certificates, multiple papers seem to be stuffed into the same frame to preserve space. The earlier certificates, along with being old due to age, also seem singed as if burned or in danger of being burned at one time. The most recent certificate is for the current principal but his name isn't important so just assume it's something generic like Yamada Taro.

The area around the seat at the desk is very very cold, and if they move the chair/desk, the cold spot seems to emanate from the same spot in the room without regard to its furniture. The door is broken? Maybe they should build on with the wood in home ec so somebody doesn't wander inside and instantly freeze to death. Otherwise there doesn't seem to be anything else important about the room.

[begetblue]

They're going to go back out and report everything to Legion! They do take the papers but they also read a portion of them and store that in their personal memory.

[adsum]

Gotcha! There isn't anything important left inside the office to find so unless there's anything they would look for specifically, we can wrap this investigation up once Turing and Legion decide:

1) What will they do with the principal?

and

2) What will they do with the office door?

[forwearemany]

Legion will take the little house key even if it's not useful. As for the principal, they'll use whatever they can to bind his hands and legs even though he's not currently moving and take him back with them to the other students. Maybe they can hide him somewhere/someone will know how to wake him up?

Or he can be found by the faculty anyway.

As for the door, Legion is gonna be a distracted, negligent fucker and just try to block the hole with furniture. The principal is clearly the important thing here.

[adsum]

o7 if nobody has a plan for the principal, I'll default to the faculty finding him.

The furniture blockade... will be found by the faculty the next school day and the door will be repaired to just a normal door that can be opened, but if somebody goes inside they're still liable to freeze to death so the npcs just pretend the room is still locked.

This will wrap things up for the investigation, thank you!