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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-11-11 10:49 am
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third trial

[With the announcement and the evidence, the Champions are free to decide amongst themselves what order the groups leave in. Once that's done the process of teleporting is automatic and happens in the blink of an eye. Once second they're in the center of the cafeteria before a soft blue light surrounds them and then they're standing in the middle of a circle of podiums.

The room itself it the same shiny, chrome-covered atrocity as most of the rest of the ship save for the sections of floor that aren't the teleporter: those are thick clear glass that show nothing but empty space and stars beneath the Champions' feet. As for the podiums they're the same sort of garish chrome with a digital screen facing toward the center of the circle. More portraits and names in blaring red have been added this week. Slaine Troyard, the Champion of War and Zombina, the Champion Rotten Girl.

The Overseers are waiting when they all arrive, standing on a floating platform just high enough to be out of reach and back far enough toward a far wall to have a full view of the courtroom. Both are dressed well, Rox in a pressed grey dress jacket and skirt and Blaze in a black suit with the sleeves rolled up to expose his numerous tattoos. Rox is smiling like that cat who ate the canary while Blaze is standing a little farther away than normal and looking uncomfortable.]


Welcome back, Champions! There are fourteen of you here but, if things go correctly, only thirteen of you will leave. I don't think I have to explain at this point what will happen if you choose wrong.

As usual there's no time limit but be sure to keep things interesting. [She folds her arms across her chest, looking down on the Champions with a grin.] Let the trial begin.
lovecolored: ( official | forbidden scrollery ) (☆ world-famous $100 lap dances)

cw brief fingore.........cw this case in general

[personal profile] lovecolored 2017-11-11 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Marisa has absolutely taken Blaze's words to heart an showered before she came to the trial, so at present, her hair is still wet and tied up in one of those twisty towels. ]

Akira and I looked at the crime scene, so if ya got a question about the...details, ask one of us.

[ She starts placing the shards of the mask on her podium, puzzle-piecing them together for everyone to see. ]

I found this near the trash compactor, it's Lucina's mask. Zombina was wearin' it the past week, wasn't she? It was mixed with a bunch'a bone fragments. There was also one of Zombina's fingers on the floor, all by itself, and a trail of what I think's her preservative fluids goin' from the compactor, to the door, and out the hallway.
Edited 2017-11-11 17:32 (UTC)
playthedamncard: (Default)

[personal profile] playthedamncard 2017-11-11 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kaiba is not having a good time, I mena like, less of a good time than usual. He looks over, stressed to see Bolton across the way instead of Zombina. On the other side, a space before it's Yuri.

He looks up then at the overseers.]


Just so we're clear: we wouldn't be having a trial at all if someone else wasn't involved, correct?
le_mat: <user name="tanabata"> (40)

cw: suicide, gore, possible fingers. just cw All This.

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-11-11 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Akira goes straight to work: thanks to Max he is clean and smelling kinda like strawberries, his hair slicked out of his face, just starting to dry out and fluff again and his glasses missing.]

I handled the body.

Zombina was crushed by the trash compactor. Due to being a zombie, this might have about the only thing in the station that could kill her. Due to how the blood was on the floor and not up the walls, I would guess she was laying down, not struggling when she was crushed. Since she doesn't feel pain, she probably wouldn't instinctively try and escape. Her unitard was undamaged so it doesn't look like she was attacked in any way before the compactor.

I found shattered black glass-like plastic. It looked like what you'd find in a pair of sunglasses, but it was so crushed there's no way to tell what exactly it used to be.

I also found a note. I'll say before I read it... Zombina references something me and her talked about on Wednesday that no one else except assumedly CECE would be able to hear. ["my best friend and little brother"] So... I can't see how this could have been forged.

[He takes out the note. Blinking owlishly, then pulling it farther away from his face so he can see. It's then that he starts to read aloud. He's been steady through all this before the note. But after it he just... rests his head on the podium.]
Edited 2017-11-11 17:35 (UTC)
in4apounding: (anxiety intensifies)

Re: cw: suicide, gore, possible fingers. just cw All This.

[personal profile] in4apounding 2017-11-11 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...she wouldn't-

[Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.]

[But still.]


