Castle W Mods (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
whimsicalism) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
castle_whims2022-09-09 10:31 pm
whimsicalism) wrote in castle_whims2022-09-09 10:31 pm
THIRD TRIAL
THIRD TRIAL
THE CONTAINMENT CENTER
Still hungry, and perhaps with some new fashionable shoe colors, the students are herded into the elevator, which is lined with a plastic tarp this week. With the elevator becoming a perpetually emptier space, there's plenty of room for the Prefect herself to squeeze in next to everyone else, standing at the front of the group and ineffectively covering the side of her head with her free hand as soon as the tearing screen of metal and high-buzzing florescent lights kicks in.
The descent this time takes the group of students past several new chambers. The first is occupied by a grotesque caricature of a lunch lady, who ladles unidentifiable pitch black goop onto a constantly rotating line of trays as she smiles at the group with a single tooth. The clown, ever present for the show with his dwindling collection of balloons, rides a tiny tricycle through pools of spilled acrylic paint, the wheels squeaking as they paint out blood red patterns on the cell floor. The last chamber the students will see before arriving in the trial room is completely empty, save for a cloudy grey fog that blinks inside it like a thundercloud.
Instead of the usual black ram emblem on the telecom screen, the Principal's flame-wreathed silhouette is visible this week, though his chair is turned away from the camera and only the outline of his back seems to be visible. There's an empty container of Rocky Road ice cream sitting next to him on a side table, the spoon still balanced in the carton. The entire trial room itself smells like the lunch time rush at a cafeteria or fast food restaurant, the smells of grilling meat, roasting vegetables, and sweet dessert occasionally passing through a chamber that is completely devoid of any actual food.
With some hesitation, Nanami goes to the desk next to the podiums and takes her old seat. She glances back at the projector screen, then her shoulders slump forward and she leans down against the desk.
"It's happened again. Valmont, the... Boss...Baby. Has been killed. Maybe this really will go on forever, until no one is left... Anyway, you need to find out what happened if you want to live and not starve. ...Don't forget the rules. Get started."
As she finishes speaking a sheep walks around the trial room, handing everyone an apple and some graham crackers. Of course, even Nanami gets a small treat. The Little Brother glances at the shape of Father in his chair before quietly placing a finger to it's robotic face only for the angry voice of your Principal rings out. "Hey! Don't--ah, forget it. That'll get you through the trial. Maybe you'll bust a gut or something. What are you waiting for?! You heard Miss Kiryuu, start already!"
OOC NOTES
Welcome to the third trial! Consider this your reminder to make sure to get in your Week 2 AC by tomorrow's weekly post and to start getting your Week 3 AC ready to submit. Make sure to get your regains in by tomorrow night!
Remember, if you can carry it you probably can bring it. We mainly want to discourage corpse desecration, if we can, so while the body itself isn't allowed into the trial most things are. If your character has access to a piece of evidence and you don't know if you can bring it in, you can either ask the mods privately if that's possible or by pinging them in the post itself. If a piece of evidence is forgotten, you can either assume retroactively that someone did or that the sheep brought it in to make sure that everything is tidy.
As always, just put MODS in the header of your comment to get our attention for any clarification.
Good luck!
THEORY GET!
The person who killed Valmont had to be around Dylan's room, right? It's the only place where blood is. And...I think she points to Jeanne] mentioned somethin' about the paint indicatin' who might be the killer. But I think she's wrong about it bein' a green painted door or...whatever.
I think...the killer remembered Ed's kill on Thomasin with the paint and tried to cover up that they killed Valmont in front of Dylan's room, because...I dunno, maybe they didn't think they'd have time to clean up ALL the blood. And...given that it had to be someone who wouldn't've given him the time to react to bein' hit...
[It makes sense. It...it has to.]
I...I think the killer's from one of the red rooms.
Who does that leave?
Re: THEORY GET!
That's assuming you're right, but... Obviously, Dylan couldn't do it, right?
no subject
no subject
But Yasu has an actual objection, and not just because she's now a suspect,]
I, um, don't think we can count on that, actually...
Chakrams and even Kuro's knives can be thrown, and evidently Valmont did have time to react: I don't think that smaller blood splatter in front of Dylan's room is what killed him. It's more likely that he was almost hit, tried to run or confront his attacker, and got his throat slit in the middle of the dorms before being dragged outside...
no subject
no subject
So, even with two injuries, it could have been made once, right? Then Valmont wouldn't have had time to run!
no subject
It's more likely that someone attacked from behind, or any number of other hypotheticals. We can't say for sure that it was anybody whose door was painted red.
no subject
It's possible he wouldn't have been startled if it was someone he knew.
no subject
But I maintain we can't narrow it down only to red doors. The only injury that could've killed him was the slit throat, and there just isn't enough blood by the red doors to match that. Also, there's no guarantee that the smaller neck slice was inflicted up-close. I think you're on to something here, but we can't say anything definitively yet.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
That's...not many good options.
Because that's Yasu, Yuta, Dewey, Jeanne, and...me.