WEEK TWO - TRIAL

[hellscapes]

Hello, deadlings. Wow. Just...wow.

You may have been wondering what you could possibly do in the aftermath of yesterday's beek. Your demons weren't entirely helpful, and it seems that there were no answers to be found. But on Saturday morning at 11am, you'll soon hear a sound coming from the dock. There's a large ferry waiting for you, and even if you resist you'll eventually find yourself compelled to climb aboard and set off on a short voyage. The islands around you look fairly blurry, but you don't go very far before you stop at a slab of land with two large buildings stationed. The Execution Bar is locked tight and you won't be able to head in that direction. Instead, once again, your feet navigate you to the building on the right as the door creaks open.

Inside is a bar. It's dimly lit in several places, but bright enough for you to see each other and navigate without running into the furniture. Tables and chairs are scattered around in front of the bar counter, and the floor is far less sticky than the bar on the other island. Stained glass windows decorate the walls depicting images of humanity's suffering, and concrete crosses and tombstones are gathered in the corners. The bar itself is fully stocked with all types of alcohol and mixers, along with an array of bar food to help keep your energy up.

At the head of the room lounging among the statues of saints and the Blessed Virgin are Blue Hawaiian, Cosmopolitan and Midori.

Above them hangs another hand-painted banner, sloppily thrown together.

CONGRATS ON YOUR TRIAL!
12pm - 9pm
Vote or suffer eternal damnation

You can try to leave, but the door to the bar has been locked. All of the windows are reinforced, and there isn't another way out. You've been called here for one reason...let the misery begin!

Hello, and welcome to your third trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about this week's murder! Characters will have time to examine the body of the victim and explore relevant locations.

There will be a mod-tag break between 4pm EST/1pm PST to 5pm EST/2pm PST. While the trial may continue and players can tag each other, mod-led threads such as questions and investigations will be on hold.

Finally, we have a voting page for characters to vote on the culprit! Please be sure to read this page carefully and that your vote is in by the time trial finishes (9pm EST/6pm PST).

Good luck, and have fun!

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Comments

[psynchronise]

Another missing arm...?

[ welcome to hell welcome to hell ]

[engineers]

Oh.

[


wait ]

Is it the octopus?

[ontrend]

With the cuts and the glass, maybe they smacked him into a tank and that made it shatter...?

[outsidebones]

[quick check itto's broken arm for a second arm hidden inside the sling.]

[tearduct]

Octopus...?

[reignite]

[ a hand is resting on the handle of her sword, gripping it tightly and trembling a little.

with the combination of another body announcement?? damn. this is a lot to take. ]

[refate]

That's... needlessly violent and excessive. [ yeah chandra is right ]

Is uh. Is there any way we can check and make sure this version of his body isn't our terrible friend from the aquarium?

[awol]

Glass might likely be from the aquarium at least...

Wonder if the arm is just to throw us off... after all of the bullshit we've seen. Sounds like it's similar to Eto's from last week.

[ the chainsaw? he frowns deeply. ]

... Thank you, Bixing.

[ontrend]

Yeah, there's a crappy octopus that likes to turn into people and freak you out in there.

[voidshift]

...suppose the head wound sounds like the fatal one. Hopefully it came first.

[bookpapers]

...His arm? Why the hell would they...

[teufelshund]

[ looks at ryo

takes a picture

looks away


cool, so anything else in here if he looks around the rest of the room outside of the tanks while harrow looks in them for the octopus? is all the mess confined to a space around this one tank? ]

[cavaliered]

[itto even gideon is like "buddy" about this one]

[awol]

Mm. Especially considering the image we just received.

Just how far does the mimicry go.

[engineers]

None, and no signs of drowning, either. This is just speculation, but it may have been that his killer attempted to drown him, first, by throwing him in the tank - but he managed to break out of it, somehow and shattered the glass to do so.

[hardrocklife]

[a quiet nod of agreement.]

[refate]

[ reaching to gently set his hand over hers when he notices the tremble, giving a squeeze. ]

[awol]

Whoever took the arm deserves to be beaten with both of their own arms.

[psynchronise]

[ shrugs. ]

[anothen]

... Arms. Again.

[ontrend]

...the other arm probably got tossed into some other location - I'd hope no one would be dumb enough to, like, stash it in their room.

Sure would make our jobs easier if they were, though.

[astika]

[chandra glances at her but because he's horrible he does nothing actually remotely comforting

but i, jan, personally think zag should give cerberus back to her]

[tearduct]

[Truly looks like wtf.]

How do we know this one isn't the octopus?

[ontrend]

[tiredly]

We don't. I guess we just have to trust that the demons would know the difference...?

[cavaliered]

Distraction, probably. We spent so long freaking out about Eto's body parts last week that they probably thought it might be good cover.

[...] Either that or the missing arm is fucking decisive evidence again.