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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.
replacementshield: (> What's that?)

[personal profile] replacementshield 2022-04-30 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
So, what, the killer was masquerading as Loki?
reresurrected: (Gurenge)

[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Which takes us right back to square one...
replacementshield: The Professor needed that tea set. (> Which idiot broke it again?)

[personal profile] replacementshield 2022-04-30 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...You've got to be kidding me!
cuttingremark: (collar)

[personal profile] cuttingremark 2022-04-30 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do we assume it was my visage?
sunshade: (☽ iamp » candle light)

[personal profile] sunshade 2022-04-30 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You two seemed quite close.

[ the way she says "close" is. hm.

she ships it ]
cuttingremark: (:|)

[personal profile] cuttingremark 2022-04-30 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[GLARE]
ghostsguysgyuudon: Taking in new information. (so that's why huh)

[personal profile] ghostsguysgyuudon 2022-04-30 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure, but everybody knew you two were trying to reconcile, right? Maybe they thought...
encelevenemus: (take me down to the river bend)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yours, or that of someone he would have thought little of allowing within range. The specific distinction is not yet necessary to make.
replacementshield: (> Ugh)

[personal profile] replacementshield 2022-04-30 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose it could've always been someone else. Maybe someone he thought he could trust, who'd appear harmless to him.
encelevenemus: (only a crack in this castle of glass)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
In this hypothetical, yes. Let us assume for a moment that Bruno did set out to poison himself for whatever reason. And let us then assume our culprit elected to take advantage of that--whether through mercy or merely a willingness to claim the motive for their own.

Obviously, the best course of action would be to inspire a false sense of security and lead their target into a situation making the act itself easy.
ghostsguysgyuudon: Gasping, standing behind Gorou. (didn't sign up for this)

[personal profile] ghostsguysgyuudon 2022-04-30 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
And then the same person as Bruno-san? Or a different person, to try and catch the one who did it by appearing as Bruno-san to scare them? I mean, if the knife person and the poison person were different, then...
encelevenemus: (take me down to the river bend)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I would estimate the killer to have then continued to use the cloak as Bruno. To what end...that, I am not sure.
rikonstructed: (5)

[personal profile] rikonstructed 2022-04-30 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering the use of the chemical... to disguise the time of death, I assume. Though that brings us no closer to 'why'.
encelevenemus: (warm me up in a nova's glow)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That is what I can not understand. There must be some reason for it, but what? To conceal one's own whereabouts and lack of alibi at the true time of death? Because whoever they were disguised as was known to be elsewhere at the time? Or something else entirely?
ghostsguysgyuudon: Nervous, being chided. (you didn't have to call me out that hard)

[personal profile] ghostsguysgyuudon 2022-04-30 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't get it either. If the killer were pretending to be Bruno-san and hiding him, I don't know why they would, since they'd have to go through a trial if they wanted to try to get out... or save their special person, either.

But if that theory from before, that someone tried to poison Bruno-san and someone else killed him with the knife to spare him, if that's true, then the second person would know they'd be the one to be punished. And they'd at least want the truth to be out somehow, even if it wouldn't benefit them! So if they hid Bruno-san and pretended to be him, then it might catch the real killer off guard, right? And at least they could expose that person before they had to be executed!
encelevenemus: (take me down to the fighting end)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[RECORD SCRATCH]

Or...they sought to prevent a trial.
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[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
... if that's true, it would eliminate everyone who was present at the seance yesterday.
encelevenemus: (wash the poison from off my skin)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly so. Which, unless the situation changes, leaves us currently with Katsuya, Loki, and Patchouli as Brynhilde clarified.
reresurrected: (Uruwashiki Sekai)

[personal profile] reresurrected 2022-04-30 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmmm don't like this!]
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[personal profile] spitessier 2022-04-30 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It's worth remembering the one to acquire that cloak was Bruno. That it was used in the first place makes one wonder how the killer got access to it in the first place. Perhaps Bruno gave it to them at some point, or the killer used the key for the trunk to take the cloak.
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[personal profile] twibeast 2022-04-30 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be within the realm of possibility for someone in the same dorm to do, wouldn't it?
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[personal profile] rikonstructed 2022-04-30 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I would think the ability to get access to the key or pick the lock would be more at issue. I don't think any of us keep particularly close watch over any of the rooms.
encelevenemus: (wash the poison from off my skin)

[personal profile] encelevenemus 2022-04-30 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe Orthrus may have a point. If one were to pick a lock or steal a key, would it not be easiest for a roommate to accomplish?
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[personal profile] twibeast 2022-04-30 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that's what I meant.
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[personal profile] spitessier 2022-04-30 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems right, but...

[Katsuya thinks it for a moment]

That bed...it had been left unmade. I'm not entirely certain, but if it had been someone from our dormitory, there's a chance one of the residents in our room would notice Bruno is there and someone else isn't. If, for example, Nuadha came back and saw Bruno and myself in our beds, and Hubert was absent, at the time they may think Hubert simply was somewhere else, but after hearing all this about the cloak they may think Hubert is worth suspecting because he wasn't there.

As far as people in our dormitory go, they'd be likelier to notice if someone from Conjuration is the killer, because we'd be the ones likely to think of this during the trial.

[Which is why he doesn't think anyone in his dormitory is the killer, really.

I hope I didn't butcher this logic and made it sound like nonsense, welp]

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