♪ my class trial, our class trial ♫

[heroicpolonaise]

Who: Everyone + Hiro if ori wants
When: January 12th, then anytime past January 15th
Where: Common Room
What: please let's wake steph and also maybe prove miyuki innocent if he really is
Warnings: tbd

[there is no gentle way to do this on the pda.

but you know what that is perfectly fine they were doing CSI rp earlier what's one more--]

All hands, round up.

Think we've got as much as we can right now, so let's settle in and work it out -- together. Come to the usual meet-up spot as soon as you can, and we're not leaving until the perp's worked out. Bring your own joe and a wit sharp as can be, because we are in for the long haul.

Detective Akamatsu, signing out.

[...

a-anyway.

meng yao's done his best to preserve one (1) stephanie meanswell and she's currently laying on the couch in a state some may find familiar and others not at all, but she's very much alive -- if barely. have your shock and surprise, this is going to be once all evidence is collected icly. also after noah and kaede make a grave for miss vp god rest her soul.

...

hiro is allowed to be here, if he wants, if only because part of this is his sister's death and one of y'all had BETTER take care of him.

there are no snacks, no drinks unless you byoj (bring your own joe), and kaede will wait until... all or presumably all are filed in before she speaks.]

I hate to say this, but you all are easily more experienced with this than I am... Still, there's no reason to wait on this when one of our classmates has turned up dead, and another [she is assuming stephanie is theirs] is in the state that she is. I don't want to think one of us had anything to do with it, but turning away from the truth only invites more pain--

So let's lay out what we know and try not to go at each others' throats about it.

[please. even the most unbelievable, impossible happenings have roots to them, and she wants it solved -- not just for hiro's sake, who's pain is something she can barely imagine, but for stephanie and the vice principal, too.]

[links:

○ investigative miroboard
○ round up one
○ round up two

Comments

[notsosou]

[He is also CONVINCED the wolf is back and not having a great time about it. At least Sidney has an axe again?]

There's an exact time the dripping blood stopped... I happened to take a photo just around then. She was stiff as well, so rigor mortis had set in, too. Don't know if that helps but... Maya's key was on her. [He just took it... maybe that was a bad idea. Especially if there's going to be a search.] So it's the Vice Principal's we're looking for.

[He kneads his scarf in thought.]

Star One is where Subaru is... [He knows because:] Natsume and Helena also sleep there, but I think you can see why Helena couldn't have done it. Don't know where Miyuki's room is [because it's not on the Locations page, weeps] but while we're looking for missing keys... a dorm key where it shouldn't be could also be a clue.

[Shin not everyone is as concerned with keeping their room locked as you.]

[carpevinum]

Ah, thank you for the correction. I appreciate that.

[Lucifer like, someone somewhere has a goddamn key, idfk.]

I definitely do not believe Helena is capable of murder, no. [Natsume... was possessed when he did his. It remains to be seen whether the real Natsume is capable of murder; Lucifer believes that most people are, but that's not for here.] That is a good point on the dorm key where it shouldn't be, however.

[Lucifer also locks his door, not necessarily because he thinks he's in any danger — he's too holier-than-thou for that — but because if Sidney and Clamor get hurt again he might actually say fuck it and wreck the entire purgatory.]

With regards to the hammer, however... Shin, you're a smart young man — do you know how to dust for fingerprints, or do we have the supplies to even try in the first place?

[notsosou]

[Shin's returned wariness means he can't say Helena couldn't murder... but how would she know she was grabbing the exact color match of hair for sure? It just seems like the sort of thing someone who wouldn't have to think about it would come up with. He also... has some bias himself.

He never learnt that Natsume was possessed, so it seems more likely to him. Some part of him is drinking in the praise, and so the rest of him is deeply, reflexively suspicious of his own reaction, evening out to neutral on the surface.]

As far as I know... you put a powder that will stick on and then tap the rest off. [He's working off osmotic knowledge rather than having practiced it himself.] Then you use tape to get a copy and look for matches... We'd need to get everyone's fingerprints to know for sure... assuming Subaru and Miyuki's don't match.

[A herding-cats task, but if they're looking for keys anyway... Bonnie, you're up. More practically, Kaede seems like she could pull off getting everyone to do it.]

I haven't touched the hammer's handle, just in case. It might still have them.

[I'm going to say Shin took it out of the student council room by the bloody head and stashed it somewhere safe prior to the meeting, just so evidence tampering isn't an issue with it.]

[taketori]

Oh. Uh.

I don't really have a permanent room. I remembered floating around a bit when I got here and wasn't sure if any rooms were open.

[ he's. been really tired. ]

[starrypoint]

If you're not the murder, you can stay with us!

