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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[ One quick thing before the trial starts... ]

Did anyone else hear a goose running about outside the cabins, or did my ears decive me?

[Pizza time. He hasn't been here for more than a minute and he's already got a slice in his hand.]

You don't look happy.

The goose died as well.

[ And he'll leave it at that, because evidence top levels! ]

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.

Oh, good.

Oh, yes. I remember seeing something. A little honking beast. So that’s what it was?

[Learning animals with Skywarp!]

[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?]

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

Edited 2023-06-03 17:11 (UTC)

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

Kanon heard it, too.

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.

[Respond here if you’d like to examine the body again!]

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

I guess we won't be able to eat it, huh?

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 ]

Edited 2023-06-03 17:15 (UTC)