FOURTH TRIAL

[splitaseam]

[To what I'm sure is everyone's joy after a sad investigation like that, after everyone reaches the Stretching Room, Oogie's voice can be heard.]

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

[Well at least he's honoring Ghostave's memory, except he starts laughing, almost tauntingly, after he says that.

In the very least the graveyard seems identical, with three new epitaphs for our dearly departed.

Here lies Lea
Slaying bugs he made a name
And got sent to the deadliest game

Here lies WALL-E
They were our dearest friend
But that didn’t help them in the end

Here lies Tarzan?
????
?????


... Ok then.

Oogie speaks before everyone can get to their tombstones.]

Don't keep me waiting!

Comments

[sixfingeredstan]

Hmm. The oil...I can only assume came from WALL-E. And the sawdust is likely from the cello we found all smashed up. We think...that was the murder weapon.

[He furrows his brows.]

The fact that they washed their clothes, I assume, makes things much more difficult to track.

[toogoodforhim]

...This- this stuff is like Wally's blood?

[WHY DOES HE ALWAYS END UP COVERED IN BLOOD]

[terribibble]

For some robots. Not this one. He... he was like the coffee pot, he was purely electric.

If it was like his blood there would've been some around the body, you'd figure. Though I guess he could've used it to grease up his parts and keep them runnin' smooth...

[But surely there would have been some visible on the body in that case? Especially if there was enough to leave great big smears on someone else's clothes.]

[toogoodforhim]

[Fidds, you're right next to him, you want to take a look at the oil on his hand?]

It's a little odd that it was just on whatever was washed in the basin, though.

[outsidethecircle]

So the oil probably wasn't from WALL-E?

[terribibble]

Possibly. Can't imagine what else it could've been from, though.

[arpeggiositar]

...you don't think the oil is from the killer, right?

[It's an outlandish possibility, but...could it be?]

How'd be that possible?

[outsidethecircle]

Do we know it's oil for machines? It... it could have been for the cello. To grease up the strings or something?

[Anna is trying.]

[terribibble]

Could be, but black oil usually means it's been used.

[Hhhhghhhh this isn't fitting together logically and he doesn't like it]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Yep, there was definitely some grease on WALL-E. Have you looked at him recently? He was a dirty boy.]

[outsidethecircle]

A cello? I did see one of the string instruments were gone but I thought it was a guitar. If it was a cello... they'd have to be pretty strong to swing that around.

[sixfingeredstan]

Yes. The strings weren't...right for a guitar. I don't know much about music, but Fiddleford thought it was the right size for a cello.

And it was smashed to smithereens, so...quite strong.

[toogoodforhim]

The wood on that kind of instrument is thin, but... Saw dust?

[Jesus H. Christ]

[sixfingeredstan]

Yes. I know. Not to mention...the whole pool table was turned on its side. And those are heavy.

[toogoodforhim]

That... Probably rules some people out.

[Like the girls, and the cricket.]

Maybe we should go around and say where we were last night?

[sixfingeredstan]

Well...

[Ford glances sidelong at Fiddleford before answering.]

In my bedroom, of course, once the wake was over.. Reading, and then sleeping.

[arpeggiositar]

In my room, sleeping. That's all.

[He sleeps a lot when he can]

[defyingfrigidity]

My room.

[Not sleeping, because the raccoon eye circles under Elsa's eyes are proof that she hasn't been doing much of that lately. But it's probably not a surprise, considering if Elsa's not up to something during the day, she's just... hiding herself away.]

[capulion]

Sleeping. I stumbled out after everyone else had found most of the clues...

[She looks a little embarrassed, but hell, she's sad and she's tired, ok?]

[terribibble]

Well I spent most of it at... at the wake. But I went to bed a while before mornin'. Since, ah. The bodies don't get taken if we're there.

[Which sounds awful when he says it aloud, but there it is. Can't even have a proper wake in this place, god damn it all.]

[kindaruledatit]

I was mostly in my room, but I came to the wake too. [Because I was so busy this week we just have to headcanon some shit, okay. She sounds embarrassed.]

It was kinda a rough week, you know?

[outsidethecircle]

I stayed at the wake for a while before heading to my room. I sketched a bit then went to bed.

[aboyandhiscar]

Alternated between my room and outside. I dunno, haven't slept well in a while.

[chainbroke]

I was in the foyer, drawing for a little while, but...

[ She glances over at Demyx for a very brief second. ]

I went back into my room before it got too late.

[amadeusrockette]

Um. I spent a lot of time at the wake and then in the kitchen. Then I went to bed.