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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[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.

[butcherspice]

Right, right. Cooperative citizen right here, ain't you? Congrats lad, you're out of the hot seat.

[gravitys]

No reason not to be. If we can figure out who killed Alice I wanna vote for 'em.

[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.

[dakicover]

I know that some merchants would do it with fire. Maybe someone that has some sort of fire magic, if not Waltaquin?

[dancing_flames]

Everyone here has already seen mine, but I don't mind doing it again for an example.

[butcherspice]

Fire magic, eh? If we go with that, we got Shuda and Alice herself. Haven't seen Mags' space magic in action, so couldn't tell ya how that works.

Though, hmm. These little profiles call Shuda's 'explosion spheres, don't they? We're gonna have to set up a shootin' range at this rate.

[chosenwang]

Then it may be the result of Alice's own abilities we're seeing. [ There was something about elements though ]

If we're making people give a demonstration to rule them out, then you should have no problem also giving us a show. You seem pretty strong when you fought Sonya. Mind sharing the extent of your abilities?

[townmusician]

Billy Butcher-san is strong, sure, but he's still just a normal human like I am.

[So against someone superpowered and pissed off...]

[butcherspice]

That's mostly personal combat experience from the Marine Corps and dealing with plenty of powered-up dickheads. Part of the job, really.

I ain't got powers to speak of. Never fought a wild animal neither, so if it were me that offed Alice, I'd probably look a bit worse for wear. Will give you that I'd've smashed her riding crop if I knew how it worked and let Athos eat her if I decided to punch her ticket, but ain't we ruled that out?

Still. Not opposed to fisticuffs if that's what it takes to clear me name.

[How do so many of these result in fighting people??]

[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?

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[butcherspice]

[You fool! You've walked right into my sand check!

...maybe. Billy's gonna compare the weird shiny bits he found by Alice's crater to the newly formed craters in the sandbar to see if this is the right tree to bark up.]

[necrotiem]

[She's rubbing her temple a bit sorely...]

Really, you don't trust me at al.

[plunges]

[ Just in the interest of being thorough: Are these smaller meteor strikes leaving the same type of impact on the ground that Joshua described? (1.5 feet by 2 feet.) ]

[idologue]

I thank you for the swift demonstration.

[ Though this also kind of made her flinch, because... Haha. Yeah. Things have happened in her life. ]

[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.

[idologue]

By all means, give me your accusations. The gas masks were obtained at the entrance of the lab, where Merlin's companion had presumably brought them from inside of the building. Wang Lu witnessed me receiving it, and vice versa.

[ See, it's this easy to talk about things. ]

Chuuya was willing to demonstrate his power and got subsequently cleared of suspicion regarding the crater. Are you objecting to the base principle of ruling people out?