week 5 - day 2 trial

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 5 trial, day 2 ♫ sunday At 9AM, every television will go off, loud enough to wake anyone sleeping. The calm, apathetic voice will advise everyone to gather in the chapel for the trial. Static will continue to blare in the head of anyone dillydallying. Once all of the guests have gathered in the chapel, the doors will lock. Most of the pews have been moved aside to allow for more space, and a few tables have been set up on the altar. On the first, there is an additional copy of the rulebook, and the information cards of the victim and suspects laid out, with space for the suspects to provide their whereabouts, as well as an autopsy report. There is also a large wheeled chalkboard upon which you may write theories. On the second table is a pitcher of water and some glasses, as well as very simple sandwiches and pastries. The door behind the altar has finally been unlocked. It's a rather plain room with an area set off by a folding screen. Inside, you will find a table on which the victim's body has been laid out. Next to the table, two black and white photographs have been hung on the screen. they are close ups of the victim's body, as it was found when the body discovery announcement chimed. A few sticks of incense burn in the corner to avoid any smells. At 6PM, the trial will adjourn, after which everyone is expected to have cast their votes. >Discuss? victim suspects VOTING ( voting closes at 10PM CST ) cast setting rulebook

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Autopsy Report

[vicedirector]

On the table, the following has been laid out carefully next to the rulebook:

Autopsy Report - Cheshire

Cause of Death - Appears to be burns from gas explosion

Body Discovery - Approximately 5:00AM

Time of Death - Approximately 5:00AM

Condition of Body - Left side of body covered in third-degree burns, lesser burns elsewhere. Left side of body riddled heavily with shrapnel, lesser shrapnel coverage elsewhere.

Condition of Scene - Victim found laying in the kitchen along with Lucy Steel (unconscious and burned)

Suspects

[vicedirector]

On the table next to the autopsy report, the information cards of all suspects have been laid out. Below the cards is a blank sheet of paper, labeled:

Whereabouts - Thursday Evening to Friday Morning, Week 4

previous alibis here

Findings

[vicedirector]

The rest of the table is empty. There are boxes labeled Exhibit A through Exhibit J, and pens and paper for writing.

All evidence and other information found during the course of investigation should be listed here.

previous findings here

bill's room

[muties]

[ in roxy's scrawling cursive ]

searched by astrid n i
bill's room is a goddamn mess but no evidence
there was a potato
he has no fashion sense and doesn't brush his teeth, eats too much candy
also found some weird runes.
someone help this guy
do we need a drug rehab

- rolal

Cheshire's Room

[earie]

[ Lazy cursive: ]

Super empty. Obviously didn't sleep there much.

In the nightstand he had a notebook with a drawing of him and turtlekid. His notepad had tears and scratches in places. Super boring. Sorry.

-Chanel #3

Lucy's room

[detanimetion]

Searched by Undyne and Alisha!

We didn't find suspicious. Lots and lots of pink clothes? Cute though! Otherwise, everything was normal.

Urashima's Room

[minogame]

Found Mr. Cheshire's keys, bell, and a picture in my safe. The picture is a little torn and scratched. Maybe from his claws?

( Assume Gilbert puts the picture and the keys in one evidence box and Urashima places the bell in the same one after.

There's a note by the bell in Urashima's handwriting, )

Please don't let Mr. Break or Gilbert handle the bell. -Urashima

Inaba's room

[hopefragment]

[Fairly average handwriting again!]

Faize and I investigated Inaba's room. There were no signs of tampering with her door or the lock on it. There was nothing out of place in the main room. Faize was able to get into her laptop, but after going through the whole thing, all we could really determine is that she really was playing eroge, like her alibi says.

[Please take the laptop to Church.]

More importantly, I found a loose screw that must have come from one of the vents in the bathroom, and a lot of dust was disturbed in there. It's likely that someone or something was in the vents to Inaba's room. I couldn't fit through the vent to find anything else.
-Hinata

[Attached to the writeup is a small screw that sure does look like it came from one of the vents in the rooms!]

Clover's room

[dhaosu]

Searched by myself and Yoite.

As usual, nothing of note was able to be located. Except that there was an immense amount of glitter everywhere to an obnoxious extent.

- Dhaos

[dhaosu]

[ Speaking of evidence, Dhaos goes to observe the scarf a little more. Does it look misshapen in some way? As if it were cut from something bigger. ]

Satori's Room

[mothercat]

[ Link! Neat print, occasional awkward letter or hesitation before a word. ]

Definitely the room of a writer! It smelled heavily of ink and there were a bunch of blank pages under Satori's bed. Hanyuu found more papers in the safe but I doubt they're relevant for this case. I didn't see anything too unusual in her room.

