FOURTH TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ Well! That's sure something, isn't it? There may or may not be a lot of you excited to get down to business, but Jones does eventually move to collect you all and bring you to the theatre. It's a familiar routine by now, perhaps even comfortingly so given the irregularities of this particular killing.

Two of you gone this week. The elevator is started to feel downright spacious, don't you think?

A shanty, as usual, echoes from the crew of the Dutchman as you enter. The room is the same as it has ever been before you as the elevator settles into position. ]

To yer positions, passengers. Chins up.

[ Three more podiums claimed by the rust and wear.

You have your evidence, and you're going to need it before long. The music outside dies down.

Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

[sivard]

But that's just a one-way change, isn't it? A butterfly can't turn back into a caterpillar.

[this metaphor is going over his head]

[silentscout]

Like a pufferfish then. How it expands real big and then gets small again.

[sivard]

[....hm]

Then I guess there are a couple of questions we need to answer. One, how is this triggered, and two, is it consciously triggered?

[ltcommandroid]

It seems likely that it was triggered by hunger.

[given all the......you know,,,,]

[sivard]

Well, yeah.

But how can we get them to transform here?

[ahelpingpaw]

Couldn't we not do that? That'd be way too dangerous.

[By the sounds of all this Albedo wasn't a novice at fighting, at all. There may be many more fighters here but clearly someone transforming here like it may have happened would be incredibly dangerous]

[scouserer]

For once, I agree in that we shouldn't be provokin' people. Beyond the tenuous correlation to hunger and whatever happened last night...there's nothing else we know about this.

[cethflayn]

[Wow Flayn hates this!!]

We - we ought not do that, what if...

[What if more cw: gore warnings happen]

[jibunwo]

If it is an unconscious change, that seems the most likely catalyst. Especially given this hasn't happened until now, and that is the only clear variable.

[magycks]

Yup.

[ahelpingpaw]

I think I...talked with someone once the Captain wasn't throwing random motives. Like he was aiming at a few of us directly with the stuff he was offering.

Maybe having no food--maybe that's what triggered it.

[In which case wow, did it work ever so wonderfully. Poor Sara and Albedo]

If it was that it may not have been conscious? I guess? Because if you have to starve to trigger it, it doesn't sound like it'd be conscious.

[sivard]

That leaves us with a big problem, though, of not knowing who it could be.

[silentscout]

[CONSIDERING...]

Who ate something before coming here? It's been several days with no food, so everyone except the killer would have rushed to eat something right?

[magycks]

[ literally eating an apple as he speaks ]

[jibunwo]

I didn't, but that was more due to the...

[you know. cw: gore.]

[scouserer]

I...drank some coffee. Nibbled some pancakes. Didn't exactly have an appetite after seein' all that.

[sivard]

I didn't.

[He has told people before he technically doesn't need to eat, though.]

cw: vague mention of emeto

[paucipan]

I didn't. I was keeping an eye on Flayn.

[She only slightly regrets this, because good lord the cw: gore situation is. A lot, and she probably wouldn't have been able to keep it down.]

[ahelpingpaw]

I definitely didn't.

[Not even ketchup. He doesn't want to look at ketchup while picturing the mess in the piano lounge]

[thisaroma]

I had some eggs and stuff.

[ Did he go like, immediately from the crime scene over to the cafe for breakfast? ...Aside from washing his hands in between, yes. ]

[hellahighwater]

Who the fuck could eat after all that?

[ It's been days but...Chloe's appetite dried up. ]

[deathmagnetic]

I did.

[ he could handle eating right after seeing most things most people couldn't tbh ]

[leaveittomother]

I grabbed some food to eat on the way.

[dokkalfheimr]

I didn't.

[queceracera]

[Much like Magica, Scott is literally eating right now. He's peeling salmon off salmon nigiri and feeding it to Gideon, who is also here, then eating the rice.]