WEEK 7 - Trial

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (7)

saturday TRIAL DAY ONE (24) survivors At 9 AM, a klaxon alarm begins blaring in every area of the ship. The alarm will continue to go off until everyone has gathered in the conference room. Should anyone be running late or avoiding the trial for whatever reason, a robot guide will appear wherever they are and gently but firmly escort them into the room. Once all the living players are present, the conference room doors will lock shut; anyone who wishes to leave for whatever reason will need to ask AL-2955 or one of the robots. Anyone leaving for non-investigative purposes, such as bathroom breaks, will be accompanied by a robot escort. The large round table in the center of the conference room has been set up to help the trial run as smoothly as possible. Three holographic screens hover above the center hollow of the table, visible from every angle. The first screen displays the pictures and profiles of the suspects and victim; the second displays the autopsy report; the third displays a blank word processor. Each of the chairs comes equipped with a virtual keyboard which can be used to type information directly into the third screen, such as theories and updated information; they can also be set into privacy mode, which will transfer whatever notes someone writes directly into their datapad instead of on screen. There's also a tablet function for those who wish to draw charts or pictures on screen. The keyboards will detect the DNA of whoever's using them and record who's typed what - simply press an area of text and the name of whoever wrote it will pop up. The area to the right of the table has been temporarily sectioned off with a glass partition and sliding door for hygienic issues. Inside, the victim's body has been laid out on a metal autopsy table, covered by a plastic sheet. Above it is a holographic screen that displays a close-up color photograph of the body when it was found. A hand sanitizer dispenser has been considerately attached to the wall nearby for anyone getting up close and personal to the body. To the left of the conference table is a display case. Any evidence found during the investigation will be carefully collected by the robots at some point the previous day and placed here before the trial starts. Beneath each piece of evidence is a small tablet where players can type up information, such as a short description or where it was found. There are also empty areas left over for any evidence that may be found during the trial. The shelf at the very bottom of the case has been reserved for an extra rulebook in case anyone needs it. Food will be served throughout the day by the robots, who will take individual orders whenever you're feeling hungry. The trial will end at 9:00 PM, at which point all players will have been expected to cast their vote.

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Autopsy Report

[al2955]

Above the center of the conference table, the rightmost holographic screen displays the autopsy report:

Autopsy Report - Fumi Kanno

Cause of Death - Appears to be blunt force trauma to the head.

Body Discovery - Found face down on the kitchen floor, beneath a countertop. Body discovery announced at 7:05 AM.

Time of Death - 6:00AM - 7:05 AM

Condition of Body - Long strip of twine strewn across body. Back of head bloodied. Medical monitor next to body with twine tied around it.

Condition of Scene - Door to kitchen barricaded by several chairs. Twine taped to kitchen door, which extends to Fumi's body.

Alibis

[al2955]

The holographic screen in the middle displays the photos and profiles of each of the suspects. Pressing their photograph will bring up a tab where the suspects can type up their alibi.

Whereabouts - Thursday night to Friday morning, Week (7)

Re: Alibis

[tacklefordwhimsy]

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: I spent time in the lounge, just sitting around and not doing much.
8:00 PM - 2:00 AM?: In the Garbage Room. Adrien and Marinette passed by and talked with me for a while. Jessie also came, we sat around and left the garbage room together, not sure the exact time.
2:00 AM - 7:00 AM: In my room. Sleeping.

[monsieurchatastrophe]

Marinette and I met up in her room around 9PM, to prepare for patrol. We left at 10PM and spent the night patrolling the ship until about 4AM, then we went back to her room and slept. I woke up a little bit before the body announcement... I think it was 6:55? I'd left to take a walk before getting breakfast when I heard it, and I went back to find Marinette so we could start investigating together.

[thatbites]

8-ish: Tried to go to bed early because I woke up at fucking two in the morning thanks to all that bullshit that happened yesterday so I was in my room.
11:30PM: Couldn't fall asleep so I decided to risk a quick run to the cafeteria to grab a snack.
12:00AM : Didn't see anyone around and I was going stir crazy in my room so I decided to kill time in the garden. Yeah, it was a stupid idea but nothing horrible happened.
2:00AM: Went back to bed. Finally got to sleep only to get woken up by the announcement at 7 something and honestly fuck that. I turned over and went right back to sleep.

