guiltrip | WEEK 3; TRIAL

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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No clue. It's at least a possibility to consider. Though I'm pretty sure it ain't just mental.

Yes, I'm quite certain that the missing heart was not, in any case.

Maybe someone ate it. [ HE'S seriously suggesting it, help ]

It is, unfortunately, possible... and, of course, there is also an entire ocean where things can be discarded. I suppose it could even have been fed to a bird of prey.

[ SIGHS. ]

I don't know that we should pin our hopes on the possibility of finding it.

I mean, yeah. We can check what people are carryin' but I'm not gonna hold out hopes there's a heart in someone's pockets right now.

[ MOSTLY BECAUSE HE THINKS THAT WOULD BE DUMB... ]

[ AGREED........ ]

[ handshake emoji ]

Or the goose. [ Before whatever happened to it... happened ] We might as well check people's mouths while we're at it in case they didn't brush well.

...If we catch someone because of that I'm quitting.

[ Quitting what? Life, generally. ]

A human heart is probably too big for a goose to eat...

[Which would explain why it died? Is she helping???]

Could that be why it was so thoroughly destroyed?

It wasn't really a goose anymore, Ibuki said...just feathers and blood. Even if it didn't eat it...

Poor goose...

[ When you give a goose a heart... it explodes ]

[ Wait ] Or what happened to the goose is what happened to the heart.

[... oh. He gets where you're going with that.]

The damage was done from the inside out, you mean?

It wouldn't need to be from inside out. If they had an object or a power that was similar to a large bullet or burst of something... [ Making a gun with his hand and aiming it at Shuda's chest ] Pow. They may have been trying to aim for Verg and got the goose instead. [ Or the goose was being annoying ]

... let me check something.

I did see Lobelia-san do something like that once…

It just keeps circling back to him. I do feel like he would have made it more obvious he did it. He would like the credit. May have even posed Verg better than leaving a cart on him.

[ At the same time... you never know ]

[COMING BACK AFTER EXAMINING THE BODY AGAIN...]

You might be right. The pieces of bone were pushed into the wound, which would indicate that the chest wound was caused by an exterior force. That could mean the knife, or it could mean something else.

[ Thank you for your service ]

So we're looking for something that could do that.

If we had the missing part, we could confirm that. The part that was removed wouldn't have caved in, but if it had been because something was pushed against it before the heart was extracted, then it would be something aside from the knife. Like a punch to the chest.

With all the craters, I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of similar force was used on him, too.

[ She hums, scrolling through the profile list. ]

That would take a lot of detailed control, wouldn't it?

[ he crosses his arms. ]

I wonder if this isn't their first kill.

Or the heart itself could have been damaged by whatever it was. Not all of the blood looked like it flowed out of the wound-- there was plenty that looked like it had been splashed.

Then why use the knife to cut open the hole? It's got heart tissue too, according to Beel.

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dancing_flames - 2023-06-03 19:50 (UTC) - Expand