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

[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.

[toyska]

[You're all gonna owe him twenty bucks]

[voidshift]

[he doesn't HAVE twenty bucks. what's a buck. you want 20 deer?]

[toyska]

[yeah actually]

[onlythans]

Would that not imply the octopus had transformed before strangling him, though? Why would it bother to change its shape before going for his throat?

[voidshift]

That part, I don't know. Maybe it just does these things, it's a hell octopus. Scarier if it's a person.

[onlythans]

With eight arms at its disposal, it strikes me as strange that it would choose to limit itself to just two Hyurian ones before attacking. If attacking were the only thing it were after.

[toyska]

Could he have dreaded running into himself, or something along those lines?

[teufelshund]

It's certainly possible! He was an artificial creation, and there may well have been many that looked exactly like him. Perhaps it was taking on the form of one of them?

[toyska]

[He nods, mulling that over.] He did tell me he never really got to speak with his siblings, but I don't know much else about him.

[teufelshund]

They were created to be a power source for something. He may have only ever seen them behind glass themselves.

[onlythans]

I think it's a pertinent question all around: why did the octopus transform into what it did, and what does that mean for the events that transpired here.

[He shrugs.]

I wasn't well-acquainted enough with the deceased to say either way. Mayhap someone who knew him better could.

[toyska]

I didn't either. [A sigh.] I suppose we'll just have to see.

[engineers]

[ nodding to this... ]

It also may be relevant that the two versions of Cosmos both had the same head injury - that's the sort of thing someone just doesn't come back from. Did they both occur at the same time? And if they did, then how? Or was the octopus just copying what it saw?

[onlythans]

Now that we've acquired both bodies, mayhap we should take a look and determine whether they're simply similar injuries, or identical ones.

The best fighter to ever live would still be hard-pressed to enact two perfectly identical head injuries. But a creature imitating what it sees is a much different story.

[engineers]

[ ..... ]

Well, it's changed back, now, but... let me go look.

[ brb ]

[engineers]

[ returns... ]

The two head injuries weren't identical.

[anothen]

[ pikachugaspzoomin ]

[onlythans]

Less likely to be the result of copying, then. Does that imply someone inflicted a head injury on both?

I wasn't personally acquainted with the creature, I'm not aware of how perfect a mimic it was.

[firstandgreatest]

Could be something scary, or it can turn into like ... people you care about, right? Like they were drownin' in the tank, and needed help.

[outsidebones]

It is possible. Perhaps that is why the tank was broken to begin with - to free the person they thought trapped.

[firstandgreatest]

[ oooooh nooooo. ]

So we gotta find something they coulda broken the tank with, right? That glass is pretty thick, you'd have to get a good whack at it.

[ontrend]

Yeah, it definitely isn't as flimsy as like, window glass...

[outsidebones]

Quite. I'm still not clear on how it was accomplished. I saw nothing in the area that could have been used.

[preordain]

And it was a very large hole.

[ sneezes ]