WEEK 1: TRIAL

[dropoffs]

WEEK 1 TRIAL     43 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 an enormous lift stationed by the mess hall. Come 11:50, if you aren't on the lift, you will certianly 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 ramp 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 second trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about Viktor'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 PUBLIC CHAT LOCATIONS STATUSES PROFILES SUPPLY SHOP

Comments

VIKTOR

[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. ]

[naeddre]

[okok. she is here. she will wear gloves and very carefully bring the sheet down - what does she see first off? is he all there?]

[dropoffs]

[ she's here! well, the first thing throné will see is that yes, viktor is indeed all there with every limb present that she can see. what a relief (?) after last week.

though he is very dead. where would she like to start looking first? ]

[naeddre]

[I MEAN YEAH IT IS A RELIEF he's still dead but at least he's not just a torso, aki.

anyway. she will start at the head. are his eyes open? lots of blood? none at all because he lost all five liters? what's the general state of his face before i get into specifics.]

[dropoffs]

[ it's the little things! like having all your limbs (?) maybe (?)

for starters no, his eyes are not open. nothing particularly looks amiss at a glance. he is just a very handsome, very dead guy. his eyes have some serious designer bags beneath them, but nothing seems amiss at a first visual pass. none blood on his face, mouth is slack in death.

he could be sleeping (perhaps uncomfortably) if throné didn't already know better. ]

[naeddre]

[nyeh.

okay, she'll check his eyes first, opening them carefully - anything weird or dilated pupils, things like that? she'll also run her fingers through his hair and look for anything in it, pressing at his scalp to see if there's indents or anything amiss.]

[dropoffs]

[ his eye are that of a dead person's when she lifts the lids, so nothing unusual beyond that. no weird dilation or strangeness happening here.

as throné presses into his scalp, running her fingers through his hair, she will notice that there is indeed blood staining the gloves. she presses at his scalp, and will be rewarded (debateable) with finding... a strange indentation... and then a give with her fingers...

there is... a messy hole here, throné. she can feel it. ]

[naeddre]

[i don't want it thank you

there's a second where she pulls her hands back and has to turn her head away and zone out. if you listen really closely you can hear the dramatic square enix lore monologue going on in her head. she doesn't gag or anything at least, she's just Unhappy.

and then she goes back to it! where is the hole located on the scalp? how big is it?]

[dropoffs]

[ i don't want it either but here we are.

she may zone out, viktor isn't going anywhere. doo doo doo...

but when she goes back to it... she will find that the hole is located towards the top left of his skull. how is she measuring this hole...? is she comparing it to her fingers? ]

[naeddre]

[yeah, she'll compare it to like, three fingers width type deal? she's not putting her fingers in the hole. yet. back or front of skull? can she tell if it's a neat hole or a ragged hole? like the difference between a stab or a bludgeon.]

[dropoffs]

[ thank you for not putting fingers in the hole. she will find that the width is somewhere around... two-ish fingers. this hole is more towards the front of the skull.

with her fingers measuring, she can tell that the area is rather ragged, rough. the skull has been breached, and there might be... some matter oozing out onto the gloves between the cracks in the bone the longer she lingers. it does seem like more of a bludgeoning wound than a stab. ]

[naeddre]

[nooooOOO. KEEP YOUR BRAINS IN YOUR HEAD.

okay, well. she'll examine it closely to make sure she isn't missing anything that is caught in the wound, like metal or rubble or idk, glitter. is the matter brain juice. i'm not a doctor i guess throné isn't either so she wouldn't necessarily know that's what it is other than like oh. his brain is leaking.

okay, she'll check his ears and neck - no blood coming out his ears, marks on his neck? what about in his mouth?]

[dropoffs]

[ the brains wish to be freed....... free them...........

there is nothing caught in the wound, it's just a juicy skull wound with some smashed edges of skull bone and brain matter leaking out around the edges and onto her gloves.

checking his ears, she will find that they are ear-ily... fine. they're normal. no blood coming out of them.

as for his neck, she will find what looks to be some kind of older healed over rune on the left side. on the right side... there is a mark that doesn't look as old.

in his mouth... he just has some nice chompers (probably) and a tongue and they look normal for a dead guy. ]

[naeddre]

[if i had a nickel for every time my good cr was melting brain juice i'd have two nickels

stop punning at me i'm going to flip a table - what's the mark on the right side? slash mark, bite mark. hickey. SHARK TEETH?]

[uncoincidental]

[comparing the hammer the cargo bay crew brought back!

does any part of it - the head, the back of it that gets used to remove nails, or the handle - match any of viktor's injuries? she's especially suspicious of the nail-removal part and viktor's head injury, but checking all of them just to be safe.]

[dropoffs]

[ sheba checks all the parts of the hammer against viktor's injuries. any side of the hammer could have caused this injury, including the handle.

checking his hand, there are no signs of bruises because it's purple, but a hammer could have done this.

checking his leg, sheba will find the closely clustered wounds. if she checks all the parts of the hammer, she will find that while the nail-removal end matches the back of the these wounds. ]

[uncoincidental]

[to confirm, "this injury" in the first line means the head injury?

and for the last line, it says "while the nail-removal end matches the back of these wounds" and then cuts off - is there something else about the front that dw ate or was the "while" a typo?]

[dropoffs]

[ yes it is referring to the head injury. head > hand > leg in relation to each paragraph! sorry bout that.

and here you go: "she will find the nail-removal end matches the back of these wounds." ]

[uncoincidental]

[gotcha!! thank you, mods]

other cargo bay items

[polliwog]

[ he spare a moment to be sad, flinching slightly at the sight of viktor like this, but also it's 6:50.

he'll compare all parts of the cane--top, bottom, the middle rod portion and the broken ends--against viktor's various injuries, including the gouges, head injury, and his screws. WAIT ALSO HIS BUSTED HAND i forgot. he'll compare the fire extinguisher to the same injuries. anything that looks like a match? ]

[dropoffs]

[ the crutch is not a match, top or bottom, to any of the injuries that viktor has sustained.

something that can cause blunt damage could have caused the injuries to his back, so theoretically the fire extinguisher could possibly be a match. something smaller did the damage to his busted hand and back of his leg though. ]

weapons check

[polliwog]

[ hello mods, here is item check. sidon will compare the weapons against viktor's body to see what could have possibly done it. this includes the blunt side for any sharp weapons, provided any weapon has one.

will start with just his back injury since it's 8pm ]

[dropoffs]

[ hello fish.

it looks like a blunt object did the damage to the back injury. the following items from the list of items you've given us could have done this:

- shoma's 8 ball
- sidon's prosthetic if he were to use it like a bat
- bradley's rifle if used as a blunt weapon
- lovelace gun if used as blunt weapon
- rodya's axe if she swung the blunt side ]

hand

[riverbeans]

[does viktor's hand look plausibly bloody enough to have left the handprint???]

[dropoffs]

[ the hand not so much, but the matching glove does. ]