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

cw hand

[bathymetric]

[ this is a new development! the hand is. um. developing. into some kind of white powder. ]

cw hand

[scythegun]

[UM. OKAY. I GUESS.]

Well, that's new.

[Just gonna. Take a few steps back?? Is there anything that seems to be causing this??]

cw hand

[bathymetric]

[ Honestly? It's a little like decomposition. If things decomposed into, you know. Chalk, going by the smell. ]

cw hand

[scythegun]

[Oh, that is definitely not normal. Is this just a weird Albedo thing. Is this case relevant. Is he going to be expected to poke the former hand-chalk, because he is absolutely not here for this???]

[ltcommandroid]

[CAN WE CONFIRM THIS WITH THE TRICORDER]

[bathymetric]

[ Actually, yes! All of it, including the intact portion of the hand, registers as pure chalk. ]

[ltcommandroid]

Hm. It is not transforming. The entire hand appears to already be made of chalk.

[He announces after pointing a weird little computer at it!]

cw hand

[paucipan]

[...UM. Well Plumeria's right next door and uh--]

Is--is that supposed to happen?

[INTERNAL SCREAMING??]

[deathmagnetic]

[ ... what in the actual fuck was going on here.

Like, he's keeping an eye on this, because it's super weird as all hell, but, you know. ]

[leaveittomother]

Oh.

[...Okay, seriously, what's wrong with just a stabbing??? Why do y'all have to get weird?]

[ahelpingpaw]

...I'm just...gonna guess humans don't usually do that.

[He sure didn't come close to any bodies to check if they were starting to degrade into chalk, but he's pretty sure if that was meant to happen nobody would be staring at it all flabbergasted]

[leaveittomother]

Not usually, no.

[Believe her, she's seen a lot of them.]

[thisaroma]

[ well, that's weird. ]

[dokkalfheimr]

Yeager, what-

[...is going on, but that is quickly answered, isn't it.]

...W-Well. He said he'd done things to himself such that he could no longer be poisoned.

This still seems...wrong, however...

[cethflayn]

[what the fuck]

cw scott pilgrim's stupid little canon

[queceracera]

Oh, thank god. Finally, something normal.

[BODIES??? AIN'T SUPPOSED TO STICK AROUND???? WHEN YOU DIE????]

[scouserer]

What?

[queceracera]

The bodies have been freaking me out! You're supposed to turn onto dust or something when you die!

[Otherwise your rating goes up.]

[cethflayn]

Wh - that is not normal!!!!

[queceracera]

It's totally normal. I mean, usually it's coins where I'm from, but turning into dust isn't unheard of.

[deathmagnetic]

[ you know

he's from a canon called jojo's bizarre adventures but he's gonna be judging scott right now ]

[hellahighwater]

...He was talkin' about homunculi the whole time. Fuck.

[ FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST CONFIRMED?!?!?! ]

[silentscout]

[magycks]

... oh, it was literal.

[sivard]

[oh that is not right]