week 8 - trial

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week eight trial



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[teenspirit]

[ Sonia and Felicia return from their experiment in the dining room. Sonia addresses the others with concern. ]

Everyone kept saying that the scene felt very... manufactured. And so, I began to wonder... about the bolt behind the mantle. With the clock, and the note, it seemed very... convenient.

Felicia and I set the crossbow again, and she shot it back into the wall. But... the first bolt that was there, the one that presumably knocked down and broke the clock... It does not seem like it was fired. It seems more like it was... well... I am not sure how to explain it. Stabbed into the wall, maybe. It was not embedded as deeply as the one Felicia fired, and it came out very easily, unlike the other one.

I think that the conclusion to make is that the clock is not a good indicator of the time of the crime at all. The killer only made us think it was 11:00 PM. That... with the note... I think they are both misleading.

Which means that... we might not know the actual time of death.

[obsideo]

Which means it really could be anytime between 6 PM and 6 AM like the autopsy said.

But we have to figure out why the killer would do something like that. What are they trying to hide?

[teenspirit]

Really... any time one of us claimed to be sleeping, the crime could have occurred. No one's alibi is very good...

[obsideo]

But no one's alibi was good to begin with.

[teenspirit]

[ She nods grimly. ] It's all so confusing...

[obsideo]

It really is.

I'm going to be honest...if you weren't the one who found the crossbow thing, I'd be really suspicious right now, because you're the only one who that clock would clear.

But I can't see why you'd go to all that trouble to test it out.

[teenspirit]

[ She looks startled. ] I hadn't even thought of... [ Maybe, to preserve her own alibi, it would have been best not to do it, but... That isn't what matters here. ]

...But it's all right. It puts everyone's alibis on even ground, now.

[vytis]

[Lithuania isn't surprised by this, really.]

Normally I would say the killer would have tried to hide a time they didn't have an alibi for, but no one really has much of an alibi for that time of night.

[teenspirit]

I cannot imagine why it is this way. Actually, learning this information does not set us forward... it sets us back.

[vytis]

It's still better to know they wanted us to think it was at eleven than to believe it was actually at that time. There must have been a reason the killer wanted it that way, we just have to figure it out.

[teenspirit]

Maybe it is a red herring inside of a red herring... I am not sure.

[vytis]

Like--they wanted us to believe that they wanted us to believe it was at eleven?

[No that is too confusing he really hopes it's not that.]

[teenspirit]

G-goodness, I hope not! What a headache!

[humanic]

Which makes our alibis even more useless than they already are.

[And then he winces.] Uh, I might have actually took the bolt out when we were investigating to see if there was any blood on it before putting it back in, so that could explain why it came out more easily. Sorry about that. But I was careful about reinserting it, I know I didn't change how deeply it was embedded or the angle of entry or anything like that.

[teenspirit]

[ STILES. ]

E-er...! Did it... come out easily the first time...?

[humanic]

[DOING HIS NATION PROUD]

Um, I don't really know how easily crossbow bolts usually come out, but it wasn't hard? Like all I had to do was pull it out, it wasn't stuck in there or anything.

[teenspirit]

Then... I cautiously submit that the discovery still stands.

[humanic]

[He nods.] It doesn't change the fact that the hole wasn't as deep as the one from when Marlow fired it.

Are you sure it wasn't fired though? Crossbows aren't exactly my area, but would firing it from further away change how deeply the bolt was embedded?

[teenspirit]

I cannot be entirely sure. My nation does not fight with such archaic weapons. But it has a powerful recoil. The room was not that large, either.

[pasodoble]

( It isn't really Spain's area of expertise but, )

The further the arrow has to travel, the more speed decreases. The less speed there is, the less damage it inflicts so if it was shot from far away, it's possible.

[throe]

Then the note has to be a red herring too if that entire scene was set up as a means to distract us.

[teenspirit]

I think so. And it lends to another conclusion...

[ She trails off, wondering if Rapture will get it. ]

[throe]

You don't mean... that Poland locked himself in there, do you?

[teenspirit]

It is possible. What if in his last moments he tried to fire at the fleeing killer, who slammed the doors shut just in time...?

[ She's not sure how this would line up with the possible death-by-curtains thing, but... ]

[throe]

But what about the curtain? Or his own body blocking the other door? That just opens up the possibility that he set it all up, but... that just seems way too complicated. More complicated than the scene the killer fabricated.