FIFTH TRIAL

[rech]

[Today marked yet another death, and your good friend Randall is here to hype all of you guys up for this! As the room stretches, he speaks.]

You all know the spiel here, don’t you? Stretching room, I’m the Phantom, always my way, blah blah blah. We should get on with this. I want to see how it ends.

[A candle is lit and a voodoo doll placed out for Prince Kit. Your shitty ghost pirate friend is prepared.]

Trial start.

[TRIAL START!]

Comments

[not_over_yet]

Bit odd, taking a book back to one's rooms, and then going back for another without returning the first one. Possible though.

[bayoublues]

...Isn't that what libraries are for, though? Takin' out books?

[not_over_yet]

Usually one returns the book once finished with it.

[bayoublues]

[......]

Ohhhhhhhhh. I was wonderin' how libraries manage to stay in business.

[stanbyme]

Probably one of several reasons I’m not welcome in some libraries.

Or bookstores.

[nachosquire]

I mean, he could have finished the first one and then grabbed the other one?

[No one said anything about On The Road being missing, after all.]

[not_over_yet]

Also possible, though it does raise the question of how he removed said book from the library postmortem.

[nachosquire]

He didn't have to remove it after he died. He could have gotten it like, way before he was murdered and just... never had a chance to put it back.

[not_over_yet]

That leaves the question of his being there at all... I wonder if the body was moved.

[nachosquire]

It.. could be I guess? But I feel like we need more evidence before jumping to conclusions about that.

[Says Marco, the boy who wasn't even at investigation bc.. he slept in or something.]

[not_over_yet]

...Before deciding on a given theory, certainly, but why avoid suggesting possibilities?

[ ...Cause that seems kiiinda weird? ]

[nachosquire]

'Caaaause I don't really get how the book fits in with the murder, I guess? So I just wanna like, focus on one thing at a time y'know? Take it all step by step, otherwise we might as well just point fingers at everyone without any evidence to back it up.

[not_over_yet]

...That's not wrong, but. [ You're being weird, Marco.

Perhaps some sort of caffeination should be required for everyone before trials, that would likely avoid these scenarios... ] We'll return to the point later, should it seem more relevant.

[nachosquire]

Uh, okay. Sure.

[he's just a small boy who missed an investigation for once hes Confused]

[bayoublues]

Yeah, he was just gettin' started on On The Road, maybe--

Wait a sec. The book that's missin', the writer's name is...Kafka, right? With an A? The guy who wrote On The Road was called Jack...Jack, um....something with a K and an E. Which is after K and A.

[Louis seems to be struggling to come up with the words to phrase this idea. He looks like he's about to reach a conclusion, but--]

Maybe Kit just forgot to put it back.

[He's not very bright okay.]

[nachosquire]

[You're doing great, sweetie.]

Maybe he wanted to re-read it?

[bayoublues]

Maaaaybe? What's a met-o-morph..metamarf--whatever, what is that book about, anyways?

[nachosquire]

Metamorphosis?

[He didn't know what book it was but he got the gist from Louis' attempt.]

It's like... when something changes from a little caterpillar or worm or whatever into something cooler. Like a butterfly.

[bayoublues]

Ohhhh.

[He frowns. Basil had said what book had been missing, but how did that information help them in any way?]

Why would someone wanna read a whole book about a caterpillar turnin' into a butterfly?

[nachosquire]

[of course basil said that i'm Here i promise]

I'unno.

[Marco shrugs a little bit at that.]

He could have found it really interesting or.. I mean, I guess the murderer could have taken it but I don't understand why they'd want to?

[bayoublues]

[pat the blake]

Hmmmm. Weird.

[That's really all he can say on the matter.]

[athleticallyinclined]

He read more than one book?

[ Gaston frowns, disappointed. ]

I thought better of him than that.