PROLOGUE : TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... PROLOGUE - WEEK 037 Narrators Remain ; Wakey wakey, naughty murder children. It's a lovely Saturday, after all. Breakfast is served piping hot at its usual time and all of the evidence has been removed from the scenes of yesterday. No matter how you choose to spent your morning though, the clock will begin to chime the moment both hands reach the large, ornate twelve. Before your eyes materializes a door...but not just any door. Unlike the door leading to the festival, this door sits primly and properly right in front of the foyer. Whether you exit the castle on your own or you feel a friendly, invisible push, you begin to walk under an arc of wisterias. Behind you, the clock continues to chime with every step you take. By the time the time the clock strikes twelve, you've entered a beautiful garden. In front of you is a long table, 19 seats on each side. Around the garden are several glass cases containing evidence collected yesterday. As noon intensifies on the sun-shaped clock, you'll find Dragon at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand. Tick tock, Narrators. You have nine hours to deliberate. Welcome to your first trial post! Please see here for the OOC summary of events from yesterday's investigation. In addition, please be sure to vote! Please see the voting page on how to vote, as we will have two special things to vote for. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST! If you have any questions, please ask on our Discord server or ping us on plurk. Please direct pings for the NPC to Dana (decals), as she will be taking point for today's NPC, and the moderator team will be on deck for all other questions. full navigation. locations taken (statuses) stories (profiles) info & faq wishing well private conversations

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BODY EXAMINATION

[themodsgrimm]

[At the head of the garden is Captain Gi-Gan's body laying inside a glass examination case. This case may be opened, but please be kind to the dead...]

[alttitude]

[Surprise to no one - Jae-ha will be found by Gi-gan's body for the most of the trial. Noticeably, he's retrieved an orange scarf, one end embroidered with a purple phoenix on a pirate boat, and wrapped it around her shoulders like a shawl. His own hair bow seems to have changed from its original orange ribbon into a similar fabric of the scarf.

He's quietly watching everyone else, listening to their conversations, but he doesn't quite move from his spot. A dragon sentry for his fallen captain.

Anyone who wants to get to Gi-gan will likely have to go through him.]

[ ooc: For this part of the trial for streamlining, assume all evidence-related brackets that come from Jae-ha are mod-confirmed. ]

[randori]

Jae-ha, Jae-ha, you know her best! Who do you think did it?

[ just. right to the point, no need to look at all the evidence- he spoke to somebody before, and all Natsuo could think of is that if anybody could take down Gi-Gan, it would be somebody she knows well and wouldn't suspect. ]

[alttitude]

[What a question.

Jae-ha's had time to think on this though, and his answer is simple:]

Someone she would've been too kind to kill herself. My Captain possessed strength and smarts to take down bands of mercenaries - but her warm heart would have limited her.

[alchemenace]

[ y'all told me to so legally even though he looks like he would rather be anywhere else in the entire world, here is Varian. looking at the dragon and only the dragon what corpse in a glass case??? If he can't see it it's not real. ]

Hi, Jae-ha. Did. Did anyone look at the body yet?

[alttitude]

[ . . . . even if i wrote the npc tag jae-ha is wondering why you're all sending him a bunch of kids!!!!]

I have -

[ - but a fresh pair of eyes might be better.]

... but it seems like you don't want to.

[spondulix]

It seems you were quite close to her. Sorry for your loss.

[The concern seems incredibly superficial - after all, he's not here to feel sorry. He's here for information.]

By the by, Gi-gan didn't have anything wrong with her blood, did she?

[alttitude]

[Thanks Fitz!!

But nah, Jae-ha's here for answers just as much as anyone else.]

She bled red and it smelled of iron, not ink, before we came here - if that's what you're asking.

[hairbrain]

[ not going to examine the body just yet, but she'll come and squeeze jae-ha's hand gently while he's getting emotionally compromised by scarves. ]

[alttitude]

[this is your fault rapunzel

no jk,he'll let her - and again bring his hand up to his lips to press a placating kiss to the back of it. he's fine.]

[spondulix]

[GONNA CHECK OUT A DEAD BODY anyways, he's going to be peering closely at the puncture wound on the neck - how big is it?]

[themodsgrimm]

[ It's not particularly large. It seems more like a puncture wound. ]

[spondulix]

[What about the wound on her chest? Same size?]

[faceripper]

[ Look, there may be a knife around now, but Fane isn't the kind of person that will stop something before following through completely. So! He'll head over to the body and compare both 2B and Sharpay's stilettos to each of the wounds to see if either of them match.

And if they look close through the entry point, he's uh. Going to push the heels inside to see how deep they go. That's what he meant by cleaning them off, and I do apologize if so. ]

[themodsgrimm]

[the mods had to look up what 2b's heels looked like for this

since they curve around the back, he'll find that 2b's heel stops fitting at a certain point, given the width a the top of the heels.

sharpay's heel fits!]

[psychedelica]

[ WELL COLOR HIM FUCKING SURPRISED. ]

Hold on. That looks like it matches.

[faceripper]

Ah, interesting!

[ Fane pulls out Sharpay's heel and nods, then sets to cleaning it off along with 2B's as he promised. Since like, he gets it, that's probably gross. But otherwise, he'll go share with the class. ]

[londonstar]

Incredible.

[ hE CAN'T BELIEVE THIS AND HERE HE THOUGHT HE HAD SEEN IT ALL ]

[function]

[ hey thanks mods bc i had no idea where to start explaining

2b just gives a little "hmph" as she puts her boot back on. ]

[faceripper]

[ guess who's back back again ]

[ Fane still has Sharpay's heel, but now he also has the stiletto knife! He's going to go through the same process of comparing the knife to the wounds, but also takes a few moments to do some additional comparisons. He's checking to see if it's a reasonable match if the knife were inserted first and then the shoe, as well as the shoe first and then the knife. He thinks the order there matters if so. ]

[concasse]

[Sanji's also very interested in this so he's gonna be hovering around to see what Fane discovers]

[themodsgrimm]

[ Well.

Considering the fact that 2B's heel was inserted and it wasn't a fit, and there's been a few tests looking at the wound now, the wound has been widened to the extent that it's difficult to tell whether the knife or the heel was inserted first. ]

[faceripper]

[ whoops ]

[ Well, that's unfortunate! But luckily, we have a whole body to keep testing on. Fane sets down the shoe first, but he definitely doesn't hesitate at all to bring the knife up. He's. Definitely going to stab her again. ]

[vigilantics]

[ so, what can someone with batman sidekick detective abilities can try to guessimate what the time of death is?? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[ A guesstimate suggests that it's within the past two days,, based on the flakiness of the ink dried on the clothing and the extent of the rigor mortis on the corpse. ]