THIRD TRIAL

[whimsicalism]

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!"

Investigation | Podium Layout | Locations | IC Profiles | IC Rules | IC Evidence Presentation | Evidence List | NPC Questions | Dorm Map | Paint Map

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!

Comments

ADORABAT'S TIMELINE THEORY

[violence_ensues]

Umm... I think I've pictured together what happened.

Starting off, I think the killer didn't kill Valmont in the dorms, but somewhere else. Since the water in the sensory deprevation room was weird, wouldn't Valmont have been killed in the sensory deprevation room? The two didn't have to be in the dorms for Sonic to miss 'em.

They... um, maybe the killer wiped off whatever was on Valmont with the towel in order to cover their tracks. And- and then they waited for a while for the bleeding to stop. They put the towel in the angry washing machine to try and get rid of any evidence it had on it. After Valmont stopped bleeding, the killer took him to the dorms.

The killer then cut Valmont's neck to try and get it to bleed in order to try and fake a crime scene. Valmont's body wasn't bleeding much, which is why there's so little blood. The killer dragged Valmont to the playground and set a hunting knife on him for whatever reason and went back to the dorms.

Then, the killer dumped paint in front of the dorms, dumping the red paint last and then entering their room.

[canreallymove]

...which means either way, we're still lookin' at the red rooms for our killer.

[keyringwitness]

Let's... take this point by point.

First of all, if we do assume that Valmont was killed in the sensory deprivation chamber, why was he there in the first place? Even if you think the knife was planted, that letter being forged seems, um, implausible. He went out with the intent to kill someone. You also have to wonder how he got all that dirt on him in the first place. Further, if the towel was put in the washing machine, all that dirt had to have come off, it makes more sense that it was used after whoever grabbed them went into the chamber to wipe any further dirt off, and that's why they're damp.

If a cut is made post-mortem, it'll bleed significantly less since the heart isn't bleeding, and even though there wasn't as much blood pooled beneath his body as there should be, there is still a fairly significant amount of blood. Finally, none of this explains the small bloodstain in front of Dylan's room.

[This was probably going a bit far to crush Adorabat's theory, but they need to clear the air and have a more solid order of events than this.]