SECOND TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ After sufficient time has passed, and you're all as ready to avenge dear Obi as you've ever been, Mayor Fontaine speaks. ]

Alright, that oughta do it. Pack up the evidence and head to the bathyspheres, same as last week.

[ There's yet again a line of spherical submersibles back there, ready to take off as the citizens of New Rapture climb aboard one or two at a time. And one at a time the bathyspheres descend into the abyss below New Rapture, deeper and deeper, once again to the dome on the seafloor, lit all around by bio-luminescent... slugs, of some kind? They're a little closer today.

The ring of podiums still sits in the center, just like last week. Two more podiums are going to stand empty. Two more dead. By the end of the day, best case scenario? It'll be three.

The projector clicks on. Mayor Fontaine is as here as he's gonna be. ]

You all know why you're here. Night Knight is dead. And I know plenty of you liked him alright, so don't let him down, hm? Or do. I'm here if you have questions.

[ Welcome to your second trial. ]

Comments

[hotpaprika]

[Jonathan begins pinching the bridge of his nose. He knows it's hypocritical because of his episode earlier but god he just wants to find out who killed Obi.]

My deepest apologies, but this is hardly getting us anywhere. Can we simply review the evidence at hand so we can figure out what happened last night. I am sure we all want to find out who killed our Obi.

[vholran]

[ Speaking of hypocrisy... ]

Rossiu mentioned earlier something about that shirt that could not fit individuals of a certain height. Those he listed who did not fit were in the 5'7 area or higher.

Shouldn't we consider those under that range as our 'suspects'?

[allatonce]

By the same principle as last week, I'm disqualified.

[vholran]

[ . . .

Vholran doesn't recall what that is. Unfortunately. ]

An interesting conclusion, but I've nothing to say against it for now.

[ Though honestly, it is clear she is not exactly someone he sees as the culprit. ]

[allatonce]

I'm saying if someone was wearing that jacket, it's like three sizes too big for me and also Penelope. I wouldn't be able to use my hands.

[visiblepattern]

I suppose? Although I don't stab people.

[vholran]

Then the chances of it being you fall terribly short to nothing.

It looks to me the culprit at least had skill in knowing how and where to stab someone.

[ In his opinion, at least. ]

[visiblepattern]

That's how it seemed to me as well. Again, the angle was different on the wound that was most likely fatal, in a way that seemed more...deliberate, to me?

[vholran]

Given where it's positioned and how Obi might have been moving, it must have been caused in one fluid movement. Angled from that lower point to try to get around how the bodyguard may have been attempting to protect himself.

All in all, not an easy feat.

[allatonce]

... Okay but he's a medic. Not saying he did it, but more that I wouldn't rule him out based on that. I'd rule him out based on the fact that we all know he goes out to the garden in the morning so why the fuck would he desecrate it for the second week in a row?

[fuckingguy]

[ he is truly regretting the words more with each syllable he pronounces but, like, ]

Is there any more blood?

[hotpaprika]

[Takes

A single step away from Nandor.]

[specialyellthing]

From the crime, Champ.

[hotpaprika]

S-sorry! It was on impulse!

[prompocalypse]

Feeling thirsty, old man?

[fuckingguy]

No, I am not thirsty, I am perfectly fine. I am just thinking about how we had this blood bag lying around for no reason. And maybe there was a second knife? Kind of got lost a little, in the ruckus.

[sixthnonsense]

Yeah, I got another knife. The blood's dry, but maybe you can still get somethin'.

[Handing it over!]

[onemillion]

[nandor i am so truly sorry, and clearly so is rossiu given the wince, but...]

There was a second knife, the one Hagakure found. And there's the shirt as well.

[He can pass the shirt over if you want it... but also, again: he is so sorry.]

mods 2 bloodlicktric boogaloo

[fuckingguy]

[ HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND ]

Fuck it, yes. We shall do all of this in one fell swoop.

[ And once Nandor has both the shirt and Hagakure's knife in his possession, he is going to repeat the blood tasting process twice over! Unfortunately, since the blood on the knife is dry, he's actually going to have to actively lick it this time. What's the verdict? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Other than you being too good, too selfless for this cruel world?

Let's start with the knife. You're right, it's too dried. It's actually too dried to tell much? ...Other than the fact that this is not the same blood you licked before, and it's not from a blood bag. We got a bleeder, folks!

And, to make this easy on everyone, let's cover the shirt as well. This one is the blood bag energy you're looking for. It tastes of the grossness you described earlier.

Thank you for your sacrifice, good Nandor. ]

[onemillion]

It seems that no one has defensive injuries or bandages on them, so that line of inquiry has hit a dead end.

[Because he is not going to even consider a full strip search!! No thanks!!!]

Instead let's review what we've found. A blood bag was found, but it doesn't seem to be the blood that was covering the knife I found in a pool of blood. If we assume that blood was Obi's and that's where he was stabbed repeatedly, this would make sense. But that leaves the question of where that blood went and why the bag was left there.

[dullshooter]

What if it’s a…

[Wait for it.]

…red herring.

[onemillion]

[don't laugh at a joke that dumb in the middle of a trial, don't laugh at a joke that dumb in the middle of a trial—]

That is a fair consideration, though if it is, it's a very poor one.

[nandor's offering to lick the evidence, obviously he didn't do it????]

[allatonce]

.... Yeah, or more likely: the pool of blood was Obi's and the blood we found everywhere else was from the blood bag. We spent a lot of time talking about the order of events last time. What if they thought a blood trail would confuse us on that front?

[bootyhunter]

I think she's onto something.

[this is giving very "i did nothing 2 contribute to the group project so i'm gonna gas up the rest of my group" energy]