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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Cat Herd: The First

[chosenwang]

[ He's going to take front and center like he belongs there. Holding up his hand to get everyone's attention. ]

What we can discern is that the culprit has put quite a bit of skill into this. They tampered with both the go-kart and the bubbling fountain at the golf course to create sugar glass. They lured the victim, Chai, over to the go-karts and it appears he was either hit here or else where.

The Kart and Chai were brought over to the Golf Course where he was placed into the kart and gumdrop buttons from the course were used to weigh the gas down. This was probably to cover up the actual cause of death, which is the jagged cut to the heart. His candy worms were put in the wound to help hide the weapon, which we believe is the sugar glass.

Have I missed anything? [ There's probably so much missed ]

[idologue]

We've also heard an alternate theory that Chai was never actually in the go-kart and instead was set up to be ran over by it. If he was facing it, then the collision would have left both his left side and the car's left side damaged.

I think we don't have enough decisive evidence to figure out which one it was, so it's good to keep both in mind.

[passetemps]

Yes, this is my thought as well.

And I do wonder if there was a way the force from the collision could have been used to push the blade in without requiring the killer to make a direct attack. It does seem that everything was set up specifically to target his left side, where the heart is.

[microtransactions]

I floated the same idea earlier.

Something like that would probably be enough force to make a wound like his, right?

ooc i oopsed on wording so 100% on me

[chosenwang]

[ That was what he meant by he was hit there or else where ]

[finalforte]

That's soooooo complicated. Who even thinks about making sugar glass anyway?

[dupiety]

Someone with an interest in confections, at the very least. There is also something of a science to making candy, so that could be another point of interest in narrowing down a potential suspect.

[finalforte]

Like chemistry?

[conchy]

Who indeed! One would need some level of culinary insight to forge such a weapon, non?

[Where the foodies at?]

[finalforte]

[Quin, apparently!]

[passetemps]

I believe there is also the possibility that he was simply struck by the kart without riding inside of it.

[chosenwang]

I would say that's my bad with my wording. What I meant by him being hit was that he was hit by the kart.

[passetemps]

Ah. Then yes, I believe we are on the same page in that regard.

[townmusician]

Chai has… had? magnet abilities. Isn’t it also possible those had some impact on… basically everything but the candy?

[Not to make things more complicated, but.]

Well, and putting the gumdrops on the pedal.

[solutionary]

Would the kart have been able to get close if that were the case? It might have just been something used to disguise the rest of the injuries.

[townmusician]

According to the profiles, it sounds like he only got the attraction part of magnets and not the repulsion part, so I don’t know that he could’ve managed it.

Unless that part was left out.

[chosenwang]

[ Can't wait to find out that the murder was set to yakety sax music as the kart chased him to the golf course thanks to his powers ]

It's good to keep in mind. It may have even been used to try to defend himself and protect the cat.

[plunges]

I am not sure of how the Go-Kart functions entirely, but if the gumdrops were placed on the gas pedal, then it would have been hard to do so if they were sitting in the seat. The kart would have moved forward with them in it.

They would have had to jump out of the kart, or find another way to get out while the gumdrops were lodged. Or...they were never in the kart to begin with.

[chrysaline]

It did move in a straight line... maybe they put the gumdrops onto it over at the race course? But then they would have had to carry those over with them...

[plunges]

Or use an ability to help them do so, like enhanced strength or levitation.

[chosenwang]

Psyche said it moved in a straight line, which makes me believe someone must have driven it straight or guided it as such. The crash may not have even happened at the go-kart course and maybe Chai rode with the culprit to the golfing area for some reason or another. Or maybe they had a way of making sure the wheel wouldn't turn regardless. [ He's a game nerd, not a kart one. He has no idea how they work ]

[gravitys]

I think they'd have had to place somethin' else on the pedal to hold it down if they weren't in the kart.

[necrotiem]

[Now that she's had some time to answer questions following the line of inquiry into her chemistry... It's not just the molten sugar that seems so curious about the weapon, here.]

A shame the sugar shattered, so we can't see what was made... If that's really what forged the blade, we'd better turn our attention to the hows as well.

They would have either needed a mold or some other knowledge of weaponsmithing, unless they were very talented at sculpture from memory.

[plunges]

I am inclined to agree, which means we are potentially looking at an individual with this sort of technological knowledge, and craftsmanship. And, given the leisurely pace of the footprints, someone that Chai did not feel threatened by, assuming those are his.

[ Hm... ]

[chosenwang]

I do have a glob of it that came off on a tree. They may have been testing it there originally. It was large enough to make quite the indent, so similar to a regular sword's blade.