foolishmortals | Second Trial

[Just like last week, as soon as everyone’s done investigating and back in the stretching room, the doors close and everyone slowly descends. As it does so, the Ghost Host's voice once again echoes across the room.]

Tell me. Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it just your imagination?

[This is apparently a thing he does.

When it stops, everyone is once again welcomed to the graveyard 25 tombstones arranged in a circle. Now there are three new epitaphs to the newly dearly departed Mulan, Princess Anna, and Sophie. They are dressed with their own rose and class of cognac to each of their tombstone.

Here lies ~~Ping~~ Mulan
Wanted to do anything for honor
It’s a shame she is now a goner

Here lies Princess Anna
She stumbled upon a bride’s wedding
And earned herself a nice beheading

Here lies Sophie Hatter
She was a wonderful little maid
But sadly went and got betrayed

When everyone goes to their places, the Ghost Host speaks again.]

I suppose you all remember from last week how this works. Remember you only have one vote.

[Well there’s only one way to go now.]

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[Ford's brow wrinkles.]

Might it have been used to strike the vic—Sophie?

[Remember, Ford. These were people. He can't let their names be forgotten.]

It could've. Maybe they were tryin' out somethin' with one of the instruments, maybe Sophie was usin' it.

[He strokes his finger along the chipped end.] They had to be pretty strong to make a mark.

It's strange that it was chipped like that. Sophie had bruises on her arms and body...but that wouldn't cause the wood to get marked up, exactly.

Could someone have thrown it at her and missed?

Or they tried to hit her and she ducked and they got the wall.

The music room was really a mess so I could believe that.

That might've been how some of that happened. Swingin' a pool cue around's bound to knock things over.

I... I just thought of something. I don't want to think it but could have Sophie been the one with the pool cue?

[.... What the fuck why hadn't he thought of that.]

You mean you think she used it to try and fight back?

It's be a quick weapon, but why not somethin' from the music room? I mean, it's sad if she broke an instrument, but it's for her own safety.

I don't know. Maybe she thought that it might be dangerous and thought ahead?

If what we were talking about the wire was right about it being the murder weapon then... why would the murderer need piano wire if they had the pool cue? If she had it just in case then it would make more sense.

[Think like a kid, Fidds!]

[No, no, he agrees.]

Well... well think about it. You get a mysterious note with no signature tellin' you to meet somewhere at night in a house where... where folks are dyin'. You're probably goin' to bring somethin' for protection, right? She could have stopped in on the billiards room first. It makes sense.

I agree. It seems feasible she would have thought to arm herself. Even if...

[Even if it was to no avail.]

So... so whoever did this must be fairly strong. Or at least real good at gettin' out of the way. If she was swingin' that thing hard enough to scratch the wall, I mean.

[Right? Like... that's pretty hard. That would take down a couple people in this graveyard before they got a chance to use the wire at all.]

Yes, they'd have to be rather nimble...

[He doesn't like the connotations this has. Not one bit.]

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So someone who was used to fights?

[At least that eliminates a lot of people.]

That's kind of what I was thinking, yes. If it turned out that nothing was happening then she could have set it aside. I... I think Miss Hatter was pretty smart so I wouldn't put it past her.

Right. She was probably hopin' she wouldn't have to use it at all.

[Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. You can never really trust anyone. That's just being smart.]

Perhaps. But if they had a weapon in hand...why throw it and lose it?

I... I don't know.

[You tried, Anna.]

We won't rule it out entirely.

[He learned his lesson about that last time.]

It would be pretty awkward to throw though, right? It's not really the right shape for throwing, I think...

Y-yes. It really isn't. I just thought that could have been the case.

Yeah...and if she realized what was going on early and tried to run, they might have been desperate to stop her somehow. [A pause] Even if they missed, she might have been distracted or tripped...