WEEK 3: TRIAL

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WEEK 3 TRIAL     36 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 fourth trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about Margaret and Sora's murders. 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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Comments

[psynchroneyes]

[ Hmmm...

Snaps a pic of the bloodstains and trail leading up to it! Does this lead anywhere else or is that the end of this particular clue? ]

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[ Dion, looking for the pathing of the trail, will see that they are may be coming from the furthest stairway away from the entrance (Mizuki is on the closest stairway). At a glance, the large shards are not reflective. Upon crouching to the dust, he will find the dust isn't super fine like powder. It's coarser. He cannot cannot pick up the shape because the dust outlines what looks like a partial footprint.

Guy personally checking the aisles will find that the seats lining closest to the stairway (closest to entry) have speckles of blood. He will also see as he crosses through the aisles that the furthest stairway does indeed have a blood trail going along it and down to the ground floor.

Eventually, he will meet Mizuki at the back aisle which is where the blood trail connects from both stairways. They both will see it from their respective sides (they are on opposite sides of the aisle). This seat aisle is a bit of a mess. Some of the seats look like they took a beating and there are some things on the floor. ]

[agamid]

[ okay, so just to be clear, there's a trail of blood leading from the entrance up the stairs closest to the entrance, and then down the other stairs to this puddle? not that he can see the entire trail, but guessing based on what guy and mizuki have said.

watch dion stick his hand right on the dust lmao... no i'm jk, he will put his foot next to the partial footprint and take a picture with his IRIS. ]

Amalthea... might you have a napkin or something similar?

[ is it possible for him to take any of the dust onto a napkin without disrupting the footprint? if not, he'll just take some from the corner to do the least amount of damage ]

[mansplains]

[ oh yes guy is taking pictures of the blood trails while spoon asks what i wanted to ask ]

[ anything else to be found in the seats? ]

[psynchroneyes]

[ sipp asking what i wanted to ask i will proceed depending on answer ]

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[ What has been seen from all three characters in regards to the blood trail: there is a blood trail at the beginning of the entryway that leads to and along the closest stairs, across the topmost seating aisle, then along the furthest stairs, and to the cinema stage. It ends there.

Amalthea will come over with some small tools to scoop and a plastic bag. he can decide wherever to collect. It's all the same.

There... Are some things on the floor and also some beaten up seats. Would we like to take a closer look here? What do we mean by "anything else to be found in the seats?" Maybe I'm misunderstanding. ]

[agamid]

[ he's collectin' oh lawd he's collectin'...

anyway, he will ask for amalthea's help to gather the shards and the crystals. i'm assuming these will require evidence tl, but do the crystals seem to be whole? is there a countable amount?

he'll also take a look at the seats closes to the puddle. is there any blood/damage on the seats? ]

[mansplains]

[ yeah guy was looking to see if there was more damage from the seats, or things wedged in or under the seats. you know how like popcorn and tickets get lost in the seats or left in cupholders? like that but with murder ]

[psynchroneyes]

[ Yeye, what sippo said. There's two of them so they can both doublecheck to see if there's anything amiss with any other of the seats. ]

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[ Amalthea will collect the two shards and the crystals.

The crystals are crystals and Dion sees crystals which will be in detail when he goes to evidence later. When he looks to the seats near this area, he will see blood speckles similar to the ones near the puddle.

As Guy looks through the seats, deep look, he will see there is nothing lost between the seats when playing with the sitting portion of the theater chairs or in the cupholders. In terms of the damage itself, he will see that the beaten ones are torn with shallow cuts at the top. Some in this damaged bunch are more damaged than the rest.

Mizuki will see the same thing as Guy as she also knocks against whatever it is on the ground near this section of the aisle. ]

[agamid]

[ why do i dislike the word speckles here

but okay, takes a picture of the SPECKLES ]

These items will likely require closer examination at the hall.

[ looks under the seats as well in case anything has rolled under, and at the ceiling out of paranoia ]

[mansplains]

[ is mizuki knocking against a mysterious item we haven't seen yet or it just the crystal/shards/suspicious powder/etc ]

[ also sorry im a bit confused on the speckles, are they like along the seats on the innermost seats as if someone was like kinda spraying blood as they walked or something? ]

[psynchroneyes]

—Hm?

[ I will acknowledge MYSTERY THING and so Mizuki will bend down to check what it is. ]

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[ They're drops around not in a pattern that matters, but scattered on the cinema stage ground floor seats facing the big screen. It's more that there might have been conflict here and blood flew sometimes. Same can be said for the blood drips found along the chairs along the close to entry stairway that Guy saw earlier.

I read the trauma in your words and I understand. You're rewarded with Dion will not find more under the seats in the cinema stage area. There is nothing up in the high ceiling.

Guy and Mizuki are not where Dion is, so everything Mizuki and Guy are seeing is different. Dion's at cinema stage that is the ground floor. Guy and Mizuki are at the back-most aisle at the top of the stairs.

As Guy checks to see if it's a crystal or whatever on the floor, he will find that it's a broken sphere-shaped item and shards next to it. Mizuki also looks down after ogling the suspiciously torn seats a little bit to find a partial footprint nearby. ]

[agamid]

[ thank you for this

okay, dion will move on from this area. are there seats on the other side of the stairs as well? is it like seats - stairs - seats - stairs - seats, or are there only seats in between the stairs?

if there are more seats he will move through those rows as well but i am getting the sense we're kind of wrapped up ]

Have you found anything else?

[mansplains]

There's more here, at the back. [ taking a picture of the broken sphere and splatters before i forget. he will then examine it a bit closer, do the shards look like they're from whatever broke? can he tell what it is? ]

[ if mizuki gets too close he will scream like a loser ]

[psynchroneyes]

[ Mizuki WILL get too close, thank you. ]

Wait, it's only partial... Ugh.

[ snapping a pic of that anyway! ]

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[ (stairs) (all the seat rows in between) (stairs)
and the cinema stage ground floor has its ground seating rows.

Dion does the same thing as Guy, will see that there are blood speckles/droplets on the seats closest to entry way stairway, then will reach the top where the other two are with only those torn up seats worth looking at. He can see that the top are torn, with some more torn up than others.

Guy can get a closer look at evidence, but it kind of looks like a moon with craters. Mizuki gets photo. ]

[agamid]

[ okaay! ]

I think we've gleaned as much as we can.

[mansplains]

[ is there anything else, please have mercy on us ]

[ also yeah he's screaming and jumping away, that 1 i rolled lasts the whole trial baby ]

[psynchroneyes]

—?!

[ jesus, guy.

BUT YEAH WE ARE DONE..... ]

[dropoffs]

[ Nothing you can see with your eyes. Back into trial to deliver things... ]