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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[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.

[microtransactions]

[ he's just scrolling through the profiles like ]

... If there's no obvious point of impact, what if someone screamed really loudly and broke it?

[plunges]

Like Nona herself, with the "Tantrums" listed on her profile.

[idologue]

This would also momentarily incapacitate her assailant - giving her enough time to flee outside, until they caught up to her with the nailbat and killed her near the rails.

[butcherspice]

D'ya think gettin' super-screamed at would cause any visible damage? Bleedin' ears or the like?

[idologue]

I could not say - but between the poison gas and this, I believe it to be time to check for injuries.

[dupiety]

Considering all the shattered lights and glass...I wouldn't be surprised if an ear injury occurred to anyone caught in it.

[gravitys]

You could probably clean that away, but ruptured ear drums take time to heal. Unless you got healin' shit.

[microtransactions]

I don't think it'd be a bad idea to check for any fragments of glass in people's hair or something either, though from the sounds of things they might have just ended up on that coat Temenos mentioned.

[finalmix]

Glass does tend to get stuck in shoes, though.

[ helpfully??????? Maybe?????? ]

[microtransactions]

Yeah, I was pretty careful about trying to avoid as much of it as I can, but probably whoever had to chase Nona wouldn't have had that luxury.

[ beat. ]

Though the way the glass was spread in the aviary is still kind of weird, and that's a pretty long way for it to track?

[finalmix]

Depends on whether it started in the aviary or in the arcade? Did we even establish a timeline?

[idologue]

I was assuming that the culprit started out in the aviary and brought the bloodied scalpel from that with them...?

Nona would only have entered the scene at the arcade, though.

[microtransactions]

No, I don't think so.

We don't even really know how the birds fit into everything yet. It's just the scalpel and maybe the glass that seem to link them ... It's seeming like dumping the birds might have been last, though, since there's no sign of a struggle there, and if it happened first I can't figure out how the glass would have gotten there.

Maybe the culprit started in the aviary and came back to it after?

[butcherspice]

Someone like Nona.

[Billy is picking up what Mags is throwing down.]

[divector]

Or sound.

[ looking through profiles ]

How possible is it that a powered scream could've caused this damage?