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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[eleusinia]

[ NOOOOOOOO

she'll look to d.va like she's asking if it's okay, but she sits down and lets yoru snuggle in her lap for the time being. ]

[hellscapes]

[ messy like just lots of blood everywhere. they're not exactly clean stabs, but it's not from a blade that was serrated. since than is a dagger guy, he may get the sense that it's more the wounds were caused by movements that were not completely seamless. ]

[hellscapes]

[ it's a good thing he's looking for footprints otherwise they would've missed it by stepping in it! wowie! it does look like there's some very messy footprints in the ice cream leading outside the shop. it's a complete print, but it was made in melting ice cream, so the shape is a bit off...

there is a scoop dva can use! there's nothing stuffed in the ice cream though. she can painstakingly check out the remaining flavors that aren't on the floor for this. ]

[selfdestructs]

[ she nods! is fine!! ]

[eleusinia]

If there's anything I've learned being here, it's that it's almost impossible to just completely get rid of something, especially if it happens to be evidence.

[refate]

[ it's fine he'll stay here while dva is on invest and just. snooze like a little baby, holding onto a small fistful of clothing. ]

[firstandgreatest]

Feet ...

[ he'll take a pic of it and then put his own big feetsies next to it? can he get a sense if its ... well ... probably smaller ........... HOW MUCH SMALLER. Or is it too fudged up to tell. ]

[cavaliered]

[she just lays back down on the floor and doesn't answer!!!]

[teufelshund]

That's a shame. Don't get many opportunities to import things from elsewhere?

FOREST BIOME

[hardrocklife]

- burnt wool
- broken glass test tube (with cork marked "E")
- broken glass test tube (with cork marked "L")
- phone
- metal spudger
- piece of coal
- little bit of pink goo
- little bit of white powder

photographs of:
- blood drops
- the fire
- footprint trail and dirt impact spot
- L-shaped smudge on glass wall of the biome
- ⅃-shaped smudge (it's the same smudge, but from the outer side of the glass. there's white powder on the floor below it.)

[onlythans]

[i'm alex i'm 17 and i can't read, "not completely seamless" meaning like the dagger went in, stayed in a minute, and then was yanked back out? like it got stuck in there a bit?]

[selfdestructs]

[ she will do that, thank you... well. she's doing to check all the topping containers as well, also checking the counters and any where you could stash something behind the counter.

oh yeah. about those red spots that are not strawberry syrup. she'll snap a picture of those. about what size are these splatters?? ]

It's always feet....

FOREST BIOME

[engineers]

[ and we’re back! zelgadis and lu bixing return with midori, carrying lots of evidence and a little smoky but unharmed. yay. bixing will take off the mask he put on and offer it back to tuuri and then report their findings after clearing his throat. ]

Alright, so. When we first arrived at the biome area, we saw a trail of blood drips that led into the forest biome, and when we opened the door, there was a fire, just like we thought. It was consolidated to one spot near the door, and Zelgadis said it smelled a little like wine, which makes me think it might be ethanol…? There were broken test tubes like I mentioned in the text, too - one with an E, and then one with an L. The E tube was near the fire, along with a piece of burnt wool.

There were lots of footprints, but it was kind of hard to tell because they were so chaotically arranged, like it was during a scuffle, or at least a chase, but as far as I can tell, there was a pretty wide range. Kon’s pretty tall, so, there’s that to keep in mind. I took as many pictures as I could, if someone else wants to take a crack at it. Zelgadis also found a bit of pink gooey liquid in one of the footprints near the fire - we’re pretty sure it’s strawberry ice cream - and then, there was some blood over by the ice cream shop as far as we could see, too.

[ so yeah go inves team!! ]

Beyond that, we found a spudger buried in the dirt - likely from his tool kit - among all the footprints. That’s where the L tube was, and there was a piece of coal, too. I followed the footprints over to near the window, and found an impact in the dirt - I think it was where someone fell, likely Kon. There was a lot of blood soaked into the spot, and I found his phone, which - I think I know the passcode to. [ he glances over at dva wherever she is when he says this, and then back to the crowd. ] If we wanted to try it.

And - we also found something a little strange. On the glass of the window, there was a shape, sort of like a reversed L. I’ll draw a picture of it, and I took a picture, too, but it was kind of hard to get a good shot. It was made of something white and powdery, with a little liquid. We grabbed a sample of the white powder. There were also fingerprints, at either end of the L - the prints were roughly the same size as mine, if not a little bigger. I took a print of my own to compare the size, so we can at least check Kon’s to see if he was the one who made it.

[ so. there you have it, though, after, he adds, a little more tiredly: ]

And...please don’t mess around with the chemicals too much. I can go check them out and try and figure out what they are, but we should really just assume they're dangerous and take extreme caution.

[ ok that's all ]

[eleusinia]

[ quick question where is hex rn ]

[hellscapes]

[ more like the knife went in and was removed sloppily rather than a quick and clean in and out. ]

[tearduct]

It's somewhere, just... probably not on one of us. Not this far in at least. Hiding it in a room is probably pretty dumb, too, since we've made a habit of checking them.

But I wouldn't put it past anyone.

[cavaliered]

[he was sitting on yoru a while ago so probably there...]

[onlythans]

[smh these unprofessional stabbings i guess we can rule childe out as a murderer then

And just to confirm, do they all look like they were made by the same weapon? I saw different depths of entry were mentioned but they could all have reasonably been made by the same stabbing implement?]

[eleusinia]

[ well

then she'll go over to gently grab hex and then put him on gideon's face while she is on the floor ]

[hellscapes]

[ despite the different depths of entry, yes! it does look like they could have all been made by the same weapon. ]

[cavaliered]

[can gideon compare her burnt L tube finger to kon's burnt fingies and see if it looks similar?]

[hellscapes]

[ itto closes the door to his candy mind palace to enter his foot size mind palace. feet and footprints of various sizes swirl around him. he gets the feeling that while he can't tell an exact size from this smudged print, he can definitely tell it was smaller than his... and maybe he could learn more if they did a feet check, though it still wouldn't be a perfect one.

there's nothing stashed anywhere, but while she's looking behind the counter, dva will find a test tube near a wall!

the red spots are like a smallish sized splatter. it's not a significant amount of it, but enough that it was probably not a baby cut. she can tell it's not strawberry syrup because since they're smaller and splattered, some of the spots dried a darker, reddish-brown color. there's a bit of red on the floor in the same area as well, but that one isn't dry yet... ]

[preordain]

So it sounds like we'll have to do a few checks...

[ feetsies... ]

Maybe we can get Itto to taste whatever the white powder is.

[eleusinia]

[ wow yoru is so lucky to have two pink moms now........... ]

[engineers]

Ryo.

[ WHY ]