week 1 trial

[mgtropes]

W1: TRIAL

34 REMAIN.

In the morning at 11:30am sharp, you hear the intercom speakers blare loudly across the entire airport, perfectly audible no matter where you are.

All passengers, please report to Terminal 0 Gate Area effective immediately. All passengers, please report to Terminal 0 Gate Area effective immediately...

...But that's so far...! Groan. Still—even if you try your best to resist, you'll find your body moving against your will and taking you all the way over there anyway. After what feels like forever of walking, you'll arrive to the gate and see that a few things are different. Most of you probably had a feeling this is what you should expect, right?

The gate has been refurnished a little bit for the proceedings today. The metal gates will not let anyone out of the Gate Area without permission, but at least there's some snacks set out, and Allstars Coffee is still open in case you need a coffee break. Your Hosts await you near the front behind the counters, carrying various, but all expectant attitudes. After all, we knew this was coming.

► OOC Notes

Welcome to trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will need to discuss the circumstances, investigate relevant locations, and put together theories about the truth behind this week's murders!

Trial will last from 9am PST/12pm EST until 6pm PST/9pm PST. There will be an hour-long break starting 1pm PST/4pm EST; while players are free to continue tagging during this time, it is intended to allow players to take a minute to eat, rest, what have you.

Lastly, voting is mandatory. Please be absolutely sure to get your IC vote in before the end of trial, or there are severe IC consequences!

DM the mods if you intend to use a curse during trial. Curse duration may be altered or subject entirely to mod approval depending on how many curses are in play. Curse duration must end before break.

Good luck!

QUICKLINKS

NPC Support

Network

Voting

Body Check

Evidence Turn-In

Evidence Check

Investigation Requests

Investigations

Latest Flatview

NAVIGATION; (FULL NAV)

INFO

PLAYER STATUSES IC PROFILES MURDER PROPOSALS CYOA SIGN-UPS

SETTING

NPC AUDIENCES LOCATIONS ROOMING CURFEW

REPORTING

PC TURN-IN MOD REPORTING EVENT TURN-IN VOTING

Comments

[mgtropes]

[ It's a horizontal slash right across the length of his throat. It's pretty deep and can be reasonably concluded that it is likely the source of the majority of the blood across Anders's front. ]

[peripheries]

[When we're talking length of his throat, are we talking in the front under his chin or the side of his neck or almost ear to ear? Aside from blood, is there anything else noticeable on his front beneath the feathers of his collar or under the jacket?]

[mgtropes]

[ It's across the front, basically right across the middle of his throat.

It's hard to tell if there's anything else underneath because of all the blood but also his cvnty coat covering him up pretty well. It'd have to be removed to get a better look.

However, looking at some of the feathers, a few of them seem a little misshapen. ]

[peripheries]

[He will check the feathers before removing the coat just in case that might further damage them. Can he tell what might have caused them to become misshapen? Is it concentrated in one area? When he removes the cvnty coat (tragedy... i hope it can be cleaned) he'll inspect the feathers once more to see if the new angle provides new information and then check Anders' front beneath the coat.]

[mgtropes]

[ The feathers seem... singed! It's not particularly concentrated in any one area, but seem broad and general across Anders's outfit. It's hard to tell if there's any specific angle they're singed from, just that they're singed.

With his coat off, Kaworu can see that Anders is pretty skinny and very scarred up. There's a relatively newer-looking scar at his midsection, a scarred over injury at one shoulder, and another scar that looks like something took a chunk out of his chest.

Many of these are marred with light burns across his body in general of miscellaneous shape and size.

Is Kaworu just checking the front by opening up Anders's coat, or is he fully taking it off? ]

[peripheries]

[Why are we the skinny little guy/big guy duo...

Due the fact that Kaworu and Anders have been living together prior to AllStarz, is it fair to assume Kaworu would be able to recognize scars that Anders had previously?

Also these burn marks on his torso, are they in any sort of pattern or concentrated anywhere?

Initially Kaworu had just opened up the front, but after seeing the burns, he'd take off the coat to investigate further to see if they are also on his back and arms.]

[mgtropes]

[ Yeah, Kaworu can recognise a majority of Anders's scars and recognise that a good number of these came from execution as well.

There's no particular pattern to be found on the burn marks on Anders's front.

As Kaworu pulls the coat off of Anders's body, he can see that the left sleeve is missing, and also feel something catch on the fabric around the sleeve area of Anders's right arm around the hand. ]

[peripheries]

[Kaworu will take the hand in order to see what caused the fabric to catch. He will also inspect the hand to see if there's any injuries, residue, or markings anywhere as well. And just to be safe he'll also check inside the right sleeve of the jacket where it caught.]

