WEEK FIVE - TRIAL

[hellscapes]

Hello, deadlings. Ready to work double-time?

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 Bloody Mary, Cosmopolitan and Midori. With them is also a cut-out of Guy Fieri, dressed as a (sexy?) samurai with a bunch of cool flames cut out of construction paper glued to his back as he walks away from an explosion. He is also holding a sign that says "YOU CAN SOLVE IT!" However, there are now paper tears glued to his face as well. And he looks ready to fall apart.

The second, fresher Fieri is also still here. Why.

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 sixth trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about this week's murders! Characters will have time to examine the bodies 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

[greatvalue]

Thanks. Then I'll be down there. Solving a murder. [tiredly.] As always.

[why do they have a murder schedule.]

[cavaliered]

[she typed that part. and also this part. ferociously. anyway:]

Both of them were colosrless and I don't know what kind of sweet I didnt talske it

[refate]

[ synthetic snuffle. blinks sleepily. then snuggles up more like he's going back to sleep. ] Pretty Percy...

[tearduct]

yea to see what it all was its fine

[IS IT]

[psynchronise]

[ gives the modsies a lil smooch on the forehead. thank u. ]

[psynchronise]

[ anyway here he is ]

None of the weapons handed over are a good match. Thancred's daggers were closer in size to the wounds but still too large, and the crab multi-tool is too small.

So, whatever did this is still out there somewhere.

[gloomist]

Yeah. It's a really low bar. There's no reason to think of yourself as a success.

[hardrocklife]

[hm. is it still just trace amounts? anything more significant than that?

he'll let lbx examine the fingerprints more.]

[failbo]

I...just assumed they were good enough at bringing some form of eternal damnation to unsuspecting people, really!

[They sure have been good at poking fun at Filbo and recently gaslighting him for -- let me scroll up to look at the week number -- six weeks, not that Filbo holds any hard feelings for any of it, hah. For all he knew maybe Satan was approving enough of their mean teen ways]

[engineers]

Those - if they're in test tubes, they're almost definitely chemicals!

You could have seriously hurt yourself, are you okay?! I don't think we have any antidotes and I can't exactly make one while we're in the middle of this clown show
Did you wash your mouth out? Please wash your mouth out, and wash your hands, did you touch any of them, either? Please make sure you clean any of it off of you, okay?

[ FUSSY AND WORRIED FIRST DISAPPOINTED LATER ]

[outsidebones]

I think it most likely then that the wounds were caused by a knife or dagger smaller than Thancred's.

Does anyone have something like that to compare?

[engineers]

We're having a mandatory lab safety class on Monday

[murderofwoes]

Their form of torture included numerous parties and a sports festival. It's embarrassing.

[cavaliered]

You'd have to be stupid to bring your weapon to trial at this point, so I'm not surprised.

[psynchronise]

The most I have is a toy sword from weeks ago.

[ so. no. ]

Wonder if they have something behind the bar? If no one else has anything. They put fruit peel and slices in fancy cocktails, right? [ they've gotta be able to cut them. ]

[greatvalue]

You can't. [tiredly. nodding.] And you shouldn't write about romancing babies, either.

[selfdestructs]

[ sticky...

while itto checks out the sus red trail, she's going to wander over to the ice cream cases, is there still ice cream in them? or are they empty... also checking for like any hidden messages or hints, like if kon spelled out something with ice cream or toppings on the glass/counter. (i hope that makes sense. help. ]

This being a place of interest does not surprise me, because it is ridiculous. [ she expected this from kon, tbh. ]

[preordain]

If they had one on them they were willing to hand over, they probably would have.

Unless people want to do a trip to their room.

[outsidebones]

Yes, it's possible. I know for a while some of us carried knives from Weedy's as well.

[cavaliered]

I didn't drink them I'm fine
Do your investigation

[murderofwoes]

You shouldn't write about anything that was in those books. Vampires don't sparkle.

[voidshift]

If they do, sort of doubt they're going to be willing to pull it out now if they didn't already.

Only going to look worse to have one later, though.

[psynchronise]

Yeah. It's good if we get something that similar enough, but-- [ nods up a comment. ] Harrow's right that's probably a knife or smaller dagger, given Thancred's were a closer match.

[outsidebones]

If we don't find something soon, there's a decent chance it is in someone's room.

[failbo]

Haha, one takes what one can get.

[Oh well. Once he's alive he'll go back to trying to figure that out from square one, he decides]

Uh, another one, I guess? Vodka, just for the road!

[Maybe it's not such a bad idea to have a bar when it's trial time, the liquid courage is nice]