RECORDING 3: THE FIRST TRIAL

[foundationmods]

The worst has happened... and now you're all here, in the living room where you first met Todd. As all of you enter, the Vessel is there - glowering at all of you, still missing the arm Dazai shorn from him with his touch.

On one of the tables away from the center is a small enclosed box entitled 'VOTES', with slips of paper nearby and a pen. It's sufficiently away from what will be the 'main' action, but not enough to really give anyone complete privacy as they vote.

Once everyone is inside, the doors automatically shut and lock themselves, leaving you trapped in here with the Vessel...and each other.

One of you is a murderer...however, in this game, the guilty do not need to be voted out. As long as there are enough people voted out that matches the victims...then it will be accepted.

...But, can you really let someone get away with murder...?

The choice...is up to you.

VICTIM: OLYMPIA
PEOPLE TO VOTE OUT: 1

WEEK 1 VOTING

Comments

[cw_suicide]

And you can show quite a number of signs without bleeding very much at all.

It's very subjective, but we have precious little to go on.

[eyeforai]

So where are you saying they got hit?

[ghostricked]

It could be due to being naked or maybe she was nervous seeing naked women.

[golden_dream]

What? There was blood at the scene? Or something else?

...At any rate, I have nothing like that as a power. Nor have I really heard of anyone who does.

I remember seeing Officer Date with a bullet wound from when he shot himself, but that's about it.

[lightreaching]

[ just. Gestures to her. Girl's sweating, right now. ]

[cw_suicide]

[he will confirm and deny nothing.]

[noneforall]

[Smelling nice and clean with a faint whiff of oil, but Sissel ran into him at Scorpiobotgate, so.

I almost forgot but the usual shoes, also.]

[tangentlion]

[many kinds! Bruises and scrapes on the knuckles of both hands and crescent-shaped excoriations in his palms. Mostly symmetrical, except for a more linear wound on the meaty part of his left palm and a much larger wound on the medial knuckle of his right hand]

[golden_dream]

Why was it there...

Everyone's assuming it was a joke or taunt.

[cw_suicide]

My initial thought would be "the head".

That would fit with the almost petty way the murderer removed and used Olympia-chan's head.

Headwounds can bleed quite a lot, but not necessarily quickly onto the ground.

[golden_dream]

I think it'd be best if we press that point. That needs an answer.

[kaliedoscopes]

There was blood on the tip of the screwdriver I found in the ballroom, but that's not indicative of the severity of the wound the culprit suffered on its own. And as far as I know we didn't discover any other blood.

[tsunderine]

[hm.

just gonna narrow her eyes in a 'don't fuck this up, Dazai-san']

[oxidegreen]

You're free to try if you think you can get an answer out of him.

[She sure can't!]

[tangentlion]

[he examines them, then hands them back]

These are the gloves I used when I was working on Wednesday. I put them back after I was done.

[accessorytomurder]

...Nanaka? Are you...

[golden_dream]

Is that someone from the Foundation?

[deadanimemom]

[It's pretty obvious she thinks this is a waste of time, but she's not going to say anything else. If crossing one more thing off the list will help people to figure this out, then she isn't going to do anything to prevent that.]

[cw_suicide]

[he is trying his besto, okok]

[baitless]

Do you really think someone who decided to go through with the murder was actually considering the state of the plumbing and how it would affect the rest of us, though...

[eyeforai]

[Does the linear wound on the left hand and the larger wound on the knuckle of the right hand look just barely scabbed over or...?]

[ghostricked]

There was a little blood by the sigil too.

[hitscans]

It would have been good to make note of the healing magic that everyone who's capable of can do.

For the record, my biotic fields only heal physical injuries.

[golden_dream]

Figures...

I've had this in my head for a while. We're all assuming it was a joke or something that the head was in the lamp.

What if there was a reason it 'had' to be in the lamp?

[tsunderine]

[YOUR BEST IS VERY, VERY, WORRYING]