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Castle W Mods ([personal profile] whimsicalism) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2022-09-16 08:06 pm

FOURTH TRIAL

FOURTH TRIAL



THE CONTAINMENT CENTER



((CW spiders))


The Principal's hateful dismissal of the latest murder still ringing in the halls, the students are ushered with much more force and hurry into the elevator this time. There's a certain amount of urgency to this descent that hasn't existed before, as if some great force is beginning to run out of patience with Ira Academy's slowly dwindling student body. The cold, pre-autumn gloom grasping at the upper levels has permeated these basement areas as well, and an uneasy chill wind rips through with no discernable source.

In their holding cell, the monsters all pace with more restlessness than usual. A bipedal crocodile monster tall enough to barely fit inside his cell without hunching rams his snout repeatedly against the front wall, blood stains gathering on the glass--and perhaps, if one looks close enough, some hairline cracks. A horde of black spiders with poisonous red markings spin nervously in the corners of their cells, wrapping up anonymous but distinctly humanoid figures in their webs. The clown makes everyone a balloon dog! How nice of him. He slits it open with his knife and leaves the shredded ribbons of rubber dangling from his fingertips.

Though the audio is clearly on and the Principal's view into the trial room seems undisturbed, the video feed on the projector screen is cut off today. Instead of the ram emblem or a visual on his firelit office, nothing but a wall of black stares back.

Nanami opens her mouth to introduce the case as soon as everyone is at their podium, but she's cut off by Father's angry, disembodied voice before a single world can leave her mouth.

"Sure, let's keep it up with the bread and circuses. If you don't get that then you should have paid attention in history class! I won't be surprised if you spend the whole afternoon trying to figure this one out, just to waste my time. Find out who killed The Dependable Dog, or you'll really find out where they all go."

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OOC NOTES


Welcome to the fourth trial! Consider this your reminder to make sure to get in your Week 3 AC by tomorrow's weekly post and to start getting your Week 4 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. 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!

lets_dewey_it: (sorrowful looking ahead)

THIRD FLOOR HALLS

[personal profile] lets_dewey_it 2022-09-17 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
A vending machine was caught in a bubble. There was a full bag of potato chips on the floor next to it. Adorabat saw clawmarks and a bit of dried blood on the floor. There was a struggle there.
hashtagwoof: Confused (And as the minutes tick away)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-09-17 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
... What kinda bubble?
lets_dewey_it: (secondhand embarrassment)

[personal profile] lets_dewey_it 2022-09-17 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Plastic. Like the book in the library.
violence_ensues: (Frown)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-17 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The claw marks came in short bursts and lead directly to the library and the vending machine was one of the ones in the middle.
lets_dewey_it: (fetal position 2)

[personal profile] lets_dewey_it 2022-09-17 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dewey would thank you for elaborating where the clawmarks were going, but he's holding his head in pain/anguish.]
violence_ensues: (Dejected)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-17 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bat hugs.]
keyringwitness: all icons from <user name=dressspheres site=tumblr> (Clever)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-17 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
...now that's strange.

[Yasu thinks for a moment. Her voice has lost all of its usual stuttering quality, rather than lacking most of it like it did in the previous trials. She almost sounds like a different person.]

The only reasonable assumption is that Dylan took aim at someone with the PBW, missed, and hit the vending machine instead... but I doubt someone he was engaged in active combat with would've bothered to idly purchase a snack from the vending machine, and the placement of the chips suggests that they dropped it when they were attacked.

Was Dylan the one to start the fight?

I doubt he had any intention of actually murdering anyone, but based on what we know right now, that's the only reasonable explanation for this part of the scene, at least in my view. So why...?
canreallymove: (say what?)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-17 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
...If Dyl was patrolling and thought that the murderer was up to somethin'...

[He frowns.]

I guess we can't say he didn't start it. But if he did, he started it because he shot the PBW, not 'cause he was intending to harm anyone.
holyironmade: (Holy)

[personal profile] holyironmade 2022-09-17 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. Sonic and Hunter's descriptions lead me to believe that Dylan considered the PBW a comprehensive nonlethal alternative. A person patronizing the vending machine may have struck Dylan as too suspicious to completely ignore, been the target of a shot, and then jumped out of the way in time.
violence_ensues: (Thinking)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-17 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
If it started at the vending machines and lead to the library, what about the maze?
keyringwitness: (Talking)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-17 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I have an idea about that, actually. Dylan tracked the chocolate to the labyrinth, ambushed the culprit while they were buying chips, but still got lassoed in the struggle.