foolishmortals | MOCK TRIAL

"Alright, mooks, everybody make youse way down to the trial room, pronto!"

[There's certainly no trial room on the map. No trial soundstage, no trial room, where oh where could they be talking about. You might spend a long time looking for it, or only be thinking about it for a single second before it comes over you.

Whenever you close your ears, or even blink, you find yourself there.

The room is a cartoony laboratory, filled to the brims with scientific equipment and beakers beyond wondrous, almost impossible to imagine being utilized in any sort of actual scientific context. A large monitor is mounted on the ceiling, playing a single clip on repeat along with the words "IMAGINEER THINK TANK". There is a large stage underneath that television, which your two hosts take their places at quite readily.

A circle of metal podiums is set up on the ground floor, 26 in total. Each is marked with a name and a photograph of the individual who's supposed to take their place there, as well as a keyboard for inputting...something. The 26th podium is marked with a grayscale photograph of Gwenpool.

Your fellow participants appear in the room one-by-one, seeming to "digitize" out of nowhere. Once everyone has appeared in the room and taken their place, the air around them seems to go deathly still.

Mugsi holds a cigar between her lips, lighting it from a stick of dynamite lit by Kate. With Mugsi taking a deep inhale, Kate speaks, the dynamite somehow fizzling out.]

Each of you has a place you oughta be sitting, and your job is to solve the mystery that's been put before ya. Once you think you know who did it, input their name on the keyboard in front of you. Majority rules, participation is mandatory, and if ya vote wrong you're not gonna see the light of day ever again!

So, get on with it!

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....I may have tasted it.

[She looks away.]

I admit it was unwise, but I had to be sure.

...

[what the fuck cinderella]

I mean, ya do what ya have to do. But please don't put yerself in danger.

I'm sorry. I didn't meant to cause any trouble.

Ah, don't apologize, ma'am. We're all friends here.

[except for whoever is the murderer of course]

How else would one check for poison? It's not as if we have access to a laboratory.

[ RANDOMLY TASTING EVIDENCE IS NORMAL ]

By...assuming it's not poisoned? Where would we even get poison?!

...From beneath the sink? Do you have any idea how many common substances are deadly under the right circumstances?

Oh....oh. Oh. You're right. But what if the murderer had eaten the thing, as well?

....Rat poisoning...

[She says this very quietly.]

........................

[WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.]

. . . You'd smell it. At least smell things that might be poisoned before you go around tasting them!

[ Hades has frozen over, she's agreeing with Ryan. ]

You'd absolutely smell it. Please no one go around putting things in their mouth that could be dangerous.

[See, he's more reasonable than at least two people here.]

Humans do have a rather limited sense of smell, as I understand it. And not everything has a uniquely identifying scent.

[ Basil you're making your own argument worse here. ]

It's better than accidentally poisoning yourself. Seems like a pretty stupid way to go.

. . . Taste is half smell. I doubt tasting anything that's potentially poisoned will tell you much you can't gather from smelling it and it keeps you from potentially dying.

Taste is only half smell.

Did you listen to anything I said after that? I didn't know being small also compromised your ability to hear.

[If you're gonna be an Asshole, Basil, two can play at that game.]

What is it you do, again? Someone who routinely determines unknown properties by scent? You do, of course, have some sort of practical experience backing this doubt?

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....I said I was sorry.

[ Oh, great. She sighs. ]

Just be careful. We don't want anyone else getting hurt, if we can help it.

If you want to taste or smell chloroform, go ahead and knock yourselves out.

Luckily I didn't find any, and if it's relevant, there was broken glass with what looks like water previously containing it.

Where was this? In the restaurant, right?

Yup, right by the food and all.

Couldn't see any fingerprints or anythin' on the glass, so I think it wouldn't be helpful for this case.

Fingerprints or not, if it was by the scene of- well, one of the scenes of the crime, it's probably still important. Hmm... Could that be a sign of a struggle? If someone knocked glass off the table.