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

[hasit]

I have more evidence. [Leia pulls out a length of red yarn from the pocket of her robe. But first:]

In the greenhouse, I found a large pot overturned and the dirt spilled out of it. The dirt was disturbed, but I couldn't see any hand-or footprints.

Secondly, Jyn's Kyber crystal was missing. She always wore it around her neck, and I saw it with her last night. It's very unusual for her to be without it, as I believe it was...a gift from her parents.

Thirdly: [Leia holds up the string.] I found this piece of yarn in the mouth of one of those carnivorous plants. It might have come off the culprit's clothing as they were leaving.

[not_over_yet]

What is a "Kyber crystal"?

[hasit]

It's a mineral found in nature that is used to power a Lightsaber, the weapon of the Jedi. Jyn wore one around her neck.

[not_over_yet]

[ He. has no idea what most of those words mean. ]

It's a power source, then? Would it be useful to anyone here outside of sentimental value?

[hasit]

The only ones here who would know what to do with it would be myself and Jyn, and that's...I put 'know' in loose terms, since neither of us are exactly experts.

[upgradeit]

If it's a crystal, I would assume that it would need an external power source - basically I'm saying that since Rocket's dead, I'm the only one who could probably use it and if I thought I could, I would've just asked her.

[kickbuttseatnuts]

Oh. [She didn't know that about Jyn. Now she'll never got a chance to tell her on her own time.]

Disturbed how? Like someone was looking for something?

[hasit]

Hard to say. [She gives Allene a steady look.] It just didn't seem like it spilled out naturally that way.

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[She doesn't know what to do with that information.]

...What about the red yarn? Does it look like it came from a yarn ball or a piece of clothing or something else?

Mods?

[hasit]

Well—

[She lays it across her podium to inspect it.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Piece of clothing. Definitely not clean enough to be from a ball of yarn.]

[hasit]

It’s from a piece of clothing, almost certainly. We could...check everyone for tears in their clothing, and the color would be easy to match.

[kickbuttseatnuts]

That's what I was thinking, yeah.

[She's gonna kill anyone with red]

[upgradeit]

[excuse??? this hoodie is his dead boyfriend's.]

[sorrydoods]

[...

looks down at the red sweater he's wearing that Mabel made for him a couple of weeks ago

looks back at Allene]

This...this doesn't look good, does it?

CLOTHING CHECK

[hasit]

Right. Would everyone be willing to submit to a clothing inspection, then?

[sorrydoods]

Oh! I almost forgot about this!

[Flips though the notebook he took from his room, then stops on a certain page.]

The medical room was also missing a couple of other things, like some gauze, supplies to sature wounds, and some compression bandages.

Jyn didn't have any bandages on her, did she?

[hasit]

Not that I saw...Basil, did you notice anything?

mods?

[not_over_yet]

[ any bandaging etc on Jyn? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There is not.]

[not_over_yet]

No, there wasn't. ...Were any used ones found? Or might the killer still be in them?

[sorrydoods]

I didn't find any in the medical room, so...maybe the second one? Should we try checking for injuries and stuff?

[They're gonna have to strip, aren't they?]

[not_over_yet]

This ordeal's involved an awful lot of stripping down, hasn't it.

[ GETTING A BIT OLD ]

[sorrydoods]

Yes, yes it has.

[Not much they can do about it, tbh.]

[hasit]

And it's solved at least one case.