TRIAL IV

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Trial IV

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The story presses onward as you gather in this now familiar "courtroom" to deliberate the deaths of two more of your number. By now there's more space for everyone with the population dwindling down to twenty, and by this weekend's end it will dip ever further. But maybe in a time like this more space is needed, though one most always be mindful of the clock.

Adora and Norton Campbell are dead, and the price must be repaid.

[OOC NOTE: Please keep in mind the only mod run checks are those that directly involve a piece of evidence found during the investigation. Those checks that involve player participation will rely on each player's willingless to partake in the check, for the sake of keeping IC choices intact]

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[incompletely]

[ God, what the fuck-- ]

I doubt sawing him up like this was the cause of death. Maybe the killer did it to hide the actual method.

[reallyfishy]

Yeah, I agree with ya. Definitely seems more fer disposal and coverin' up than anything.

[mirrite]

Or because they couldn't carry his entire body.

[gemuinemanagement]

Why was there a need to move it in the first place, though
They weren't trying to frame anyone this time

[mirrite]

Dunno, but it's clear they did move it. And dumping it in the water almost makes it seem like they were trying to hide it, though there's really no point there when we would've found it anyway.

[edamamepon]

To hide evidence, probably.

[mirrite]

And then leave the fight scene untouched?

[edamamepon]

They left the mess, sure. But they also cleaned up the blood in the store. So it's possible there was something else to obscure on the body, I think.

[mirrite]

[Hmm.]

Like whatever really killed him, in other words. Which probably wasn't something from the fight itself, or was something so immediately identifiable that we would know who did it.

Should there be a cw here? Idk dismemberment???

[edamamepon]

Exactly. It's hard to examine a cut wound if they cut into it and, uh, [ ugh bodies. ] you know, water damage.

[mirrite]

... yeah.

[Definitely ugh.]

[biyishuangfei]

So one reason they did this was to obscure the actual murder weapon?

[eternaljune]

Hmm...weren't there a lot of herbs missing from the apothecary? Could that have something to do with it?

[incompletely]

The fight scene, maybe.

But that doesn't mean the killer was untouched, either, if a fight did break out.

[heroicact]

Well, unfortunately... The lower half was never recovered. So in a sense, they did manage to obscure some of the evidence...

[mirrite]

Yeah. Which means we're outta luck on that part...

[reallyfishy]

What, ya think they carried him ta the lake piece by piece?

[Yikes.]

[mirrite]

Norton was a big guy... even I'd have trouble carrying that much dead weight around.

[reallyfishy]

Good point. Still...I think we'd need ta look at someone strong enough to be able to cut through bone, right?

[mirrite]

[He nods.]

Someone strong, but not strong enough to be able to carry Norton all the way to the lake in once piece.

[biqe]

Maybe someone who's physically strong but small enough that carrying someone of his height would be a problem?

[heroicact]

Norton was quite tall -- I think it would be a feat for many to carry his dead weight, depending upon how far the distance was... But there must have been a great deal of time and effort spent for this, so perhaps there is a particular height at which it simply becomes impossible to carry him?

[edamamepon]

But if he died at the general store, doesn't that mean they were strong enough to carry him somewhere else to be... you know?

[heroicact]

Everything is such a mess this week...

[That poor general store, seriously. Also F for Norton in general. He contemplates this for a moment, although he doesn't look like he likes to be contemplating it.]

Do we know... for sure where the deed was done? Was it the workshop itself, or was it someplace different? A saw is much easier to move than a body, after all.

[biqe]

It's at least worth looking at, I think.