WEEK 3: TRIAL

[dormheads]

week three: trial

victims:

Good thing yesterday was just a dream, huh?

Just kidding. Everyone will wake up to a text on their phone that has only a simple message:

Go to the gymnasium at 12 PM. Attendance is mandatory.

Everyone is free to go to the designated spot on their own, but once it hits 11:55, any stragglers will feel compelled to go and will join the others at the gym. As soon as every student is inside, the doors will lock behind them.

All of the bleachers are out, so students are free to sit wherever they like. At the very front of the gym is a gathering of a few items, one being a large desk where two of the Dorm Heads are present. When the clock hits noon, the scoreboard turns on, starting a countdown of nine hours.

From where she's seated, Sally speaks.

"You have nine hours again. It's... you'll be able to do it. Work hard."

Better get to it. That scoreboard is ticking.

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Hello everyone and welcome to our fourth trial! the next nine hours, the characters are expected to discuss among themselves, ask questions, examine the bodies of the victims, look over the evidence found yesterday, and revisit locations as needed in order to find the culprit(s). There'll be a one hour break from 5-6 PM EST, where no mod tags will occur.

Before the trial is over, please remember to place your character's vote over on the voting page. Voting will close at 9 PM EST, and will serve as our activity check for the week, so please be sure you get your vote in before it ends unless you have contacted us previously.

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[katzepaw]

[Yeah, he knew to expect this. It's okay. Head first. He will take a look at the condition of the head - any injuries or damage other than the cut neck? He will also take a look at the cut of the neck, to try to see if he can get a sense how it was done. Is it neat? Messy?]

[dormheads]

[Well, firstly: Molly's eyes are wide open. They're hollow-looking, but they're open. Enjoy.

When Caleb moves the head, he'll realize it feels a little lighter than what one would imagine a removed head to be. Everything appears to be okay! The horns and jewelry are there, undamaged. The cut on the neck is clean.

Oh! Oops.

The hair gets wetter and sticker toward the back of the head...]

[katzepaw]

[Of course they are. Eyes never shut.

He takes a deep, angry breath, and turns the head around in his hands, to take a look at the wet part at the back of the head, see what the wound there is.]

[dormheads]

[Haha.

On the back of his head in the hair that's left is a big hole.

Inside the hole, everything is empty.

At the edge of the hairline on the neck is a tattooed eye peering up at Caleb.]

[katzepaw]

[There's an expression of cold fury that comes over his face, but he swallows it down, lets it settle into something more measured. He will finger the hole carefully. How big is it? How clean it is? Does it look a neat cut? Like something punctured his skull? A blast injury, or an entry wound for a bullet?]

[dormheads]

[Because it's Molly's hole, it is a sexy hole.

The hole is crude, but cut with a kind of surgical precision, and it makes almost a whole neat even circle. It covers most of the back of his head, about as big as Caleb's hand give or take.

Bet he has a headache, wow.]

[katzepaw]

[And inside, it seems as though his brains were scooped out? Is there any brain matter or anything else still in there or does it seem like they were all removed?

He will turn the head again and open his mouth a little, just to make sure there's nothing in there while this head has been completely desecrated. There's nothing like an exit wound or anything on the front of his head? Just a normal Molly head, with the brains gone and a round hole in the back?]

[dormheads]

[Inside, it looks like everything is gone. You could say it's....completely MT.

In the mouth, Molly has cute little Infernal fangs which I want to mention because I love them. But all the teeth are there, and the tongue. His eyes are still looking at Caleb. They never shut. The jewelry on his horns and in his ears tingle slightly. He has a lip and nose piercing! They're very cool.

There isn't any other wound on the front side at all. Just a normal Molly head, with the brains gone, and a round hole in the back.]

[katzepaw]

[And just checking that neck cut again. A single clean slice, like from a blade? Is there anything like ice or frost on it?]

[dormheads]

[The neck wound is very clean, yes. There isn't any ice or frost. The wetness there is sticky, like blood.]

[katzepaw]

[Okay. He will set the head down gently on the table and turn to the body. What clothes is he wearing?]

[dormheads]

[Molly is in his usual clown get-up from the circus, minus the coat. You'll get cold sweetie. There are lines and lines of old scarring starting from his neck and dipping down into the V of his shirt. On the right is the start of a tattoo peaking out.

