SECOND TRIAL

[imthetrashman]

Alright! Time to go to the Trash Castle again, you know why? It’s because you’re all trash and I hate you!

[The trial room is mostly unchanged, save for Wabuu’s podium is now smashed to pieces and Spongebob’s podium has been replaced with a Spongebob-shaped headstone that is also on fire.

Instead of selling alcohol, King Dice is now selling Tide Pods out of his little booth.]

Lesgo! I don’t got all day! He was already dead after three seasons and a movie plus the first seventy-five percent of the second movie plus a hit broadway musical that deserved a Tony anyway!

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[in4apounding]

[Yeah, so Penny found literally zero evidence during the investigation, sorry guys.]

Um- I know this is really important, but before we begin, I think we all need to know- there's laundry soap disguised as candy being left around the park, so be really, really careful what you eat, everyone.

[and knowing is half the battle]

[imthetrashman]

You millennials are killing the candy-soap industry!

[in4apounding]

Are we? Good, it deserves to die.

[handhook]

[Aquaman stands at his podium with two items in tow: a basketball, and a sack that, if you're standing close enough, probably smells a little like fast food hamburgers.

The latter is also filled with shards of glass, apparently, seeing as that's what he begins pulling out and setting onto his podium as he speaks.]

Several items were left at the basketball court. This ball had been left lying out, stinking of seawater, and I found shattered glass in one of the trashcans. There were a few pieces left on the court itself, as well, but it looks like whoever made that mess did their best to clean it up.

[...]

There were also two hamburgers in this bag, but [and he peeks inside] I wouldn't recommend eating them now.

[imthetrashman]

Bah! You can’t afford to keep eatin’ avocados forever, ya know.

[in4apounding]

That's fine! I don't eat avocado anyway!

[essentiallyinvisible]

Yeah, you should probably hold on to that. Just in case. [People are eating Tide Pods.]

[studentbody]

There's candy?

[Cleo's eyes light up, she clearly did not hear the rest of that sentence At All.]

[handhook]

Don't worry. I wouldn't trust anyone else with it.

[Said very, very dryly.]

[in4apounding]

It's NOT candy!

[See this is exactly what she wanted to avoid.]

[essentiallyinvisible]

No, it's the opposite of candy! It's soap!

[studentbody]

But you just said...

[:(!!!!]

[in4apounding]

...Is there anyplace in the park that- well, not "sells"- but anyplace that has hamburgers like that?

[essentiallyinvisible]

That's very fair, your Majesty.

[studentbody]

Who would make candy that looks like soap?

[in4apounding]

I said it's soap that LOOKS like candy. Very bad.

[handhook]

Not to my knowledge. However, the victim's biography describes him as a "fry cook."

[It's like Aquaman is a weirdo who has paranoidly half-memorized all the information publicly posted, because he is!]

[essentiallyinvisible]

No, not that! It's just soap! Soap that kind of looks like candy! [She has her stuffed fox with her, and he's also waving his stuffed fox limbs while chittering wildly...assuming Cleo can even see that, of course.]

[in4apounding]

So he probably made them... do you think he could've invited someone with him? To- you know, share?

[studentbody]

That's so unfair. I'm so tired of hot dogs.

[studentbody]

Um...don't look now? But I think your little doll might be....possessed.

[in4apounding]

There's probably some non-hotdog food in the kitchen?

[Probably. She hasn't actually explored the foodstuffs much. Or at all.]

[handhook]

Given that there were exactly two in this bag, found in one of the recreational areas, I suspect that is exactly the case.

[essentiallyinvisible]

Oh, no, it's fine! He's a friend! [The fox waves at Cleo in a more genial manner as if to prove this.]

[studentbody]

.....There's a kitchen?

[Oh good, finally someone can cook for her!!!]