WEEK 0: TRIAL

[dropoffs]

WEEK 0 TRIAL     45 CREW ACTIVE

 

ALL CREW MEMBERS, PLEASE REPORT TO THE CONFERENCE HALL AT 1200 HOURS. REPEAT, ALL CREW MEMBERS REPORT TO THE CONFERENCE HALL AT 1200 HOURS.

I.R.I.S. SYSTEMS ARE UPDATING TO ALLOW SHIP AND CONCOURSE-WIDE ACCESS AT THIS TIME IN PREPARATION FOR INVESTIGATION AND RESOLUTION OF THE EVENTS FROM THURSDAY EVENING AND FRIDAY MORNING.

ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION.

Good morning, junior crew. With the heavy news of last night carrying into Saturday morning, things are incredibly quiet around the CSS Eudora. You may carry on with your personal business during the morning, but come 11:00, a soothing voice will cut into the air and announce that at 12:00 everyone must report to "the Conference Hall." Strange, however, that it's not on the map.

Never fear, your I.R.I.S. will automatically project a small beam of warm, orange light on the ground, directing you towards a large gated lift that has risen from the floor by the mess hall. Come 11:50, if you aren't on the lift, you will certainly find yourself moving there physically whether you intend it or not. The lift is capable of carrying every occupant of the Eudora to a sublevel that leads towards the mentioned Conference Hall.

The enormous hall opens up past two large, double doors with the word EUDORA printed over it. Within, a lengthy monitor sprawls across the entirety of it, displaying Thursday night's victims profiles along with a large map of the Eudora herself. With plush, dark seats in rows and a long table at the head of the room where four members of your senior crew await, it is clear what exactly this space is for, especially as the words TRIAL IN SESSION appear on the monitor and an ominous-looking countdown:
09:00:00

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Welcome to your first trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about Dahut's murder. Characters will have time to examine the body of the victim and explore relevant locations.

There will be a mod-tag break between 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST to 5 PM EST / 2 PM PST. While the trial may continue and players can tag each other, mod-led threads such as questions and investigations will be on hold.

Finally, we have a voting page for characters to vote on the culprit! Please be sure that your vote is in by the time trial finishes at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST, unless you've spoken with the mods previously, as we'll begin tallying votes on the dot. Voting is mandatory for Spacecoast, acting as our weekly activity check in this game.

Good luck!

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QUESTIONS INVESTIGATION REQUESTS BODY CHECK EVIDENCE TURN-IN INVESTIGATIONS EXAMINE EVIDENCE LOCATIONS STATUSES PROFILES SUPPLY SHOP

Comments

DAHUT

[dropoffs]

[ stationed at the furthest end of the conference hall's stage appears to be an autopsy table brought from someplace else, where a box of sterile gloves have been set at the foot of the table.

central to the table, a white sheet has been respectfully drawn across a form. ]

[egodist]

[removes sheet

no respect

mods what've we got]

[dropoffs]

[ at first disrespectful glance, scien will find a headless, handless, bottomless torso that is soaked in blood.

well, that's fun. ]

[egodist]

[ . . . .

the anger spikes and—compared to before, stays there for a few long moments before it disappears. uh oh.

alright, is. is this torso clothed. is there anything to notice on what's there besides what's..... missing i'm going to fucking kill aki]

[inequals]

[ I think we have deemed it necessary to take it to the body so Rodya is just swinging around over here to look at Dahut's chonked body I suppose!!

As a person who is experienced in Axes, but also ostensibly Swords, Katanas, Oversized Nails & Hammers, and Weird Pitchfork Chainsaws (listen), could she get an approximation of which of these weapons could have feasibly been the cause of Dahut's injuries?

She also has her axe in-person right now, which is somewhat larger than a fire axe-ish; can we estimate smaller or larger blade, more curved or flatter blade, etc?

