♪ 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

[dereban]

The weirdest part about this, for me, personally is that - okay, let's say hypothetically, someone had used fire magic, or let's go with a torch, something like that. What's odd is that her clothes were untouched at all to begin with. Makes it seem more likely that it was less... fire, and more of something else.

I'm not so sure about an accomplice, though. Adding an accomplice to the mix tends to make things a lot more difficult for the killer as it stands -- but I suppose it wouldn't shock me, either. There's a lot of work to be done, but given the span of time along with the added silence, I don't necessarily think that it's impossible for a single person to have done it. But I'm also not saying that it's impossible for multiple people, either.

There just... I don't know, hard to say that there's any proof one way or another.

[Just gives a vague wringing handgesture, followed up with a sigh.]

Anyway, going back around to the burns.

[And what was mentioned--]

Maybe they both ingested sulfuric acid, or some sort of other poison that can cause skin burns or something. If they care about merit points, they wouldn't have wanted to kill the vice principal. But what if they had no intention of killing the vice principal? What if it was just... an accident that the vice principal ended up getting killed? If they poured the poison into one pot and the two of them shared the drink from the pot, they'd both share the same inflictions, right?

[taketori]

Mmm... honestly, poisoning sounds possible, at least from Arisu's standpoint. From what I recall, there weren't any signs of a struggle, simply plenty of blisters on her body.

Still, that seems like a pretty careless way to go, not to mention that the Vice Principal's wounds seemed to be a bit worse.

[dereban]

Ahaha, it is a bit careless, isn't it? After all, you just might end up killing people that weren't your intentional target, huh~?

[taketori]

...

[ Eh? ]

I'm sorry?

[dereban]

...I'm saying that both Maya and the vice principal may not have been the ones targeted after all.

[taketori]

[ Miyuki exhales a bit. Okay. No need to go down that route yet. ]

That's a massive hypothetical. Was the murderer expecting to have someone over for tea or coffee?

[ It could be right, but... best to get these hypotheticals out of the way. ]

[dereban]

Perhaps, but think about the timing. For the sake of the explanation, let's just assume that the killer didn't know about Maya and the vice principal's meeting.

Now then, a question: who's left when all the classes and clubs end?

[taketori]

With very few exceptions... mostly just us transfer students, isn't it?

[dereban]

Basically. And there's even less people who have access to the student council building.

Well, this is all just a theory anyway, so I'd gladly like to be proven wrong about any of it if there's evidence pointing otherwise. And I'm not so sure if I even believe it, myself... just consider it mumblings of a tired woman.

[taketori]

...

No, I think you're closer than I was. Like I mentioned before, it'd have to be something corrosive. If it's ingested it'd eat away at your insides, and externally it would be enough to burn away skin.

In terms of access... discounting the other members, it was me, Ishigami, and Arisu. I don't think anyone else would have had access to, or been able to get into the room.

[dereban]

Well, it doesn't really get us anywhere regarding on who did it... just the methodology.

But yeah, given that nobody else would have access to it means that access in the first place was limited. And why the keys being missing is also - odd. Honestly, going at it by motivation right now feels wrong, though.

It's too much... speculating, really. I think it might be better to toss motivation aside right now and go back to figuring out who couldn't have done it by process of elimination.

[taketori]

So far, we haven't heard from anyone who claims to be strong enough to do this. Even so, that doesn't really explain how any of them made it into the student council room in the first place.

[ He's thinking about what words've been said at this point... ]

When we take a look at everything we have right now, and we don't add extra to what we know... how many factors could there be here?

[dereban]

That's where I'm stuck, too. I suppose there's also another possibility to take into consideration... the idea of the person who pinned her being completely unrelated to the murder altogether. Although if that's the case, I'm going to be real damn pissed.

[So she hopes that isn't the case.]

Okay, we just need to run it down over step by step. Take out any assumptions, just go by facts.