TRIAL ONE

[mayorityvote]

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. ))

Locations Profiles Investigation Voting Main Nav

code

Comments

[mareum]

[He won't deny the other two parts, but-]

Why do people keep calling me shady? I haven't done anything to deserve this.

[truthdefiler]

We're in a game where we have to murder one another to escape.

[mareum]

And that makes me shady by default? This is hardly a game, but you sure seem to like toying with people's lives.

[He's usually pretty chill, but even he's a little agitated now.]

If you're going to implicate me, give us something better than this.

[truthdefiler]

It is a game. And it's one you're already playing. Unless you're not planning on voting for a culprit?

[She huffs.]

I didn't implicate you. I simply didn't remove you.

[mareum]

[Ugh, all these technicalities.]

You know what I meant. Tell me why you haven't removed me.

[truthdefiler]

Mm. Well. Because if I picture the sort of person to attempt something like this, sealing someone behind a piece of dry wall, attempting to create a perfect crime and then fucking it up spectacularly... the sort of person capable of cutting a teenager's body up but who would also do their best to make it quick and relatively painless...

I think of you.

[driftingknight]

[Piggybacking off of this.]

I am curious, Dongrang-san. Just what field of science are you in?

[theotherww]

..."Likes: saving lives."

Sounds like a medical doctor of some kind.

[truthdefiler]

Anatomical knowledge.

[mirrari]

He's not a doctor, though. At least, that's what he told me. He's works in research for medical technology, and I'm not sure what the required schooling for that is where he's from.

[jarcrash]

The thing is, he actually knows how to dispose of corpses properly.

[b_reave]

"Knows" does not mean "had the time to".

[truthdefiler]

Precisely.

[faildeus]

If he "had time to", he wouldn't have left that scene in the daycare. That's there because whoever did it ran out of time.

[truthdefiler]

I need to point out that sealing a carved up body behind drywall isn't necessarily an inefficient way of disposing of bodies. It would have been discovered eventually, assuming he didn't have the time to get rid of it properly afterward, but were we in a different situation, it would have likely taken at least a few days.

[jarcrash]

But that's what I mean - if you have base knowledge, you wouldn't go for an option that doesn't match your time window in the first place.

[pimpplan]

Yeah, it's definitely a lot more targeted and somewhat more thought out than just leaving him somewhere.

So, we go off of who could get that thought out and put him in the wall to begin with?

[mareum]

I don't do the actual disposal, Miss Reden...

[liberazoth]

[ 'he knows how suspicious that sounds, right...?' ]

[jarcrash]

I said 'knows' not 'does habitually'. I'm just having a hard time imagining you doing something like this without having a proper eye on the time, no?

[sorathvau]

[Don't say this shit when he's trying to defend you, man.]

[faildeus]

So your scientific studies end up with corpses?

[ now he's eyeing you weirdly. ]

Mr. Dongrang, what specimens do you use for your scientific advancements? Animal testing? Human testing? Something else?

[mareum]

[...

Man, he can't help but laugh.]

Frankly, I'm offended by your assumptions. [We been knew this.] You don't even know me at all. I do everything in my power to save lives, not end them.

[truthdefiler]

Every day you allow yourself to stay here, more people die.

What's one life compared to the amount you'll save?

[mareum]

[That really seems to hurt him. How did this turn on him so quickly?]

I'm hardly going to sacrifice anyone to continue my work back home.