[douchemag]

Around 9PM - Late As Shit: Clover's make-up was looking like crap, so I went back to her room to fix it up for her. Jack came along to learn a few tips. Exchanged a few other fashion tips while we were there.
Late As Shit - Who The Fuck Even Knows: Decided it was so late on Murder Night, we might as well stay in her room. Clover went to bed, me and Jack stayed up longer arguing about magic and science.
Who The Fuck Even Knows - Seven, I guess?: Accidentally fell asleep. Probably stupid, but whatever, we put enough make-up on Jack that it would have been the easiest to solve murder ever if he tried anything. Woke up thanks to the alarm going off.
Seven, I guess - 8AM: Decided we should stay put for another hour just in case there were any more traps out there again. Also, I needed time to do my hair.
8AM: Went out with Clover and Jack to investigate.

Findings

[al2955]

The display case to the left of the conference table houses all the evidence that has been found during the investigation so far. Below each piece of evidence is a tablet where players can label the piece and type up any notes they may have about it. There are also empty slots with blank tablets for any evidence or information that may be found during the trial.

All evidence and other information found during the course of investigation should be listed here.

(OOC: Please also link the thread where the evidence was found!)

Elucidation on Crime scene/body + Observations + Wet Sink

[thanatosincarnate]

EVIDENTIAL REPORT

At approximately 7AM, I headed down to the cafeteria due to already being awake, and noticed the door was forcibly blocked from entry. Luke joined shortly-- Luke and I observed Fumi Kanno propped up against the kitchen counter while she lay on the floor. Due to the fact we could only see through the small, grease-stained kitchen window only her top half was visible.

Then, there was a commotion in the vents that took our attention away from the state of her body. The first chance we were able to look back we noticed that Fumi's body had moved to the point it was out of sight. Adelina came to join us and assist in battering the kitchen door down, and it was discovered several chairs were used to keep the door shut.

I observed Fumi's body was now positioned beneath the cabinets, and that some string hung loosely around her person--and not a single part of her was wrapped in it. Her body was warm, indicating she had only recently died and there were no obvious wounds. A broken, bloodstained monitor lay close beside her, likely used to murder her by smashing the back of her head with it somehow given the wound she sustained to the back of her head.

The sink was wet, indicating someone recently used it. Subsequent reports incoming from Adelina and Luke of their own findings as well as additional information. That is all.

- Arumat P. Thanatos

Body

[al2955]

The right area of the room has been sectioned off by a glass partition, which players can enter via a vertical sliding door. Fumi's body has been laid out on a sterile metal autopsy table. Their body is covered with a plastic sheet, but the sheet can be removed. Other than the position and the sheet, the body has not been changed from how they were found.

A holographic screen above the body displays two color photos of the scene when the body discovery alarms rang at 7:05 AM. The photographs are close ups - they portray Fumi's body, but no more of the scene than is necessary to do so. Still, if you want to check their position, it makes it easy to do so.

[breakshot]

[ ... Ugh, he doesn't want to do this but they can't afford to overlook anything. His expression sinks a little, quietly murmuring an apology to Fumi before he gets to work. ]

... I'm sorry.

[ First, Machias is going to check her carefully for surface bruises, starting with her head and moving down to any exposed skin. While he's at it, he'll carefully open her mouth and glance inside. Then he'll open her eyes to check the pupils for constriction or dilation, though he's not sure how helpful that'll be with how much time has passed. Anything he'd notice? ]

Host

[al2955]

[Once the 9AM alarm has rung and all players have awakened, the statue in the alcove in the back of the room chimes gently. Holographic water begins pouring out of the jug the statue is carrying, forming the shimmering image of a vaguely feminine figure made out of liquid.]

Greetings, participants. As always, I am at your disposal should you need to ask anything. Good luck.

