SECOND TRIAL

[bathymetric]

Time's up, boys and girls. Please gather up your evidence and make your way to the vault door.

[ The process of heading to the elevator and crowding in remains the same as last week - Angel leads you all to the elevator car, then stays behind as you make your slow descent to the dome below. You might not even notice if you aren't paying attention, but... the cart is already less crowded than it was last week. You certainly won't be able to avoid noticing it if your numbers dwindle too much further than this.

When the doors open on the trial room, it's just as bleak a place as last week. ]

Take your places, won't you? And this time, you all know what's at stake. No more... funny business.

[The number of podiums displaying that red light is higher now - Damien, Lif, and Piers are all represented by blank spots now, no tasteful covers or anything normal to mark their passing, just a red glow and a gap in your number.

Cheery!

The screens raise up to the ceiling to give you all room to see, and the Professor's final words before the trial begins ring out: ]

Find the killer, leave alive. And killer? Try a little harder to stop them from doing that than the last one in your shoes. Call out for me if you require anything.

[ Welcome to your second trial. ]

Comments

[lovelikeyou]

[sigh]

Jasper and I can't bruise. But you can check me anyway, if you still want to.

[Can't speak for Jasper on that one]

[hardnosed]

We're obviously too large to have done it anyway. Playing along with this line of thought is just a waste of time.

[lovelikeyou]

[Rose just shrugs, because she....kinda agrees, but]

If it will prevent any arguments, I don't mind.

[hardnosed]

[ She has a retort to that! But it's apparently the undead experts' jobs to be Really Loud this time around, so she's just going to roll her eyes and save it for later. Is this character development... (it's not) ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Della's proud of her anyway!! Even though there's no reason to be!!! Fucking idiot!!!! ]

[archboxer]

[She wasn't pointing fingers at you, Jasper! But she does clear her throat.]

Actually, Rose... if you do not mind, you could be the one to check us.

[If you.. know what bruising is but she hopes she does.]

LADY BRUISE CHECK

[lovelikeyou]

[She does! Maybe not a ton about the internal processes, given she usually just sees it and cries on it and it's gone, but she certainly knows what it looks like.]

I can do that.

[She'll start coming around, then!]

[mouflon]

[ I'm just going to say that Rin is in her tank-top-and-shorts outfit, which makes it really easy to see that she is clear of bruises. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ ......on the opposite end of the spectrum della's three feet tall so she kind of. does not fit the current profile, but. for completionist's sake.

there ain't no bruising on this duck. ]

[lovelikeyou]

[rose probably didn't even go for her but like

could you even tell]

[philoxenia]

[ Clear of bruises here! ]

[reallyhatesharks]

[No bruising! She is sporting a bandaid on her hand, though.]

[archboxer]

[Rhea's in her long white gown and cape combo. She takes off the cape and turns to show. She has no bruising.]

[ladygeryon]

[Nira will roll up her shirt bottom and sleeves first, revealing that her shoulders have several pebbly protrusions running down them. And that her skin texture is actually sort of rocklike.]

[snackooed]

[ Alright, hang on, labcoat is coming off real quick, and she's rolling up the sleeves of her pink button-down. No bruises here. ]

[bogwife]

[Zerinda has to take off her cloak to show off her back but her corset exposes her shoulders, chest and upper arms anyway. Despite some long-healed scars on her shoulder and upper arm that look like they could be from bite marks there are no bruises.]

[precognit]

[Alice has the sleeves of her shirt rolled up, but she strips down to a tank top just to show that she's free of bruising.]

[emberserker]

[Anna will complain the entire time, but she's clean.]

[drladysounds]

[No bruises on this gal!]

[emberserker]

If you can't bruise, who's to say a zombie or whatever it is did this can?

[hardnosed]

Can someone just say what it is?

[lovelikeyou]

When a human gets hit, their skin turns blue-ish purple sometimes, even if they don't bleed. It's because they're bleeding underneath, I believe.

[kinda glancing towards the actual humans there but]

[lovelikeyou]

Oh - I don't know. Can they?

[She's kinda looking to Kirei, apparent vampire expert, on that one.]

[blackmass]

I don't know everything about every imaginable sort of vampire across worlds. Ordinarily, one's wounds would heal too quickly for such a thing. But I see no harm in being sure.

[fivestagegod]

Going to chime in by repeating that I'm pretty sure my world's undead are irrelevant, but they can bleed. No idea if they bruise, though, for reasons that are actually pretty repulsive.