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

[eleusinia]

[ persephone does not have wings but she can fly! just not here :(

persephone is scanning the room at large at first, trying to see if there are any obvious differences from the night she spent in here for curfew. besides that, she looks up at the tentacles hanging from the ceiling. how are they doing today? are any of them holding a knife? ]

[reignite]

[ you go girl!!!! ]

[hellscapes]

[ yeah, there are about five finger-ish smudges. four-five. is smudgey. ]

[astika]

Well, now you know he took your advice.

[outsidebones]

[sure, yes. she will not only take pictures with her feet in the picture but she'll also compare a piece of notebook paper and draw marks on it for size.

for good measure she also takes more photos of the aquarium hole and the smudge in case any of that was blurry too.]

[eleusinia]

Not always if I can think of something that's more obviously fitting, but it's also just easy to default to.

[ . . . ]

Midori said to come to you to ask for a drink. Can you make me something?

[hellscapes]

[ 👍

and we shuffle back to the trial bar wheee ]

[tearduct]

Good because some of them were awful.

[Stands back up. He will let Ryo sit (and also threaten Fieri).]

[bookpapers]

[He keeps staring at the notebook, but continues]

This was at the aquarium, right? If his journal was with the body there... then there's a good chance that the one Jingheng's checking might be Cosmos.

[reignite]

[ uriel is also appreciating this vibe too ]

[failbo]

........

[It perhaps is a good thing that, even despite the loss of his most earnest trait, he didn't gain assertiveness, because in the end, he sighs like he's doing such a huge favor to Harrow and actually rolls his eyes]

Fine. If only because making this a bigger deal than this will only draw eyes on me somehow.

[And apparently with that as his sole motivation, he goes to comply]

[awol]

[ opens and closes the mods eyes over and over again

okay first of all what is that he is going to (unfortunately) smell whatever it is on the body's breath. i hope it's fish.

he will examine the bruising on the neck as he goes down, and he might measure the bruising with his hands. does it look hand-shaped? or are the bruises more likely to be from something like a belt or a rope? chain? etc?

re: the blood on the chest, yuckyyyyy, but he will eyeball the bruising here. does it look like what lu bixing described as being on nameless' body that he examined first thing during trial? (he will pop over to the other body to check himself if he needs to in order to compare.) ]

[eleusinia]

[ nods to rynlan's suggestion! ]

Yeah, that's why I mentioned the thing about checking shoes. Like, that makes sense! Not so much about the measuring part, though.

[failbo]

I hardly think you need an excuse to do that anyway, do you?

[...uncalled for, Filbo]

[firstandgreatest]

[ because it's break! ]

Come on, we gotta do laps! Come on, come on!

[ontrend]

[he'll just say it]

Uncalled for, Filbo.

[failbo]

[Here he is, footpaws!]

[refate]

[



waiit ]

I don't necessarily like the implication that an octopus, which can naturally regrow limbs, has been laying on the table in here with us.

[engineers]

I really do not want to do that.

[ gazes ]

But a standard measurement might be fine.

[cavaliered]

[she is glad for this because she was actually about to set filbo on fire with her brain]

[hellscapes]

[ nothing in the bar seems broken or overturned! it looks perfectly normal at first glance.

the drag marks are water-wet! the puddles seem bigger closer to where they start near the aquarium and smaller closer to the bar. but still water. the shape also seems a bit odder the more they get into the bar...? the blood drops don't seem to follow the drag marks, but some of it seems to have gotten into some of the puddles.

uriel will find that there are two glasses on the counter! nothing else seems out of place.

persephone finds nothing on the ceiling. unlike when they were doing curfew, however, there's a glass standing on the ground near the bar? huh. ]

[selfdestructs]

Really hope not. We dealt with that thing once already, not again.

[greatvalue]

[ :( ]

[bookpapers]

I don't either.....

Can octopi regrow their brains...?

[hellscapes]

Makes sense. [ and they nod at the request; ] Sure~ Sunny and I are the only ones who like to bartend.

[ and after a bit she gets this! which is an alcoholic shirley temple ]