[mgtropes]

[ What's Anders got?



A knife! His hand was grasping this thing pretty tightly, and both the knife and his hand are covered in blood. His arm also seems to have a few singes and burns.

There's nothing on the inside of his sleeve... besides blood, I suppose. ]

[peripheries]

[Is it?

Could it be...?

The Murder Knife (TM)?! 🥹

Going to take it out of Anders' grip and set it aside since I assume any further investigation belongs in evidence. From a glance, can he tell if the knife seems like it possibly could have made the slash in Anders' throat based on the size of the cut or is that also evidence?

Beyond that, he'll inspect the rest of the coat. Anything in the pockets (if it has pockets)? Any more burns, stains, or tears? And the missing left sleeve, is the sleeve missing right at the armhole like the seam ripped or lower down like the fabric itself was cut or shredded?]

[mgtropes]

[ Correct! Details about the knife would have to be inspected in its own evidence check tl......... but I mean Kaworu has eyes and has seen this thing being Anders's roomie and stuff so yeah it's the Murder Knife lmao. Wow!

Based on a glance, it IS a sharp item and an inspection on the throat wound does seem to have been made by some manner of sharp object, so Kaworu can reasonably theorise that this knife may have been a cause for it. Is he actively comparing the knife directly to the wound right now, rather than making a visual estimate?

You can raid Anders's pockets and find his phone! The coat itself seems fine outside of the aforementioned blood and singed feathers, and the left sleeve is missing from the elbow down and the fabric itself seems shredded there. ]

[peripheries]

[EXTREMELY TEMPTED TO JUST POCKET THIS KNIFE. But yeah he'll do an active comparison with Murder Knife to the neck wound just to satisfy his own need know one way or another.

After that he will check around Anders' waist to see if he had anything else used to carry things like a satchel or belt pouch.]

[mgtropes]

[ The knife in Anders's possession is a match to his throat slash.

Based on his outfit pic, doesn't seem like he'd have a satchel or belt pouch. What else on him would you like to check over? There's still his legs, and turning him over in general as well. ]

[peripheries]

[Yes, let's move to his legs, inspecting them visually as well as running his hands down them to feel for anything odd or broken. Afterwards, he'll inspect Anders' boots, including the soles, for anything that seems out of the ordinary.]

[mgtropes]

[ Wow... feel his skinny mage thighs... this is real, the body report literally says "enjoy knees" so. Enjoy his hairy knees.

Kaworu can inspect his leg and find... he's been shot in one of them too! ]

[peripheries]

[Kaworu stole the honor of seeing the knees from someone else. I'm sorry.

Which leg has been shot? Is it a similar size to the bullet hole in his head? Did the bullet go clean through? If not, he'll check for a bullet with his phone light and try to extract it using the pliers North provided once more.]

[mgtropes]

[ It's in his right lower leg. Yowch. The bullet injury is of a very similar quality as the shot in his head.

He can indeed see a similar glint and carefully pry out a bullet, it's not as difficult of a process as his head. ]

[peripheries]

[Alright, if he moves down the legs below the beautiful knees... is there anything up with his boots? Kaworu will check them for any weird residue, marks, or damage both on the boot itself and the soles. He'll also check inside them just in case...]

[mgtropes]

[ Nothing wrong with the boots! ]

[peripheries]

[Alright, let's flip him over and inspect him from that angle.

Is there anything that he can visually see right away when looking at Anders' body from the back such as more burns, bullet holes, other injuries or marks?

Then taking it a step further, is there anything Kaworu can feel if he runs his hands down the back of Anders' head, neck, shoulders, ribs, arms, and legs from the back?]

[mgtropes]

[ So


Like


He has a tramp stamp that's a cute little pattern of kitty pawprints and hearts and says PURRINCESS






And I guess he has more of those broad, unspecific singes and burns. Everything else is fine. ]

[peripheries]

[God he's so lame, Kaworu wants to be just like him. Is the lineart good at least or is it a amatuer stick and poke?

IT'S ALMOST BREAK... is his staff with him?]

[mgtropes]

[ He does not have a staff with him!

The tattoo is... fine. Your opinion on this tattoo may be based on your own taste.

Just so the ball is rolling when break is over, edits this to let you know that you're done with this body and can start on a write-up! 🩵 ]

[peripheries]

[Sorry mods one more question, would the tattoo be familiar to Kaworu? From the response I assumed not but I should have asked to clarify!]

[mgtropes]

[yeah anders just had that, he got it in faerun!

no it is definitely new.]