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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2018-02-17 01:04 pm
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The First Trial

[You get a little time after your investigation is over, but not too long. Your Overseer is right there, after all, and he can tell when you're finished.

Xander will lead you all out the door near Fourt's, opening what had been impenatrable sheet metal with a few taps and swipes on his tablet. This won't take you outside either; instead, it leads to a long hallway. Like a walk-through aquarium, the walls and ceiling are all made of thick glass, giving you an even better view of the stars outside. There's no sign that the mall is attached to some kind of large-scale station. There's really not going to be an easy way to escape here, unless you get transportation.

You're led to a wide-open area, empty except for a circle of podiums in its center. They're labeled so you can easily find yours, though only Yuuri's has a picture. Three of them don't seem to bear any names at all. It's probably nothing. The walls here are equally transparent, and they seem to have lines of large hatches going along them, as if this is where one might park one's spaceship when going on a fun space mall adventure. Shame you don't know anything about those.

You already know what you're here to do. You'd best be getting along with it.]
ratherdoweddings: (beat anything)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-02-17 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yurika steps up to her podium. Since this morning, she's looked more serious than anyone's seen her.]

Yuuri-chan was found in the coffee shop, bled out from the neck and upper chest. Even if most of us risked our own secrets to mitigate the chances of death, someone thought that theirs was more important than her life. With what we've learned, the accounts of Togami-san and Fukawa-san should be treated as though they apply to our current situation, specifically the trial system and the risk of mass execution if we all fail.

There's something Church-san and I found in the nail salon. A kitchen knife hidden in the garbage, covered with bloody strips of cloth, like handmade bandages. The blood wasn't fresh, though blood does dry very quickly; it's probably from last night. The strange thing was, though, the knife doesn't look like it was used to stab. Any blood on it came from the cloth, not the other way around. What was the state of the body? We could figure things out from that.
induality: (Default)

[personal profile] induality 2018-02-17 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Trial... Fukawa is trying hard to keep her breathing even but now that it's started, she's fighting the desire to close up.

But she has the experience here-- some people are looking to her to help. As far as evidence though, she doesn't have much.
]

...Clarith and I found where the murder weapon came from. It was missing from Fourt's. It was a carving knife... a-although all the knives in there were d-designed big, it was one of the larger ones.
motherfucking_ghost: (Default)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-02-17 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Or they could've used the cloth to clean the blood off the knife? But if you're just gonna throw 'em away together, I don't see the point...
imnotfat: (50)

[personal profile] imnotfat 2018-02-17 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The carving knife seems to have been the murder weapon, but clearly this one knife can't be unrelated to the murder in some way if it has blood on it.

Were the strips of cloth on the handle of the knife? I have heard something like that is done to improve the grip on the knife.
Edited 2018-02-17 18:16 (UTC)
ratherdoweddings: (and if you're chasing a dream)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-02-17 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true, but remember the blood markings? Those weren't smears from wiping it off, Church-san. It was more like they were just transferred from the cloth.
shikosuki: (how does this happen to adults)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-02-17 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Just... staring at the empty, nameless podium next to him ]

The hell is this for?
refusedtoleave: (Totem blume)

[personal profile] refusedtoleave 2018-02-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well that shatters the this 'is fake mall' idea. But Natsuhi just follows and takes her place silently.

The hand drawn picture of Yuuri and the younger girl also gets placed on her podium without a word. Positioned so that most of the room can see it. Though the people closer to her are getting an upside down view.]
ratherdoweddings: (but i've watched enough to know)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-02-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
They were sort of everywhere, just wrapping up the knife.
everylittlesecret: (♪ We both know)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-02-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
She bled out fast from the looks of it. A wound to the neck like that... lots of spray, pretty much what's expected from something like that.

[Not very professional sounding, just is what it is.] You got the knife with you?
ratherdoweddings: (that although sometimes this is so)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-02-17 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yurika frowns, looking at it from the other side.]

Maybe they couldn't get enough people.
a10tionplz: (well)

[personal profile] a10tionplz 2018-02-17 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you bring the knife with you?
curdle: (pic#11057773)

[personal profile] curdle 2018-02-17 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thank goodness she's been studying her own name on the PIP enough to recognize the THO otherwise this would be real awkward. ]
motherfucking_ghost: (Default)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-02-17 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Then maybe it was cleaned somewhere else, and someone stashed it and...bloody bandages? Together?

Are we sure she didn't just kill herself and someone came across her, tried to help, and cleaned up...?
burninglight: (if the oracle can heal)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-02-17 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[just deadeyeing his own empty neighbor]

Somehow I doubt our dear Overseer will bother to explain it.
tokencanadian: (Down)

[personal profile] tokencanadian 2018-02-17 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[So we're doing this in the mall parking lot. Neato.

Any of Pyrrha's concerns that they really weren't in space had been thoroughly crushed now, and she was stuck standing by one of the glass window, staring out into the stars. It brought up a feeling that she couldn't recognize, it bothered her.
]

There's so much out there...
motherfucking_ghost: (Default)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-02-17 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, yeah, hold on-- [Here's your prize, Nari, a big ol carving knife!]
everylittlesecret: (♪ See the smoke)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-02-17 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[AHEM]

She didn't kill herself. That's for certain.
imnotfat: (59)

[personal profile] imnotfat 2018-02-17 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you say it was made by someone who knew where exactly to stab?

[True, the neck is overall a delicate place, but depending of where it's stabbed one can survive. Maybe the killer has some knowledge of this kind of stuff]
daughterofthemark: (27F. Imprisoned by God's keys)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-02-17 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arianna quietly sets the candle on her podium, staring at the portrait across from her.]
a10tionplz: (I don't think so)

[personal profile] a10tionplz 2018-02-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Bit odd, considering how tailor-made the rest of this place is.
neverheardofhim: (Default)

[personal profile] neverheardofhim 2018-02-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait. There were two knives?. We're sure we're not talking about the same one?
desperateprayer: (84)

[personal profile] desperateprayer 2018-02-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...See if the wounds match the knife.

[ Clarith is here, but she's also very distant and seems uncomfortable to be around so many people. Thank goodness for the space next to her. ]

It's pretty big. So...
curdle: (pic#11225731)

[personal profile] curdle 2018-02-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
How could that be?
motherfucking_ghost: (Default)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-02-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that for mourning?
ratherdoweddings: (there's usually lots to learn)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-02-17 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It definitely didn't look self-inflicted, you're right. Even with the possibility of someone else tampering with the scene, which I'm not sure why they would.

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