There's no head, of course.

On his front, on the left side of his chest, is a bloody wound.]

[katzepaw]

[Is this the bloody wound the sword was sticking out of? He's also looking over his body for any small slices or cuts that might come from lightly slicing or clawing yourself to draw blood.]

[dormheads]

[That's the one.

There doesn't seem to be any slices or cuts Caleb can see. All of the ones visible are old, healed scars.]

[katzepaw]

[Okay. He's just going to carefully take off his shirt. Checking it for any bloodstains or tears besides the obvious one - assuming the sword wound wasn't in his titty window and missed the shirt? Then after checking it for anything, folding it next to the body and checking his torso front and back as well as his arms and hands for any injuries other than the sword wound and the neck cut.]

[dormheads]

[It's important for me to say there is a single nipple piercing. I'm saying it's spared by being on the side without the stab wound. He also has a large tattoo on his right side, different pieces of it flowing gracefully into each other starting from the neck and ending at his hand. A peacock, flowers, a serpent.

The shirt doesn't have any obvious tears or stains not a part of where the stab over the chest is. No pockets because it is a nice, soft, flowy medieval tunic.

The wound on Molly's chest is directly over the heart. The exit of it is on the back in the same place when Caleb looks there. Near this wound, and partially under it is another old, gnarled scar of similar caliber. Looks like something got impaled there and twisted. The many scarring slices are here, too, all over his chest and arms, all the way down.

His back has more beautiful tattoos when Caleb looks. A pyramid with an eye in the center, and something above it but the head is gone, so who knows. On each side of the shoulder blades is a sun and moon tattoo.

Something is strange about his hands. I'm saying this bc this is already so much for one tag.]

[katzepaw]

[He runs a finger over the gnarled scar for a moment. And then he will look closer at the chest wound. Does it look like it was made with something sharp? He is very familiar with the golden sword - does it looks like it could have realistically been made by that sword, given its curve and blade? Is there any frost or ice or watery wetness to the wound?

After checking that he'll check the hands.]

[dormheads]

[The chest wound is crude, and looks like something was shoved in there with enough force to make it happen. Seems similar. There isn't any frost or water.

On the hands, Molly's poor lil claws have been chipped and damaged. On the right hand, there's blood trickling and smeared over the red eye. The tattoo of the serpent ends here, too.]

[katzepaw]

[And it was shoved in there with enough force to leave an exit wound?

Does it look like the blood could have come from his claws? Is there any blood or anything else under the nails of his claws?]

[dormheads]

[Yes. It's small, but there.

There isn't anything under Molly's nails at all.]

[katzepaw]

[But is the blood on his hands from any sort of wound or injury on his hands that he can find? Is it from the eye tattoo?

After checking the hands, he will move down and pull off the boots, checking them for any blood, stains, or tears, and looking at the soles to see whether anything is on the bottom of them. He will pull off the pants as well, check them for tears or blood, check if there are pockets, and if nothing is there, he will fold them in a pile with his other clothes and look over the rest of his body. Any other injuries or anything odd?]

[dormheads]

[The blood on his hands is over the eye tattoo on the back. There's no wound.

There isn't anything different or damaged about the boots. Nothing is inside them. The clown pants are undamaged clown pants. There aren't any pockets. Molly, why? Your no pocket clown pants.

I'm obligated to say that Molly canonly has a very nice dick. I'm sorry, Caleb.

There aren't any other injuries on his legs, or his feet.]

[katzepaw]

[He's seen the dick before, he already knew.

Just to make sure I'm getting it right, confirming that Molly's eye can bleed on its own when he uses his power?

Anyway, he will turn the body over and just give it another look over carefully to make sure he hasn't missed any injuries or marks anywhere, or anything else strange.]

[dormheads]

[Can it...? Hmm. There is blood around it, but no wound.

There isn't anything else noticeable on Molly that Caleb hasn't seen yet.]

[katzepaw]

[Okay. Well, with that done, all that is left to do here is hurt Alli. He is just going to take the head and put it so it is lined up with the body, and then drape his scarf over the neck to cover that his head was removed. He will close his eyes for him, brush a little of the hair out of his face, and press a kiss to his forehead.]

Good to see you again, circus man.

[And he will cover the body with a sheet.]