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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[townmusician]

[...]

...Right.

[He laughs, a little manic.]

What, did you... wake up last night and you were hungry? Is that what happened, Beelzebub?

[gluttoning]

[He shakes his head.]

...I'm sorry. I don't know.

I remember waking up and leaving the cabana. And I remember... coming to, like this.

I don't remember anything else.

[townmusician]

[It seems awfully convenient he wouldn't remember anything.]

Why the hell did you leave, then?

[...]

Was... was Nona still there when you left? Do you really not have any clue what happened?!

[gluttoning]

[...]

I knew that, if I was awake, it was probably for a reason. And I didn't want people in the cabana to get hurt.

So I left. I just... don't remember where I ended up. And I don't remember who was missing.

[idologue]

[ Lacus hesitates for a moment and then... ]

... I know why Nona might have left the cabana that night.

[gluttoning]

...Eh?

[Wait what]

[idologue]

Nona...

[ Lacus looks at her feet for a moment before making this announcement. ]

Nona was dying. She told me two weeks ago that she only had a week left, maybe two. Her birthday party last night... I can't be sure, but I think it was her farewell party at the same time.

She wouldn't have wanted us to wake up to her corpse. She was kind.

If it truly was Alice, she killed a dead girl walking.

[townmusician]

So you're fine sparing us but not anybody else?

[He feels guilty, for a moment, because - he's felt what Beel's hunger is like firsthand, now, but...

It's a lot to take in.]

Why didn't you say this earlier?

[gluttoning]

...

I was scared.

I thought if I could make sense of it, if people could help figure things out so I might remember something, then maybe I...

...

[His hand buries into his shirt.]

Maybe I'd help somebody get some peace. I couldn't give them any answers like this. But...

...

[townmusician]

But what? Now you've just - painted a target on your back, giving people plenty of people to vote for you.

[...]

Whatever. It doesn't matter.

[necrotiem]

He wouldn't have left anything behind of the birds...

That can't have been him.

[dupiety]

[He has to keep his wits about him in times of distress. As always.]

No. I believe this has to do with what happened to Alice.

[townmusician]

He's not - he's not that mindless. Only when he's really, really hungry. And angry.

[...

Wow! He hates this!]

But sometimes he gets so hungry he doesn't remember eating.

[Thanks, memshares!]

[dupiety]

...were you in the dodo cabana with him? Did he eat any of the snacks in the crate I left with him?

[townmusician]

He did. He had tons of snacks last night!

[Sorry, he's getting a little hysterical.]

Crea brought some extra to! So did I! We've all seen what happens when he gets too hungry!

[dupiety]

[He doesn't raise his voice, but he puts some firmness into it.]

Haruka. Calm yourself. You cannot lose your wits- not now. That is why I ask. Typically, even when he eats well the night before, he spends at least ten minutes eating when he wakes up after a full night of sleep.

Did he do that today?

[townmusician]

[He will NOT calm down. He is so tired of all of this all the time.]

...He did, but-

[He cuts himself off.

There's no point in saying anything more. What's done is done. Beelzebub can defend himself.]

[chosenwang]

He was likely angry. Just a theory and we have nothing backing it up.

Alice may have killed Nona and he may have killed Alice after finding her. [ Again, nothing to back it up ]

[solutionary]

Would Nona have told Alice to kill her? If she was dying already, received her "farewell party", and had the knowledge that the island wants someone sacrificed to it, would she have offered herself as that sacrifice, to a person willing to fulfill that?


[He wasn't close with either so.]

[dakicover]

She wouldn't have wanted to do that! It was her birthday party!

[ crea stomps his foot down, clearly emotional over this. nona wouldn't do something like that, in his head. nona couldn't have sacrificed herself to the island when so many people in it loved her so much. ]

[butcherspice]

Don't see Alice turning her down if that was the case. That girl could be fuckin' brutal.

[idologue]

She wouldn't have wanted it to go like this. She'd have wanted her body to be intact upon death.

But those are secrets she has shared with me in confidence. I am already betraying her trust by revealing that she knew of her demise, so I'd like to keep her privacy for the rest of it.

[necrotiem]

He just said he doesn't remember, Haruka.

What could be more mindless than that, in the whole world with all its memories and bodies?

[townmusician]

He can choose what he's eating! It's not like he was eating the walls and library books this time!

[necrotiem]

And why do you think that is?