Or you know, it could just be a match and we can airlock me right now that's cool too. ]

[dropoffs]

[ with rodya's experience she will be able to rule out anything particularly large in size that would have an easy time with this (including her axe, no airlock for you!!!). as she is having a look at the chonked body to compare with her weapon mind palace, she may notice that the severed area has cuts indicative of sawing, chopping and hacking. there are multiple starts at sawing through the bone before managing to get through it, leaving it jagged. ]

[inequals]

[ It's not too late......

Wow yikes though wtf. Do the serrations look like they would've happened with a... well, serrated blade, or more like hacking away with a straight edge repeatedly until it finally gets through kind of deal? ]

bruise check

[ravenry]

[ i assume scien i wrote science first out of habit i assume scien is in the background being annoying

she will compare the dent in frying pan against the bruise in dahut's shoulder. how does it look? ]

[dropoffs]

[ They are not similar. As Shouxue looks at the dent and the bruise side by side, the bruise on Dahut's shoulder is round while the dent is moreee narrow. ]

wound check vs bloody galley knife

[uncoincidental]

[sheba is going to wave scien over to supervise first, but then she'll bring the bloody knife from the galley over to compare it to the wounds to see if it's the right shape/size to have made them. she is not cutting or stabbing him or desecrating the body, but she's also familiar with weaponry wounds because #jrpglife so...]

[egodist]

[he will allow it he's just on standby]

[dropoffs]

[ sheba will come up to compare the bloody galley knife to the wounds on the little shreklet's body.

unfortunately, due to the melting along the edges of the galley knife (its handle is also warped from heat), this check is inconclusive. it's also still bloody in sheba's hand if she's not using a glove or a cloth or something. ]

[uncoincidental]

[


oh honestly i thought the gloves eunhyuk got for everyone for investigations applied to evidence checks too. are there enough for her to use them here

anyway she frowns a bit at the inconclusiveness of the check.]

weapons check

[polliwog]

[ dahut... a moment is spent on being sad, but they only have three hours left.

he'll see if there's are best matches amongst the weapons presented. he's seen injuries and used weapons A Lot so presumably he knows what to look for. ]

[dropoffs]

[ in comparing all of these weapons, sidon will find that none of these weapons match exactly.

the "best matches" which are still not quite exact could be baiken's sword or the bladed-edge of dion's lance. they seem a little too big... for all the messiness/choppiness of the severed areas. ]

[polliwog]

[ hmmm okay and to be clear, how does it compare to a multitool knife? ]

GALLEY SEVERED HAND CHECK

[rosebleed]

[Help did someone already do this i will delete if so, i cannot see it so far

Anyway Rosamund is wondering if there was something condemning the killer on this here hand. She's gonna check fingernails, palm, back of hand, gaping wrist chop, if there's any bruises/cuts/nicks/scars/killer's name written in blood/regular blood/social security numbers/home addresses.

Por favor.]

[dropoffs]

[ hello dear

nothing under the fingernails on on the palm or back of the hand. she looks at the wrist chop and it looks like the wrist bone has been fractured (it clearly has seen better days and took some effort) while the "meat" around it is cut though. ]

[rosebleed]

[pins "EVERT" to my conspiracy board

but wow okay. Does it look like it was broken first, then cut?]

SEVERED HEAD

[egodist]

[comes up with a gameplan with ara to split the dachunks

what's first glance mods]

LEGGY from sim room one

[ravenry]

[ hellooooo

what does it look like besides severed from a body? anything stand out like brokenness? ]

[dropoffs]

[ what kind of brokenness? do you mean bones? if so, how is she telling! ]

[ravenry]

[ yes like bones..... does that mean the leg isn't at any kind of odd angles?

does nothing stand out at first glance ]

[inquired]

[ no head ? smashes phone

actually no its my head to look at now thank you dana ♥ SO whats goin on with poor de-headed dahut ]

[dropoffs]

[ zooms down here with my response:

dahead is severed at the neck, that's for sure. currently, the sweet little shrekling's eyes are shut. ]