hijackers: (kate 3)
Mugsi Tocatta and Kate Durango ([personal profile] hijackers) wrote in [community profile] foolishmortals2017-12-09 11:59 am

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!
yayashton: Ryan, motioning his finger near his ear. (ryan: i'm listening!)

[personal profile] yayashton 2017-12-09 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely a great detective knows the proper way to drink wine. [Is he old enough to drink? No, but if you have enough money you can take your children anywhere.] You swirl the glass to introduce oxygen and smell the wine first, to determine some of the more subtle notes you might miss if you did something reckless like just drink it.
not_over_yet: (probably wants something)

[personal profile] not_over_yet 2017-12-09 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
And then one drinks it. Aside from the rather painfully obvious fact we were, until now, discussing pastries.

You are aware pastries are not wines, yes? No?
yayashton: Ryan drinking tea from a mug in the music room (ryan: drinking)

[personal profile] yayashton 2017-12-09 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're tasting it you would spit it out, actually. [He's just saying.] But maybe the better question, detective is how could you bake a pastry and have it be poisoned? Heat causes chemical changes - it might cause a poison to become inert.
not_over_yet: (...are you still here?)

[personal profile] not_over_yet 2017-12-09 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Given the pastry in question caused no harm and the victim was stabbed multiple times while attempting to flee, it's entirely possible there was no poison involved. Making this discussion rather pointless, really.

Besides the facts that it needn't have been baked in, and that cooking alone hardly destroys all harmful qualities in foodstuffs.