FIFTH TRIAL

[umbralant]

Trial V

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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:

"If you don't make this trial go like I want it, every single person in this room is getting vivisected!"

It has been a couple hours and she's still furious. It doesn't seem like her mood is going to improve anytime soon...if ever. Behind her, Rembrandt doesn't seem very impressed with her gratuitous threat. At least she probably won't get to make good on that threat, hm?

Let the trial for the death of Dist the Rose 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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bathroom

[raventhaw]

I investigated both the women's and men's restrooms in the gym. The women's restroom had nothing. The men's restroom's trash can had some wet paper towels.

[ she reaches out and puts one of the paper towels out for people to inspect. she unfolds it. ]

They had these black marks on them. Smudges. The sink was also wet.

[galrarm]

Just the black marks? No blood?

[raventhaw]

No blood. Dist was shot; there'd be no need for the killer to get their hands dirty.

...His hands dirty. [ she didn't fuckin do it!!! ]

[galrarm]

Fair enough. I was thinking there might have been a chance someone tracked blood through the shop, then had to clean it up.

[ the black marks though... let's take a look! As someone familiar with both guns and mechanic work... does it look more like gunpowder/residue from cleaning a gun, or just straight up grease? ]

[raventhaw]

True, but Mikami mentioned the killer left behind nothing. No footprints or anything of the sort.

[umbralant]

[ Given that the black marks don't soak through the paper towel, it's not grease. There isn't that much of the black residue caked on the towel, and seeing as it was wet it's smeared too. In short, it's conceivable it could be gunpowder residue but it's not a definitive conclusion. ]

[deadlygoals]

[ who wants to lick it ]

[galrarm]

[ DO NOT, ]

[moonfang]

Give me that, you weenies. [ Zangetsu will take one of the towels and rub some of the residue on his fingers.... is it greasy, or powdery, or totally dried to the towel? He’s also going to taste it. Yolo. ]

[umbralant]

[ There's not that much on the paper towel, so dried to the towel at this point is pretty much all he's going to get. Tasting it though—

The two prevalent tastes that come through immediately are bitter and astringent, with a tang right after he swallows. There's a slight charred taste that lingers after, with something of a bitter salty note that is definitely going to be hard to get rid of. ]

[moonfang]

[BLECH.

Zangetsu sets the towel aside and takes out his water jug, gulping a bunch down. And also rubbing his tongue on his shirt]

It's so bitter... but it also tastes kinda burned...? Hm... Hey. Does anyone have a bullet? Or the gun from the scene?

[deadlygoals]

[ OMG.

Dazai will offer up the shell casing he found at the crime scene. ]

[moonfang]

[Zangetsu takes the casing and puts his little pinky finger in the inside of it, hoping to get some residue. If he does, he will also just... BARELY... touch it to his tongue. He doesn't need the whole experience to know for sure, thanx]

[galrarm]

[ oh my god ]

[umbralant]

[Well, it tastes similar enough to what he had before; bitter, astringent and burnt, but there's also a slight note of metallic sweetness(??) there too.

Delicious.]

[bawcock]

[ welp, we're watching this happen now ]

Uh, so you're... what, trying to figure out what it is? What are you even comparing it to?

[moonfang]

Well, we weren't gettin' anywhere just lookin' at it...

[reanbeans]

...Residue?

[raventhaw]

Seems like it.

[reanbeans]

Gunpowder residue...or could it be leftover from an ability like Klados?

[raventhaw]

The only one of us who has Klados -- that we know of, anyway -- is Mikami.

[pr159]

To be fair, Dist did as well. From the examples we saw before, though, it seems like there would have been a lot more than that to clean up.

[raventhaw]

Agreed. I don't think the killer would have had enough time to clean all of that and any other tracks they may have left behind.

[reanbeans]

Maybe the killer didn't need to worry about that. Considering what Rem said.

[ So, yeah. ]

But, it's still possible that in the middle of this, before the residue disappeared, some of it got on the killer's hands, and because it made contact with a person, it didn't go away, and the killer would've had to still dispose of the residue somehow.

[ Though it's kind of just a theory. ]

[raventhaw]

So you think the black smudges are some of the residue. Well...I wouldn't rule out the possibility.