WEEK 7 - Trial Day Two

[al2955]

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

sunday TRIAL DAY TWO (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)

Alibis here.

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!)

Previous findings here.

FUMI'S ROOM

[breakshot]

[ OKAY THAT CHROME-LIKE OBJECT IS REALLY BOTHERING HIM

After glancing through the datapad, Machias gets an idea. So he's going to make a small trip to Fumi's room on his own and search around. He'll rifle through her desk real quick, not anticipating to find anything considering it'd been searched yesterday.

... Actually, let's search the bed too. He'll search the mattresses carefully before kneeling down and sticking his hand under the bed. Come on, that cellphone has to be around here somewhere. ]

EMILY'S ROOM

[thanatosincarnate]

A mess. She used some type of chemical to perfume her room to the point it was utterly disgusting and she even duct-taped her vent shut. She was attempting to write some letters but never quite finished. Nothing of real note.

Arumat P. Thanatos & Grell Sutcliff

Fumi's Room

[antietam]

Nothing strange was found in Fumi's room. Her cellphone was found on her body and therefore not in the room. She had a fair amount of notes on the alien's fighting patterns and her own power limitations. Additionally, the vent in her room did not seem to be used.

marinette's room

[antagonize]

Didn't find anything interesting. Just clothes, wrappers, and a couple of disturbing notes.
State of the room seems to confirm that Adrien was staying with Marinette the morning of the murder, though.

Judar's Room

[bloodteller]

Judar's room was messy! I'll have to clean it after the trial, so he doesn't get sick. What that means is that me and Dave didn't find anything aside from a bunch of peach pits, some clothes and some fish props. I took one, I'm going to name it Judave!

the scrap of paper

[chiseler]

[After this discussion Luke's coming over to check out the paper Shelley found. Can he examine it, and if so would it look more flat like printing paper or a little shiny like wrapping paper or something else entirely?]

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.

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.]

[breakshot]

Alice, a question.

[ someone's gotta ask and machias will try his very best not to holler today. ]

I understand the incinerator takes about ten minutes to start up. Is it possible for someone to set it up to have it go off at a specific time?

[thanatosincarnate]

Let's focus on what we've managed to figure out thus far:

The killer's choice of item from the vulnerable too list was the ventilation map and it was disposed of in the incinerator along with two other objects. This conclusion is made due to the fact that the ventilation map is color-coded, and the small burnt piece of paper is colored on one side as well. It helped them be able to navigate themselves around the rooms with relative ease in order to help with their set up of killing Fumi. In addition, no other wounds were found on Fumi's body even after an investigation, meaning it is just the head blow that dealt any damage to her which happened to be the killing blow as well.

Jason and Luke performed a ridiculous phallic object test in the vents to attempt to find out what made the sound in the vents when I and Luke were nearby the cafeteria -- they discovered that objects being dragged around like that did not accurate replicate the noise. Personally, I believe the sound came from a person, not some random object being dragged around.

{ MOVING ON... }

Dorian made a timeline of the suspects' alibis and events that is worth considering. Especially once we figure out more details of the case.

The suspects, along with Marinette, raced through the vents themselves to determine how fast they could have ran to the respective areas of the ship utilized in the murder. From the kitchen to the pod room: Marinette took 6 minutes, Adrien 8, Shelley 9, Roxy 10, Emily 11, and Judar 13.

From kitchen to the garbage room Marinette made it in 20 minutes, Adrien 23, Shelley 24, Roxy 25, Emily 27, and Judar took a whole half an hour.

{ Judar, get in shape man. }

There are still matters we need to figure out.

First, is the order of events so that we can narrow down the time the culprit was active in the duration of the murder and be able to eliminate anymore suspects. After all, we know that that the incinerator was on around 7:15 AM when Shelley and Jessie arrived. It may be good to reiterate that the incinerator takes 10 minutes to turn on.

{ Someone else can ask the AI about clarification because he hates asking the AI things. Sorry not sorry. }

In addition it'll be pivotal to discover what other objects were burned in the garbage room, how the killer set off the string trap in the kitchen, and how quickly events went down once the plan was set into motion.

[erythristic]

...For the twine. What if someone was using a pulley system for it?

[and someone give her a whiteboard marker because she is doing a quick sketch of the image in her head.]

The metal object we've been discussing doesn't seem to be anything we've found on the ship so far, and given its fragility, the twine would need some sort of support to assist the monitor in getting to the height we're assuming it was at.

BECAUSE THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE LAST NIGHT ANYWAY -- STRING TRAP TEST TOP LEVEL

[thanatosincarnate]

{ As soon as the earlier part of this trial gets started, Arumat will get to doing that experiment-- he doesn't have time to wait for a secondary and he already requested the items he needed from ALICE as well as grabbed whatever he thought could make a good substitute.

He'll grab several chairs and force them in the way of the kitchen door, making it difficult for entry, of course. Then, he'll begin to set up the trap and the position of the victim -- the latter he takes care to do first. Arumat's placing the dummy against the counter of the kitchen, making sure the dummy's form is prone, with its bottom half sitting against the floor. The dummy is positioned not too far away from the vent either, although not exactly too close (being more in the back section of the room).

