RECORDING 15: THE FIFTH TRIAL.

[foundationmods]

The worst has happened... and now you're all here, in the living room where all the trials so far have taken place. As all of you enter, the Vessel is there - Ango, standing as firm and unyielding as ever, waiting for the time when the trial is scheduled to begin.

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.



VICTIMS: Battler Ushiromiya and Giovanni Potage
PEOPLE TO VOTE OUT: 2

WEEK 5 VOTING

Comments

cathreded

[golden_dream]

...

[She writes:

"Weren't there red metal fragments at the scene? What if that was from the ball-sized hole?

Doesn't it make sense to be a small bomb??"]

[finalring]

Didn't that come from the alcohol bottles? They could have caused a short circuit and an explosion.

[golden_dream]

[She writes, furiously:

"It wasn't a gun, was it? What else can make a round hole that size?? Some kind of laser?? Who can do something like that????"]

[white_camellia]

...I have a theory, but no culprit.

I suspect that when the culprit escaped into the wine room, they hid behind the screen. Then, when Giovanni-san went to turn on the light switch, he wound up triggering a short-circuit, incapacitating him. The culprit then pushed the screen on them, and then shot Giovanni-san with his own gun, possibly switching out the ammunition for something explosive before doing so.

[golden_dream]

[She has an epiphany, then writes:

"HOW TALL WAS THAT SCREEN? WHO COULD HIDE BEHIND IT?"]

[zweivoltage]

I think anyone could've hid behind it if they're crouching or kneeling. For most people, an electrical shock would keep them from moving for at least a few minutes.

[golden_dream]

...

[She writes:

"What about the rubber?"]

[finalring]

Almost anyone could hide behind it if you crouch down.

[golden_dream]

[She writes:

"Who can we exclude then? Nanaka-chan?

She did say she could probably fire a gun, but can we definitely exclude her?"]

[zweivoltage]

The screen could've double as protection in case something went wrong...

Re: cathreded

[cw_suicide]

Honestly, the evidence that gets to me the most is the hallways debacle.

It really reads more like someone pulled out a gun from the armory assuming that it would be a standard issue but then it ended up being blanks. So it was like taking pot shots at Giovanni who ended up either confused, angry, or both.

Which could have led to him being led to the wine room. And the culprit hiding behind the screen. Giovanni taking a shot at the screen but when he tried to turn on the lights, got shocked.

[sageking]

[ ...the look on his face; the scenario sounded so completely and utterly stupid up until Gio got shocked ]

[cw_suicide]

It really sounds like someone incompetent with guns, doesn't it?

[sageking]

No, it doesn't.

It sounds like someone incompetent with thinking things through. I've a feeling they know very well how technology and such weaponry works.

[ High INT, low WIS stat. ]

[finalring]

If that's the case, then it's likely that the person that killed Giovanni couldn't have done so unless he was down on the ground.

[cw_suicide]

Exactly.

And they're probably really stupid with guns, even with Foundation training!

[finalring]

The question is how can we check for something like that...?

[oxidegreen]

...Then, someone who isn't really that good with guns after all?

[finalring]

That's what I'm thinking. Maybe they use another weapon as their main defense? And we're not even sure how the fire started in the first place.

[golden_dream]

...

[She writes:

"If it was someone who doesn't know how to use guns, maybe they injured their hands or wrists in firing it?"]

[cw_suicide]

Potentially, but I think people have been looking at Giovanni's case wrong in assuming this was planned. Nothing about it indicates that, unlike Hikage's premeditation.

[golden_dream]

[She writes:

"I just want to find who did it. The day has gone on long enough.

I want to find out then go drink myself stupid a while. Or literally anything else! Let's just find them!"]

[zweivoltage]

Would someone try to shoot with the lights out? I mean, Potage strikes me as naive, not dumb.

And he had his knifebat in the room, according to Gilgamesh... oh. no.

Re: cathreded

[cw_suicide]

Yeeeah.

[zweivoltage]

He might've accidentally electrocuted himself by swinging it into the wires.