[The holographic image will remain throughout the trial. You're free to ask her whatever you want, though whether she'll answer is a different question entirely.]

[chiseler]

Hey Alice, can I ask something? [It's. Probably obvious but he just wants to be sure!!!] The monitor we found with Fumi's body. Can we get confirmation that it's the same one that went missing from the diagnostics machine according to Todomatsu's notes?

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[When Shelley sees herself in the suspect list again she sighs. This is what she gets for being somewhere on Thursday night. First when she was locking herself in a cell, and now this week]

Adrien and Roxy are suspects too? Okay, that's ludicrous.

[She muttered that to herself but it was loud enough to be heard. Look, she likes those two kids, okay? Then, to everyone else]

Just like I said when Allen died: I didn't do it. This time I don't have evidence to give...well, I kinda do, but I think Jessie should tell it all since she isn't a suspect and she arrived before me to where we investigated.

[Sorry Jessie!]

[tevinteriscoming]

Nothing is ludicrous anymore. The question is whether the killer this week is by one of those things, or by someone who'd like us to think so.

[monsieurchatastrophe]

[his reaction at seeing his own face on that list is a lot of confusion and some mild concern considering the. apparent alien parasites epidemic. if it wasn't for that he'd be offended, but he's going to stick with what he knows:]

Ah... I'm willing to answer any questions and give any help I can? I know people's word when it comes to these things isn't exactly evidence, but I'd never kill anyone. I swear.

[chiseler]

[Adrien swear to god...he's not entirely thrilled about this set of circumstances, but what else is new.]

You and Marinette were patrolling the ship at night. Where exactly did you guys go? If you could remember an order that'd be great. [But not necessary, he thinks.]

[douchemag]

[He's not exactly surprised to see himself on the suspect list - honestly, he's shocked he hasn't put up earlier - but his face slides towards irritation anyway. Goddammit, this means he's actually going to have to pay attention to the trial instead of just playing Furry Passing and napping the whole time, doesn't it.]

So this is the part where people ask me shit? Whatever, I've got nothing to hide.

[also he sure does still have pretty pink ribbons in his hair, because I guess he just stole them from Clover and never bothered giving them back. fuck you guys he looks great]

[antietam]

So you can fly, right? How exactly does that work? Are there any limits to it?

[thatbites]

Seriously? Again?

[Unlike last time where she was personally insulted Emily just seems tired and annoyed. Whether that's an improvement or not is up in the air. Either way she's leaning on the conference table looking surly and that's about as inviting as she'll be all trial.

Come question her.]

[thanatosincarnate]

{ Despite everything, he likes to start off with motives first. Whether or not they'll prove useful because then he'll lead up from there to elsewhere. }

Tell me about the person you wish to contact the most, including their importance to you.

[muties]

[ wow alice what a rude suspect list all these people are great. tho roxy seems less offended and more "haha ok sure" about it. are we sure rhyslien didn't hatch some babies who then killed fumi? that'd be more plausible. ]

Well, ok. Let's just hope this week's trial goes less sideways than last week's. Uhhhh, I'm A Suspect AMA?

[ will roxy ever take anything 100% seriously (no) ]

[antagonize]

Just watch. It's going to end up way worse than last trial. Maybe enough to make last Sunday look like an episode out of a family friendly sitcom.

[Um. How about we don't??? Jason Todd stop making shitty jokes when you should be rESTING.]

Anyway, what can you tell me about your flight?

Room Searches

[tevinteriscoming]

Shall we get the room searching portion out of the way? Of course, by this point, if anyone is leaving evidence about their room, I can't think they're trying very hard.

((OOC: Please use the google doc to make specific claims))

[erythristic]

We might as well, so the rest of our time can go to solving this. I can look into Emily's room.

[because you're on vents together you make sure no one goes through their underwear together.]

Room Search Top Level

[tevinteriscoming]

[The owner of the room can start their top levels!]

Marinette's Room (Where Adrien was staying, OoOoOooh)

[missmaladroite]

[don't go in here you'll trigger the yoyo axe ending]

[thanatosincarnate]

There's a few things that need to be addressed. One of them is how this was even related and possibly used in the murder at all.

