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

[awol]

A way to resuscitate someone who cannot breathe. Someone who has drowned.

Usually ends up with the breaking of the ribs and sternum due to the pressure delivered by the hands.

[ he will create the general hand shape required by cpr and shows where you would places them on his own chest. ]

[firstandgreatest]

So, someone hurt him and then regretted it?

Doesn't seem like this guy drowned either though, right? Or he'd be spitting up water.

[awol]

Seems like it...

I'm not sure about the drowning part either, it's hard to say. It's likely he was already dead by the time he ended up in the water since his clothing and body were soaked.

All I know is someone at least tried...

[voidshift]

But if there was also bruising on his neck that could have been done by hands... that one doesn't exactly line up with trying to resuscitate him.

[awol]

But it could align with bashing someone's head back into something. Couldn't it?

[voidshift]

So it could. But I don't see a reason to change your mind like that, if you were trying to kill someone-- did the size of the bruising on the chest match up with the neck? Smaller hands as well?

[awol]

Mm. I didn't check, but I wouldn't be surprised if they both belonged to the same person.

[voidshift]

Do you mind taking another look? If they're different, that says something else.

[awol]

[ not me already running ]

[awol]

[ hey guess what ]




The marks on Cosmos' neck.

They match his own hands perfectly.

[ turning to look at the body lu bixing examined....... ]

[voidshift]

I-- do we think the octopus attacked him, then...?

If that thing was involved, it got out or he got in somehow, we are not blaming everything on an octopus.

[anothen]

[ HELP ]

Has anyone had experience with the octopus being aggressive?

[firstandgreatest]

[ WELL LISTEN THAT OTHER BODY IS AN OCTOPUS NOW ]

YO! WHAT! IS! HAPPENING!

[ontrend]

...

[frowns]

So the octopus attacked him, and someone else tried to break it up and ended up attacking the real one in the process...? You think?

[engineers]

....What if they did it out of impulse? The act itself. Since there may have been alcohol involved, if there was some on Cosmos's breath. And when they came to...

[voidshift]

...that creature does seem to be his dead body. So. Merit to the idea, but let's not run too far with it.

[don't go too easy on this one just assuming it was like this.]

[teufelshund]

So someone killed him while out of their right mind, attempted to resuscitate him once they realized what they'd done, and then their guilt caused the octopus to take on his form?

[awol]

[ just places hand on arm gently. ]

That and all of the confusion between the octopus and Cosmos. It's likely it was a final act of desperation. The strangulation marks matching... the arm cut off jaggedly as well may have been an attempt to separate them perhaps?

[onlythans]

That would leave evidence about the mouth as well, correct? Since the person would also be breathing air into his lungs, at intervals.

[awol]

It would...

The alcohol smell could also have come from the person breathing into his mouth.

[failbo]

Like...it was his killer who had that drink, and killed him in a fit from impulse, and once they sobered they regretted what happened?

[Was that how it happened? It's...plausible, he supposes]

[awol]

[ nods... unhappily. ]

[astika]

Considering that both the killer and Micah still had to go to the aquarium—and any other locations that might be involved—exactly how much of an "impulse" is doing all of these actions in sequence?

Though in any case, for it to be an impulse, you had to already have had that thought in your head somewhere.

[failbo]

Well--yeah! From my own experience with that, at one point of the week, it's not like it puts some thought in your head, it just...makes you feel like you can actually pull it off! So I guess if the killer really was the one drinking it, they already were having thoughts of murdering someone...maybe not Micah, but someone at all.

[Maybe there was no animosity at Micah at all, and it just...was bad luck he was the one who got murdered]

[anothen]

Such a smooth drink now to be deemed as the murder cocktail...