sevenvices | week 8 - trial; day 1

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week 8 - trial; day 1

seven vices case 8 trial, day 1

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saturday
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. Everyone will be escorted back to the hotel by Miata, after which everyone is allowed to head to either the kitchen to get dinner, or to their rooms. Attempting to wander off into the other areas of the hotel will trigger the static alarms in everyone's heads/televisions.

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[Well Undyne had been distracted during the trial because of foul slander against her name, but now that she's in front of Clover's (kicked in) door, she's back to depressed again. She hadn't exactly wanted to confront Clover's empty room yet, but she didn't want to back away like a coward and let someone else do it instead.]

I...don't know how useful this'll be. She didn't sleep here and we know where she was and what she was doing before she got killed.

[ Break shrugs as they enter, though he'll immediately head to the safe, since that's one of the easier things for him to check. Hopefully the room isn't too messy, since he might trip on something, but. That's up to someone else and how merciful they are to poor grandpa!! ]

To be completely fair, these are rarely useful at all, are they? Alisha's spear was quite the exception.

[ He pauses, then adds: ]

...Though regardless, I'd say these searches in particular aren't quite for that.

[So the good news is that even when Clover's staying in the room and making a mess of it, her standard for cleaning is "a blind guy could probably get through here without falling and dying" because that's what happens when you meet right at the junction of being a lazy teenage diva and caring a lot about the blind resident of your household, so Break is safe! There's a lot less clutter around the area since most of her stuff is in Undyne's room, but she's been in and out at least once a day for the most part to shuffle her things around and put things away (she hasn't trusted underhell enough to not lose small important things there tbh) so it's not completely barren. Her scattered mess of clothing items and some paper and wrappers is all shoved against the walls, so probably no tripping here!

When Break opens the safe he's going to be met with an absolute shitload of glitter pouring out of it, this isn't even some stupid joke, Clover literally tipped her safe backwards so she could fill it with glitter, close it, and tip it forward again so anyone who opened it would be fucking doused in glitter why the fuck was she the way that she was CONGRATULATIONS, BREAK

He's not going to see that there's a pillowcase, tied off to protect its contents from the sparkly onslaught, with some stuff in it at the back of the safe, but that's there. There are a couple of sheets of paper sticking out of the glitter pile, too, and anyone with actual eyesight would be able to see the edge of a piece of paper taped to the side of the safe and still mostly obscured by the remaining glitter. You're gonna have to dump all the glitter to get to all this shit honestly Clover why.]

[She'll head for the desk first, since she figures Clover's beds wouldn't have gotten much use.] I dunno, we did find a bunch of stuff in the rooms during Cheshire's trial. But I get your--

[And then she turns around just in time to see Break get absolutely covered from head to toe in beautiful pink glitter. There's a brief shocked silence before Undyne fucking loses it, pointing at him and howling with laughter so hard that she can't even speak.]

[ For the second time today, he's really not sure what he expected here. He opens the safe innocently enough, and the sensation of what falls out is confusing to him for a moment, since he still doesn't really understand what glitter is, but. He remembers getting glitterbombed once. He (probably) just got finished getting it all off? And now he's here again?

There's a moment where he just sort of stares in disbelief at the safe, since he can't believe this just happened to him. But then Undyne's starts laughing. ]

[ He turns sharply on his heel as his expression quickly turns to one that's more familiar to Undyne than anyone else by now. It's the stupid, flustered expression of deep offense, but it's not exactly anywhere close to intimidating. With how his face heats up so that red reaches his ears, it's truly an embarrassment. ]

It's not funny!

[ But it totally is, though.

Break whips back to the safe, since he decides he's not going to give any further response to this! Though he's also resigned to his fate, so he just pats around in the safe to see if there's anything else in it. He feels the pillowcase and takes it out, at least, and he'll open it up to take out what's inside. ]

[it's HILARIOUS clover's ghost would be thrilled if she could witness the proceedings

Dragging out the pillowcase just gets more glitter everywhere because it's in the very back; good job, Break. It's also knocking all those papers around and onto the floor, someone with functioning eyes please deal with these???

Inside the pillowcase there are a shitload of letters in envelopes and bundled up in twine, and a couple of pink scarves and ribbons and pieces of jewelry—they're all Lucy's things, the letters she asked Clover to deliver and a few of the accessories Clover had taken from her room. And now Break is getting glitter all the fuck over them after Clover made a point to keep them isolated from glitter hell look what you've done.

Meanwhile, Clover's bedside table!! There's a bookmark at the top right corner of the desk with red ribbon tied around the top and a four-leaf clover on it. The ring Poland gave her is right beside it.

Her pad of paper's in the drawer. A bunch of pages have been ripped out, but the one on top has a lot written on it! It looks like... a deeply detailed recipe for spaghetti??? It goes on for pages. It includes instructions like "do NOT punch the spaghetti!!!" and "the stove burners aren't there to be befriended, they're just stove burners, but good effort, Papyrus." There's a spaghetti troubleshooting Q&A at the end of all of it. The last question on it is "I'm having a spaghetti problem that isn't on here!" and the answer is "Then come and find me so I can help." and then, written below it at an angle like it was added as an afterthought, "Turn off everything and put out the fire before you leave the kitchen to find me!!!"

