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trusthell2017-02-25 12:00 pm
wordsmithery) wrote in trusthell2017-02-25 12:00 pm
Take Responsibility.
| The time allotted for investigation this week is a bit longer than normal - not due to anything done wrong on the part of the Apprentices, but perhaps due to a basic understanding that two corpses are going to be decidedly more difficult to handle than one. However, at the end of the time period you've been given, the elevator is waiting for you, as cold and sterile as always in its journey up to the courtroom; you're down to almost half of your original number, and if anything is going to indicate that this shows no signs of stopping, it's probably this week. The deceased have had three more join their numbers since you were here last - Gold, Varric, and Viktor's portraits have been greyed-out and set atop their spots in the podium circle, the podiums themselves draped in black fabric. As always, the lectern above stands empty. Whether he's with you or not, however, once everyone has found their place in the circle, the Wordsmith's voice can be heard throughout the room. "Welcome back. Two more Apprentices are missing from your number today, and I have little doubt that weighs heavily on your minds. Balanced and Capricious have been lost to you, so that the guilty may have a chance to leave the academy and possibly even gain something otherwise impossible to attain. If you wish for your fallen Apprentices to receive justice in death, then you know what to do: yet again, hold the guilty accountable." Sixteen Apprentices remain. However many leave here at the end of the day has yet to be seen. |
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[Silver stands at his podium bearing a good amount of fruit and eggs on several plates. Weavile is with him and helping him carry some of it; usually his Pokémon aren't present at the trials, but the Pokémon absolutely refused to leave him alone this week.]
Come eat before we start this stuff. There's no point in going hungry.
[...This is an offer made in complete ignorance of the god damn brain matter, but he tried.]
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I should have made curry for them.
[ Curry's the one food he looks like he doesn't have here tbh.]
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[he will go over, also in ignorance of the fucking brain matter]
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[ Mikazuki is always up for eating, why not. ]
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[She'll gladly take some fruit, this looks like it'll be a Day.]
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Thank you, Silver.
[...she probably won't be able to eat any of it, but.]
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Thanks, Silver.
cw: mention of brain matter
On his front side, he appeared to take a lot of trauma and many of his ribs were broken. There were also many other injuries he had on him that may have been from falling down the stairs.
Also… he had blood and what appears to be matter from a rather violent head injury on his clothes. However, Varric himself had no open wounds nor a head wound of any sort so it was not his blood… or matter from his own head injury.
Lastly-- [She holds out a tuft of black fur] -- Varric was holding on to this. I’m unsure what it’s from or who it may be from.
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This was right in the area where Varric was found. I'm not sure what it is, but it looked awfully out of place in that area.
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Who knows if that'll be useful.
... Also she's glancing over at the islands of death near Hanyuu and Lusamine. Like she wants to scoot over there but is hesitating a bit.
But for her first evidence, she holds up Viktor's cell phone ]
Anyone know how to turn this thingie on?
[ Because she sure doesn't so uh. Missing evidence. ]
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[ so. she's from 2003...when these sorts of phones weren't really a thing...but she knows what power buttons are?! so she's going to press that to turn it on. ]
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mods!
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Well, Hanyuu would prefer having someone there, rather than the reminder of Gold's absence.]
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cw: brain matter
next, she puts varric's room key and a note found in his room out for others to look at as well, if they so choose. ]
I found these in Varric-san's room. The door to his room was unlocked. The bathroom was also open, and the shower was covered in blood and--and whatever that is on the hammer.
[ she already feels sick. ]
I found a note written to Varric-san from Viktor-san on Varric-san's desk. It says:
"Varric, let's go to the bar for a couple of drinks at 10pm tonight. I want to hear more about your world and show you some pictures of my hometown.
Viktor."
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Well, I did notice a few things in the music room. The trombone was lying on the floor and was dented rather badly, but it had no blood on it -- oh and the piano was in quite a very bad shape, including the keys.
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Please tell me poor friggin' Viktor died and was found fully clothed.
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[THANKS GUZMA]
Black Fur check
[And if notable changes have been made. Said by the girl who how has four outfits, but details.]
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but we are lookin at you gangrel.... ]
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MODS
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QUESTION
Does anyone know who made the creampuffs at the after party? If we can narrow it down to that, or at least anyone who knows who can make creampuffs here, then we can narrow down our list more that way.
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[...Ah.]
