week 8 - trial

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week eight trial



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[vytis]

[Lithuania is wearing his "all of my emotional nerve endings have been burned into uselessness" face again.]

I spent the night putting together a note I found ripped up in Poland's room. It's written in Polish, but I've provided a translation.

███ you ██████████ █0:3█
████ something ███████ Nobody
████ ██rhear ████ for ███████
Lithuania

[The blotted out spots are illegible because it was in a trash can Poland was throwing up in. Lithuania washed his hands don't worry.]

[inthebones]

This must be the real note he received. And he believed it was you because of the language.

...I recall Stiles saying before that he barely knew any Polish. Is that accurate?

[vytis]

I don't think he did, but I don't know for sure. Poland would have known, but-- [Sorry, he's having some difficulty this morning.]

[inthebones]

[Well yes.]

If it were meant to fool Poland, it would have had to be written perfectly. Sonia is from Novoselic and the other three are from... America, I believe. Are either of those countries near to Poland?

[humanic]

Lithuania wouldn't know that since he either forgot or never knew Poland, but I do. Well, sort of, my geography isn't exactly great. But it's across the ocean and like all the way in Eastern Eu--uh, farther away on the continent.

I've never heard of Novoselic though, can't help you there.

[inthebones]

[Susan really ought to make sense of this 'earth' sometime.]

Thank you, Stiles. You will, of course, say that you don't know Polish, I assume.

[teenspirit]

[ She chimes in: ]

My nation is 'tween... [ Suddenly she looks puzzled. ] Germany and...?

[ Her expression falls. ] I cannot remember the other one... nor much of Europe.

[inthebones]

...Germany doesn't mean much to me, either, I'm afraid. Your card does say you know over 30 languages. Do you have full command of all of them here?

[humanic]

...I don't suppose there's any chance you wrote this asking Poland for some late-night nookie here?

[vytis]

I didn't write it.

[Still sounding like a zombie, but at least he's to the point.]

[teenspirit]

Perhaps it was meant for you? [ For the nookie...??? ]

[vytis]

It was ripped up, though.

[teenspirit]

...Why does it look like such a mess? Why in the trash can?

[humanic]

Maybe Poland wrote it himself. Where'd you find it in his room?

[vytis]

Ripped up in his trash can.

[humanic]

[He frowns in thought.] What's with all the missing chunks then? Did you not find all the pieces in there?

[allice]

Hm. Would you say Poland was familiar with your handwriting Lithuania? It might not mean anything if he was in a state of delirium, but the way the last line only reads "Lithuania" might indicate who the 'sender' is in this case.

['Sender' because Lithuania claims not to have written it and he has no reason to lie.]

There's also the top of the line which looks like a time stamp. The zero as the tens digit means the time was like "10", unless the writer used military time, in which case "10" or "20".

[vytis]

The note was typed--I assume so handwriting wouldn't be an issue. As for the time--you have a point, there aren't many options for the missing number, are there...

[allice]

Ok then. So in military time, "10" and "20" represent "10AM" and "8PM". [She assumes Lithuania knows this, but just stating for the record for those who don't.] There's no way the murder took place in the morning obviously, though 8PM is more likely.

Alternatively, if we just say it's a 12-hour clock, then "10:30" would fit in line with the breaking of the clock. But that clock break itself is likely a red herring in addition to the fake letter.

[inthebones]

...

In other words, it's most likely that the true time of death was 20:30. And we're looking for someone who had an alibi for 11:00PM but not for 8:30PM.

[It wasn't looking good...]

But Sonia was the one who discovered that the clock was probably a red herring.

[throe]

[ Ah yes, the vomit note... Rapture keeps her distance from it after reading it. ]

Well that doesn't help us much.

[obsideo]

If Lithuania's name is at the end, I think it sounds like a letter from Lithuania. I think it sounds like a note to meet. It gives what looks like a time, and I think it's saying something about nobody overhearing. And if Lithuania didn't write it...

Could it just be that Poland destroyed the note himself, thinking it was a secret, and the killer went back to check that it was destroyed but couldn't find it?

[allice]

I agree. And it makes sense why it was typed - the true sender didn't want to take the chance that Poland would recognize Lithuania's handwriting and tell it was a fake. Poland writing it, on the other hand, makes no sense when the letter is typed because he would want Lithuania to know it was him.

Whether or not Poland destroyed it...well, he did in the end. [By vomiting on it aha.] Maybe the killer couldn't find it through the trash because of the...well yeah. [Vomit.]

That said, only Stiles and Sonia have enough grasp of the language to write a letter like this if we're assuming a suspect wrote it. I don't know a lick of it and I'm guessing the same goes for you Felicia.

[obsideo]

...According to Stiles, he doesn't know the language. But we can't take his word for it.

What we can take his word for is that, if the note to meet was written by the killer, it's less likely Poland was planning to kill one of the dispensables. So the crossbow either had to come from Annie or Sonia. Stiles is close to Annie, but...

[allice]

...I believe Annie when she said she only got food and water. Soldiers are trained to be efficient, in all capacities, and she would only get a target on her back if she picked a weapon as a prize. Especially child soldiers, who know of nothing else but a battlefield. Additionally I never found a crossbow when I searched her room after Minatsuki's trial, but she could have always hidden it somewhere else.

[She knows she's gotten a lot of heat for sticking up for Annie. And she doesn't think Annie was right to kill, but she also doesn't believe Annie would kill again.]