...Trying to teach underhell to cook was an Experience. She figured having a guide to refer to would make the transition out of spaghetti hell easier. It has a bunch of places where things have been crossed-out so she probably meant to rewrite it and make it neater.

There's some bows and jewelry in the drawer, too. There's also a small bundle of envelopes wrapped together with a ribbon. The one on top has Undyne's name on it.]

[Break's extremely familiar expression just gets her to laugh harder.] Your face - it matches the color of the glitter, ahahahaha! [AND OFF SHE GOES AGAIN.

Eventually - far too long for Break's preference most likely - she manages to get herself back under control.] Ahhh, don't worry Break, you look beautiful! You should let me paint your nails so we can match! [He can't see them but yeah she is totally rocking a rainbow glitter manicure right now.

BUT OKAY RIGHT THEY WERE HERE FOR A REASON. The spaghetti recipe gets her to smile, though it's melancholy.] I'll have to get this to Papyrus later.

[And then she notices the envelopes and stills.]

...looks like she wrote letters to people too. [She'll unwrap them and check the names on each of them.]

Edited 2016-04-10 04:15 (UTC)

Sh- Shut up! I don't need my nails painted!

[ Wow, did he stutter? He must really be flustered! He unfortunately feels around the things in the pillowcase, ignorant of the havoc he's wreaking on all of Lucy's belongings... But he doesn't get a very good sense of what's inside, so he sets that aside for Undyne to inspect them. Otherwise, he'll just pat at the safe until he finds the paper, then pull that off for Undyne too.

With the glitterbomb successfully detonated, Break will go to inspect the bathroom next.

...And also try to wash his hands of the glitter. He will fail. ]

[Clover's toothbrush is missing from the bathroom, and so are all of her towels and hairstyling products because they're all in Underhell but the bathroom's clear otherwise. Now it's glittery, too.

The letters are labelled for Undyne, Hajime, Buddy, Urashima, Rhys, Sans + Papyrus, Break, and Poland.]

But you're already covered in glitter, you might as well complete the look! [LET HER GIVE YOU A MANICURE BREAK LET HER BRAID YOUR STUPID CAT HAIR she doesn't even really care about these things but she wants to do it just to bully him]

And she'll pocket the letters and check out the closet next.]

I'll hand her letters out after today's up. Do you want yours now?

[ Break sighs as he washes his hands, even though he can definitely feel the grit that lets him know this a futile effort. He discovers that her things are gone via patting for a towel and finding none, so he just ends up covered in glitter and with wet hands. He tries to shake them off, but he ends up just having to pat his pants, which just gets the glitter promptly back onto his hands. ]

I assume her toiletries are in your room?

[ He asks to confirm that it's nothing out of the ordinary, but as he goes over to check her clock and television for anything out of place, he pauses when Undyne says that he has a letter. This seems to genuinely surprise him, and it gets him flustered again in a different, very awkward way. ]

Er— She... left one for me? Really?

[ He definitely sounds like he doesn't believe this, but it's not because of Undyne. Break just has a hard time believing that anyone here would give him that kind of gesture. Honestly, he's a bit humbled by it. ]

[The closet is mostly empty because most of Clover's clothes are in underhell, but there's the occasional stray dress and jacket and skirt. Also there's that puddle of safe glitter, y'know.

The clock is a little beat up because Clover is a mature and reasonable person who deals with her problems, like alarm clocks magically plugging themselves back in and stress and anger in general, by throwing alarm clocks at things. It was the least important thing in the room, okay, it could afford a beating.]

Yeah, plus most of her clothes since she was spending basically every night there. Like I said before, I doubt we'll be finding any actual evidence here.

[While she's at the safe, she might as well check out all the letters and papers that Break had found but couldn't read.]

Of course she did! You're her friend, aren't you? [STOP BEING TSUNDERE BREAK...] You really think she wouldn't leave something for you?

[ Break nods, since he had wanted to confirm. He's probably the worst person to do a room search honestly, but he Tries, if nothing else. And gets glitterbombed for his efforts.

As he touches the clock, the dents and damage get him to breathe out a short laugh, though the slight fondness is quick to turn to something more awkward at Undyne's explanation. There's a pause, since he's truly not sure what to say, but he just ends up being a friendless loser. ]

...Well, no. [ He realizes that this isn't clear which question he's answering, so he adds quickly: ] That she would leave me something, I mean.

[ He withdraws his hand, and unsure of what to do, he just rubs at his neck briefly. ]

I wouldn't have expected anyone to call me a friend.

