trial 4; baby, it's cold inside

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WHO KILLED CHRISTMAS?

Starshine and Brasco assemble everyone in the room. The room is extra foreboding and cold after the events of last week, and the raw egg evidence as well as Rider's body have been preserved in the room, so tread carefully.

Starshine slams down the paper for this week with all the suspects and laughs, turning to Brasco and gesturing wildly, pointing at him. "J'accuse, Brasco! This whole time, we've been pointing figures at each other but there was one man we never pointed at. And it's you! And actually, all the rest of the people on this list, too." She looks back at the list and taps it gently, "Oh, yeah, one other thing, I need you to write two names on your paper. Assuming you actually vote, unlike you abstainers," she says it the way someone in the 1950s might say communists. "I deduced that two people definitely killed the two dead people, so have fun with that." She claps her hands, "get to it, my minions!"

11 GUESTS REMAIN

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[acherontiastyx]

[...honestly, as a Certified Bad Boy, he's not really mad that he's a suspect.

but you know.]

Okay, so the fact that you never named yourself or the other two as a suspect this whole time is totally friggin' arbitrary. Aight. I see how it is.

[princesstarshine]

Um, no, the crime just didn't fit them. Or me. I'm flawless, I'd never murder anyone.

[acherontiastyx]

Uh-huh.

Anyway. Detective Guzma here with the evidence. In the foyer, I found a little cookie trail leading to a message saying "One down, two more to go" in blood like some kinda messed up scavenger hunt. There was also a bloody meat cleaver by the doorway. I checked it out in the kitchen and it seemed to match up with Sugimoto's, uh. You know. The decapitation.

There was a bloody handprint on the fridge, and like... the cabinet seemed to be wired up to electrocute somebody? There was a wire goin' out of the cabinet, going to the light switch and the doorknob. I thought that might've been what killed Sugimoto, maybe... but when Chuuya and I lifted the fridge off Sugimoto's body, there was a knife going through his chest all the way out his back.

[thedifferencebetween]

[Huh. Look at that.]

[Jack has been very much keeping to himself this week, whatever attempts he'd been making to organize and prevent more death entirely abandoned. He looks tired and drawn and angry. His main response to seeing his name on the suspect list is to snort to himself.]

I can't believe you're still frigging making us go through this bullshit....

[princesstarshine]

So don't? I gave you playing cards last week.

[thedifferencebetween]

Not the point and you know it. Honestly, I'm amazed only one of you three has been offed by now.

[thatdarkmage]

[ He looks up at his face on the suspect list.

Of course he just smiles as he usually does. ]

Hmm, I wonder how many people here would actually agree to being your minion.

[thedifferencebetween]

My roommate's a robot, robots are made to be minions.

Just saying.

[ident17y]

[ Looks at the paper, nonchalantly shrugs. ]

Threats usually work better if there's actually something behind them, you know.

So about that evidence. Also, attendence check.

[theothermrgray]

[In case anyone noticed the gaping hole in the back of the chair and the blood on the floor, Dorian's standing near Rider's body with a bloodied hot poker in his hands.]

Ladies and gentlemen, in my hands is the murder weapon used to kill Miss Rider. Judging from the amount of blood, I suspect she has been stabbed in the heart. I must also point out the position she was found sitting in, how limp and lifeless her arms were in comparison to the rest of the pose she was left in.

[He fidgets with the poker, trying to keep the blood off his hands while simultaneously trying to keep some manner of calm.]

Anyhow, I would like to ask something of the suspects... How many of you attended the slumber party last night? That might narrow down our list.

[thedifferencebetween]

I would rather have eaten my own tongue than sat around kumbayaying it with a bunch of assholes and idiots who don't do a fucking thing they should in a life or death situation.

I said it before and I'll say it again, you die at this point, it's your own fault.

[acherontiastyx]

I was there. I mean, it was my room which I graciously let y'all stay in because it's less creepy than a lot of the other rooms.

[thatdarkmage]

Oh, I didn't go. I was thinking about it but I suddenly fell asleep in my room.

[ Henry doesn't attend many parties, to be fair. ]

[ident17y]

No, it would have been a waste of my time.

[ Have you ever seen him at anything social, the answer is no. ]

have some more evidence

[doublesmall]

Sugimoto's head was in the library, and they didn't bother cleaning anything up, either. Left the blood trail and everything and sat it on a table with this book propped in front of it.

[he sets the book on the table, there, displaying the smeared, bloody handprint on its cover. unfortunately it's too smeared to get a good match off anyone's hand, but he's brought it anyway.]

I took a look at the head, too, and they did a pretty clean job of it, far as the decapitation goes, so whoever was using that cleaver knew what they were doing. They didn't just hack it off.

[thatdarkmage]

What kind of book was it? Do ya know?

[ He's curious, just because. ]

[brasco]

That's really not funny.

[He scowls fiercely at Starshine, because rude??]

Look . . . this is kinda neat, all right? Obviously I didn't do it, so that gives you like . . . a fifty/fifty shot at solving this, you know? I think that's right . . . yeah! Fifty/fifty.

[doublesmall]

Well, you're still on the list, so let's have your alibi and get that out of the way then.

[transparentanswer]

"One down. Two to go."

Someone wants you in the shed. It might have even been what killed Thug.

I thought it might pertain to Sugimoto or Rider's killer, but I'm wondering if it's someone else entirely?

Not to mention the meat cleaver is the same thing that was used to kill Ries...

[princesstarshine]

You guys are taking soooooo long. Okay, lemme give you guys a few extras we might've missed along the way:

[ for reference this is shintaro's evidence ]

So first of all, the pantry was a mess so Thuggalo is rolling over in his grave. All the shelves are broken. There were some weird-ass gold slivers on the ground that were pretty small and there's a dented Folger's coffee can. That's your pantry evidence. Woo!

So, I'm not a detective or anything but as a model citizen and queen of detecting, I'm going to tell you try and put all the evidence together. Two murders, two sets of evidence. Put your handy dandy notebooks to use and split up the stuff. Reconstruct that shit for each other.

Or, don't, but if you take long enough, I'm just going to pick people and put them in the shed.

[theothermrgray]

Gold slivers...?

From what?!

[ident17y]

Or we can just pick both of you.

[ Why work when he doesn't have to. ]

CATHERD TIME.

[theothermrgray]

[This is getting ridiculous. Dorian smacks the hot poker against one of the tables to get everyone's attention.]

Alright, can we stop rioting for a moment and actually think this through?!

If I'm not mistaken, there were two murders committed by two murderers. Perhaps if we can sort out which room is involved with which murder, we might get closer to an answer and an escape instead of getting us all killed!

[acherontiastyx]

Well, crap, I don't feel like dying and I'm pretty sure I'm near the top of the Princess's list of people to shove out in the shed, so uh. Let's talk about these freakin' gold slivers and the coffee can.

So. Somebody got in a fight in the pantry I guess. Seems like there was a struggle. Maybe we should just strip or something and see if anyone has bruises.

[thatdarkmage]

Eh.

I liked your earlier suggestion better, so I went with that.