Fourth Trial

[bathymetric]

[ After the evidence (and what a large batch of evidence it is, this time) has been gathered up, after actually patiently waiting a longer time than usual to make sure everything's been grabbed, the speakers over New Rapture crackle to life. ]

Time's up, everyone. You know where to go.

[ The lower number of bathyspheres, as you descend, is starting to become really notable, isn't it? The descent is the same as ever, lower and lower into the sea. The bioluminescence of those slugs on the ocean floor is almost brighter today, somehow, and some of them have even crawled up the cliff face around you as you pass them.

The dome approaches, slowly as ever, gleaming red in the darkness. The bathyspheres land in a row, doors opening one by one to reveal the familiar sight of the trial room, three more podiums now darkened. ]

Take your places, ladies and gentlemen. You've got a doozy of a situation to discuss. Ass Man and Silver Fox are dead. You know what happens if you can't figure out whodunnit.

[ Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

ice cream parlor 3: the jukebox strikes back

[capreelcious]

[ Here's Floyd's investigation, if you'd like to take a peek at it! ]

[ Floyd nods in agreement to all of what Hild said, all the while putting the evidence he found down on his podium. Yeah- he didn't really change his clothes before the trial, so he looks a mess still. ]

While Lane Snapper [ Hild's fishsona unlocked! ] and Flying Fish were looking at the room, I looked at Barracuda's body...

[ His jaw tightens as he figures out how to phrase it. ]

He was stuck under the jukebox when I found him, so I moved it outta the way to get a better look. He had blunt force trauma to the back of his head, enough to break his skull but not enough to draw blood. He also had a real deep stab wound in the back of his neck.

[ He holds up the bloody knife in a cloth. ]

I'm pretty sure this is what did that. Found it on the floor between the cutlery counter and Barracuda's body. Also, his eyes were glowing green, even after he was dead? I dunno what's up with that.

I also found this wooden sotoba thing, and it kinda looked like he was reaching for it? There's blood and flour on it. Some sort of weird explosion happened and there was a bunch of flour near the other counter... And also a handmade lever near it too? It was part of the counter that got blasted off.

[daimakaicho]

[ LANE SNAPPER........... ]

[capreelcious]

[ Lane snapper!!!! ]

[sastruga]

Huh... was it the flour that exploded?

Like a dust explosion.

[inaclearing]

That can happen. That's why you can't use it to smother a fire, it just combusts in the air.

[daimakaicho]

It does feel like they tried to use it to curtail that, even if it was the wrong move. It would explain blocking the airflow, at the very least.

[pairtner]

That's very dangerous. A dust explosion draws oxygen and burns it away, meaning that without good ventilation an enclosed space can turn unbreathable.

[If they blocked the airflow before trying to put out a fire or something, then they were making things much worse]

[sastruga]

Well, someone died, so the dangerous part is pretty evident.

[specialyellthing]

[this is probably the part where she should tell mafuyu to be nice but like....

shes literally looking the other way.]

[daimakaicho]

[ no, no. let her be rude ]

[pairtner]

Message received.

[Aiba shuts up, apparently having taken Mafuyu's comment as indirectly saying her input isn't needed. Maybe Aiba really is used to pointing out what may come across as obvious, haha]

[capreelcious]

That makes sense.

[capreelcious]

I think it was less in the explosion and used in more of a distraction... Flying Fish said it was hooked up to the fan, so maybe they did it to blind him?

[sastruga]

...That's probably the purpose of the fan, then. To spread it through the air.