WEEK 2 - TRIAL

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TRIAL

The morning seemed so far away yesterday - yet, it also seems too soon when morning comes and you are all yet again ushered to the third floor by The Lady. The Captain is there, in all of his....glory? It's hard to tell.

The doors close, and he speaks up, this time reclining on one of the couches in the room.

"You know the drill - Since one of you have died during the game, it's your responsibility to try and vote someone out. You have six hours to talk about it, but then-"

He taps on a box on the coffee table in front of him, labeled 'VOTES'.

"-you'll have to put in your vote so someone can be punished. You all saw what happens when you refuse to play, right?"

He leans back, placing his hands behind his head.

"So get to it."

As he says that, music begins to play in the room...


VICTIM: YOSHI NANASE

27 GUESTS REMAIN.

Comments

[purrtagonist]

[Ripley mentions monsters, and Akira speaks up]

I didn't see the scene of the crime. Do we know which monster did this? Was it the Jorogumo again?

[dereban]

It sure as hell didn't fucking look like it. There weren't any spider webs.

[purrtagonist]

[giving Inaba a concerned, sympathetic look, before he returns to business mode]

Was there anything at the scene similar to the spider webs? Some kind of. . . identifying evidence?

cw cannibalism???? and gore mentions

[dereban]

Nope, just a lot of gore and body parts looking like someone fucking attempted to eat him.

[purrtagonist]

[HONESTLY. . . post-Jorogumo? that doesn't surprise him]

. . . Granz-san looked like he had been eaten by the Jorogumo too, right?

[dereban]

It's a different type of eating, though, I think. Like. . . he wasn't drained of fluids, they just.

Chewed on his insides. [ pointedly avoiding going on the details ]

[purrtagonist]

Right. Because spiders eat differently than wolves do, presuming that Shirou is right about it being the wolf monster.

[dereban]

If it isn't, then I have honestly no idea what kind of monster it is. . .

cw gore mention

[diesifkilled]

I think it was the ghost dog we heard about last week. The intestines looked like they'd been chewed on.

[purrtagonist]

[YEEEEARGH. . . m-makes a face]

Intestines aren't chew toys. . .

[diesifkilled]

That's... putting it lightly.

[purrtagonist]

These monsters really aren't pulling punches when it comes to brutality, huh. . .

[diesifkilled]

I'm worried it's only going to get worse from here if we don't catch them.

[purrtagonist]

That's because it probably will.

[folds his arms, fingers digging tightly into his skin]

[justfists]

Did we get a name for it...?

[diesifkilled]

I don't think we did. Or if we did, I didn't hear it.

[latebluemer]

I hate to say it, but the Jorogumo and even the Cleaner's kills were much... cleaner than this.

[The pun is totally the fault of the mun because she can't resist terrible things.]

Nanashi wouldn't have been able to fight back enough to need this much -- this. Were they making a point, or...

[messianic]

[...He grimaces.]

Or... could they just not control themselves? I'm still not entirely sure I understand how far this "monster" thing goes.

[purrtagonist]

. . . that's been my assumption, but Minato brings up a good point. We don't know how these monsters work, or what the possession is like mechanically.

[latebluemer]

We know they were probably in control of themselves before and after, because they're in disguise, and because they dressed up the body. Unless someone else did that.

[Hm.]

[purrtagonist]

I doubt it was someone else, but-- these sounds like questions for our sleepy host.

[jerks a thumb at the captain]

[latebluemer]

He said no, not this time. That no one else touches the body unless the killer asks.

[Which means that it might be something they have to deal with in the future. Great preview.]

[messianic]

[A quiet nod.]

It'd be really dangerous to try to pick out who did it based off of motive or how they're acting if we don't know how the monsters act while they're monsters...

It could be totally different.

[Could be just a mild brainwashing, or total ravenous murder, or... well, he has no idea. How much can the monsters think? They clearly have been targeting certain people, so...?]

[purrtagonist]

[Akira's gaze flickers towards the sleeping captain, before he rolls his eyes]

Wish me luck getting anything useful out of that lazy bum, yeah?

[TIME TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS]

[messianic]

[DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID

but

all Minato's got is:]

Good luck.