FIFTH TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ It's not terribly long, once everything has been found, before Davy Jones heads out to round you all up once more and take you into the theatre. At least plenty of you are around the same area, so it probably doesn't take terribly long.

The ride down to the trial room is the same as ever - a blast of the organ, a slow descent. It's really starting to become clear, though, just how your numbers are decreasing. You're already down three, counting the absence of Chloe, potentially more when you come back up.

The crew of the Dutchman is singing as Jones lets you out into the trial room. ]

To business, passengers. I am about if you need guidance.

[ The circle of podiums is less populated than ever. So many of you are islands now, so to speak.

The song dies down, the waters quiet.

Welcome to your fifth trial.. ]

Comments

[ahelpingpaw]

If it was meant to poison someone kinda a bit wouldn't any oil work for that? Why would they specifically want wintergreen?

[jibunwo]

My guess would be to try to conceal it as a flavoring.

[ahelpingpaw]

It did smell kinda minty, and mint is a good ice cream flavor...that may be it.

[silentscout]

Can wintergreen be a poison on its own? Or could it have been used to cover up something else?

[jibunwo]

The essential oils themselves could be; not the most efficient poison I can think of, but enough to make someone seriously ill and possibly kill them. Using one that tastes strongly of something benign may be enough to get someone to eat enough of it.

[queceracera]

................... I think the minty one is the one that causes confusion. It's also one of the ones that can actually kill you if you drink it.

[leaveittomother]

Confusion? Could have one of them merely been confused and things turned for the worse?

[queceracera]

It's not a hallucination kind of confusion. It's the being underwater kind of confusion, like you don't know where you are and everything feels foggy.

[leaveittomother]

Perhaps not being able to read a bottle?

[NOT NAMING NAMES]

[queceracera]

......... Yeah, that sounds about right.

[He doesn't like that!]

[leaveittomother]

That could explain Plumeria's poisoning. Either of them could have misread the proper dosage of medicine.

[scythegun]

How exactly would that have happened? Once she was injured, it looks like she dragged herself to the crafts room. There wasn't any blood in the first aid room.

[leaveittomother]

It happened before she got injured.

[scythegun]

...Why was she taking medicine if she didn't need it?

[queceracera]

I'd say her killing was for mercy then, except it looked pretty brutal.

[scouserer]

But if it was for mercy, why would someone try and staunch the flow of blood?

[silentscout]

Don't you need a large amount of pills to overdose on them? Taking one or two extra isn't an immediate death sentence.

[leaveittomother]

Mm, yes. I imagine the overdose itself likely wouldn't have killed her if left alone.

[magycks]

Wait, how do you of all people know all this?

[scouserer]

I'm guessing it's personal experience.

[magycks]

... Yeah, that sounds about right.

[queceracera]

Wallace made me memorize the side effects of every essential oil in his cabinet after I nearly killed us by thinking you could use cinnamon oil instead of cinnamon.

[magycks]

Wow.

[queceracera]

It's minty, right? If you don't know the difference between an extract and an essential oil, you might not know an essential oil is bad for you.

[reminder that scott pilgrim is a very good cook, actually, but is absolutely dumb enough to have tried using essential oils in cooking until wallace explained why you shouldn't to him]

[jibunwo]

...That is admittedly plausible.

[...he's really hoping plumeria didn't accidentally an overdose again]