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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2021-02-06 01:03 am
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FIRST TRIAL

[ Eventually, time seems to run out. Davy Jones takes a lap around the boat, rather tersely instructing everyone to gather in the theatre.

Once everyone is inside, he herds all of you onto the stage, which has been cleared save for the controls to the elaborate pipe organ built into the room. ]


Step lively, passengers! There's a long ride ahead of ye!

[ And once everyone is on that stage, Davy Jones sits at his organ and begins to play. It's not a familiar song to any of you, and it doesn't sound kind, but it does sound wildly complicated. Or it would be, for someone who can't play with his many tentacles.

As the piece begins, the stage begins to descend. Well, at least the part you're all on, as well as where Jones sits at the organ. And it keeps descending, at least through a few floors before long. The elevator shaft is dark, the music echoing until it fades, the controls apparently too far from the pipe organ above before long. Jones sits in silence as the cramped ride continues. Dull bulbs set into the wall provide just enough illumination to tell where you all are, but the walls are thick steel.

You have to have descended several floors, you imagine, when light starts to creep in at the edges of the platform, along with voices. They sound distant and distorted, but the first thing you hear when the platform breaks into the trial room is men singing, rough and distant.

You can also see the... surprisingly somber room, considering where you are. The walls and floor are all made of glass, allowing you a view of the sea as the ship you now stand on the very lowest deck of pushes through the water. Lights illuminate enough to tell that it is indeed water out there, but the water is perhaps not the most interesting thing out there in the dark.

Below the ship, illuminated by a ghostly aura, sails (for lack of a more fitting word) The Flying Dutchman. If you look closely, sailors more monster than anything else man the deck, and seem to be the source of the song. Davy Jones casts the ship a sad look, then stops a foot on the floor and the song quiets. ]


Take your places, passengers. Ye have this chance alone to find the killer among yer number.

[ In the center of the room stands a circle of sturdy metal podiums. Carmen's seems to be almost... decades older than the rest, coated in rust and barnacles. In the center hangs a circle of screens, currently switched off. ]

If there are questions, I am going anywhere no sooner than the lot of you.

[ Jones moves to look out the window, leaving you all to talk amongst yourselves.

Welcome to your first trial. ]
jibunwo: (light shines from above)

....mods, banana check please

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[i just wanted to say 'banana check']
jibunwo: (this haze of doubt is melting away)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't--it didn't appear bruised or anything, either. Whoever left it there likely did so very recently.
scouserer: (02)

[personal profile] scouserer 2021-02-06 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
What, so they just decided to have a light snack after murdering someone?
jibunwo: (with one word you saved me)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently not, since it wasn't even eaten.
deathmagnetic: (12)

[personal profile] deathmagnetic 2021-02-06 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...then the chance has increased for it to have been left there on purpose. As a red herring.
jibunwo: (light shines from above)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
An extremely stupid red herring, should it be one at all. I would hesitate to dismiss it entirely, but perhaps keep it in mind while we evaluate the rest of the situation. For all I know, we may have to revisit it later.
deathmagnetic: (3)

[personal profile] deathmagnetic 2021-02-06 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only natural we may. Every single little piece of evidence will need to be examined and re-examined closely if we want to leave this farce of a trial alive.
scythegun: (GRIN ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2021-02-06 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[absolutely nothing of value to add, just trying not to laugh at the joke]
deathmagnetic: (46)

[personal profile] deathmagnetic 2021-02-06 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A valiant effort indeed in a situation that's absolutely bananas ]
scythegun: (INDIFFERENT ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2021-02-06 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s]
calx: (Twenty-Two)

[personal profile] calx 2021-02-06 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Banana's oxidize within 30 minutes to an hour. The face that it has not, assuming this is not a variant of banana that I have not encountered before, leads me to believe the murder took place very recently.

[ Actually did Lelouch take the banana with him, how is it looking now if so! ]
jibunwo: (with one word you saved me)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[who]

[he left the banana in the library like a fool because he wasn't about to carry a banana around on the off-chance it meant something]
calx: (Twenty-Three)

[personal profile] calx 2021-02-06 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Alas banana we hardly knew ye.... ]
silentscout: (49)

[personal profile] silentscout 2021-02-06 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If anyone killed in the last hour, they either didn't shower or their hair is still wet.
calx: (Eleven)

[personal profile] calx 2021-02-06 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
We could check for that, yes. Although those with short hair may have dried by now.
silentscout: (14)

[personal profile] silentscout 2021-02-06 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
My hair doesn't fully dry in an hour. Mostly-dry, but not fully.

[So anyone with hair longer than his could be suspect if their hair is wet.]
calx: (Nineteen)

[personal profile] calx 2021-02-06 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nod. Albedo's hair certainly wouldn't dry in that time because it's so fluffy. ]

Would you like to check? Or I can perform the inspection if you would rather not interact with the others.
silentscout: (59)

[personal profile] silentscout 2021-02-06 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[HM...]

I can check. I can smell any wet hair too, I have a good nose.