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castle_whims2022-09-16 08:06 pm
whimsicalism) wrote in castle_whims2022-09-16 08:06 pm
FOURTH TRIAL
FOURTH TRIAL
THE CONTAINMENT CENTER
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."
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.
SCIENCE ROOM
[ Atop her podium, Kuro begins to array the physical evidence she's brought with her: a scalpel, a used lint roller, and a tattered biohazard disposal bag. ]
The scalpel and lint roller were lying next to each other, on top of one of the tables in the middle of the room. I found some rope fibers on the scalpel, and the lint roller is covered in dog hair. I don't think anyone needs three guesses to figure that one out, do they?
On the other hand, the disposal bag... [ She holds it up to indicate the toothy holes punched into it. ] It looks like Dylan bit it. [ Then, carefully, she turns the bag inside out so that everyone can better see the blood on its interior. ] What's even more interesting, though, is the blood on the inside. Look — see? It's smeared, like someone put something bloody inside and then took it back out again later.
But... The most interesting thing I found there was the broken window. It looked like Dylan had been thrown through the glass, but not from the side you'd expect. I found blood and glass on the inside of the window, meaning he was thrown in from the outside — which also means our culprit threw a 26 pound dog through a second story window from the ground level playground.
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