week 5 - trial

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week five trial



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[humanic]

There isn't anywhere near enough ash for it to be from a full set of clothing, or even just a shirt. It also doesn't explain how it got outside all the way by the fence - even if the ash got accidentally caught on the killer's clothes or something, it should have fallen off by the time they reached the farthest place away from the mansion we can get.

I wonder how much time this whole thing would have taken? Cutting someone up, running around the whole place with body parts, probably having to take a shower to not smell like death seeing as this whole room still reeks with it - it must have taken the whole night.

[inthebones]

...At this point, I would prefer having rooms that weren't soundproofed, frankly. I'd feel much safer knowing someone could hear me if I were being attacked. We seem to have slept straight through someone parading around the house carving Belarus up with kitchen knives.

The first person to awaken in the house usually does so around 5 - this was established in testimony in previous trials. According to Rapture, she doesn't sleep until 3AM, which means someone probably ought to question her as to whether or not she heard anything. In any case, I don't sleep until midnight and I'm certain there are at least a few who are still up and about at 1 from my previous observations.

That isn't much time to work with, all in all. Perhaps a span of 3 or 4 hours when they could be assured of absolute privacy .

[humanic]

When exactly are people going to get with the program that sleeping alone with the door unguarded isn't a good idea, especially if you're on the bottom tier lists? Though I guess it wouldn't have mattered if she and Altman were poisoned beforehand.

Then maybe they didn't have enough time to destroy the clothes or hide them well. Burning something that was still wet with blood would probably take a while, and they'd have to make sure the fire didn't go out.

[inthebones]

...The fireplace ought to be examined, still. I should say we should check the furnace as well, but I've never actually seen one in this house.

Failing that, we'll need to comb every room in the house - occupied, unoccupied, well-traveled, or secret.

[humanic]

I haven't seen a furnace. And if the two of us haven't found one by now, then the murderer probably hasn't either.

Oh boy, that sounds like fun and not at all a huge time sink. Maybe we'll get lucky and the bloody clothes will have been in the killer's closet all along.

[inthebones]

Precisely what I mean. Is it worth looking so thoroughly for bloody garments when we only have two days? What if they've been to torn to pieces and there's one piece in each room?

[humanic]

The problem is we don't actually have a lot of hard evidence yet. We have a ton of body parts and some ashes, but none of that points to a specific person, or even helps us narrow it down. If we can't find anything else, then we might as well look for the clothes so we've got something.

[inthebones]

...I suppose searching doesn't preclude thinking, either. What we need to think about while we run about the house is to determine who could have had the opportunity to poison Belarus and Mr. Altman and the means by which the poison was distributed.

I'm tempted to say we ought to test the flask, but it's only one use, after all.

[humanic]

Yeah, plus even if we do find it's poisoned, where does that lead us? Touko said that Belarus refilled her flask in the bar, so it still could have been anyone who knew her well enough to poison the vodka bottle before she got there.