WEEK TWO: TRIAL

[retellers]

WEEK TWO: TRIAL (35 remain) Rise and shine, gremlins. Hopefully you found it in you to make and eat breakfast, despite yesterday's news. At 11am, everyone will receive a message on their PHS, simply stating: This is your reminder to be at the Emporium by 12 PM. Shortly before 12pm, every participant will feel compelled to move towards the Emporium, if they aren't already there. No exceptions! Though they will have to navigate around shelves and merchandise and the like, everyone will fit neatly inside the room. Once all the participants are present and the clock strikes twelve, the doors lock behind them. Three of the Leaders are there with them: Wolf, Rabbit, and Fox. Fox speaks. "... Third time isn't the charm, as it turns out. You have nine hours. We'll help with what we can, as before." ༶•┈┈⛧┈｡o°✥✣ 　　 ✣✥°o｡┈⛧┈┈•༶ Hello, everyone, and welcome to the third trial! For the next nine hours, the characters are expected to discuss among themselves, ask questions, examine the bodies of the victims, look over the evidence found yesterday, and revisit locations as needed in order to find the culprit(s). There'll be a one hour break from 5-6pm EST, where no mod tags will occur. Before the trial is over, please remember to place your character's vote over on the voting page. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST, and will serve as our activity check for the week, so please be sure you get your vote in before it ends unless you have contacted us previously. If you have any questions at any time, please let us know by pinging us on Discord!

NAVIGATION locations ₓ˚. statuses *+:｡ ic profiles :ₓo ic rules ･ﾟﾟ･｡ audience requests murder proposals ｡✧o private conversations ･ﾟo｡ curfew ･ﾟ✧ memories

Comments

[robopriest]

Laine's death, I think, can be narrowed down to Claude, Shima, Shiro and Rufus, due to the footprints. We also can't rule out Vezda, whose footprint was down a size from the ones we found. I also think that pirate costume that was discarded was also involved, since it happens to fit those four suspects.

It also makes sense for those five subjects to be suspects, because three of them, Vezda, Shiro and Rufus, have marksmanship as noted skills. While a gun could be used by an amateur, this was done from a yard away, at eye level, in the dark against someone who may not have been standing still. Plus, I think all five could have the strength to stuff Laine's body down the cannon.

I think we should just focus on those five, especially, for further evidence. No offense to any of them.

[uhhhmagic]

They also have to be strong enough to put the body in the cannon, right? I guess all of them are technically big enough.

[evocationary]

[ she rubs at her neck. ]

I think you're right on narrowing it down. I didn't see any wounds on Chad, but like... he could've healed himself. Did we ever find a gun?

[robopriest]

No, and the sad thing is, I don't think we ever will. If you're on a ship, the easiest thing would just be to toss it overboard.

[evocationary]

Yeah. The gun's probably gone. Shit.

[antaressnipe]

We did not, as far as I know.

But the only two guns that have healing properties are what Xie Lian and Ochako have, unless there are more circulating.

[frostythehitman]

Do they both still have them, unused?

[lionson]

Actually, I just had a thought. Rufus was drunk from the drinking game, yeah? So would he even be able to shoot straight while drunk?

[recrowns]

No defense for yourself, Shiro? Where were you for curfew anyway?

[axecessory]

[ i guess hilda has been dozing off this entire time, but she's been listening enough? maybe? that she taps her chin in thought and goes to whisper something in shiro's ear. ]

[exercisms]

[Nod. Nod.]

Um. We still don't really know who stabbed Brick-san, or why. Did that happen after he got shot. . . ?

[frostythehitman]

I think it happened before. I can't see a reason for anyone to stab him in the back after they've already shot him from the front.

[robopriest]

It looks like a backstabbing, though I don't know the timeline is for that. If it was done before, why was he shot front to back? He would stumble forward after being backstabbed, not turn around...

This is a farfetched idea, but maybe it wasn't on purpose? Maybe something happened to his body after he was killed. Eh. I don't know. I'm throwing stuff out there.

[frostythehitman]

[ ...sighs. ]

Yeah, I had a feeling I'd come under fire.

Search me and my things as much as you want. I didn't do it, so the quicker we knock me off the board, the faster we'll find the real culprit.

[uhhhmagic]

Just curious, you had a gem that causes debilitating pain, right? Like . . . something someone might treat with painkillers? Dunno, just throwing spaghetti at the wall here.

[riegan]

I know it's just my word but I don't know how to use a gun. I'd never even seen a gun until I came here.

[yamantaka]

Ahh, if that's how you want to do it!

[ i'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me ]

[robopriest]

Do you know how to use a gun, Shima?

[soulus]

[None taken.]

All suspects should be examined.

[antaressnipe]

[I read that as "all suspects should be exterminated" and felt such deep fear in my soul]

[riegan]

I'm ready whenever.

[supremity]

[ Once AGAIN, he has to push down the urge to outright accuse Claude of all crimes committed. Because Xie Lian keeps looking at him with big sad eyes, and Hansa was not incorrect about the googly eyes. ]

Nothing was reported to me after we checked injuries, and I didn't see anything that would match the tears on the costume itself. But that doesn't rule it out, since numerous people have brought up the possibility of healed injuries.

I do think you're on the right track, though, in narrowing it down. [ Full offense to one of them, but, again, behaving. ]

[robopriest]

What's interesting to me is that why the costume would have tears? Did Laine try to fight his attacker? And if so, with what?

[A pause.]

Ergh...I hope we don't have another weapon in play that got tossed overboard.

[canned]

If only we knew what made that wound on Laine's back...it doesn't make sense to stab someone after you shot them in the head, so it was probably from the initial attack, right?

[robopriest]

The only thing that doesn't fit in all of this is that steak knife attached to the stick...and didn't we find that didn't fit?

Was that Laine's weapon? Or the killer's?