{ Like. Seriously. REALLY. How can this even be used unless it had like sticky gooey stuff you could...squeeze out of it, or something. Which hopefully someone else might suggest being a thing because. Yeah. }

Then, there is figuring out how the killer had everything set up in the cafeteria, since it appears whatever trap they made with the string was crucial in killing Fumi. Yet, getting her to walk into the trap couldn't have been that easy.

[breakshot]

Well, as we’re all aware, Ms. Kanno was on the vulnerable list. That makes it highly likely our killer obtained a tool either shortly before or after killing her - either way, she had to have been targeted in some manner.

Considering it seems the vents played a role in this on top of Jessie and Shelley finding a scrap of paper in the incinerator, we’re led to believe it may be the ventilation map. However, that does not discount the possibility other tools came into play instead.

[ Don't mind him rambling on - he's thinking here. Let him think!! ]

One thing I'd been wondering about, Arumat: before the trap with the monitor was set off, you mentioned you saw her propped up against the counter? And she had no visible injuries then?

fumi kanno: dead or alive

[breakshot]

There's a lot of things we still don't know about the circumstances behind the case. For now, let’s start with hashing out a timeline of events. Ms. Kanno’s body was still warm upon discovery, which means she couldn’t have been gone for very long. Let’s assume she left her room an hour before the murder went down. We’re not sure whether or not our killer already had their sights on her, but for now let’s assume they did.

Somewhere along the way, she ended up in the kitchen propped up against the counter. Whether she was dead or unconscious then is still unknown, but from the way the twine was taped to the door implies it was deliberately set up to kill her - that, or hide something the killer didn't want us to see.

We know Ms. Kanno was often seen in the medical wing and given a monitor seems to be missing from there, that’s probably not a coincidence. But what I want to discuss is whether or not she could have still been alive before the monitor fell on her. Or approaching this from a different perspective, is it possible she was already dead by then?

[tevinteriscoming]

It seems very risky to leave her alive, set to have her killed upon the door opening, doesn't it? There's ways that could go wrong, and if Fumi could still have been saved, leave the killer subject to having their identity revealed.

string theory

[antietam]

So I think the string is something we need to figure out. It came from the embroidery kit that Adelina requested, which was in the viewport. I guess no one can confirm a time when the string might have been taken?

What I'm getting is this: The discovery group had a view of Fumi's top half leaned against the counter. There was some string on the door that they could also see? They looked away due to noise from the vents, and when they looked back, they could no longer see her.

When they broke their way in, they found her dead with the twine strewn around on top of her. It was also tied onto the monitor. Tape was found on the door and the window of the door was sticky. So, how did this trap work?

[tevinteriscoming]

So the string vanished and Fumi fell before they got inside the room? Had they rattled the door?

vulnerable player weapons

[chiseler]

So...we know that Fumi was one of the vulnerable players this week. From what we've seen from the last couple of weeks, all of the vulnerable players who've been killed were killed by using one of the items that Alice will provide the culprit. For those of you who need a refresher, we're working with a bunch of really weird tools. [And he reads off the items from memory.]

Here's my question for you. We know that Fumi was somehow hit with the monitor, but how do we know one of the other items wasn't also used? [He's straight-up piggybacking off of Machias and Adam. Please don't let him ask how the stungun works, guys.]

[douchemag]

Weren't people talking about the vent map being used? Are we not on that anymore?

what the heckie was in the incinerator

[antagonize]

[Jason Todd should definitely be taking it easy today, but Jason Todd is also a bullheaded idiot — so here he is. Talking. Pretending he doesn't feel like death while trying to crack this stupid case.]

While we're discussing what happened in the kitchen, does anybody have any ideas for what was burned in the incinerator? Both Jessie and Shelley claim to have found a melted, chrome colored object, a small piece of paper and ashes. The most obvious assumption would be that the paper was part of the vent map, but unless we're able to compare with a full map? We have no way of knowing. [Also...] And we need to confirm what the chrome colored item was, and if the amount of ashes correspond to the part of the paper that was burned off.

