WEEK 4; TRIAL

[killerwaves]

TRIAL

You all know the drill by now even if things are a little different today, with the two deceased and the shuffling of the announcements. Things are much the same at the sandbar though, kittybots setting out seafood as the theme for this week, along with every flavor of mountain dew under the sun, including the energy drink kind. (food mod note: this is actually on brand MTN dew for once!).

Off to the side in a booth of their own are the bodies as well as attendant kittybots; simply request which body you'd like to look at and the kitty bots will direct you appropriately, as if it's difficult to tell the difference between a squid and a giant robot. Maybe they're just there trying to be helpful, they're doing their best. .

(( OOC: Welcome to your third trial! You'll have 7 hours (8PM EST/5PM PST) to vote one (1) person guilty of murder. 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 LEVELS

[killerwaves]

[ Comment here with your investigation findings! ]

Theater

[chosenwang]

Spent the night in the theater with Waltaquin, Psyche, and Wei Wuxian. When we woke up, we found Skywarp on the stage posed with the crown I had from last night and some kind of cape. Someone else was getting a closer look at at all of that. He was seated upon one of the theater seats from the audience.

There was blue drops of what I'm assuming is his blood from the stage the took me outside. That's where I saw the Go-kart parked outside. There was more of his blood inside of the go-kart, but it appears to be undamaged. If someone drove his body there, it would have been quite the tight fit.

[microtransactions]

Yeah, about that go-kart ... I don't know if anyone actually drove the thing? At least not normally. Hang on.

[ to be followed up when i finish posting trailgate deets, wheeze ]

[chosenwang]

[ Waiting for morb update ]

[finalmix]

[ important question though: ]

What's with all our culprits using the go-karts every week? You'd think there's a vendetta against those things.

[chrysaline]

[ A little nod of confirmation! This Watson doesn't have much to add, but: ]

I went with Wang Lu to look around. Um... there wasn't that much blood, I think. Enough to follow, but I wonder. If he was walking, I think it would have been more?

[ As will be apparent with the body discussion, but. ]

Bar

[finalforte]

Kanon found something good this time! Somebody was bad in the bar~☆

There were high-proof drinks missing! So Kanon took a look around and found the pieces thrown away.

[She will in fact hold up the trash can because carrying the whole thing was preferable to digging through it.]

It looks like someone tore up a gift shop shirt while they were at it.

[Sure enough, there's strips of a shirt in there among the glass, too.]

Kanon's pretty sure a matchbook was missing, too!

[dancing_flames]

... so they were trying to make homemade bombs, in other words.

MODS but also hey dani

[finalmix]

[ coming over after he gets the glass samples from alice: ]

Hey, do you think these glass pieces came from the bottles?

[ modchans is this a match or nada ]

I return hours later

[gluttoning]

Kanon.

[Mid-grilling from like 5 other people, here he is.]

Can I see the trash can?

Skywarp body

[dakicover]

So I was the one that looked at Skywarp's corpse. I'm not the best with machines, but I'll do my best to explain it to ya'll.

[ sometimes you are a transplant from 2000 years in the past and that makes things a little awkward at best. regardless, he clears his throat, and starts explaining what he saw. ]

We found Skywarp sitting on a seat like a king on a throne. No, seriously. He had his chin rested on his palm, and whatever remained of one of his legs propped up on an armrest. He was also wearing a crown and a planet themed cape, which I've brought with me...

[ he'll place both things down for people to view. ]

All around him were miniature planet models and I'm gonna guess that's from the planetarium gift shop. [ he says that with a mild annoyance. so his trap didn't work as well as he thought it did. bummer. ]

As for the state of the body, he was missing both feet, aka his harpoon prosthetics and his remaining foot. They had these kind of diagonal slashes, that kind of looked like the person who ripped it off had to put a lot of effort to do so-- makes sense, since he was made out of metal.

[ shrugs. ]

The front and side of his torso and head had a bunch of holes on them. They're not that big, they're kind of like puncture wounds. The ones on the front torso looked like they were the deepest? And on the back of his head there were some cracks that look like they were almost going to be exit wounds. The holes, by the way, had this weird blue substance that I guess was like its blood. Oil, maybe? I think that's what cars use, at least.

