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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2020-04-18 10:57 am
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FIRST TRIAL

Alright, that seems like more than enough time to poke around the crime scene. Gather at the vault door, won’t you? It seems that for many of you it will be a short walk.

[ Once you’re all gathered at the vault door, Angel meets you there and quietly taps a keycard to the side of it. There’s an enormous whirring and grinding from inside as various mechanisms within the door move and whir - until with one last shuddering thud, the door starts to swing inwards, revealing a fully-glass tunnel leading off the side of the plateau the base is built on. Small lights built into the floor illuminate as you walk forward, until finally they light up an enormous elevator, perfectly capable of holding the twenty-four of you.

Angel comes too, putting a few numbers into a keypad just outside the door and inserting her card key once everyone is inside. She’ll gestures to get in if anyone seems unsure, but doesn’t really speak or enter the car herself. ]


Going down.

[ And down the elevator goes, leaving the lights of the facility behind - from here everyone can even see some parts of the facility you don’t have access to, it’s bigger than you realized. But it’s a long and uncomfortable ride to the depths, at least a minute or two before the elevator stops.

When the doors open, enough lights flash on to show that you’ve reached the ocean floor, some distance below even the depths you knew before. Lights around the outside of the massive glass dome you've found yourselves in illuminate the barren depths of the sea, with little if any ocean life to currently disrupt it.

At the top of the dome, among the lights, is an outward-facing circle of five or six different screens, each showing the telltale spiral that indicates The Professor is as present as he ever is.

Below them, of course, are the podiums, a circle of simple metal stands with some kind of video screen embedded into each, though they’re turned off for now. Each of your names is carved into one of them, though the podium constructed for Aela seems to have been just set to display a blank red light.

The screens lower down until they’re too close to eye level for anyone’s comfort. ]


Welcome to the trial room. You have as long as you need to discover who among you killed The Huntress. Once you have, I will explain further action. Take your places.

[ The screens rise back up - welcome to your first trial. ]
bogwife: Oh, Death (The earth and worms both have a claim)

[personal profile] bogwife 2020-04-18 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I checked that first. Nothing on her hands or under her nails.
lovelikeyou: (🌸 a good thing)

[personal profile] lovelikeyou 2020-04-18 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That's surprising. It seems like the fight went on for a little while.

[It's a little unbelievable that she didn't land any hits.]
snackooed: <user name=livebites> (ema005 (1))

[personal profile] snackooed 2020-04-18 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes me curious as to when she got the cut on her arm. If the fight did go on for a while, wouldn't you expect her to cover that cut on her upper arm with a hand to stop the bleeding? But as Zerinda said, and I can confirm, her hands were clean...
mouflon: USED WITH PERMISSION; DO NOT TAKE (hammering her into the wall like a nail)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-04-18 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a trail of blood drops in the space outside that looks like it started in the middle of the room and moved toward the library door. So, either that came from the cut on Aela's arm, or... She got a hit in on her killer herself.
hardnosed: (pic#13879681)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
When we first showed up in this dump, she'd lost more than one weapon. Who says she only had a knife on her last night?
Edited 2020-04-18 18:54 (UTC)
nothingcanstop: (american airlines)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
If she's had the same luck I did with the vending machine, she might've had a lot. [ Grumbles. ] Did anyone examining her find...I don't know, anything else? Any other knives or anything?
bogwife: Placed a cold towel upon my head (My mother came to my bed)

[personal profile] bogwife 2020-04-18 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that I can recall but let me think.

[Oh omniscient Mods, did she have any weapons at all on her when they found her?]
bogwife: Won't you spare me over 'til another year? (Whoa Death)

[personal profile] bogwife 2020-04-18 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[MANY THANK]

No, no weapons at all, Della.
Edited 2020-04-18 19:10 (UTC)
lovelikeyou: (🌸 to the crystal gems)

[personal profile] lovelikeyou 2020-04-18 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I got a spear out of that machine. Either of them could have had a weapon with longer reach - but if there was one of those involved, there's not much sign of it. It doesn't look like she used one to defend herself, and surely she would have seen someone coming with that?
hardnosed: (pic#13924515)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be more of the same. I've already got two knives out of that thing.

[ it takes superhuman (supergem) strength not to say she's got her sword and throw the entire trial into chaos again, but she manages it! ]

Anyone else get anything close-range?
philoxenia: (will i ever follow through?)

[personal profile] philoxenia 2020-04-18 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I got, um... a large rock, a knife, a mace, a taser... as well as a vial of cyanide and a spear.
bolderfell: You wanna put money on it? <user name="hashagi" site="tumblr.com"> (OH? 🗡️ Think so?)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-18 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't think anyone worth suspecting will say if they did, right now.
hardnosed: this account has a serious username so it also gets serious lyric keywords (DONT CALL IT A COMEBACK)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ SHRUGS ]

That doesn't mean they weren't seen with them.
onefuture: (💀 Two.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-18 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I received a sword, a mace and a...some sort of odd device. Not that I have any idea how to utilize it.

[what the fuck is a taser, good god]
philoxenia: (but just give it time)

[personal profile] philoxenia 2020-04-18 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ let's hope you never have to find out, my dude ]
onefuture: (💀 Seven.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-18 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[that's the hope, at least..........]
bogwife: Won't you spare me over 'til another year? (Whoa Death)

[personal profile] bogwife 2020-04-18 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
She might have but if she did someone else has her other knife.