Oh, but I think Hanyuu mentioned something about a can of tuna in the bathroom.

- Ranulf

Body

[vicedirector]

Behind a discrete folding screen, in the room behind the altar, Cheshire's body has been laid out on a simple white table. His body is covered with a white sheet, but the sheet can be removed. Other than the position and the sheet, the body has not been changed from how it was found.

Near the body is two black and white photographs of the scene as it was when the body discovery chimes rang yesterday morning. The photographs are close ups - they portray Cheshire's body, but no more of the scene than is necessary to do so. Still, if you want to check his position, it makes it fairly easy.

(You may thread in this subheading to investigate the body)

previous findings here

[herbgrace]

[Looking at the body time! Lithuania will check out Cheshire's nails. Are they claw-like in human form? Does he have any metal caught in his claws/nails?]

Talk to Miata

[vicedirector]

summary?

[dhaosu]

After the explosion Lithuania, Poland, Hinata, and Roxy discovered Cheshire and Lucy lying in the kitchen. Despite initial appearances, Lucy survived the explosion, albeit in critical condition. Cheshire was not as fortunate. It would seem he bore the brunt of the explosion and died.

The door was, unsurprisingly, blown open and shrapnel was found littering its surface. Pots and pans were strewn about and the counter-tops were barren: every item once resting on them had been pushed onto the floor by the blast.

There was evidence of tampering on the stove, notably on the gas pipe it's connected to. From this, we can conclude the explosion was caused by a gas leak.

Two items were found at the scene of the crime. The first was Inaba's notebook. It was found underneath the fridge. Inaba theorized her notebook must have been stolen and we've yet to determine the validity of this claim. The second item was a match book, this was found near Lucy. The box was missing one to two matches.

A third item was found at the pool. The item in question was a serrated knife, though currently its purpose is unknown. It could have been used to wipe off evidence or sabotage the gas pipe. Although noting its current state it is likely the latter. Yet another item was found in the laundry room: it was a pink scarf coated in kitchen grime. I suspect the culprit must have been in a rush as the scarf was found in the dryer.

During the trial it became apparent that Cheshire's most important item was missing; it is plausible the reason he took it off was felt his life may soon be in danger, though the reason why is unknown.

Assuming the knife found in the pool was the same as the weapon used to sabotage the stove, we concluded the culprit must have been active between 7:30 - 10 PM.

The suspected are: Bill, Satori, Inaba, Lucy, and Clover.

There was... some discussion concerning sins. Lucy is a virtue, and hers is diligence.

Lucy and Clover claim in their alibi they were in their room around the supposed time the set up occurred but that remains to be seen.

As we proceed through today's trial, there are a few things we should consider: why the culprit tossed the knife into the pool, why Cheshire took off his bell, and how the scarf factored into this, with the grime and grease wiped upon its surface?

[herbgrace]

We may want to consider the idea of the scarf being used both to allow the killer to work behind the stove without getting grease on their actual clothes and as a framing device--there are two people on the suspect list who wear a lot of pink, after all.

[hopefragment]

Hey, um... I have a question. Has anyone tried to get into the vents in their rooms yet? I found a screw loose in Inaba's bathroom, and a lot of the dust in the vent behind it was pretty kicked up.

There's no way someone my size could have fit through there, but... there weren't any signs of lockpicking on Inaba's door. It seems feasible that someone could have crawled through her vent for... some reason and stolen her notebook.

[herbgrace]

The vents? [...] Cheshire could turn into a cat.

kitchen examination part two

[herbgrace]

[Okay, at the suggestion of Dhaos, Lithuania has returned to the kitchen to see if she can figure out based on where the shrapnel did and didn't land, as well as some other factors, where Lucy and Cheshire were at the time of the explosion. She knows where they ended up, of course, but before that part. First, where exactly did that shrapnel come from? The inside of the stove?]

[vicedirector]

( All evidence points to the shrapnel coming from the stove. However, the stove is pretty demolished... the racks are broken, the metal is twisted and bent, it looks like the shrapnel consists of parts of the oven itself. )

#VENTGATE

[vicedirector]

( Please gather in the hotel lobby to shove tiny people through vents. )

[fourleafcleaver]

[SIGHS HEAVILY, undoes her pigtails because this is a small space and she has...so much hair... one messy bun and a boost from Undyne later and Clover is HEADING IN, VENTGATE HO]

[dhaosu]

... Lucy I am going to need to see your machete.

