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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nameless body report!

[engineers]

[ with his usual calm demeanor steeled, lu bixing will deliver his report clinically on nameless as he takes off his gloves, eyes a little dark and very serious. ]

...Cosmos’s head was bashed in. It’s a very large wound - it takes up the entire top of his head. His body was wet, which - with the others investigating the aquarium, that’s not surprising - and littered with smaller cuts, many of which had glass shards in them ranging in size from tiny to [ lbx gives a specific measurement number range here because he measured it like a nerd that just means “small” ]. His skin shows no sign of pruning from being in the water for an extended period of time. The smaller cuts that I mentioned are all over his body - his arm, legs, and his torso, both front and back.

Additionally, he has large bruises all over his torso. They’re interconnected, and not in any particular pattern, but each one is large, feasibly round in shape, and they are on his back and his front - only on the torso, and not on his limbs. They aren’t sucker bruises. There was nothing in his pockets, and…

[ closes eyes very briefly ]

…He’s also missing his left arm. [ gazes into the abyss but like, emotionally. ] It was severed roughly - the wound is jagged and bloody, right at the shoulder.

[ so. there you go. ]

[toyska]

[sorry wow yeah this is all v tragic or whatever but]

Not again...

[voidshift]

Is it supposed to be some kind of joke?

[eleusinia]

Which part?

[ontrend]

[looks at his phone. listens to this report.]

...there's, uh, also a second body that looks like him at the aquarium.

[engineers]

Oh.

[


wait ]

Is it the octopus?

[cavaliered]

Okay, hold up. Before we go any further - whoever took the arm deserves to be in double-hell.

[voidshift]

Triple hell.

[firstandgreatest]

It's cool, it'll make this one easy! If you've got an extra arm, you definitely did it!

[hardrocklife]

[a quiet nod of agreement.]

[awol]

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

[astika]

... Eto I can understand, but was Micah even enough of a threat to require anything but a quick kill?

[WHY DOES THIS KILLER SUCK AT KILLING APPARENTLY]

[greatvalue]

Maybe they weren't strong enough to make it quick? Or they just didn't know how.

[the killer sucks at killing...]

[firstandgreatest]

But he didn't have any water in his mouth or nothin'? So he didn't drown, I guess. Someone just threw him in there.

[ontrend]

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

[failbo]

Okay, at this point, the whole arm thing, it--it must be intentional to mess around.

[It's a pattern!]

[psynchronise]

Another missing arm...?

[ welcome to hell welcome to hell ]

[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.

[bookpapers]

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

[anothen]

... Arms. Again.

[greatvalue]

[HE IS SO TIRED OF ARM CRIMES.]

Does he usually not carry his scroll and key around?

[imagine if his pockets are empty because this one is the octopus. help.]

[eleusinia]

So, wait... if we're going with the octopus theory, then that has to mean it mimicked him after the murder, right? We'd need to wait for it to... get here, but if the wounds and stuff are exactly the same, I doubt that meant somebody went through the trouble of doing all of that twice in one night.

[birdeater]

[ wakes up briefly to learn about arm crimes and goes back to sleep.

now THAT makes him tired. ]