WEEK 3; TRIAL

[killerwaves]

TRIAL

Like last week, the kitty bots herd everyone over to the sandbar once the time for investigation has concluded. At the least, this little piece of your personal hells has emerged unscathed in all the wreckage. Unlike last week, Overhaul and Shigaraki are already there waiting for you, the former looking about as grouchy as a mask can get and the latter looking pretty amused.

Off to the side in a booth of its own is the body as well as attendant kittybots; apparently it’s messy enough this time to require some clearance, but it’s still close enough for the admins to oversee.

This murder sure was something, even for your masterminds. Theorize and/or judge about who could have done such a thing and get a snack from your local kitty bots if you get hungry—the theme is italian today, with pizza, mozzarella sticks, stuffed meatballs and the like.

(( OOC: Welcome to your second 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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EVIDENCE TOP LEVEL

[killerwaves]

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LAUNDRY - Washing Machines

[idologue]

I'm sure I don't need to inform any of you that the fight has taken quite a toll on our living area. The damaged resort roof should have been visible with ease.

Out of all the rooms in the main building, the laundry was hit hardest. The washers and dryers were largely destroyed. Two different forms of destruction were applied here. Most of the machines appear to have been sheared clean through - I examined the cuts, but I could not find any indication as to a weapon. The damage was very clean, no residue of any kind was to be found.

A few of the other machines appear to have been... crumpled for lack of a better word to use. As though someone was able to crush them like one would crush a tissue before discarding of it.

There was one pair of machines left intact, on top of it was Vergilius' clothes - the black set he was commonly wearing. The clothes were freshly washed and folded very orderly. I examined them but there was nothing else of note about them.

[dancing_flames]

... that would explain why he was wearing one of those tropical shirts instead.

[gluttoning]

Why would someone have changed his clothes out? Shuda, you said what he had on was put on over his injuries, right?

[chosenwang]

It takes time to wash clothes, dry them, and then fold them. Doesn't make sense for the killer to take all of that care, only to destroy the other machines. Do you think Ol' Verg was doing his own laundry?

[divector]

I was thinking he was doing his own laundry as well. Unfortunately, he wasn't using the swimsuit dryer.

Considering the room damage, I was thinking the fight started there if that's the case.

BODY EVIDENCE

[dancing_flames]

[Shuda looks uncharacteristically tired and stressed today! Someone is NOT having a good time right now.]

I was the one who found Vergilius' body.

[Is this the proper etiquette for this? Is there proper etiquette for this?]

It was underneath a mangled go-kart on the go-kart tracks and had the sort of bruising that you might expect from that.

But that's where things stopped making sense. Someone had cut his heart right out of his chest and then put his shirt back on over it and buttoned it back up, as though that would somehow hide what had happened. What's more, there was a small bruise on the back of his head as though he'd been struck there, and while the majority of the bruising was on the front of his body, there were bruises across the back of his shoulders as well.

There was also some unexplained discoloration around his ears as well as some discharge from them, which could be from the head injury. And I don't think I even need to mention the amount of blood that was present...

[He thinks that's everything that's important?]

[idologue]

... I believe I have an idea about what specifically has happened to his ears. Such discharge could be explained by ruptured eardrums, no?

[chrysaline]

[ Sorry, she doesn't have anything helpful to contribute here. She's just putting a hand over her mouth and looking a little green at that description. They've had some gruesome deaths already but still. ]

[necrotiem]

... Did you find the heart?

[Did anybody...find the heart?]

[finalmix]

... What does everyone have against the go-karts?

[ why have they been desecrated twice now :/ ]

Re: BODY EVIDENCE

[butcherspice]

...the heart was probably the fuckin' trophy if anythin'. Don't suppose any of you are daft enough to carry a fuckin' heart around in your pockets.

[There's a bit of a harshness to Billy's voice. Well, harsher than usual. He's already holding onto his crowbar like he's waiting to use it as a weapon.]

[dakicover]

What the hell.

[ honestly, crea doesn't have much else to say on the subject. the mental image is enough to stun him. ]

What did the bruises on the back of his shoulders look like? Could it be from slamming into the go-karts?

Beach

[chosenwang]

Went to the beach and found blood patterns and interesting pockets of sand. The blood didn't look like it was someone walking on their own with a wound. It was spilled rather haphazardly. The sand holes varied in size and were pretty strange. Magolor will have more to say about the sand and blood.

There were foot prints that lead to Seagull's Playground, but unfortunately it's sand. [ Why sand ] I couldn't figure out their sizing and it looks like whomever was taking a late night stroll weren't very careful with their steps. It looks like two people came together and then there were hurried movements by more than one person.

railway crimes

[finalmix]

Someone really doesn't like the railway. I have pictures of some of the destruction that our trigger-happy culprit wrecked on it~

[ anyway. he'll wave his phone, and on it there will be pictures of the holes on the bridge if anyone wants to take a look! ]

These are closer to the Seagull's Playground side, and when I was looking, there didn't seem to be any particular pattern or rhyme or reason to the destruction. I did, however, see that similar damage was done on the beach on the main resort island side.