Following that, he'll slab some glue on a portion of the door, nearby the small glass window, and begin to wrap some string around the monitor replica. He runs a line of string right across the door starting from an angle underneath the small window, where the sticky glue stuff is, so its partially shown through the small glass window.

He's not on the other side, but he's good at calculating location and determining precise positioning even just by glancing at something once. He makes sure to put tape right on the side of the door, so it keeps the long piece of string held, although granted there's nothing to tie it up to the ceiling just yet to make it run straight upwards. So the string that's not covered by tape just falls like a limp noodle to the ground. Next, Arumat looks up at the ventilation in the ceiling, and goes to bring the long line of string up to the ventilation. He'll rip the grate off from the kitchen ceiling by leaping up and grabbing it right off (although somehow not damaging it so he can put it back for investigative purposes).

He'll begin to wrap some of the string around one of the grate's bars and tie it a bit. Temporarily, though he'll place the grate to the side, nearby the door so he can fix that in a bit (note: if there's no grate anymore on the ceiling vent, feel free to disregard this portion).

Before he completely tests the set-up, Arumat has something to check first. The next thing he does is leap onto one of the kitchen tables and dangles the monitor by string to see if the string's heavy-duty enough to keep the monitor suspended from that height. If it is, the next thing he'll do is leap up into the ventilation shaft of the kitchen and hang it from there to see if the monitor doesn't immediately fall from that height and the rope snaps. If the string/twine still holds true, Arumat will try to see if he could swing it into the dummy as a resort of proto-test. }

[al2955]

[First off, the glue definitely doesn't match the sticky residue they had found on the door. There's too much of it and it's much more obvious than what they had found, which was only detectable by extremely close observation or touch.

The string barely holds the monitor, but it's clearly about to snap when he dangles it from the vent. There's no way for him to swing it from there that would hit the dummy on the back of the head, and it'll snap when he tries.]

vent races + other things

[antagonize]

[On the whiteboard, Jason Todd has lovingly scribbled down in the most 6th grade handwriting ever the following information:

KITCHEN TO POD ROOM:
1st place - Marinette* (6 minutes)
2nd place - Adrien** (8 minutes)
3rd place - Shelley (9 minutes)
Roxy (10 minutes)
Emily (11 minutes)
Dead last - Judar (13 minutes)
KITCHEN TO INCINERATOR:
1st place - Marinette* (20 minutes)
2nd place - Adrien** (23 minutes)
3rd place - Shelley (24 minutes)
Roxy (25 minutes)
Emily (27 minutes)
Did he even try - Judar (30 minutes)
* Marinette was in her itsy bitsy teeny weeny polka dot unitard for both routes. Assume some kind of super hero bullshit happened.
** NOT in costume. Might be faster in it.

... There are also some dicks drawn on the side, including one (1) prostrate on the ground and labelled as "Adrien", along with another dick with weirdly buff legs stepping on it. This one is labeled "Marinette". Additionally there is a very sweaty, very limp dick in the corner is labeled as "Judar".

Jason will be placing the cap back on his marker before addressing the room.]

So. The theory where the killer skedaddled to the incinerator from the kitchen sometime between 7:05 am and 7:15 am? Totally busted. Looks like we might have to start thinking of another way the incinerator could have been activated around 7:15 am, with the killer presumably making a ruckus in the kitchen vents.

[Which brings him to...]

If there's a way to program the incinerator to go off at a certain hour, it's possible everything might have been set up way before 7:00 am. We should start to considering looking at the order of events from another angle. Switch some things around. [Also:] We've been assuming Fumi Kanno was killed around 7:05 am, but what if her time of death was closer to 6:00 am? If that's the case, the killer would have had at least an hour to set prop her body up, head to the incinerator, and then go back to make some noise in the vents. With our slowest suspect clocking in at 30 minutes? It's still plenty of time. And that's assuming they headed to the incinerator through the vents. They could have walked if it's faster, gone to the pod room and used the vent there to head to the kitchen.

[tevinteriscoming]

Hmm. I think the timing theory is likely, though interesting considering the whereabouts of most of our suspects.

Is there a reason Adrien didn't wear his costume?

the 3D printer

[chiseler]

[Guess who's sitting here with a bundle of dildos from yesterday? This guy. After everyone's done admiring Jason's art and arguing over the vent races, he speaks up.]

I wanna talk about the printer for a sec. We know that Jack, Clover and Judar went to the robotics lab Friday morning when we were doing the investigation. We also know that the thing was beeping and the queue was empty, but when Jack hit print we got, surprise surprise, a plastic alien dick. Anybody have any ideas what that might be related to in terms of this?

[douchemag]

Jack didn't actually print anything, he just messed around a bit on the screen and pulled up a picture of a dick. I'm not gonna question the guy's personal preferences, whatever.

[HE MEANS IT WAS A TEST SCHEMATIC but ugh modern technology!! Why does the ship keep introducing new shit every week when he can barely keep up with the old ones.]

incinerator startup

[breakshot]

All right, I asked Alice a few questions regarding the incinerator and the startup time and according to her? Someone could theoretically start it immediately - meaning they don't have to wait the full ten minutes. There's no way to program it in advance, either.

