TRIAL ONE

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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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Used Bandage

[rightmove]

[Healy's back from checking the used bandage against both bodies, so may as well announce his findings... of which there aren't many.]

The bandage doesn't look like it came from Sampo. No wounds on the guy other than, y'know.

[He gestures to his head. The obvious.]

Keito's a maybe. His body's too far gone to say for sure. He does have some cuts on his feet, but I didn't see any spots that looked like they'd been bandaged. Anyone see him with a bandage on his feet in the last few days?

[enkiboo]

[ They frown in thought. ]

No. Although last time I spoke to Keito that was on Wednesday.

[rightmove]

"No" as in you didn't notice or he didn't have any bandages?

[enkiboo]

No as in 'no I didn't see him with a bandage on his feet'.

[mirrari]

I don't make a habit of looking at people's feet so I can't say that I noticed anything amiss.

[Also, just because Language Is Bullshit and clarification is important: this is the kind of bandage Azure found. Also known as bandaids or plasters.]

Did have a habit of sleepwalking, though, so who knows what he got up to at night.

[pimpplan]

Oh, so that wasn't just my imagination.

[ Great! Cool! He's gonna stare blankly at Azure, then at Vayne. ]

He did prefer to be barefoot indoors, so it's not out of the realm of possibility, I guess?

[mirrari]

That could just be he didn't want to make the floors even more of a mess.

[But, like, he could have been wandering out there barefoot when he was doing Keito Things.]

[liberazoth]

[ he's going to look blankly at the both of them too, please imagine the (unsure) icon that is my pfp on discord right now but that i haven't iconned yet for some reason. ]

Oh, so you guys noticed too... Yeah, he didn't often stay on the farm at night, really.

He usually took his shoes off when he went inside, so... if he was sleepwalking then he probably wasn't putting them back on?

[rightmove]

What I'm hearing is the cuts were probably a result of all the sleepwalking, and we can't rule out the bandage belonging to him—but it doesn't seem likely. We've got no evidence suggesting Keito was in Joja Mart last night.

The bandage probably came off of Sampo's murderer.

[hyperbloom]

Thanks for looking into that. Looks like we're gonna have to search for injuries, hm?

[revengier]

I agree. I think we've managed to safely rule out that it belonged to one of the victims.

[unenvying]

[ joins the ghost orchid gang in the blank looking tbh because he's like... seen keito sleepwalk out of the farm but he wasn't necessarily paying attention to feet so like. fushigi mystery indeed. ]

Don't think I remember seeing him put on shoes, he just kind of... walked past me a couple of times...