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Ars Arcana Mods ([personal profile] arsholes) wrote in [community profile] arsarcana2022-04-30 12:54 pm
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fifth trial

[With the last piece of evidence collected, Heisenberg's voice abruptly comes from everywhere and nowhere once again.]

Ready when you are. Come on up, Apprentices. You know the drill by now.

[Time to get in your weekly cardio climbing all these goddamn stairs again. Per usual, the ascension takes several minutes, with one final door remaining locked than that first time. The shimmer of purple shield magic remains, blocking the apprentices from accessing it but they'll know soon enough if they make it through this trial.

Finally they reach the courtroom door. It's a bit singed and a little splattered with dried blood. You'd think the tower would have eagerly drunk it up...but perhaps someone left it as a message. The door swings open to reveal a small set of steps, leading up to an imposing round chamber with a tapered roof. Twenty podiums stand in a circle in the center, lit brightly from below. Each podium is made of dark metal with a colored crystal matching the individual dorms enclosed on a thick glass dome on top of it. As always, greyed out portraits of the deceased have been added- Olive and Bruno. The courtroom looks completely unharmed from Hubert's attempt on Wednesday.

Heisenberg once again is up on his scaffold. He pulls a gas mask off of his head and runs a hand through his hair, before settling his hat back in its usual place.]


Hope you've brought your best. And all the evidence. You know how this goes by now. Either one person leaves here, or ten of you get the reward of going back down to the Institute.

Better get started.
pegasinister: (32)

cw: emoto

[personal profile] pegasinister 2022-04-30 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hubert is here to do what he always does: talk a lot about gruesome things. But today the effect is a bit ruined by his clothing being his uniform pants and a t-shirt thanks to blowing up his last set of full clothing. GJ buddy. Speaking of blowing up, due to the short sleeves and the fact that he's only wrapped his eye up enough for decency, the scars from his near death experience are all visible all up his arm and the left side of his face. That plus the creeping dark magic marks... maybe the effect is not as lessened as one might think.]

I wish to assure you all of something first. From my investigation of the body I am sure he was dead before he was placed in the wall. He did not die trapped and helpless. I... thought you all would like to know that.

[he coughs dryly before moving onto the actual evidence.]

As Heisenberg stated with the report, Bruno was stabbed in the chest with a blade around the size and dimensions of a knife. The amount of blood on his clothing suggests he was still alive when the attack happened, but I found no indication that he resisted in any way. I can also say that the state of the body was likely affected by a drying agent of some sort:

[he places the potion bottle on his podium]

Which would be required to be replaced multiple times to do the job. I can only assume this was done both to hide the time of death and the smell. So we currently have no reason to suspect the time of death is any different from what Heisenberg claims even with how desiccated the corpse was.

There was no blood at the scene except what was on the body itself, so we can assume the killing happened elsewhere. I also found blood around his mouth, alongside dried white froth. This froth suggests excessive drooling, vomiting and possibly seizures, all pointing towards some brand of poison. I found sores in his mouth, throat and on his hands that also correlate this conclusion.

Finally, while I searched his body I could not find his compact, so we can assume it was likely taken by his killer.
cuttingremark: (angy)

[personal profile] cuttingremark 2022-04-30 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
If the drying agent had to be replaced multiple times, how was the culprit getting in and out of the walls?
pegasinister: (12)

[personal profile] pegasinister 2022-04-30 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
That I can't say. Unknown secret passages or a teleportation magic, perhaps?
encelevenemus: (take me down to the river bend)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not know if the lack of blood indicates anything. After all, I do not recall seeing any of yours on the ground following that recent incident.
rikonstructed: (7)

[personal profile] rikonstructed 2022-04-30 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The blood would ordinarily absorb from something non-fatal, but in the other cases it's remained long enough for us to investigate. I think whatever magic affects it would have not activated if blood were spilled during the killing.
encelevenemus: (take me down to the river bend)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...Perhaps.

[he clearly has Thoughts on that but he isn't going to argue. yet.]
pegasinister: (12)

[personal profile] pegasinister 2022-04-30 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Very true, this place DOES like to absorb it. Nuadha, Bryn and myself did an experiment with blood and found that the tower waits for a short time before taking the blood. With that long of a time between the death and us finding the body likely it was long gone.
reresurrected: (Uruwashiki Sekai)

[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Excuse me WHAT]
rikonstructed: (8)

[personal profile] rikonstructed 2022-04-30 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[He does not see or hear it!!]
reresurrected: (Gurenge)

[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[There will be Words later.]
replacementshield: (> Sylvain just cracked a Deez Nuts joke)

[personal profile] replacementshield 2022-04-30 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ really now!! ]
reresurrected: (Yume no Ukifune)

[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Why this]
cuttingremark: (get up)

[personal profile] cuttingremark 2022-04-30 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
reresurrected: (Gurenge)

[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a decent amount of blood on the ground near Azul-san's body, if that means anything. The color made it very difficult to miss.
encelevenemus: (wash the poison from off my skin)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
But Azul was outside, wasn't he? I do not know if the same magic applies to the grounds themselves.
reresurrected: (Yume no Ukifune)

[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that could certainly be true if the magic only affects the tower itself...
replacementshield: (> Get thee to a nunnery)

[personal profile] replacementshield 2022-04-30 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
If he were dying from some form of poison already I doubt he'd be able to provide any resistance in the first place.