consolemods: (Default)
Console W.A.R.S. Mods ([personal profile] consolemods) wrote in [community profile] consolewars2018-02-04 12:51 pm

TRIAL

Well, Niles is dead now, and in a very unpleasant way. The investigation has progressed for some time... but after a certain amount of time, a marker appears on the player's console HUDs directing them to a particular location, much in the same way as it did when directing them to the paddock for Thursday's challenge.

This time, though, it's directing them to the courthouse, which has been locked up until this time... but not now. The doors are wide open, and you might as well go inside. The interior is lacking the audience benches you'd expect, but... there's a large, oppressive emptiness to the space. It almost seems bigger on the inside than the outside... no, it definitely seems much bigger on the inside. And after you walk the long, long walk to the center, you'll find a circle of 23 podiums with your names on them, with... two of them being much, much smaller to account for the, uh, pets.

Those... seem really out of place, by the way. They stand out in stark contrast to the rest of the quaint, old-timey Western town by being more on the technological level of the consoles on your faces, with touch screens and pictures of all of the current players... and the two former players, too, with the icon of Niles' and Makoto's faces having the word DEAD stamped across their faces.

As you stand at your podiums, you do begin to notice some wrongness about the whole thing... like that there might actually be some audience benches behind you, depending on the angle you look at them, but they seem to flicker in and out of your peripheral vision. Ditto with the two holes in the podiums, too-- they're... sometimes there, but not always.

The judge's box looms high over the podiums, towering for the animals but really only a few feet higher. The sheriff stands there as comfortable as he's ever seemed, arms crossed and silent the entire time. There are flickers of something uncanny in him, just like the architecture - the color of an eye, the shape of an arm - but nothing sticks for long enough to confirm.

It isn't until everyone's settled at their podium that he speaks, and any hint of the laconic tone he's taken all week is finally gone to be replaced by one far more formal. He seems in his element as he leans down to address the podiums.

"Welcome to round two! You've all done well to make it this far! The first attack has succeeded, and now Niles lies dead. But for every offense, there must be a defense! Will you find his killer? More of your lives may be at risk of you do not. Share your findings with each other, and come to a conclusion based on the evidence: Who killed Niles?

Now, let's play."
fuckthemancers: (sunsetter) (This is the first time I've heard)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2018-02-04 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Really....?

[Well, this just got all the more confusing.]

Well, can we line it up against the body regardless, to make sure nothing matches? Or if something does. [Either way.]
fuckthemancers: (Now I'm even sadder but I'm afraid)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2018-02-04 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kokoro, please]
helldestiny: (pay attention)

[personal profile] helldestiny 2018-02-04 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, yeah, maybe? But I was looking over the body when I found it, so yeah I probably smell like that.

...

Unless you sniff everyone to see who smells like that?
Edited 2018-02-04 18:52 (UTC)
acherontiastyx: yeah. (oh.)

[personal profile] acherontiastyx 2018-02-04 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the blue-haired chick in the headband who's really spacey?
thegoddamnmissile: (2)

[personal profile] thegoddamnmissile 2018-02-04 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That was definitely the idea. I have a nose, might as well use it!
condemnedone: (sur la piste du vent)

[personal profile] condemnedone 2018-02-04 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...And no one found it anywhere?

[ It can't hurt to ask, right. ]

If that's the case, then the next question would be why it wasn't discarded in a public place.
Edited 2018-02-04 18:55 (UTC)
carbide: (B03F. The surging river shores)

[personal profile] carbide 2018-02-04 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, observant! Maybe she misjudged you.]

It could have been cleaned.
stavros: Kokoro holding her regular whip. ([a] no tripping)

MODS

[personal profile] stavros 2018-02-04 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly.

[Kokoro holds out the knife from the stable, which indeed only has the stains of being dragged through the blood. Does it match anything?]
helldestiny: (stance)

[personal profile] helldestiny 2018-02-04 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't see it!

...

Maybe the killer forgot they had it!

[................]
stavros: Kokoro saying it's fine. ([c] trying to look competent)

[personal profile] stavros 2018-02-04 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but then why would it be underneath the blood? Unless that somehow appeared later.
helldestiny: (ouch)

[personal profile] helldestiny 2018-02-04 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
........................

oh. Um. Never mind.
fuckthemancers: (sunsetter) (This is the first time I've heard)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2018-02-04 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... There's no harm. Do you need help leaving your podium?
Edited 2018-02-04 18:59 (UTC)
carbide: (B04F. Bladed ordeal in the muck)

[personal profile] carbide 2018-02-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
...that is odd.
fuckthemancers: (sunsetter) (This is the first time I've heard)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2018-02-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
...Why would they take the eyepatch in the first place?
condemnedone: (Et je l'ai vu sourire)

[personal profile] condemnedone 2018-02-04 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Huh. ]

...And so, they could be carrying it on themselves right now. If they're that careless.
stavros: Kokoro smiling and blushing as she looks over her shoulder. ([a] hope i can do it)

[personal profile] stavros 2018-02-04 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Precisely. So either there's a third weapon, another person injured, or something we haven't considered.
carbide: (B10F. Fire walk of fortitude)

[personal profile] carbide 2018-02-04 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Or kept it intentionally.
helldestiny: (huff)

[personal profile] helldestiny 2018-02-04 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
...

..................

......................................

Because...they...wanted to forget...it, wait...

[SHE'S NOT ANYTHING LIKE USAGI SHE'S NOT DUMB AT ALL SHUT UP]
helldestiny: (superior)

[personal profile] helldestiny 2018-02-04 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would you keep something like that intentionally?

[SIN AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE EVIL OR SOMETHING]
fuckthemancers: (I found the pot of gold last night)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2018-02-04 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[....He feels bad for you, Sin.]

Well, I suppose if they were particularly prideful or masochistic enough, they might have wanted a trophy.... especially if they thought they could get away with it.
condemnedone: (appelle la brume matinale)

[personal profile] condemnedone 2018-02-04 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be that when the killer ripped the eye from Niles' socket, they ended up accidentally taking the eyepatch along as well. In the heat of the moment, they brought the eye along with them and presumably had the eyepatch tucked away when they went to dispose of the eye along with the pitchfork. It's at that time they could've forgotten the eyepatch had been taken in the first place.

Though, that still brings us back to the question as to why they would toss the eye away at the well.

[ ... Unless it's because of something really fucked up ... ]
carbide: (B02F. Marshlands of misfortune)

[personal profile] carbide 2018-02-04 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
That could cover any number of things. There is a blacksmith shop
helldestiny: (ruminating)

[personal profile] helldestiny 2018-02-04 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[wut]

That's just dumb. Keeping a gross and uncleaned eyepatch doesn't change anyone's Destiny when the dude's already dead and you're not planning on bringing him back!
Edited 2018-02-04 19:06 (UTC)
fuckthemancers: (I found the pot of gold last night)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2018-02-04 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
With a blacksmith that's constantly asleep....

[ s i g h ]
carbide: (B02F. Marshlands of misfortune)

[personal profile] carbide 2018-02-04 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
For use as materials.

[...Etrian Odyssey logic.]

Page 4 of 21