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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-08-26 12:41 pm
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first trial

[When the announcement sounds and the evidence gathered it’s time for a trial. When the remaining champions are all gathered by the repaired docking bay doors they slide slowly slide open.

There are two lines of robots, silent as sentries, creating a border path from the docking bay doors to the circle of metal podiums. The podiums themselves were made of strange metals in red and gold and orange and black, each one etched with the name of one of the Champions. There are flood lights - like spot lights - in front of each podium, but the lights in front of Shirou, Hamilton, and Albel are dark, and hung on the front of their podiums are greyscale portraits, printed from their profiles.

Blaze Dudely stands on a repair deck on top of his ship, which looms over the proceedings ominously. Rather than the glee the Champions may think he would take in this kind of display, he merely stands there with his arms crossed, expression unreadable and his cyborg eye scanning the Champions with a piercing scrutiny, like he's searching for one of them to act out of line.]


Mornin’, Champions. Here’s how this is goin’ to go: take the evidence ya found, piece together what happened and find who took out the Champion Swordsman. If ya find them, they’ll be dealt with. If ya don’t, they’ll be free to go and the rest of ya will face punishment. Take the time ya need but don’t bore me.
induality: (pic#6484162)

[personal profile] induality 2017-08-26 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Y-you're just as bad as the bear....

[That's mumbled at Dudely-- But okay. Here it is. Just as terrible as she expeccted. Thanks to her condition, she wasn't any help yesterday so now might be her only real chance to help.]

Th-this is just like before... if we discuss and consider all the evidence we'll find the killer.

S-so for starters... how do you think he was killed? Sure it was his neck but... d-do you really think they did it with their bare hands...?

[There are a couple people she side-eyes... that she thinks could.......]
rickdiculous: (177)

[personal profile] rickdiculous 2017-08-26 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...Way to ma-make this shit bureaucratic as fuck, dude.

Jesus.
andneversaydie: BOIL 'EM, MASH 'EM, STICK 'EM IN A STEW (PO-TA-TOES)

[personal profile] andneversaydie 2017-08-26 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[it's kind of half grumbled, with her nose kind of stuffy from a bout of crying.

because yeah.]


What, do you want us to juggle for you while we try and figured out who killed Albel?
tenimuho: (will run out in a few years)

[personal profile] tenimuho 2017-08-26 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oda stands at his podium and sets down a book with a few pages bookmarked (with tarot cards, since that's what he found on short notice).

From the title, it looks like it's about robotics.]


The case files on our PIP say that Albel died of a broken neck at 12:02 AM, with an additional head wound. His body was found with broken glass around it.

Did anyone find anything the glass might have been from?
chides: (iUJE9kC)

[personal profile] chides 2017-08-26 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
We'd need to look at the evidence first before determining how he was killed. For starters, there was all the glass on the floor; did anyone find the source of that?
heartswapped: (my bloodstream chokes)

[personal profile] heartswapped 2017-08-26 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The way this is going, he's probably going to expect a damned musical number.
induality: (pic#6484161)

[personal profile] induality 2017-08-26 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Th-the door to the washing machine was broken b-but it didn't look like it came from that...
chides: (BS6Iihd)

[personal profile] chides 2017-08-26 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that a book you were reading or is it relevant to the case?

[ NOT TRYING TO BE CONDESCENDING just. genuinely curious ]
tenimuho: (we feel so free)

[personal profile] tenimuho 2017-08-26 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible, but it's likely that they used something else to do it, like maybe the door of a washing machine. If they were just going to snap his neck with their bare hands, they could have done that in the hallway and not brought him to the laundry room at all.
rickdiculous: (Default)

[personal profile] rickdiculous 2017-08-26 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Aight. Let's make it happen.
chides: (BS6Iihd)

[personal profile] chides 2017-08-26 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
So...the culprit wasn't strong enough to break Albel's neck with their bare hands. Is that what you're saying?
goldrighthand: (he'll wrap you in his arms)

[personal profile] goldrighthand 2017-08-26 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[SNORT

yeah guess who ain't singing bass for you assholes]
tenimuho: (it's you I chose)

[personal profile] tenimuho 2017-08-26 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a fair question.]

It was misplaced when I was investigating. I don't think anyone would mistakenly put a textbook about robotics in the fiction section unless they were in a hurry, it doesn't look at all like the novels around it did.

There are some pages that have been bent so they can be referenced again, about cybernetic prosthetics.
induality: (pic#6484163)

[personal profile] induality 2017-08-26 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah!

[That...]

Th-that would explain why it was broken... w-was he trying to wash something and they just...?

[Slammed it shut on him?]

B-but then why all the broken glass? It makes it seem like there was some kind of a struggle...
Edited 2017-08-26 16:50 (UTC)
andneversaydie: (all of my friends are dead)

[personal profile] andneversaydie 2017-08-26 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... did you find something in the library, Oda? I kept looking, but ... yeah, I didn't see anything.
silverguitarhero: ([Thinking])

[personal profile] silverguitarhero 2017-08-26 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Or they didn't want to show they could do so. [Although the most likely candidate for that was out of it all Thursday night...]
withoutred: (he spent the night at a friend's place.)

[personal profile] withoutred 2017-08-26 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Erika's drumming her fingers on her podium, but she's already placed the brown glass fragment and the blue strip of fabric on the edge of it where people can see.

Admittedly, normally she'd be a grandstanding shit and hold onto it until she can show off, but. Guess who's one of the unlucky ones who has no pockets yet. Guess.
]

To answer both of your questions - I found several larger, curved shards of glass around the body, thus indicating that it's likely a bottle of some kind. And the washing machine door looked like it was jammed shut with something in the way.
Edited (why did part of this vanish what the fuck) 2017-08-26 16:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] chides 2017-08-26 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
...Do you think Albel was the one reading it? He had a metal arm, right?
induality: (pic#6484163)

[personal profile] induality 2017-08-26 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Robotics? D-doesn't that guy have a mechanical arm?

[She means the dead one, but there's actually two of them....]
Edited 2017-08-26 16:51 (UTC)
tenimuho: (1 2 3 go)

[personal profile] tenimuho 2017-08-26 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes sense. It can't have been to hide the body, the trail was obvious.

Albel weighed 141 pounds, so it's possible that someone who couldn't have broken his neck themselves would still have been able to drag him.
silverguitarhero: ([Tight-lipped])

[personal profile] silverguitarhero 2017-08-26 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Albel's arm was a prosthetic, and it'd been damaged. Do you think perhaps the killer was trying to find a way to disable it?
tenimuho: (will run out in a few years)

[personal profile] tenimuho 2017-08-26 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The trail of blood started in the hallway, right?
chides: (tumblr_inline_nh3mugBeC61rg88r3)

[personal profile] chides 2017-08-26 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The broken glass probably came from the weapon that was used to hit him on his head.
induality: (pic#6484167)

[personal profile] induality 2017-08-26 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I-If his neck was snapped, d-does that mean they were tampering with it after he died?
tokencanadian: (Doubtful)

[personal profile] tokencanadian 2017-08-26 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it does feel like he wants this to be as entertaining as possible.

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