FOURTH TRIAL

[bathymetric]

Alright, that's quite enough time. Move along towards the trial, if you would all be so kind. You know what's coming.

[ It's routine by now - go to the vault door, get let into the elevator by Angel, head down to the trial room... it's hard not to notice the losses on the ride down by now, though. Your numbers are starting to really dwindle, even if you're often spread out enough not to notice as much normally. The trial room and its podiums, too, seem more than ready and willing to remind you of the same. The red glow of the empty spaces is constant, potentially unnerving. ]

Remember that as there are two victims to consider, up to two votes may be counted at the end of proceedings. As always, I am but a direct address away, however rude you choose to make it.

Find the party or parties responsible for the deaths of your comrades. And to those parties: Good luck.

[ The screens rise!

Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

[mouflon]

There's still that map-making tool... Do we think it was used for the chumming? Since none of us seem to have any pricks from it, and it wasn't used on the luminol bottle...

[nothingcanstop]

It could be... But we only checked arms and hands. Someone could be hiding something a little closer to the chest, so to speak.

[mouflon]

I mean, I'm clean and free, so I don't mind if you think we should check more.

[nothingcanstop]

It certainly couldn't hurt. I'll even do the looking, if someone wouldn't mind covering me.

[archboxer]

Are you suggesting we do a more thorough search?

[nothingcanstop]

Is there a problem with that?

[archboxer]

Not at all; I have nothing to hide.

[bolderfell]

That's worth checking.

[Therion has nothing else to contribute to this discussion, obviously it's time to get n u d e.]

WOUND CHECK

[nothingcanstop]

Then, let's begin.

[ Here comes Della. Time to check...legs, torsos, whatever. ]

[blackmass]

Are we really doing this?

[mouflon]

[ True to her word, Rin is free of any wounds! Not that it takes that much extra checking to tell. ]

[bolderfell]

[Therion's got even nastier scars on his back than he does on his chest and arms, and something canine definitely got him in the leg at least once, but once he finally finishes unwrapping all his rags, it's clear he has no fresh injuries.]

[bogwife]

[ Per usual, Zerinda's skin is pretty exposed as it is. There's nothing fresh on her torso and when she rolls down her stockings to expose her legs there's also nothing.]

[archboxer]

[Aside from the totally normal, not at all blood ritual related cut on her arm from last week there is nothing of note here.]

[fivestagegod]

Della, you know better than anyone how much I want to get out of here alive and why, but I am not taking my damn clothes off.

Re: WOUND CHECK

[reallyhatesharks]

[Sure, you know what? Nova is literally already in a bikini top, so she just shimmies out of her pants to reveal that . . . she is also wearing a bikini bottom.

Aside from the gnarly scar on her leg, which is very old from the looks of things, she's clean.]

[lovelikeyou]

[Rose's dress is not terribly concealing to begin with, and her chest is clearly free of damage. So are her legs and feet, when she pulls up the dress a little.]

[emberserker]

[Aside from the two-week-old scab we saw last trial and the overall aura of hating everyone in this room right now, Anna is clean.]

[thieviusraccoonus]

[Under Sly's shirt is..... More fur!

and no injuries]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Oh, right, Della herself is........free of injury. She'll lift her shirt and the like. ]

[hardnosed]

[ Jasper is visibly Done With This and probably going to brush the whole thing off, except then Birkin starts annoying her more than the concept of taking off clothes which are part of her hardlight projection and definitely hide nothing, at which point, sure, fine, she'll tug the bodysuit straps a little! It's pretty much all she can do. Also I guess she has to drop into a squat for Della to check her and it all generally looks dumb as hell.

Needless to say, she's clean. ]

[thieviusraccoonus]

Not to rain on this stripping parade... [That's a sentence.] But if there was a wound anywhere like that, I think we'd probably know about it by now?

[nothingcanstop]

You'd be surprised how much someone could nurse a wound with a little time, pressure, and makeshift bandages. We can't say for sure what could've happened...and we have to be thorough if we want to get out of here alive.

[thieviusraccoonus]

I... probably would, yup.

[Guess Della has more experience with that sort of thing.]

Alright, we'll play this out, see where it takes us.

[archboxer]

It would depend. We checked the arms but that does not mean it could not be elsewhere. It is a a remote possibility, yes, but a possibility still.