...She said. On Tuesday, that I shouldn't worry about the motive.
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[personal profile] theoverseeing 2017-11-11 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
A trial happens when a non-punishment-related death happens. It's up to you to figure out if someone else was involved or not.
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[personal profile] dejabrew 2017-11-11 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bolton had been ready to punch out the person who did this to her, the person who had taken advantage of her weakened state to kill her.

The note, as Akira reads it, knocks his knees out from under him, and he grips his podium hard with both hands, blinking back tears as he stares down at the top of it.]
immaculacies: (slowly prolonging a cruel fate)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-11 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...And Petuu-san only said a "death" was necessary to fulfill the conditions, not a murder.
in4apounding: (anxiety intensifies)

[personal profile] in4apounding 2017-11-11 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
She was hurt before she got in there?
immaculacies: (in sleep there is no sorrow)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-11 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it possible for someone to activate the trash compactor while standing inside it? I don't know how easy it would have been for her to reach the button herself, but if she did, the motion of the door closing might have caught her finger with it.
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[personal profile] lovecolored 2017-11-11 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Ya mean the finger, or the mask? Both are a little suspect, though...
in4apounding: (look down)

[personal profile] in4apounding 2017-11-11 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...I don't know. I haven't used it.
le_mat: (14)

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-11-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If her brain was going... I can't blame her. But we have to be sure.
playthedamncard: (Default)

[personal profile] playthedamncard 2017-11-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Does the door have to be closed first?
in4apounding: (look down)

[personal profile] in4apounding 2017-11-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
The- um. The trail, actually. She wouldn't be bleeding if she wasn't hurt, right? Or- things had gotten really bad, really quickly.
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[personal profile] le_mat 2017-11-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm sorry.
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[personal profile] karappo 2017-11-11 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Zombina-chan...

[God, that's hard to swallow. Karamatsu would like to add something to his but he finds that he just...can't.

He lowers his head, much like others listening to that note being read aloud.]
titularly: (that he started crying)

cw: fingers gomen

[personal profile] titularly 2017-11-11 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, uh... I checked out the cafeteria. There was a ton of booze in there, empty bottles all over the place. One of Wan-chan's gross fingers was on the floor and there was red stuff leadin' out to the teleporter.

Ya think whoever did this wanted to get hammered to forget about what they did?
Edited 2017-11-11 17:48 (UTC)
immaculacies: (grow old; let your hair grow)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-11 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, I haven't either. But that's the real question, isn't it? We have to determine if another person was involved or not. Even if it was an assisted suicide, that would still count as a murder under the terms of these rules.
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[personal profile] lovecolored 2017-11-11 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The door openin' pauses the trash compactor, so I think so. Ya gotta close the door again to turn it back on.
immaculacies: (moving; changing from blue to red)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-11 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[she doesn't know the answer but she agrees with this line of questioning]
immaculacies: (moving; changing from blue to red)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-11 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. The first question we have to answer, then, is whether Zombina could have activated the trash compactor on her own.
playthedamncard: (murderdeathkill)

cw: suicide

[personal profile] playthedamncard 2017-11-11 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Or wanted to get her inebriated. Killing yourself takes an incredible amount of willpower and desperation to overpower one's innate self-preservation instincts. Maybe she had someone with her to drag her there. So she wouldn't feel anything.
titularly: (and im too lazy to look any up rn)

[personal profile] titularly 2017-11-11 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
There was like, a ton of bottles in there though. Empty ones. Would she have drank 'em all on her own?
playthedamncard: (oh...oh shitballs)

more like cw my feelings amirite

[personal profile] playthedamncard 2017-11-11 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shit shit shit shit shit shit. Fuck. Keep it together. His fingers curl around the podium, squeezing his eyes shut, barely containing a growling noise in his throat. Fine. Fine. If they want to play some hardball, he'll solve this fucking case himself if he has to.]

Then let's assume someone helped her since she apparently already decided she couldn't wait. If we can't find anyone, then...

Several of us knew what was happening to her. And how to kill a zombie from her world. Was there anyone who didn't? But even then...
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[personal profile] lovecolored 2017-11-11 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like it. Red just said he looked in the cafeteria and found more'a that fluid...whatever happened started there.

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