[The paper on the side of the safe reads up top in big letters, "INSTRUCTIONS IF I'M DEAD." In only slightly smaller text below, it says, "If I'm not dead, put the glitter back, close the safe, and leave." She hasn't left nearly enough room for the actual instructions underneath all the big angry letters so they're written very small in her usual curlicue and signed off with her usual four-leaf clover doodle:

"1. The papers in here are all part of a letter for my brother. The address is on the envelope. Don't seal the envelope yet!
2. Undyne gets the bookmark on my table for now. It should go in the envelope before the letter gets sent out.
3. The pillowcase is full of Lucy's stuff. That should go to my brother, too.
4. I stole Gilbert's idea. Letters for you guys are in the bedside table.
5. I don't know where Rhys's shoe ended up but if you find it then hide it somewhere new and exciting."

The papers are all spilling out of an envelope with an address to an apartment in Nevada written in the back. She's written "Clover Field" and no address in the top corner and the name it's addressed to is "Light Field."

Most of the papers are loosely folded into each other, or are at least close enough to each other that it looks like they were supposed to be together. One sheet of paper is loose, though. also hey look everyone else's letters are there too

The other papers are, as mentioned, every page in the instructions and profiles booklet copied down word for word. She had a lot of spare time during paranoia week, okay. There's a lot of space between each profile blurb so Clover could add to her own notes as she wanted, but there are totally notes for everyone if we want to snoop.]

[Break gets a surprised look from her at his comment, not that he can tell.]

...really? That's dumb. [WHOOPS JUST BLUNTLY TRAMPLING ALL OVER HIS SHITTY ISSUES HERE] You might act kind of sketchy, but you're still a pretty likable guy, I bet lots of people here would call you their friend! I know Rhys would, and I do too.

[And she'll go back to reading Clover's instructions since clearly that is way more important than embarrassing Break with declarations of emotions and friendship.]

She left some instructions on what to do when she died. The pillowcase and papers you found both go to her brother. She wants me to take care of her bookmark for now and seal it in the envelope to her brother later.

Most importantly, we have to find Rhys' shoe and hide it again. [And off she goes to look under the bed to do just that!]

[ Yet even so, her bluntness is probably the best way to approach it, since the phrasing just gets Break to laugh instead of denying the sentiment. He knows some fairly blunt people, but still, hearing it dismissed that casually is surprising and humbling all at once. He doesn't join in the search right away, since he bows his head lightly with a soft, almost fond smile. He seems to be thinking of something, but he also doesn't share what it is. He's happier without the embarrassing declarations, so he'll keep it that way.

After a moment to regain his composure after his surprise, he'll check the other bed to do the same. Or whatever is left??? I'm bad at room searches, so I hope you didn't write a note identifying your killer, Clover!! ]

...If you wouldn't mind, I would appreciate it if you'd read it to me.

[ This is actually a step up from the last time he got letters, though admittedly, Gilbert's are a little different. Still, he's asking for help, which is as much of an acceptance of friendship as anything when it comes to Break. ]

When you seal up the bookmark, let me know. I can add it to her things.

Edited (right the other half of the commen) 2016-04-10 06:19 (UTC)

Got it. I'll keep it in my safe for now.

[She's also happier without embarrassing declarations, so she won't comment on his expression. Instead, she opens up his letter without any preamble and clears her throat dramatically.]

"Dear Break - you should definitely let Undyne paint your nails with glitter polish! Also eat more actual food, you can't live off gross sweets forever. Love, Clover."

...I'm kidding, I'm kidding! [And she'll read his real letter now. She tries to sound irritated when she reaches the end of it, but her voice mostly comes out fond.]

I don't even have fire magic, I have no idea what she's talking about.

[spoilers there's a piece of paper at the bottom of Rhys's shoe identifying not only her killer but every killer thus far but no one thought to look this entire time. also glitter polish wasn't in the letter but let's be honest with ourselves: it's what Clover would have wanted.

the beds are clear, though, if unmade disasters. where the fuck is Rhys's shoe, is it under one of her piles of crap, is it in underhell, did the annoying dog take it, is it in Sans's trash tornado, who knows]

[ Break scoffs at Undyne's first attempt, since as if that's true, but he at least waits patiently for her to get to the real thing. His smile starts out just as warm and distantly amused, but as Undyne keeps reading, it also grows warmer and softer, though there's a definite twinge of regret in his expression.

Just what that regret may be at is harder to guess, since it's definitely not something he wants to elaborate on. Getting these kind of warm words at all is far more than he expected, after all. It's just simply a part of the way that Break thinks and interacts with people that the idea that people would like him enough to leave behind a letter is surprising.

(And of course, there's no small part of him that feels like he doesn't deserve such a thing.)

Though luckily those depressing thoughts are kept to himself. Undyne would dismiss them anyways, but even so, it's the sort of sentiment that he really doesn't like to share in the first place. He nods once Undyne finishes, and even though it's not as if Clover is the one telling him this herself, he still feels like he should respond to it all the same. It feels like the least he can do for such a kind gesture. ]

...I'll at least try. [ Which could be to stopping Undyne from setting things on fire, or it could be a returned sentiment to "good luck." Either way, he sighs, then recollects himself. He does hold out his hand for the letter, since surprisingly, he'd like to keep it. ]

Is there anything else?

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week 8 - trial; day 1

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honestly i'm glad i have an icon where break is covered in glitter

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