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]

Been puzzlin' over that crater for a while. Was more a depression in the ground than somethin' smashing into it like the others craters we've had.

[idologue]

There is one ability here that sounds like it might be able to achieve that, but I can't be certain.

[butcherspice]

Wouldn't happen to be gravity, would it? Goin' through all the things you lot can do, that was the one that stood out the most to me.

[idologue]

[ Nodding. ]

I was thinking the same thing.

[dupiety]

Hmm. Such as a force being applied to it, rather than it being crashed into?

[butcherspice]

I'm thinkin' something like that, yeah.

[idologue]

Please forgive me for just saying it. Do not take this as a real accusation, but...

Chuuya, how does your gravity power act when applied to solid ground?

[dupiety]

[same brain]

[gravitys]

It ain't smooth.

[ In the interest of time, he'll just demonstrate. Red glow, stomps down, huge splintered crater under his foot. ]

[butcherspice]

You able to control how much pressure you put on stuff, mate?

[In the interest of being thorough, about how deep is the crater he makes?]

[gravitys]

[ Idk like a foot or two? He was making sure it wouldn't get big enough to hit anyone. ]

Yeah? But again, can't make smooth stuff. It's like... [ Gestures. ]

If I'm doin' a crater, it's because I hit something. And when I hit something, it looks splintered and fucked up like that. [ Gestures at the example. ]

Alternately I'd have had to toss somethin' and there'd be actual rubble.

[idologue]

[ Well. That was a swift rebuttal of the assumption. ]

Then... Pardon me for continuing to go about it this way, but... Waltaquin, you are noted as able to send down meteors. Impact craters of scorching objects from space tend to have a smoothness to them.

[ She doesn't know what would have happened to the meteor itself but since it's magic, maybe it'd vanish? ]

[butcherspice]

Hm. And don't certain temperatures turn sand into glass? That could be what these little pieces are.

[necrotiem]

You're right about that. I used this power against Xiao when we fought her the other day.

I'm afraid you have the wrong person, but I am also happy to demonstrate.

[She looks, for just a second, like she is considering casting this somewhere closer to the crowd...

But then turns and speaks a spell into the back of the sandbar instead.

It's an AOE attack, so there are lots of smaller meteor strikes, and they are not smooth or uniform.]

Haha...See?

[divector]

[ oh ho? is this picking a fight with the toucans ]

That's as good as accusing Chuuya of Alice's murder.

[idologue]

Maybe it is.

[ She'll just frown at him, but there is no uncertainty here. ]

There are up to four killers among us now. That is the simple truth. Under these circumstances, are you willing to waste our remaining two hours trying to spare everyone's feelings by refusing to get concrete? I'm not.

[dupiety]

Well said, Lacus.

[They need to start ruling out suspects with a more fine-toothed comb now.]

[divector]

No, I'm saying you'll have to give a better reason than gravity to accuse him if Alice is the one affected.

[ After all, they're fellow Toucans. ]

Otherwise I could do things like accuse you or others of having a gas mask even before entering that lab. You'd need more of a leap than that, I'd think.

[dupiety]

[All right. Time to see if he can connect some dots and name a suspect.]

We do have someone here with the ability to manipulate gravity. Though Chuuya's profile is incredibly vague, I would imagine changing landscapes with that ability isn't out of the question.

[gravitys]

I can't make weird smooth shit. If I'm doin' shit, it's a lot less neat.

[dupiety]

[Watching the demonstration and tipping his head...]

Is the stomping necessary? I can certainly see why that would create such a messy crater.

[gravitys]

[ A shrug. ]

This is how I've done it since forever. My job ain't to tie things up nice and pretty - I'm supposed to deal damage if I'm sent in anywhere.

[chrysaline]

[ Oh, hm! ]

There are the trees that were knocked over, too. There weren't any cuts or burns or anything, so... something just hit them really hard, maybe?

[idologue]

The trees were in Zelkov's path, weren't they? I don't know if they were necessarily caused by the same thing as the crater at Alice's crime scene...

[ But. Hm. ]

[chrysaline]

Maybe... You're right, it's probably still better if we treat things as separate.