Seventh Trial

[candlelightsflicker]

[Once again the stretching room descends and the Hatbox Ghost seems impatient.]

Ugh where's that Serling guy's stupid death elevator when you need it? This is taking forever.

[But soon enough you arrive in the trial room, now with Freddie and Jyn's voodoo dolls on their podiums. And your 100% new friend Hatbox Ghost is there too!] 

If you guys don't all die next week, I'm installing the death elevator.

[TRIAL START]

Comments

[not_over_yet]

No arterial blood spray is evidence to the contrary. [ Just. yknow. SAYING. ]

[hasit]

But was there any indication that she was poisoned, or strangled, or wounded some other way?

[sorrydoods]

[Soos can't help but raise a tentative hand at that question.]

Um, maybe? I looked through the medical room, and a bottle of pain relievers and a bottle of muscle relaxants that was missing. Is it possible to...to overdose on those?

[hasit]

...Well, as much as I'm no expert in your Earth medical tech, theoretically, yes. Did anyone find the empty bottles...?

[not_over_yet]

...I take it back, that's evidence.

Do you know what sort of each...?

Mods?

[sorrydoods]

Um...let me think for a second...

[What kind of muscle relaxants and pain relievers were missing?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Metaxalone and Ibuprofen.]

[sorrydoods]

It was...metaxalone and...ibuprofen.

Does that help?

[not_over_yet]

...

[ Victorian vs modern pharmacology. ]

No.

[ Basil vs outright-admitting-he-doesn't-understand. ]

...

[ ...Maybe, later,, ]

[upgradeit]

. . . Is it ibuprofen or acetaminophen you can't take with alcohol?

[He doesn't know, fam.]

[sorrydoods]

Um...I think it's dangerous to have alcohol while taking any sort of medicinal drug, really.

[upgradeit]

No, but one of them is really bad with alcohol and you can't take it after a hangover. I think? I don't know, chemistry's not really my thing.

[hasit]

Jyn was in the bar last night, but...

[Leia shakes her head.]

I can't recall for the life of me if she was drinking or not. We were too wrapped up in conversation.

[stanbyme]

That’s a lie by big pharmaceuticals to make you buy all the different kinds of drug.

[...no, Stan—]

Aspirin is a blood thinner, though, that’s not fake.

[upgradeit]

. . . No, I'm pretty sure they're chemically different.

[stanbyme]

Oh, sure, maybe chemically. But functionally it's all the same. You got pain, you take it, you don't got pain.

[Stan, is your plan here to piss off Ford enough that the sheer force of his WELL ACTUALLY breaks into the manor or...]

[sorrydoods]

Um...I'm not really sure. I've never actually drank alcohol too much before.

[Until he got to this mansion, that is.]

[angelgoatdemon]

I mean, I gave Gaston some while he drank some weeks ago, and he's clearly still alive

[stanbyme]

Unfortunately.

[angelgoatdemon]

It was either him or the duck. But he's harmless, I think?

[athleticallyinclined]

Of course I am! My body's much too strong to be affected by something so tiny as that!

1/2

[angelgoatdemon]

[not_over_yet]

If we completely ignore that arteries do not bleed tidily like that, then no.

[hasit]

Basil, we get it. You're very intelligent. I'm not here to argue with you, I just don't want to make leaps we can't prove unless there's evidence. Which it seems like there may well be.

[not_over_yet]

[ Oh for-- ] That was not my point.