On top of that, his joints and some random parts of his body had this transparent liquid. It looked and felt like water, but the smell of it was kind of fishy. I've got no idea if its a chemical or if he just had a fight with a school of fish.

[chosenwang]

The crown was left at the planetarium. I brought it with me to see if anyone wanted it. [ Looks like someone did ]

Sounds like someone made him the center of the galaxy.

[gluttoning]

His foot and prosthetic were both at the waterfall. That pond has fish in it.

Well. It has less fish in it today. But it used to have fish in it.

Waterfall part 1

[dupiety]

Beelzebub and I investigated the waterfall on Kingfisher's Retreat.

We awoke to find ourselves among scattered debris from the rock face and crystal pool of the waterfall, and a acrid scent of mechanical oil in the air. At the base of the waterfall was an erratic pattern of large footprints that no doubt belonged to Skywarp. They were centralized in one area and did not lead to anywhere, almost as if making a single even larger print in their wake. Among these footprints were splatters of a blue oily substance that I would attribute to Skywarp's "blood."

In addition to all of that, I found Skywarp's remaining foot on the roof of the refreshment hut. It looked as though it had fallen onto it and it contained several diagonal slash marks on it. As for how it became detached in the first place, it seems as though it had been removed with some force, but not enough to have been simply ripped off.

Waterfall part 2

[gluttoning]

[Nodding. Temenos still has Beelzebub's signature jacket with the fur neck lining on, so Beel's just rocking a tee-shirt and still looking a little.... soggy? Though he has a towel and seems to be doing a very minor wind spell to try and dry himself off as Temenos speaks.]

Mn. There were blunted harpoons down in the pool at the bottom of the waterfall. Looked like the ones Skywarp was using for his missing foot. There was also a lot of bits of metal in the sand. Mostly silver, some of them were dark blue, but they were tiny.

There was a lot of damage to the rocks all the way up the waterfall. Scorch marks, holes, and just blunt force damage, with a lot of debris. There was more damage at the jump point at the top then there was at the bottom. I have pictures, if people need to see it. [On his D.D.D., too, so congrats on ~nice quality~]

Some of that blue liquid was up at the top, but it wasn't nearly as much as there was at the bottom of the falls. The smell wasn't as strong, either.

There was a U-PINION up at the top as well. I got a picture of that too. It was in really bad shape, though. I couldn't even turn it on, so I don't know whose it was.

Planetarium

[gravitys]

Ended up in the Planetarium, so I mostly investigated there. Most of the shit that happened there was stuff bein' taken. The weird ass crown, some of the models, and a table cloth.

There were tire tracks leadin' to the theater from one of the go-karts. In 'em were drops of blue blood and metal fragments, so I'm assumin' whoever the fuck used a cart to move Skywarp and the shit from the Planetarium.

Crea set up a bowl of flour trap outside but guess whoever it was got around that. [ A shrug. ]

[chosenwang]

Temenos mentioned Skywarp's ability to transport himself. He could have gone in to retrieve the props without disturbing the flour.

Beach; Kallamar’s Body

[solutionary]

I examined our friend Kallamar’s body where it was on the beach. He was originally found in the water and was quite damaged.

One of the more noticeable wounds and the cause of death was the hole in his head, evident by the signs of blood that wasn’t washed away by the water. There were plenty of wounds that don’t look to have bled much as well, so whoever did this must have expended quite a bit of energy after he was deceased. The harpoon sticking out of the left side of his chest is also worthy to note; I believe this must have been what caused the majority of the wounds. Oddly enough, he smelled strongly of a high proof liquor despite being in the sea.

His left arm was missing and the site was not clean—- the arm showed signs of multiple stabs to sever his hand off, with more damage to the surrounding areas as well. There were gold shards that were also on his left side, more concentrated by the arm and radiating outward. Some of the stab wounds also had gold shards inside of them, as though they were pushed into the wound with the weapon.

