WEEK 2; TRIAL

[killerwaves]

TRIAL

Whether you investigated or decided to take it easy, before you know it the speakers crackle to life instructing you to head to the beach. This is a demand not a request, and anyone who doesn't comply will find themselves forcibly moved there by the kitty bots—even if it takes a whole swarm of them.

Once you get there, you'll see that this isn't quite a beach party, instead a gigantic sandbar dotted with some type of constructs has risen out of the sea and tides. The path to the sandbar is solid enough even if it is relatively narrow, and once you arrive you'll find that you're far out in the ocean, way farther than it's comfortable to swim.

And once everyone is gathered, the pathway recedes back into the sea leaving you trapped here, all twenty-eight of you. At least there's ample seating, a kind of amphitheater made of sand with space in the middle for grandstanding or dramatic revelations. Though the area is mostly open, there are lone pieces of sand wall around the edges, maybe to dissuade you from tossing someone into the ocean without stopping you entirely. Thankfully, a lone outhouse rests again one of the walls just in case you need to use the bathroom, though it's not much in the way of actual privacy.

Settle in, get comfortable or just complain about all the sand you'll be tracking back, if you make it back that is. There's still another sacrifice to be chosen after all according to your administrators and—

Maybe you've noticed there's no palm trees or speakers here? It's just you, and the sand. For now.

(( OOC: Welcome to your first trial! You'll have 7 hours (8PM EST/5PM PST) to find the killer and send them off their death, if you believe in justice at least. Since this is scapegoat style, finding the correct killer is not mandatory!

Please remember to vote before then unless you've spoken to a mod, as votes are our stand-in for AC. ))

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GOLF COURSE GO-KART

[plunges]

[ Link to the entire Go-Kart invest.

Xiao arrives carrying three…large, metal things in his arms. Yeah. Also I forgot to mention that he's part of the matching green shirt squad, unfortunately, shout out to y'all. ]

I investigated a Go-Kart that was found near Chai’s body at the golf course. It was purple and found crashed into the side of one of the courses, slightly on top of the incline. It was also smoking.

I looked inside of the kart and found 3 of these [ And he’ll just. Plop those metal things down for people to look at. These are the gumdrops! ]. They were wedged inside of the kart, on top of the right pedal. I believe that is the pedal that propels the machine forward.

The outside of the kart has some scuffs at the front, but what was most noticeable was down here. [ He’ll show his phone. It might be hard to see for most, but there’s an image of the fender being very messed up. ] This part of the kart had a dent that did not line up with the kart’s position on the course; it was too high to look like it occurred there. It was on the left side of the kart, when you are facing it.

Finally, this component of the kart was damaged. [ Another photo! Look at that. It’s a picture of the engine. ]

That’s all I could gather.

[passetemps]

And there was no blood in the kart?

[plunges]

Not that I could tell.

[microtransactions]

So ... Does that mean Chai was immobilized, since they had to weigh down the gas pedal, but not actually stabbed yet, since an open wound would like. Bleed a lot, probably?

[plunges]

[ ... ]

After mulling over it, the Go-Kart may have not had Chai in it at all. If Chai himself was facing the Go-Kart, and the Go-Kart had the objects on the pedal already, it could have driven itself straight into him.

That would make the wounds on his left consistent with where the dent was located on the kart.

[dancing_flames]

... not to mention it would eliminate the need for physical strength on the part of the killer.

[Hmm.]

[plunges]

It seems pointless to go through all of these steps if one could have overwhelmed him easily.

[ And while he doesn't disagree with Shuda... ]

However, it's also possible that the killer intended to do all of this to mask the fact that they were capable of doing so.

[dancing_flames]

To throw us off their trail. You could be right.

[passetemps]

Is it possible that the blade might have been attached to the moving kart somehow? That could explain the force that appears to have been behind the stab wound.

[dancing_flames]

Wouldn't be too much if he was already dead.

[dupiety]

Yet there was blood on the ground where he was found, spilling in a consistent pattern to how he was lying.

[...]

Surely there were better options at the actual scene of the murder, but the gummy worms may have been used as a stopper to prevent a large amount of blood from spilling until the body reached its final destination.

[microtransactions]

I think we've all figured out that the cart was sabotaged, but let me take a look at that picture of the engine?

[plunges]

Alright.

[ He'll go ahead and hand over the phone so Magolor can look at the pictures. ]

MODS

[microtransactions]

[ his experience is with fancy space ships and not basic earth engines but if he takes a squint at this can he tell what the damage is.

does it happen to be say, a certain thing that temenos brought here? ]

[killerwaves]

[It does! The picture may be crunchy but the engine is even crunchier.

The governor is conspicuously missing on this engine, and moreover, there's certainly some damage on the front where the majority of the scuffs and denting are -- and on top of that (this poor engine), there's obvious signs of overheating and running too long and way too hard for a little go-kart engine. F.]

[microtransactions]

Hmm ...

[ the points on his hood go a little flat. ]

Yeah, okay, thanks for letting me look.

[ off to temenos to confirm at least one suspicion. ]