THE SECOND TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND TRIAL

[After the final clue is found, the ticking sound in everyone's head abruptly stops.]

Well done, well done. Now, I believe you know where to go from here!

[There is the tell-tale rumble once more, and once more, if the Strangers don't go to the garden, there are dozens of bats more than happy to drag them there.

Despite the very dim light of the candles and the tray of "food" in the center of the Ossuary, it becomes clear- once everyone's been chained up and dragged to their designated place-that there are less coffins present than there were last week. Where Eddie, Akko, and Felicity's graves had been, there are nothing but a carefully balanced pile of skulls in their place. It's...best not to speculate whether any of those skulls happen to belong to the dead of your group.

Once everyone is forcibly settled, the scrolls that everyone possesses light up. Five faces appear alongside the evidence.]

THE FAST	THE ENEMY	THE CIRCUIT	THE APPROACH
				THE NOODLES

Now that we are all settled, I suggest you get to it. You do not have forever.

[As the Elder Steward finishes, the clock is ticking again. It's time to decide who is responsible for this horrible crime.


The trial for the murder of Franciscus Erkens, the Scorching, has begun.]

Comments

[inadequacyfeelings]

[Zelda's hair turns into bladed whips. It's more like a gray color, not blue, but...]

I believe this is the closest we have to someone having long blue hair. [May as well say it herself, yeah? Although there's still a lot of difference between blue and gray] Could there have been a way to fool Franciscus? Perhaps with a power?

[whiterosefoes]

[Harriet blinks. So that's what the noodle hair looks like. She'll focus now though.]

Hm. We know the powers of everyone on the suspect list by now... Matsuno can make blades, Ambrosine has wormholes, Arthur can obviously have visions, Lecarde has some leg thing. [she's less clear on what his exact leggy power is]

None of them really involve hair except yours, as far as I can tell. Unless people are getting really creative.

[incendiarize]

[He looks over the evidence list.]

"Spell of Transformation".... That'd do it, right?

[notadinosnack]

[Actually, since Arthur is right by him, Thanatos will go ahead and pull out the scroll and let Arthur see it.]

The most logical use for that was to make the body shrink so it could be moved to the library. The window was only large enough for me to fit my hand through and wave to all of you.

[incendiarize]

So, not for making a disguise...? So we're back to the hallucination thing.

...Wait, then how'd they block the library door from inside, if the window was that small? Could the spell do that, too?

[notadinosnack]

Depends on if it works on the caster or not. I'm no expert on magic so I really couldn't say. The scroll was found in the tunnel though, and the hat needed to use it was found in the library. I only have it now because someone so kindly tossed it up to me. [And he chuckles a bit at that, because it was pretty funny.]

[whiterosefoes]

Ah, I actually have reason to believe it could be used on the caster. I haven't fiddled with the spells of transformation, but I cast the spell of binding on myself yesterday.

[notadinosnack]

In that case the caster could have used it to shrink enough to go through the window. That likely happened before moving the body since putting the chair there would be obviously to prevent anyone from walking in on this.