So the idea the killer could have set it up to go off at a certain time doesn't hold up. I don't think that necessarily stops them from throwing whatever needs to be thrown in there in advance, but it's worth remembering.

[antietam]

So it's really chance. Would the killer have known that beforehand or did they just get lucky?

mysterious metal.

[erythristic]

So. Have we come up with any more ideas on what this melted metallic object could be? Why was it so crucial to burn it?

[if she was drawing on the whiteboard, she would have put a lot of question marks around that. as it is, in her notebook, the topic's been underlined.]

[antagonize]

Not sure why it would be crucial to burn it, but do you think it could be part of the machine the monitor was taken from?

[The one in the medbay, apparently. When will the medbay catch a break?]

cloaking device

[antietam]

I think I know what the metal is now. [ He'll place the cloaking device he burned with the evidence to compare to it to the chrome object. They look like they could be a plausible match. ]

I burned the cloaking device in the incinerator and it came out looking chrome. I believe the killer used the cloaking device to get around the ship. As for the paper—I don't know, it may have been a trick to get us to think they used the map.

My problem now is, how did they know where to go in the vents?

[tevinteriscoming]

Did they go in the vents? It may have been a matter of finding the vent in the kitchen, and knowing of the one in the pod room, and just making them both appear tampered with.

Monitor Testing

[tevinteriscoming]

[Fine, Dorian will help carry the stupid heavy monitor down to the kitchen. At least, he'll do it with a pained expression until Adelina or Machias takes the whole thing from him. He's a mage, he shouldn't have to carry heavy things.]

So. We've the two pieces of twine, and a mysterious noise in the vents. Let's see about whether we can get this thing up in the vents at all, shall we? None of the suspects strike me as able to carry something this heavy with much ease.

[bloodbiter]

[she 100% took the monitor from him at some point, dorian why are you a baby.]

How should we begin?

the paper

[todorable]

So, there was a theory going around about the burnt scrap of paper being the same as the vent map, or being a fake vent map, right? I threw some of our printer paper into the incinerator, but it turned out different from both the sample vent map and the scrap Jessie and Shelley found. It's not the same paper as either of them.

If anyone has any other ideas, feel free to throw 'em out.

[toprotecttheworld]

Good work, Todomatsu!

[is Jessie openly praising someone???? yes, only hot totty gets this treatment]

Let's see...it couldn't be something from the archives, could it? I can't see how anything there would be useful for a murder.

tablets!

[chiseler]

So thanks to Todomatsu we figured out whatever was burned was a totally different paper from the map and the scrap Jessie and Shelley found. Jessie realized it was probably a piece of photo paper. That brings us to the question of...okay, why would somebody need to burn a photograph right? And how would anybody get a photo to print? Roxy said maybe the killer took a selfie and while I'd like to think we don't have someone that stupid on-board, it got me thinking. The tablets are the only way we can take photos on the ship. The tablets can also be connected to the printer to print out stuff.

[A dramatic pause.] We need to start looking at the tablets, see who they were checked out to, and maybe check the camera roll for evidence. I don't know what it could have been used for yet but it seems to be one angle we haven't tried yet. Might wanna check it for sound, too. Weird recordings, anything like that.

[thanatosincarnate]

It'll narrow down our suspect pool considerably, assuming not every suspect decided to check out a tablet on Thursday or Friday. Therefore, it should be done immediately.

{ Great thinking, Luke!

Gonna hope the killer didn't steal Fumi's somehow if she checked one out. }

TABLET CHECKING

[thanatosincarnate]

{ JUST TO GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY.

Who checked out tablets on Thursday and Friday? }

[al2955]

[The tablets don't show when it was checked out, just who was the most recent person to do so.

Looks like Roxy and Shelley both recently checked out tablets.]

Monitor Results

[tevinteriscoming]

It's likely the noise heard in the cafeteria on Friday was a person in the pod room, tapping their fingers inside the vent. It creates a skittering sound very similar to the one heard.

Of course, that rules out the theory that an invisible person was in the room with Fumi at the moment. But we did try to use the monitor on the crash dummy, and it creates an unmistakable loud sound. I think it quite impossible Fumi was actually bashed over the head with the monitor while everyone was in the cafeteria. In which case, some sort of trick was used.

INTERROGATION

[thanatosincarnate]

{ So guess what, Arumat looked into the tablet history via the suggestion Luke made, so maybe it's more thanks to him than anything, but. He found something unsettling. A certain someone might be hanging around in the background (aka Machias just because). }

Shelley Winters, do you want to explain why your tablet that had been checked out recently had the image of Fumi Kanno lying in her prone state?

[breakshot]

[ WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS WHY DO YOU KEEP DRAGGING HIM

okay i guess machias is playing good cop until he's suddenly the bad cop. ]

... Shelley. Could you please explain? I don't want to believe this, but right now this doesn't look good for you.

trial clock.

[erythristic]

[AS USUAL guess who's shouting out when it hits the last half hour of the trial.]

Thirty minutes remaining.

[vote if you haven't, guys. don't be like Todd.]