morningdewsvalley | TRIAL ONE

TRIAL

Once the various investigations have concluded, and the majority of the evidence has been dropped off with Makima and the ducks -- said ducks will scatter to start shepherding any travelers along to JojaMart, for some reason! Those already at JojaMart have a little less walking to do. Meantime, Makima has loaded the evidence onto the daycare wagon -- carefully packaged, because who wants a spill here -- and driven it off after the ducks.

There is, in fact, a back entrance to the JojaMart -- almost like a loading bay, but once it's opened and the wagon has been driven in, you can see that there's a small podium there along with a number of chairs and small tables. It looks like extra pieces used in either the Community Center or other areas around town may be stored here. The ceiling is tall and it's roomy, there's a scant few windows, but the white LED ceiling lighting and rather bare interior is only livened up by some larger spare whiteboards, extra shelving containing tools and knickknacks and a plant or two.

Once everyone is in -- Adela, Makima, a number of assistant ducks and the current inhabitants of the village -- the loading bay door is tugged closed by some enterprising assistants. There's a small door that probably leads into the front of JojaMart, but that's it. One of the ducks sets about serving tea in the slightly gloomy atmosphere.

You're welcome to examine the evidence in the wagon, discuss amongst yourselves, and figure out whodunnit in these first murders.

(( OOC: Welcome to your first trial! You'll have 7 hours (until 8 PM EST/5 PM PST) to vote one (1) person guilty of murder. As this is scapegoat style, a correct vote is not necessary. Please remember to vote unless otherwise discussed with the mods, as that is our AC for this game. ))

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Hmm. Do you have a possible estimate of how long ago he was murdered? It could be what determines just how many murderers we're looking for.

He was fine last night... he was at the farm with us when we were locked in.

Locked in?

[ GUESS WHICH FARM INHABITANTS JUST NEVER NOTICED??? ]

[ ............. ]

You weren't locked in?

... not that I know?

[ Helpless look to Dongrang, Sora and Nine?? Guys?? Were we locked in?? ]

Erika even tried breaking a window, [ typical. ] but there was some kind of invisible wall, so we couldn't get out...

[ ... huh. ]

We all just went to bed as normal, so if the house was locked we wouldn't have noticed - well, not all of us were there. Don't know where Mio went and Beelzebub was in the sewers for some reason.

[ whispered and wavering: ] We couldn't find Noah, either...

Oooooh~

[ Decidedly above whisper volume. ]

[hey why is this a thing to go OOOOOOH~ about]

I was with Mio last night, if you were curious.

[ busted. ]

We were really worried about you.

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[ waggles eyebrows ]

Had a nice night~?

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[ bibi!!!!!! ]

I was exploring.

[He doesn't just like to hang out in the sewers for fun ~~he totally does~~]

And did you come up with anything interesting?

There are beds down there.

[This is interesting enough.]

Are they comfortable?

[Are they damp....]

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[He looks just as surprised as Bibi!]

It seemed just like any other night to me. To think this was going on!

[ He shakes his head, not knowing either. He was beat after finishing the painting! Though now Bibi-san has to contend with the strangeness of it. ]

That'd mean that Sampo died sometime after midnight. Comparing that timing to when that Keito boy was sealed up in the wall, there's a chance they happened around the same time. So we'd be looking for two people.

[ Two people..... that's twice as many as one, that's horrible... ]

Give me a sec.

[ Gonna go check the body real quick! ]

[ Reporting back! ]

I went to double-check his body, and it's already hit rigor mortis and all, so it's been a while.

I see. Then it's been six to eight hours. Sampo died very soon after he was last seen alive.

[He folds his arms.] It's not impossible that one person could have killed both, but the amount of time it'd take to move bodies and the different methodology does make me lean towards more than one culprit.

Yeah. I think you're right.

[ She's not sure what the state of Keito's corpse is in that regard, but yeah, it seems pretty unlikely that one person could manage both. ]

With all the evidence lying around, that's a lot of time that someone would need to set up the murder and clean it up.