[While he's on that train of thought:]

They said the incinerator was on when they got there, which was around 7:15 AM. That's ten minutes after the time frame given for Fumi Kanno's death, so we have to consider at what point the killer would have been in the garbage disposal room to turn the incinerator on.

[SO. YEAH. THEORIES??? Let him chug away at a glass of water after this because he hates everything ever.]

[baptizer]

[ too bad you don't have a fingerprint kit, huh? ;) ]

Is it chrome painted or metal itself? Whatever this item is, I mean.

Timeline Issues

[tevinteriscoming]

[While all of you are being immature and teasing teens for making out or making people squeeze dildos or vent racing or whatever, Dorian has been working hard scribbling up a rough timeline. Once done, he places it into findings, but also brings it up.]

So it occurs to me there's some room for concern here. Most of our suspect list has been taking the buddy system to heart, haven't they?

Only Shelley and Emily slept alone. I wonder if Marinette, Dave, Jesse, Clover and Jack can't try to be more specific with the timing?

[missmaladroite]

How specific? I was with him until we went to bed.

[~Together~]

Vent Racing

[missmaladroite]

So, we have a map of the vents now. Since we know the killer [and also VentRhys, fuck that guy] used them to get around - I think we should have a test. We can have our suspects [EXCEPT FOR ADRIEN WHO DID NOTHING WRONG???] and some non-suspects race through it, to help set up a timeline of when they were used and how long it would have taken the killer to get around.

I, um, can volunteer as a non-suspect.

Re: Vent Racing

[tacklefordwhimsy]

...if it weren't because it's to find out who is a killer that'd be kind of fun.

From where will we go? The kitchen vent?

dick-string test

[chiseler]

[It's really, really stupid. It's a stupid idea but Jason prompted him to think about it and now he can't stop thinking about it. So he's dragging Jason Todd along for the ride and he's printing out a bundle of dicks. Probably like five or six. He'll do a quick glance-over to see if maybe he can see when things were last printed but the important thing is getting everything printed out. He's also procured some remaining twine from Adelina's basket of supplies and now these two idiots are in the kitchen. The dildos are tied up into a nice little bundle with twine and Luke's prying open the vent next to the kitchen door.]

We'll have to figure out the logistics of the string later, but I'm curious about the sound. Think you can keep an eye out and listen while I drag these things through the vents for a bit?

[...sorry Jason, he had to.]

[antagonize]

[He's not even bothered his life is becoming one big eye joke. It's kind of hilarious actually??? This is how he copes with massive trauma. By laughing at eye jokes.]

Sure, I'll keep an eye and two ears out for any noise. [HE'S EVEN TAPPING HIS GOOD EYE.] Have fun dragging a gaggle of dicks through the vents. I'll be rooting for ya.

[Now go get into that vent. Somehow.]

DAY ONE TRIAL END

[al2955]

[ At 7PM on the dot, the ritual from last trial is repeated; the screens phase away, as if powered down without warning. The corpse is closed off, the door shut nice and tight, and the same is done with the evidence case. Should anyone attempt to get into either of them, they would find it wholly impossible: the trial is put on hold for some rest, once again. ]

It is 7PM, participants. As usual, the trial shall be placed on hold until the morning. Dinner will be held in this room, like last trial. Please do not stab the robots. They will take your order and bring it out to you. They cannot do this if they are damaged. To ensure that there will be no tampering with the evidence, all participants are to remain in this room. Blankets and entertainment shall be provided shortly, and should you find a change of clothes necessary, that can also be arranged.

[ A few moments later, the screens and tablets are on again, this time providing a selection of all the Star Wars films, and retro gaming. Anyone who leaves will be accompanied by a robot, and then ushered back into the conference room. You're stuck in a sleepover with the corpse near you again, it seems.

Feel free to thread out any of the evening's interactions here. ]

[antietam]

[ Adam has some pizza beside him but he's barely touched it because he's very busily copying the vent map down onto some pieces of paper he has. It's probably going to take him a while to do this but he has all night.

Feel free to steal his food. ]