Third trial

[letsplayamod]

That... should suffice, I believe. Enter the arena, your time of judgement has come.

[Short, terse. Typhon is wasting little time today, and it seems you shouldn't either.


Dark soldiers from veins in the earth flank your entrance to the area. Overhead, the clouds give a burst of lightning and a clap of thunder. Past the barrier, Typhon's rift is wrenched open by a giant fist, slowing growing... until Typhon's upper half is revealed.]

You have done well... once again, proving that you are beholden to these squalid natures the gods imprinted on you, in their own hubris!

[Typhon raises his fist... but it falls back.]

...Now, begin. Give the performance I'm sure your darling goddess would give. I will be watching.

[You have your evidence. He's waiting.]

[TRIAL START]

Comments

[fillets]

That's true, that's true! But the story doesn't make sense that way, great detective Mortis. She'd have to have been attacked in or just as she finished washing up, and then walked backwards into her own room just to finish bleeding out on top of her bed... and then clean herself up and dress in day clothes just in time to meet Lebkuchen this morning.

[threeapplestall]

But does it make sense the other way, either? To get attacked on her bed, then stumble to her room, wash up, get cleaned up, and still find the time to go and talk to Leb-san?

Ah, geez, it's all so confusing!

[fillets]

It doesn't, no. Which is why I think Ai was dead by that time... in a sense. Even if she was alive, she wasn't in control of herself, you know?

[eeeonetwothree]

THEN IT STANDS TO REASON THAT WHOMEVER KILLED AI HOSHINO, OR PERHAPS AI HOSHINO HERSELF, HAS THE ABILITY TO ANIMATE THE DEAD.

[fillets]

No, no. [ she's literally wagging her finger at him?? ] You've got the general idea, but that's too much, too fast.

[eeeonetwothree]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

[fillets]

We don't know enough yet to say what kind of power was used on her. What you said is a possibility, but it's only one!

[catsgothistongue]

[Hmm...]

We've all got godly powers, right? Could the killer have killed her and, I'unno, control her body to do the rest of the work for 'em? Wash herself up, dress herself, and then go out the door to be found and 'keel over dead' to the first person she met?

[stringup]

...But did it seem like she was being controlled?

[ That said, Velvet seems to have some thought rolling around her head too. ]

[fillets]

From Leb's account, she at least seemed to be aware this morning... but I wonder if that had just started. After all, if she'd only just noticed the ribbon after leaving her room...

[stringup]

At the very least, she was probably unaware or barely aware about what had happened up until that point, from the sounds of it.

[fillets]

With what was left behind in that room, I'd say it's almost certain.