SECOND TRIAL

[whimsicalism]

How are we ever going to get the pond clean? It'll stink like lawyer for forever, Alice!

Be nice... We shouldn't say things like that, Alice.

Weren't you the one who were calling Franziska a wicked witch?

I'm sorry about it now, aren't I?! Just--it's time for a trial, everyone!

[As you climb back into the teacup to descend to the court room once more, the tea cup doesn't respond if anyone tries to go to any other floors. As you walk up to the podiums the amount of crossed out portraits has increased. How many more will die before the tricky game the Alices want is over?

At least the Alices seem relatively calm. The Queen, anyway. The Cat is in her Alice form, watching over the proceedings with a hungry look in her eyes.]

Franziska von Karma is dead. Do try to find out who did it but not too quickly. I'll get bored~

Comments

[strictura]

There was a partially eaten funnel cake on a plate in the picnic area, with a lot of poppy seeds on top of it. It didn't look like it had been sitting out for much longer than a few hours, and only had a bite or two taken out of it.

The poppy seeds seemed like kind of a strange topping for something like that -- and from what Gilgamesh described, there's almost definitely something strange about them -- but there wasn't really anything unusual about their smell or appearance, so it's hard to say whether that particular plate was poisoned or otherwise tampered with. There wasn't any way to get conclusive evidence of poisoning from the body either, since she was found in the water.

[ He kind of hates that this is all he has to contribute this week!! ]

[octopups]

[Amdi pricks up all his ears, realizing he knows exactly one (1) Possibly Relevant Thing]

Oh! Mikhail, the, um, the dragon-person! His portrait said he was poisoned too!

[seventhlittlemonster]

[He was taking in all the factors and evidence that everyone else had been bringing up.]

Do you think she might have been poisoned before being thrown into the pond to drown?

[strictura]

That's what I was thinking. If she was already delirious and convulsing from poison it wouldn't have been necessary to hold her down in the water.

[strictura]

...Right. Sajyou-san said she disposed of that poison she found, right?

[ Not that they have any reason to believe that, unless someone else saw her do it, though. ]

[immaculacies]

Mm-hm, I did. Mm... Though isn't it more likely that the culprit made their own poison, either way?

[strictura]

Either that, or they went out of their way to make it look like they did.

[immaculacies]

That sounds like a waste of time and effort, to me.

[xxxx_me]

...If they ate it at the picnic area, and Franziska had the poisoned one in the dining hall...

D-did they eat it while she was...?