Gold taught me. These, however...the wrappers alone let us know they're from reheatable ones. Just about anyone could make them, should they follow the instructions.
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questions / bat herding maybe (get it?)
Okay so we've looked that the phone and the creampuffs, but does anyone know what's up with the watercolor paints? They were still a little wet, so they were used last night.
[ Hell, probably into the early morning. ]
... Or that glitter Hanyuu mentioned, I don't think that's come up? Or was there anything else up with the music room? Do we think for certain it was really the crime scene for Viktor's death?
[ After all, they've had some rom confusion before ]
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SHOES/CLOTHES CHECK
[ orihime herself is free of bloodstains and glitter, ftr! ]
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1/2
I-I...I can't do this anymore.
[ And Sportacus might want to back up because there's going to be a swirl of black energy rushing forth from Killia himself that doesn't exactly look friendly.]
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I'll do it.
[ Time to confront the demon overlord.]
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SELECTION.
As peculiar as the situation this time may be, I am sure you need not be reminded how to have the guilty be held accountable for the sake of your fallen fellow Apprentices.
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> Individualistic
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ACCOUNTABILITY.
And then the pit in the center of the room illuminates itself, the bright light pouring forth from it driving back the darkness in its stark white brilliance, and after everyone's eyes have adjusted to the shift in contrast it becomes obvious that Killia is no longer among you, his disappearance made all the more evident by the sudden presence of the now-familiar soft grinding noise emanating from the door far below Podium 28.
After a moment, Killia (and it is Killia, despite everything that's happened at this trial it very much is still Killia down in the pit) emerges from the area behind that door; he doesn't make his way to the center of the circle - that seems to be a mistake, walking to the center, the center is where you die, but at the same time the walls aren't much safer, either. What happened to Kyrie and Kira was enough to prove that, wasn't it?
The entity in the pit makes its entrance from two fronts this time - from above Podiums Nine and Fifteen; Fifteen is the more immediate threat, and Killia's first instinct is to move, to get away from it, his wings flaring out from his back in response to the adrenaline flow through his system.
He darts back toward the wall, jumps up and kicks off of it, and he glides.
It's only a temporary solution and he knows it, as soon as he's touched down in that area near Podium 27, but it's bought him some time to think, to get a better look at the arena and verify whether there really is nothing that can be done; the entity itself seems to be highly agitated today, possibly irritated by the sudden quickness of its target, possibly just not wanting to deal with Killia's relative unpredictability with regards to what he's capable of and the presence of Killidia complicating matters on that front. Either way, it seems to want to get this over with quickly; it wastes no time in spreading quickly towards Killia and attempting to grab at him with one of those long tendrils.
But Killia seems to realize that in order to grab, it does need to solidify at least somewhat; when he strikes at it, it's the sort of hit that's swift and hard with almost no followthrough, all the power in it put into the point of connection.
Bluntly put, he just straight-up punches the damn thing in one of the few reasonably small spots that might possibly affect it, and he's grimly pleased when it recoils just the slightest bit.
It's not a particularly good strategy, mind - it's one that's going to prolong the fight, surely, but it's not one that's going to end it; there's too much of the entity around for that. But the fact of the matter is that Killia isn't so much determined to win as he is to hold his own - he isn't a strategist or a tactician, but he can fight, and that's what matters, and he's not going to go down without at least putting in a decent showing.
So he strikes, and he strikes, and he manages to keep the thing off him well enough for several long, difficult seconds; the shadows in the pit withdraw a bit, seeming to regroup, before surging forward in an attempt to surround.
Killia shifts back, attempting to jump up and kick off the wall again, trying to put more space between him and it; however, that's not a trick that's going to work a second time - one of those tendrils arcs up immediately after he's in the air, poised to come down at him from above, while he can't change course- ]
Goodnight, Individualistic.
[The Wordsmith's voice sounds out as the darkness slams down on Killia's back; it's difficult to say whether it pierces him or not, the angle isn't good enough to see that, but either way it drives him down into the rest of the shadows below - they envelop him quickly, almost instantaneously, before flattening out against the ground and returning to the normal pattern of gently flowing against the floor.
There's a bit of a pause before the Wordsmith speaks again.]
That's all there is for you to do here today; you've done well.
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That was almost entertaining, she thinks. If it had been anyone else, maybe it would have been nice, but...
Oh well. Lusamine's out of there as soon as it's over.]
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