[...

looks at available roommates for thoughts]

[crystallomancy]

( shaking his head )

[starrypoint]

[.....]

[crystallomancy]

( ...... )

If it turns out he didn't kill the little wolf, then whateVER. The little bat's the one who has the last say THOUGH.

[starrypoint]

[!!!!!]

[taketori]

If that's not too much to ask.

[ WHICH. APPARENTLY IT IS????

the whole 'i didn't murder anyone' thing, not so much the roommate thing ]

[starrypoint]

[second for ease,]

Actually, are you cool with rooming with a girl?

[taketori]

If it's not just me and her, then that should be fine. I don't know about sharing a single room with a girl.

[ unless it's shinomiya. actually, not even if it's shinomiya. he hasn't gotten that far yet ]

[starrypoint]

Perfect! Lena [is a bit of a spacecase right now and doesn't look like she can exactly say anything against it according to mira] won't mind either, she's used to sharing with guys~. But remember, that deal's out the window if her blood's on your hands. ☆

[he won't share the room with the killer of one of his dear friends... he has standards]

[taketori]

--You know, saying that someone won't mind is a set up for a massive misunderstanding to come later.

[ what if he's loudly practicing his singing. what then. ]

I assure you, that's not the case. Still, that's a reasonable request.

[crystallomancy]

( .......... )

Third question: are you comfortable sharing a room with a murderER?

[taketori]

[ ......... ]

Pardon?

[crystallomancy]

( he asked what he asked! where is the answer. )

[taketori]

[ wow he feels like he's being set up............. ]

Well-- I can't say I'd be 100% comfortable with it. However, given the nature of this school... I guess it would depend on how murderous they are. Maybe.

[crystallomancy]

Five peoPLE. Four while poSSESSED, and one done while completely luCID.

( ...for good reason, but some people don't think there is a good reason to kill anyone. )

[taketori]

[ A pause. One while lucid... ]

Not comfortable at all, honestly.

[ Well, RIP that plan. There really isn't a good reason. ]

[crystallomancy]

...You're all the SAME.

( but alright, he's turning away. at least there are people here who haven't killed anyone yet this year. actually, they outnumber murderers really...

oh. )

You should think about how you got those tallies someTIME, Shirogane-kun. Not every one of them is victimHOOD.

[notsosou]

[First Inaba, then this guy... Do they know that Star 6 is currently completely empty? Probably not, because Shin got in the habit of keeping an eye on who was where in case he had to move out and by the time it stopped being relevant it had become habit. Subaru's offered, at least. Hm.]

That makes things harder... Would be nice if we could know if someone left the dorms last night, wouldn't it?

[It's stacking up, because it Miyuki wasn't in the dorms there's no one there who can provide an alibi for him either. Miyuki also... yeah, looks very tired, would he even have woken up if hair was being taken from him?]

Ahaha, it would be funny if our murderer had to waste time tracking you down...

[Either that, or they came across him on a whim, but this feels a little too pointed for that. Miyuki is the only student council member on who this trick would work. That's if it is a setup.]

[taketori]

I'm not sure how funny that actually is, Hiyori. However, presumably, strands of my hair wouldn't be difficult to find in that room. I can't control whether or not I lose any of it.

[ READING YOUR MIND, but honestly why else would they track him down? ]

Honestly... I'm starting to worry about us running into a dead end here. Even though we've figured out some details, it feels like we haven't moved very far ahead.

[notsosou]

[He glances away...]

...S-sorry, that was rude.

[Hm. Maybe the hairs were taken from the student council room? Pocketed while cleaning? That could have made it a bit more of a spur of the moment action... Which would mean either Subaru's hairs were an afterthought or it actually was Subaru.]

Right... We've been making progress but it's been slow... Doesn't feel like we're much closer to the actual culprit.

[It's a different pace from everyone frantically shouting at each other for thirty minutes, interspersed with Sara holding various items up to people's faces but... even if there isn't a time limit per se other than Hiro's patience, they can't talk in circles forever.]

Well, there's still the fingerprinting. Everyone's here right now, but someone has to go get the equipment...

[He's already digging through the files of his memory and inference for the list; some kind of powder... flour? Talcum powder? Tape, paper, an ink pad... a brush? And then the hammer from where he hid it, of course.]

Don't wait up. I'll be quick, ahaha.

[He's gone... these death game characters and their vanishing abilities.]

[taketori]

Fingerprinting? But-- hey!

[ No use, he's gone.

Fingerprinting? This is actually starting to sound like an actual investigation-- but that's still a surprising step. Nobody even said "dust for prints" or anything. ]