guiltrip | WEEK 5; TRIAL

WEEK 5; TRIAL

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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[ can't believe we missed a wholeass ritual circle under the snow i mean what ]

Honestly, I have no idea. The profiles are vague enough that only Vergilius really has any obvious mention of it.

[ and he's dead soooo ]

[ Would be fitting considering the evil cult connection most of them have ]

Could Alice's uh... pet? Eat blood?

Well, in the most general sense, yes. [ considering the whole arm thing and all??? ] But would he care to spend the time on blood over a bigger snack? Unless Alice told him to, maybe.

Edited (rewording because english is hard) 2023-06-17 18:22 (UTC)

[ Hello twin ]

Do her powers involve blood at all? [ Or should this line of inquiry be put to rest for the moment ]

I don't think her artes are powered by blood though. Hmm...

Actually, that reminds me: she could heal. And Athos was still injured when we found him. So that begs the question of who inflicted those wounds without Alice being able to heal him.

[ Like this did come up earlier, but what's the timeline here. ]

We'll put aside that then. [ No more thinking about blood for blood powers from her ]

Considering Nona's wounds, I can't help but wonder if she was involved. There were bite wounds on him, right?

[ probably for the best unless it turns out alice is some sorta blood mage ]

He did have claw and bite wounds around...40 mm wide?

[ Math ladying at the size. Holding up his fingers to be about an inch and a half. ]

Maybe we should measure someone's mouth...

[ She's not going to like. say anything. But. Hm. ]

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chosenwang - 2023-06-17 18:55 (UTC) - Expand

I don't have a ruler on me, but I don't mind if we still need a visual later.

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chosenwang - 2023-06-17 19:27 (UTC) - Expand

... if he were hungry enough to um. Maybe do what Joshua and the other toucans are suggesting, I'm not sure that he would have left the birds alone?

[ because he figures a hungry animal would just munch on the entire birds, and super messily at that. and athos didn't seem very picky with the whole uh. alice thing. ]

Unless you're saying someone specifically bled the birds beforehand, and brought just the blood to. What, lure him away from Alice or something? And kept the birds themselves for some reason?

I am saying someone intentionally bled the birds. [ Could you imagine a liger using a scalpel to slit some throats for a drink ] They needed the blood for some reason and I'm just trying to figure out if it was to lure an animal to kill or involving some kind of spell.

What, for like, a ritual or something?

We don't know everyone's capabilities here. I do think what Little Xiao is saying could be much more likely.

Edited (whoops extra codes) 2023-06-17 18:38 (UTC)

...Or the killer put the birds' blood on Alice to lure Athos to her. And given that her body was missing...

[ Well. ]

You have a point, Billy said her veil was bloody when he found it. So maybe they got it on her and then broke her crop? [ since apparently that's the source of it??? ] That would help with escaping without Athos chasing them.

[ He nods. ]

You also have a good point. It's certainly a possibility.

... but why the birds? And how would anyone have gotten the blood on Alice in the first place before breaking her crop?

[ so much happened here ]

Yeah, that part I'm still thinking about. They'd have to have some way to carry off the blood in the first place.

Were the drink cups in the arcade bloody? Because I don't think anyone else has mentioned anything like a bucket or container yet.

They may have laid out a trap for her at the beach or the arcade.

[ The scalpel is at one, but her veil was up in a tree ]

So is the arcade part of Nona's case or Alice's case, or are we just kind of conflating everything together now?

[ goddamn timelines and everyone out on a murder spree on Thursday night, josh is so salty about this ]

I do hate muddling the waters and I believe we should treat the cases separate for now, but I have to wonder if we have three separate culprits or if one of them didn't survive the night.

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finalmix - 2023-06-17 18:49 (UTC) - Expand

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chosenwang - 2023-06-17 18:55 (UTC) - Expand

The question I now have is whether the arcade is related to Nona or Alice or both.

The blood trail leading out if it seems consistent with Nona as the victim, but so far we are associating the scalpel and birds with the Alice case...

There is a way we can figure out the scalpel and birds and if it's it related to one, the other, or both.

We can see if Beel can smell if the blood on the veil is bird blood.