His right side was also riddled with metal, but this was gray, not gold. It was also fairly radial in pattern, centered on his head and upper half. Both types of shard were the actual metal and not painted, and they were not shavings either but actual shards.

Lastly, Kallamar’s legs and clothing were concealing thick, sturdy, curved glass shards and sand. The pieces are here [Baizhu reveals a piece of cloth folded around the glass he brought with him before continuing] but they’re rather small to identify what they’re from.

[butcherspice]

Hm. High proof liquor and glass. Sounds like a molotov cocktail went off near him, but coulda been a dud? If it'd gone off as planned, Kallamar woulda been a lot crispier.

[chosenwang]

He made a request for gold objects from Mags and I previously. I wonder if he found something then?

Clarifying the glass

[solutionary]

[Alien Biology Hard]

Apologies— the glass shards were in the folds of his clothes, and the tentacles that cover his torso under the clothes not specifically held in any tentacles.

[picture because text confused me before]

TRAILGATE (DODO, KINGFISHER, SEAGULL AND ISLAND RAIL) + some go-kart side notes

[microtransactions]

There's a trail of mess probably related to Skywarp's that goes across three islands! Namely, there are weird go-kart tracks from the theater on Dodo, all the way to the island rail leaving Kingfisher, and more tracks along the rail from Kingfisher to Seagull, all the way to the go-kart area.

I say weird because from the look of the tire tracks, this go-kart could only go straight forward, or something like that! Every time it had to make a turn, it was a hard, jagged swerve before going straight again— there wasn't a normal turning radius or curve or anything, it just like. Zigzagged its way around all night?

The tire tracks going from the go-kart area on Seagull to the railway leaving Kingfisher are clean. Starting at Kingfisher, though, you can see drag marks along the trail. There was also some blood? Oil? Dunno what Skywarp would call it, but there's drops of that stuff he was leaking that time he lost his foot along the path of the drag marks. Oh, and robot bits and pieces! Bolts and screws and other stuff. I brought some of them with me, but they're pretty beat up.

Anyway, I did try to trace the drag marks back— it looks like the go-kart was only ever at the railway area there, but something large was dragged from the crystal pool at the bottom of the waterfall to the railway. That was, uh, probably Skywarp himself, because there's bloil and bolts along that trail as well.

Lastly, as I said to Wang Lu, while a go-kart might've been used this week too, I don't know that anyone was really driving it in the normal way! From what I remember of the pictures Xiao showed me, when Sonya rigged up that kart of his in whatever happened to Chai, the engine definitely showed signs of being pushed too hard! Thing is, when I looped all the way around to check on the go-kart outside the theater after ... Honestly, it pretty much looked perfectly fine? Just a little bled on. Skywarp was a pretty big dude, so I thought after all the action this kart saw last night it might reflect a little in engine wear and tear since these things aren't the biggest, but there was nothing like that here! And again, weird zigzag path.

Anyway, I did take pictures of all this in case anyone wanted a look.

[chosenwang]

His name is Skywarp for a reason. He may have used his jets or whatever propulsion systems he had to push the go-kart without turning it on.

BEACH, EACH

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ She's sitting right by Athos, standing up when she starts her speech with a loud clearing of her throat. ]

I looked around the beach near where the squid died! There were some drag marks that went down the beach and into the ocean, which weren't very big. There was also a bunch of metal flakes I saw by the shoreline that were in a couple of different colors! They're all different metals, so I don't really know where they came from.

[ She'll show the grey, gold, and black scraps that she found. ]

There was a bit of funky-looking sand near the drag marks that looked kind of weird. [ she's got a picture of it on her U-PINON, which she'll send to anyone who wants to see it. ] I couldn't really tell what the dark patches were, other than it smelled like fish and iron. It was disgusting.

[ just. makes a stank face. ]

And, also, there was broken glass! They're pretty small pieces, but pretty thick glass. ... And that's it!

[ And then she sits back down. Thank you, she'll be here all week. ]

[finalmix]

Hey, do you have like, the actual glass shards or just a picture of it, I wanna check something~