[ for dramatic effect, he'll pick up the piece of wood that he pilfered from the bridge. ]

There wasn't much of the... missing wood, just these small pieces, so my main question is where the missing parts of the bridge went? There wasn't any evidence of scorching or like the wood being torn away from the bridge, so I don't think it was burnt or washed out to sea. Think we can chalk this up to funky power usage.

Oh, one last thing. [ changing the picture from the blasted bridge to one of the blood drizzle on the bridge (ty mods for clarification) instead ] Someone bled all over the bridge all the way to the go-kart area, but with the amount of blood? I don't know if we want to check if anyone nicked themselves, they might have healed up before coming here.

[ a shrug! joshua is trying to be helpful but not by much lmfao sorry ]

[gluttoning]

Maybe the blood was Vergilius. Did it lead all the way to where he was found?

[necrotiem]

That's about the same size as the ones at the track. I was unable to discern what could have made them myself; there were no burns around the craters, for instance.

[She also has photos of the ones by the go-karts if they're needed!]

laundry p2 + note on its outside area

[divector]

Like Lacus said, the roof was mostly destroyed, as if something gushed out from the laundry room at a high speed. The tiles were neither wet or scorched.

As for the laundry room itself that hasn't been covered already, the walls have some cracking, the stock of detergents looks fine, and the pipes' damage do not appear to be from stress like freezing water. Just regular damage. There's also no blood that I could see.

...Close to the laundry side, there are the remains of a goose. Only feathers and blood now.

[dakicover]

I know the geese are mean, but jeez, leave the poor birds alone.

[ like what the fuck ]

GO-KARTS - non-corpse details (cw gore)

[necrotiem]

Once again, you lot had your fun with the go-kart vehicles. This time the track was nearly uprooted, with craters all over the place and the road torn up in patches quite wide across. I'd say about three to ten meters or thereabouts... or ten to thirty feet.

I also noticed two district trails of blood droplets. One followed a straight path, more or less, and only trailed a short distance away from Vergilius where he lay. The other was much more winding and led out of the area entirely.

[As someone who fidgets and gestures with her arms and hands quite often as she talks, Quin moves hers throughout her presentation of evidence, especially to demonstrate the pattern of blood spatters and craters.]

There was also a standard kitchen knife, which I have brought wrapped in some cloth. It was covered in blood as well as some other material which I can safely estimate to have been organ tissue.

[dancing_flames]

The knife could be what was used to cut out Vergilius' heart. It wasn't a clean job, but it could conceivably have been done with that.

still more laundry room

[passetemps]

I examined the rest of the interior of the laundry room. The hole in the roof does indeed appear to have been made by something exiting the room through the ceiling with great force. The hole did not indicate perfect vertical movement, but was angled slightly so as to indicate that the projectile's trajectory would have taken it somewhere in the direction of the beach in front of the main resort building.

Unfortunately, the hole had no clearly discernible shape, and there was nothing I could find rubbed off on or caught on the rough edges of it that might have provided insight into what it was that escaped through it.

On the floor, there were several shallow craters, roughly six to seven feet in diameter and five inches in depth, though there was nothing I could find inside of them. The debris itself all seemed to be from the roof and the washing machines.

MODS

[finalmix]

Hey, do the craters look like these?

[ showing him the pic from railway crimes ]

MORE BEACH + Note

[microtransactions]

Wang Lu says I apparently have more to say about the sand and blood, but honestly, there's not all that much to say! Lots of big holes and pits in the sand, anywhere between 10 and 30 feet wide, and 3 to 5 feet deep! Whatever happened seems to have gone all the way around the shoreline from the main beach on Sungem in front of the resort, up and round without cutting through the island. It honestly looks kind of like a hurricane blew through, but the treeline seems okay, and I didn't catch wind of any messed up plants or animals other than the goose that Ibuki apparently found? As far as the blood goes, I can't tell you much more than Wang Lu did - they don't make much of a trail and are just kind of haphazardly spilled around.

The holes are scattered around kind of randomly, and I will say that I didn't find any blood or ... uh. Other bits inside them! But given how big they are that's a lot of displaced sand that I couldn't seem to find all of? There were some small sand piles outside them, sure, but. The edges of the holes are jarringly abrupt and not a gentle slope, which makes me figure it was probably some sort of power, but I have no idea what might have made them - it's not like they're wet or shaped like anything in particular, and I didn't see anything like melted glass or sand to suggest anyone used fire.

One thing I want to say about the blood is ... I do want to remind everyone that apparently according to his profile Vergilius could control blood? So not all of it might be from injury. I mean, it could be, and probably at least some of it is! I dunno how his power works! But I do want to put that out there, just in case?

[hearnoplague]

Hm... Perhaps he was made to bleed himself out?