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

[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.]

cw: vague mention of emeto

[silentscout]

Flayn...

[He's just. Connecting some dots in his mind and suddenly looking in her direction.]

Flayn, did you eat this morning?

CW: Emeto

[cethflayn]

[She shakes her head.]

No...when I woke up this morning, I saw the food in the Jimmy Buffet and got scared. If it was there, that meant someone had died...I could not just stuff myself while someone lay dead on the ship!

[Also, the bile she threw up is literally just bile. Maybe a little red from eating two or three gummy fish last night, but that's it.]

[silentscout]

...okay.

[Well at least that all matches up and he doesn't have to directly accuse her of vore crimes.]

[cethflayn]

[Thank you for not saying it out loud or she'd literally break down crying]

[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. ]

[thisaroma]

[ HE WAS HUNGRY OKAY ]

[silentscout]

We haven't eaten in three days. It's important to know who did and didn't eat.

I did eat, by the way. Before we found the bodies.

[Who ran right to the buffet, it is him.]

[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.]

[silentscout]

[Scott your eating habits.]

[queceracera]

[Listen....... The cat wanted to eat!!! Gideon craves the sea meats!!!]