Week 3, Saturday

[foundationmods]

This time, when everyone files into the studio, they aren't escorted to their seats. Instead, they are sent to podiums up on the stage arrange in a semi-circle. Everyone can see each other, and everyone is also visible to the cameras. Off to stage right is a jury box with 12 prinnies in it, all in various states of 'fancy dress'. One is wearing a suit top, another a blouse, one a huge Colonial-era wig. To stage left at box 0 is Dazai's seat, where he will be spending most of the trial, but he will get up to move around at times. And in the very center is a picture of Aqua. Once everyone is in their spots, one of the prinnies will hit a gavel against the podium in front of it, signaling the start of the trial.

It's time to find Aqua's killer.


EDIT: voting link

Comments

[odasaku]

I don’t know. It wouldn’t make sense now that you said it.

[ or... ]

Maybe it’s to trick us. Or maybe they... didn’t work alone?

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Wait... so it could have been planned by multiple people?

[That's a distressing idea.]

[odasaku]

I don’t know. Maybe. It’s not an uncommon thing for two or more people to work together to bring someone down. Especially if Aqua is as strong as people said.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Then... what would their roles have been?

[odasaku]

Probably... one person was responsible for taking Aqua’s life and the other helped hide the body.

[ he grimaces. ]

This is all hypothetical, though. I could be wrong.

[dereban]

Do you think that maybe. . .

The person who killed her dragged her outside and then the accomplice was the one who carried her onto the roof?

[ so basically

the killer could have been someone who didn't have an ability to carry them up there? ]

[odasaku]

...Maybe, yeah.

[ he sighs. ]

You guys said she drank the antifreeze tea, right? It just didn’t kill her like the culprit thought it would so they chose to go with plan b.

[dereban]

Yeah.

I think the culprit is someone who didn't know what the antifreeze did. So that would at least rule out myself and Ingway. Ingway because he's familiar with chemicals and would have probably went with something different and myself since I actually spoke a little bit on antifreeze yesterday.

[ just saying ]

[odasaku]

You know a lot of trivia, huh?

[ just a random comment. oda looks down, thinking. ]

Killing with poison—[ there’s a pained expression on his face, the memory of mitsuru’s death still fresh in his mind. ] ...it’s not always that convenient. They probably got inspired from...what happened on Wednesday.

[houndumb]

I still think it's dumb to think they don't know antifreeze just 'cause. How long've we all been in this stupid world again??

[houndumb]

Maybe they didn't want to hit themselves on the ceiling 'cause they killed her inside??

[#helping]

[odasaku]

The ceiling isn’t that low.

[houndumb]

Yeah, well, it's probably freakin' hard if you're dealing with a corpse, too!

[visionem]

I have almost done that before.

[houndumb]

What, hit yourself on the ceiling while juggling dead people??

[Should this be a topic of casual conversation.]

[visionem]

[ Nora oh my god. ]

...I have not juggled a deceased individual. But I have almost hit the ceiling when indoors before.

[houndumb]

Well, have you at least juggled anything else?? Just bein' bad at floating indoors doesn't help.

[visionem]

No, should I have juggled something before?

[ He's deep in thought, as he missed out on this wonderful experience of juggling? ]

[houndumb]

What the hell is even the point of floating around all day if ya don't float some stuff around properly. Once we get outta here you better juggle some Prinnies or something.

[Maybe not Prinnies. But they're off-topic now, RIP.]

[visionem]

[ Thinks about this, then smiles. ]

If we are able to group them like before than that should be easy to accomplish.

[dereban]

. . .

[ hm, bad ]

I'll ask Dazai.

[odasaku]

[ oda nods. ]

It’ll help a lot.

[shortstacked]

So they could have had help? If that's the case then that definitely makes this more complicated.

[odasaku]

Yeah. Because if the person that killed her didn’t have the ability to use some sort of psychic power, then it doesn’t really help us narrow it down at all.

[shortstacked]

Yeah, it doesn't. It just raises more questions.