THIRD TRIAL

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Trial III

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From what you can see, all the lights in the opera house are turned on. Only when you enter and see the open doors that lead into the main theater, you can see that room's lights are currently turned off. It's very dark in there.

Like before, Rembrandt escorts everybody to the stage. In the dark you still can see the many blue-eyed things you may be getting used to. They're still very scared of Rembrandt, staying as far away from the assistant as possible. The stage is illuminated by the spotlights, the only light in this theater.

The Lady and Rembrandt are at their balcony. She stands up, addressing the group:

"After the fiasco somebody I won't name caused yesterday, I'm glad to see someone else had the courage to do what was needed. This time it's a valid murder. To the culprit: I wish you good luck, darling. Let's see you get away with this murder."

Someone seems to be pleased, unfortunately. Anything that makes the Lady pleased can't be good, can it?

Let the trial for the death of Olivert Reise Arnor and Sirius begin.

[OOC NOTE: From the halfway point of the trial and onwards, you'll have the option to ask the masterminds for the chance to get a hint! Be warned, though: the price will involve some body horror for your character. Keep that in mind when deciding to use this option!]

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[reanbeans]

[ He'll nod...though - ]

Wait a minute, I just remembered something.

Last trial when Pizza had shown me how Aufero worked, a welt was produced on the fish.

[psychophant]

Sirius mentioned having Aufero at the last trial, didn't he?

[reanbeans]

That he did. With Sirius being around last night, he's the most likely candidate for doing that to Your Highness.

[psychophant]

[Hmm...]

Perhaps he tried to give Olivert energy. He could have taken energy, but I'm not entirely sure why he would have needed it.

[reanbeans]

...I'm not sure why he would've needed it either.

[ Or, well... ]

Or...actually, if he thought he'd need it in order to help in his efforts in working with someone else.

[psychophant]

Or if he was trying to fight the killer. Though I do think at this point it's more likely that he killed Olivert by taking his energy. Still, it's too early to rule anything out.

[raventhaw]

That he did. There are still four people left whose powers are unaccounted for, though, so we should take that into account.

[psychophant]

[...he's one of those four, so he doesn't like it, but...]

That's fair. If we could determine what other power was used here, that might be able to help us narrow things down a bit.

[inordertobelieve]

Then we're back to the idea of him as an accomplice - or possibly the real culprit.

If the presumed ice burn was a sign of him taking enough energy from Olivert to put him into deep sleep that would explain why he passively froze to death.

[bawcock]

Whether he's an accomplice or the real culprit kind of depends on how we take the footprints, doesn't it? There's always a chance he carried Olivert out of the bar, but there's nothing that says Olivert didn't just follow him.

Maybe what happened was someone ran into Sirius while he was setting everything up—that could explain why there's such a large gap between their deaths. [ But, like, so would bleeding out tbf. ]

[notbymyside]

It would explain why Sirius' death was so violent too, if someone came across him murdering Olivert.

[p_q]

Quite foolish to use such a power when it leaves a visible trace, and he is a well-known user.

[Not that he’s completely arguing the point, because please see Hollow Exhibit B, but he’s here to be contrary, probably.]

[psychophant]

That would explain it, yes. If that's the case, he may have fought with the person who killed him. They could have a similar mark, or at least some injuries.

[pr159]

That does sound like it would likely line up.