[ Suspects hand over their weapons all the time so he thinks this is only natural. ]

[americanbeauty]

[She looks... so confused. So Confused. That is a super reasonable request by the way but uh....

She doesn't have it with her.]

It's in my room. Why do you need it?

VENTGATE RESULTS

[fourleafcleaver]

I couldn't fit in the vent. Like, I couldn't even get in past my shoulders, so no one else would be able to, either.

[She's untying her hair from its bun as she speaks and getting dust everywhere in the process. Also probably still on Undyne's shoulders right now tbh and announcing this from her perch ]

[muties]

So much for vent races...

So, it had to have been Cheshire as a cat, right?

[herbgrace]

Cheshire's claws are a match for the scratch marks on the gas pipe. They're not a match for what severed it, though.

[Ignore the bleeding scratch on her arm.]

[earie]

[ No. ]

Uh, are you going to... do something about that?

[minogame]

Since no person could fit through the vents and Cheshire's claws, it looks like he was the one who fixed the stove to explode.

He probably cut the line with the knife but because of his claws, he ended up scratching the other things too. He couldn't even write without scratching the paper in his room and my room. If he was involved... that explains why he left his bell in my room too because it's important to him and maybe he didn't want to get it damaged or for anyone to hear it? But I'm pretty sure he was wearing it when I saw him last so he must have taken it off after we went to sleep...

I think... he must have messed with the stove before he came to my room because Miss Lituania ( he thinks ) said the pool is off limits after 10 which is around when we went to sleep anyway.

But if Mr. Cheshire was behind the explosion, how did he get himself killed?

[herbgrace]

You were very close friends with him. Did it seem like he would have any reason to kill himself? Did he mention his motive for this week to you at all?

[herbgrace]

[...Hm.] Bill's alibi says he was in the kitchen around nine and then took a walk outside around eleven on Thursday.

[lastgirl]

He also went to the laundry room at late night too. I think I'm ready to kill him over this.

[Buddy you can't even vote, but misandry.]

[detanimetion]

Okay, let's go over everything we know so far! [SAVE CLOVER 2K16 IS UNDERWAY] Cheshire was planning to kill someone this week, which is why he took off his collar so no one could hear him. At some point between 7:30 PM and 10:00PM, he used a knife and his own claws to slash up the gas pipe - probably to target Gilbert so the stove would explode in his face when he tried cooking breakfast in the morning - then dumps the knife in the pool. He also uses the vents to steal Inaba's notebook to frame her, assuming that's not just a super complicated self-framing job. Then after that, the real killer sneaks to the kitchen and tampers with the stove again so it wouldn't go off when Cheshire planned it to.

Assuming she's not the killer and we can trust what she says - which I totally believe! - Lucy leaves her room at 4:45 AM the next morning. Cheshire asks her to make breakfast for him, probably expecting the stove to explode and kill her. When it doesn't thanks to the killer tampering with it, he goes up to it to examine it himself. At this point, the killer triggers the explosion - how, we don't know yet, but it probably had nothing to do with turning the stove on since we found the knobs in the off position.

That explains a lot of the evidence we've found, but there's some we haven't figured out yet that's probably tied to the killer instead of Cheshire! We don't know how the scarf was used - since it's silk, Cheshire's claws would have probably ripped it into shreds if he tried handling it, so I'm betting our killer had their hands on it instead. We also don't know who lit the matches or what they had to do with the explosion. They were found near where Lucy fell, but I'm pretty sure she said she wasn't the one to light them? And we still need to figure out how the killer triggered the explosion without ever being in the room!

One more thing - Gilbert suspects that someone else other than Cheshire came up with this plan, since it doesn't sound like something Cheshire would think of himself. So unless he's wrong - which is possible, since he was super wrong about Cheshire not wanting to murder anyone this week - then we're likely looking for Cheshire's accomplice and not just some random person who happened to notice the stove had been messed with.

[aumygoddess]

I think it is fair enough to assume that the matches were used to trigger the explosion. When a pilot light on a stove is broken, the only way to light it is with matches.

[herbgrace]

Lucy, Cheshire was trying to fix the oven, right?

[americanbeauty]

I think? He was messing with it while I was trying to leave.

[americanbeauty]

I lit the match.

[She is shaking violently, barely holding herself together with bandaged arms.]

And Clover had nothing to do with it so please leave her alone.

[princessantly]

... Lady Lucy... [ Biting her lip now-- ] But why?