Murder Trial #3: Sova Maahes' Walk of Death

[Marie]

You're right about Nox's argument being logically sound. But maybe we can look at this another way...
With so many people, having a wide range of abilities, something like motive comes into play...
Oh sure suicides, who needs motive? Well from a psychological standpoint one simply isn't like.
"Oh! I feel like suiciding today!" If it is from depression thought goes into , there are visible signs. And honestly...
Anger isn't really something most suicides have on their face. Which means he would have been forced into
such a fate... What bothers me as well... is if it as you say, why would Sova display horror? Specially if he new what he was
going to do...

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

You all seem quite dead set on this possibility that the death wasn't just a suicide. Alright then why don't you just follow your current line of reasoning. We have different abilities, so who seems like they would have an ability to cause this scenario.

Assuming this is a one person show, the person influencing Sova needs to be able to influence them mentally as well as insert whatever was inside them. Also assume this device is not normal with its vanishing properties, so say they created the item for this scenario or carried it into the castle when this begun.

Establishing the fact that determines this is a suicide or not isn't possible, simply look for an explanation that includes all the individual gears in the machine. The suicide may be the piece in a larger ploy in which case you have two options. First, look into the cause of the "suicide" and logically deduce who was in a position to start the suicide in motion. How it works doesn't matter, for now just look and try to find who could have "triggered" the event. Second, look into the results of the suicide. Was it merely to cause someone to perish or did it have some ulterior purpose, beyond this whole blood sacrifice thing.

[Deleted]

"Yes. And speaking by definition, suicide is intentional and voluntary. That expression hints at otherwise. But...."
Bambi couldn't finish the thought. This was already starting to wear on her mind and she had little interest in losing sanity over it.

"As agreeable as it might be that no matter what, a threat has been prominent since we first made our way here, would it still not be wise to at least consider getting rid of something like this? This is beyond just the usual scuffles and fights. Someone committed suicide without meaning to."

She listened to Nox, heaving a sigh. "Unfortunately through my questioning I did not have time to find who I likely suspect to be responsible. Neither of my suspects were available."

[Marie]

It's theorycrafting time!
Victim: Sova
Murder Weapon: Aside from the fire and scalpel, the real murderer's weapon of a microchip, implanted in the chest,
allowing the murderer to control the through the use of electronic impulses.
Now let's get to the meat of the substance: The murderer, who for whatever reason decided to to enter the East Wing hallway. Sova who had been, as in one witness' testimony that day grunting, was most likely in an irritated mood. The murderer, could have knocked on the door and to see the issue. That's when Sova decided to attack, starting a fight with the murderer, harming them in the process. Unknown to Sova though the murderer had a weapon. A spear, that looked exactly like Yin's. The murderer attacked Sova, pricing their hand to the bone with the blade of the spear, splattering only blood on the tip region. Sova, was caught of guard and lost his knife in the process. Be it from fear of Sova or pure hate for him the murderer then decided to take the knife and cut Sova's chest, implanting the small microchip. Hastily, and sloppily the murderer sewn back up the wound, and gave Sova's the scalpel. Sova walked out of the room under the control of the microchip and the murderer went into Sova's room to hide the weapons under the bed. Sova then slit his wrists and walked into the fire, heating up the metal chip leaving a burn mark on the inside of the skin. That then fried the chip and Sova let out a scream of pain now that his body was free. The murderer rejoined the group while this was going on. Said murderer then, acting like they were investigating used the scalpel to cut open the wound and BREAK the microchip into pieces, with everyone hearing the cracking...
Who is the culprit you ask?
None other than RAPHAEL!

[Deleted]

A lot of details within this theory made sense. But.. who was the witness who had seen Sova earlier that day...?
"A microchip manipulating someone's impulses is plausible if we're able to determine that is what the pieces of metal are. And Raphael does have a background as a type of mechanic. If I remember correctly, delving into his background..."

"Journeying to and fro, he met a clocksmith, who had once dabbled in the creatoon of mechs, machines with a humanoid structure."

"Override coding of any mech programmed before his own creation
Although not created for battle, his durability is slightly bettet than a person of his age"

She paused before continuing, unable to contain her wary attitude. "But none of this mentions anything about working with microchips... what brought on this idea?"

[Marie]

Well my dear. Two things. One if you look at it closely enough it seems to have come from something that looks like this:



Now I'm not mechanic.. But this looks like a microchip to me. Specially compared to the square shaped burn on the stomach.
And the witness... Is the person I followed to the East Hall that day. 

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Bambi sighed, rubbing the back of her neck. That was such a vague answer. So Trucy was probably definitely trying to protect the witness. And the background check only supported this. However... "The stitches were amatuerly done. Implanting a microchip into a human body with it being capable of manipulating electrical signals from the brain without medical knowledge is hard to believe. Although, I suppose if the mechs he works on were close enough in anatomy to that of a human then he could have found a way. He's also not a doctor, which would explain the stitches." Bambi mused, attempting to piece this together in a logical and sound manner that saw both points of the argument. "I have nothing to prove Raphael did otherwise, as I witnessed them taking the metal fragments out. while retrieving them, I heard several small cracks. Upon further examination of the body i could see this wasn't because of broken bones, so I assumed it had something to do with the pieces of metal. But it makes sense that if raphael did implant the chip... then they would certainly go through the trouble of getting rid of it."

[Marie]

You guys certainly easy to sway... I so suppose in response to your, why were the stitches bad, in my theory I did say hastily...
if you're in a hurry, specially when you only recently grabbed the upper hand in a fight you would make mistakes too...
The witness will be revealed when it all falls into place. HURRY UP AND HIT ME WITH YOUR NEXT SHOT!

[Deleted]

"I'm not disproving your theory. But I'm not agreeing with it either. As there is also someone else here skilled in technology, who has a more likely chance of implanting a microchip as apposed to Raphael." Bambi stated, shifting in her seat. "So although your theory with Raphael seems plausable, I would also like to take that other person into consideration."

[Marie]

Well I can tell you that 100% Raphael was there!

[Deleted]

"Raphael was obviously near the corpse. So are you saying you believe Raphael was with Sova, in Sova's room at some point? I also surmise that you can explain why the spear was in Sova's room as well."

[Marie]

Teehee~

[Pokedude12]

"So Trucy, you say it's little ol' Raphael, just because of the chip; but we have three people who appear to have advanced technology under their belts: Raphael, Static, and Nox. Your only 'evidence' is that Raphael broke the chip while testing the depth of the chest wound. Now what keeps this from being an accident? You seem to know quite a bit about this chip, and perhaps its size. Do you think you'd see it at first glance? Furthermore, I did get a look at its fragments and found that they were somewhat flimsy. Raphael is just a victim of circumstance and nothing more. He just made a mistake that any amateur would.

But how about this? What keeps people from borrowing this tech from these three? Furthermore, you don't even have proof of their individual technologies! You're driving a stake into someone innocent with vague information. You'll have to prove that only Raphael can use this chip, that it belongs to him, before you can lynch him!"

[Deleted]

"I would agree with you Johnny-boy. But the spear is the incriminating evidence against Raphael at the moment. Isn't it, Trucy?"

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

As to remove myself from that list. I work with clockwork and gears. I do not work with computers or microchips in the slightest.