WEEK 5; TRIAL

[killerwaves]

TRIAL

Three dead, one vote. This might be a pit of a pickle, huh? Perhaps appropriately, the kittybots are serving pickles of all flavors today, along with food that might remind you of your childhood like ants on a log, gummy worm sundaes and adorable toast in sweet and savory profiles. To drink, are their best attempts at replicating the DD refreshers with a whole array of silly straws.

Off to the side in a booth of their own are the bodies as well as attendant kittybots (well two bodies and one arm); simply request which body you'd like to look at and the kitty bots will direct you appropriately, given the number of arms floating around. The kittybots continue to do 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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SNOW ROOM AND ALSO NONA BODY MAYBE (1/2 Shay don't kill me)

[gluttoning]

[He looks exhausted and like he's been crying heavily. But he still clears his throat, wiping at his eyes.]

Um.

Nona's body was in the snow room over on Kakapo. Temenos looked at that, so he might have more to say. [His hands wring a bit as he looks at the ground, but he takes a deep breath and continues.]

There was blood across the top of the bench that we found Nona on. It doesn't look like it matched up with her body, but I did look through the snow and it does look like there was dripping down to the ground. Just a little bit, though. There's a lot of fresh snow, so there weren't tracks besides me, Crea, and Temenos...

There was red staining on the inside of the snow room door next to the door handle. It was messy, but there wasn't any sort of shape to it.

[A beat, and he holds up the coat he's brought with him from cold storage.]

I also took a look at the storage locker. One coat was missing, but this other one has bloodied gloves in the pocket, with the blood mostly on the palms and fingers. I haven't done anything with them other than checking the size. They're way too small for me, but still a little on the larger size. Medium-large, maybe.

[A beat.]

There was also a snowman, but I think... Temenos got to that. [Glancing over at him, hi.]

NONA'S BODY + SNOW(BLOOD)MAN (cw for head injuries and gore)

[dupiety]

[Temenos speaks evenly as he gets started on a rather difficult investigation.]

I examined Nona's body. She was lying on a bench in the snow room, covered with a coat from the storage locker. it had a slight layer of snow on it, suggesting it had been there for some time. While there was nothing inside the pockets, I found glass shards embedded into the outside of it, and blood smears on the inside.

As for her injuries... She sustained massive blunt force trauma to the left side of her head, enough to break her skull and distort that side of her face. Whatever she was struck with left a two-inch long laceration behind as well. There was a considerable amount of blood and bruising at the site, and...disconcertingly, older, similar injuries that seem to have had mostly healed up. The freshest injuries already showed signs of healing as well.

Her head also showed signs of exposure to the elements, suggesting that she had been in the cold for at least several hours.

I made a note of her hair being swept back and neatly braided, contrasting with the chaos around her injury. Perhaps those closer to her could tell me if she typically wore her hair like this?

The rest of her body was fairly untouched, though I did find glass shards, as well as frays and tears in her clothes. There was a minor amount of blood present, but no traces of wounds left behind. I flipped her over to check her back, and found signs of livor mortis on the areas where her body would have rested against the bench.

Given her injuries and the evidence that she had been there for some time, I found it odd that there was so little blood on the scene. Well... [He sighs.] There was a snowman constructed near the bench. I found it to be rather hastily and haphazardly made, so I took the liberty of dismantling it. I found...so much blood tucked away inside. It was fresher the deeper I dug. Its arms were comprised of a bloodied nailbat, which had been broken in half. It is safe to say that an attempt to hide evidence certainly was...made.

[idologue]

[ The description of Nona's injuries makes Lacus feel sick. Her hands are balled into tight fists. ]

Nona had regeneration abilities. Her body was likely attempting to hear itself at the same time the killer was assaulting her.

[dupiety]

I suspected as much... It's likely that they struck her multiple times in order to outdamage the healing.

[dakicover]

[ that is honestly sickening. crea has to take a moment to compose himself before speaking up. ]

I wonder if the glass might be related to the cracks in the television that Xiao mentioned? I wonder if we would still be able to compare the laceration with the scalpel or if she's... she's too injured to check.

[plunges]

I can check it.

[ He's absolutely not thrilled about it, but he has the scalpel, so... ]

results: scalpel and nona's laceration

[plunges]

Not a match. The wound itself also seemed quite deep.

[necrotiem]

[The bloodman? Hello?

Sorry to say but the thought of something like that does make Waltaquin huff a little "hah" out of her nose.]

That's a lot of trouble to go to without moving her. They may have been trying to obfuscate her time of death?

[gluttoning]

Maybe they used it to hide the blood... I tried clearing out the snow all the way to the door, and other than what was by the bench... it was pretty clean.

[It's kind of awful, the more he thinks about it.]

[dupiety]

Yes, this is what I believe. Perhaps they wanted to make us think that she died elsewhere and was later moved to the snow room.

[gluttoning]

...That could still be true, though. Couldn't it? Outside the blood on the bench, there wasn't signs of much else.

[idologue]

I do believe the fight with her might have started by the arcade and ended on the way to the snow room already...

[necrotiem]

It was more blood than would have just come off of the weapon?

Then perhaps you're right. What if it was theirs?

[gluttoning]

Maybe. Or it was just, um. Nona's. I don't know if she could keep healing once she was gone.

[Given the horrible state of her Everything, anyway.]

[necrotiem]

Shuda said he found a great deal of blood not far from the arcade entrance, as well...

Could she regenerate that quickly, even with things as they are for our abilities here?

[microtransactions]

... Glass shards. Clear, pretty small?

MODS

[dupiety]

Great minds think alike.

[I was literally typing out a reply to Magolor's TL for this very thing gkhfdkjs.

Hey mods, do the glass shards from the coat look similar to the shards found in the aviary that Magolor described?]

[killerwaves]

[They both appear to be glass shards.]

[dupiety]

[Are they of a similar size and stuff? Or is this just "yeah they're both sets of shards."]

[chosenwang]

There was a cracked screen in the arcade. I do wonder if she was hit against that. How wide was Alice's riding crop? We should also check it against Billy's crowbar to get that out of the way.

[ While he doesn't suspect the man, it's best to get it out of the way asap ]

Mods

[butcherspice]

Happen to have both on me.

[Billy is gonna compare the crack on the screen to both Alice's riding crop and his personal crowbar. What's the story with that?]

Re: Mods

[chosenwang]

[ Finger guns at him. Thank you for not getting grumpy dude ]

[dupiety]

Allow me to add this other weapon we found...

[Let's throw the nailbat into this if possible!!]

[killerwaves]

[ They don't match with any of the weapons including the nailbat. Also to note since Xiao would have seen it: the cracking in the flat-screen isn't just from one point like the middle, rather it's uniformly cracked throughout like the glass on the ddr machine and other arcade games. ]

[butcherspice]

Ain't any matches. Makes me think either something big slammed into it or one of our hoards of folks with telekinesis has somethin' to do with it.