Sixth Trial

[letsplayamod]

That will be enough. Enter the arena, now.

[Typhon sounds almost reserved now. His tone no less commanding, he knows you'll need to enter the arena eventually. And, when you do arrive, he's already waiting. Emerged halfway out of the rift to watch you're approach

The wounds accrued in last week's shitshow have been healing, but marks remain. What you did - what Omega did - ate away at parts of him that Typhon is still growing back. At first, he's silent, tentacles of teeth gnashing over his shoulders, bellying a rage.]

Look at you all, a pantheon that shrinks day by day. This is the godly burden Athena has forced upon you. And if she were here, able to...

[He catches himself.]

This... is certain to be an exciting trial, I'm sure. Begin, if you can. I shall be watching intently.

[TRIAL START]

[Evidence]

Comments

[taintedfayth]

An alibi for what, may I ask?

[He's not upset about being asked, he's just curious.]

[sweetsynergy]

Last night. We've got lightning burns, you can toss around lightning.

[taintedfayth]

I can use Thunder, it is true. But need I remind you that this place has brought items from other worlds here along with us? We have no way of knowing just what might have come out of that cornucopia.

[sweetsynergy]

[okay she's gonna ask everyone to do a solid and stop bringing logic into her wild accusations, she really needs to be mad at someone right now]

So no, no one can confirm what you were doing last night. Noted.

[taintedfayth]

No more than I can confirm what you or anyone else was doing last night, I'm afraid.

[murchada]

Now you're being entirely too sensible, Seymour, and apparently we can't have that.

[pariunt]

We should focus solely on the facts.

[He says, not looking at Vanity.]

Why would any of us use powers that could be traced back? Every single person who has killed has been found out.

[fillets]

Maybe they don't care if they're found.

[murchada]

They're real quiet if that's the case.

cw suicidality

[fillets]

Well, I'm not saying they aren't trying to get away with it. Only that if it fails, they don't mind dying.

Or they're confident they can strike all of us down before the vote! That's a possibility too.

[murchada]

...Well, we're not lacking in overconfident people.

I guess there's a lot of reasons someone might not speak up.

Re: cw suicidality

[sweetsynergy]

Well I fucking OFFERED if that's the case-

[raisethemoon]

If we consider the hallucinations, they may have simply not had the presence of mind to consider being found.

[fillets]

That's also a distinct possibility.

[raisethemoon]

Not until later, at least. They have clearly cleaned the blood off of themselves.

[ She thinks someone might have done it without realizing in the moment, but Luna does think they must have realized by now. How could there be no evidence on their person? ]

[sweetsynergy]

...Maybe some kind of fugue state, or shock. Or just. I dunno, unconscious habit, even while hallucinating.

[treebornekettlegirl]

[Ha ha wow, she really hates this conversation suddenly]

Like... sleepwalking? Err, sleepkilling?

[sweetsynergy]

Maybe? But like- shit happens, maybe someone does something fucking stupid because they're hallucinating, and don't think it's real- or don't realize it was Quark and Aoi, and just. Clean up like normal, and it's so muscle memory for them they don't realize they're getting rid of evidence? Hell, I don't know. Habit's a hard conditioning to break sometimes.

[treebornekettlegirl]

[...]

... Like a weapon?

[hnnnnnn]

[raisethemoon]

.....perhaps.......

[ It is, she supposes, possible. ]

[pariunt]

Omega spoke up quite quickly.

[fillets]

Omega could hardly do anything else.

[pariunt]

...Indeed.

[After all, he hadn't actually been the brains behind it.]

[sweetsynergy]

He was all hung up on the protector thing.

[taintedfayth]

[A little shrug!]

I would be a poor maester otherwise.