Trial 1 - Christie

[Daiwa Scarlet]

"Yet, they were thinking enough to clean their hands after leaving the room and keep the knife from trailing blood all the way to their destination. Perhaps they put more thought into this case than you believe."

[John Dark Souls]

Apr 4, 2023 17:42:00 GMT -8 Daiwa Scarlet said:

Apr 4, 2023 9:34:56 GMT -8 King V said:

It's not like I checked all the princes' rooms a day before the murder happened or anything, that'd be ridiculous! That's something only the murderer would do, but I'm definitely not a murderer!"

Hu Tao pauses for a moment, "Wasn't there mumbling about you entering every prince's room at some point? Seeing as one guard could do so, it isn't particularly strange to think that another could also have checked the rooms."

"What do you mean at some point? He quite literally says exactly when he entered them. Oh and btw, I don't think anyone realized it yet, but I think that's also exactly when he saw the bathroom cleaned."

[Barrett Bear, esq.]

Apr 4, 2023 18:12:07 GMT -8 Daiwa Scarlet said:

"Yet, they were thinking enough to clean their hands after leaving the room and keep the knife from trailing blood all the way to their destination. Perhaps they put more thought into this case than you believe."

"Personally, it doesn't take me much pre-planning to practice basic hygiene. What you're suggesting just seems unlikely in the time they would have had."

[Stella Magna Nulla]

"I'll quite gladly share my ability! However, since you and Ruka are the primary suspects, you both should be the first to go. However, Ruka has refused, which I'll take as a confession! I believe my vote is already decided if it's left at this!"

[Barrett Bear, esq.]

"I agree. The burden of defense is on them. I haven't heard a single credible accusation against anyone else."

[Daiwa Scarlet]

Apr 4, 2023 18:18:12 GMT -8 Barrett Bear, esq. said:

"Personally, it doesn't take me much pre-planning to practice basic hygiene. What you're suggesting just seems unlikely in the time they would have had."

"It also doesn't take much pre-planning to simply barge into a random room and sneak to the kitchen. It was dark at the time, so a peek in to make sure no one was there isn't particularly difficult."

"For my ability, I haven't found a use for it thus far. I'm sure there would have been an obvious uproar if I had."

[Barrett Bear, esq.]

"That sounds interesting. You should tell us what it does. For your sake."

[John Dark Souls]

"Please don't... Its irrelevant to trial and I don't want everyone to start lynching people with dangerous or annoying SHSL and ignore the murder at hand. Not to mention it might also paint a target on your head for any murders to happen later. If you're culprit, then you could lie and just say that your SHSL is to I dunno, be able to put people to sleep with boring talk or something. And if you aren't culprit they have to trust you if you say that you didn't use them during murder time frame."

[Daiwa Scarlet]

"I've already told my alibi. It it fairly airtight considering all the people encountered. If you believe me the culprit, isn't it on you to find a hole now oh 'great detective.'"

[Chatt]

Tubeppa is going to slap their hand on the table

Fifth Prince Tubeppa: "Enough. We seem to be going in circles, and it seems to fully involve them coming into my room, and these are my guards you are accusing without offering a concrete plan. So far the most plausible theory I have heard is as thus:

The Killer, under the cover of darkness, took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed Christie in the Second Prince's Foyer. Then, a blood trail was found leading towards the 3-5th Prince's rooms or reception. We seem to be extremely focused on my room despite no true evidence that my room was even involved in the murder. If you are going to start blaming abilities, then perhaps we should begin asking what our Third Prince's guards did with their 3 coins? Such lines are foolish. Stick to what evidence we have.

I wish to hear from the only person who has admitted to having a weapon that matches the murder weapon."

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Odelia sighs, "Yeah yeah I get it jeez! Sorry mister has an escape route" Odelia slides the knife out from her dress, as of course in typical fourth prince style you have no idea how. She walks over and stabs the the meat that was either between Hu Tao or Ruka. "That was the first time it was used to stab something. Interestingly enough, there is a chance the knife in the 4th kitchen was used and then replaced there. So it looks like a missing knife and a non missing knife, but there was no one noting about if it had recently been cleaned. Also! my results showed me only the 4th prince's bathroom had been cleaned, how was another one cleaned also?"

[Daiwa Scarlet]

"Actually, that is the only knife we really know of. Your prince replaced the knife from your kitchen with one from the main kitchen, and we have not managed to find another knife aside from the prop we left on stage. However, there were a few places that we hadn't searched yet where a knife could have been retrieved from, so the possibility of there being a second knife missing is there. If not that, then it could have been created through an ability like Prince Tubeppa suggested."

[Arie Camillia]

Apr 5, 2023 2:04:13 GMT -8 Falin Touden [Ven] said:

Odelia sighs, "Yeah yeah I get it jeez! Sorry mister has an escape route" Odelia slides the knife out from her dress, as of course in typical fourth prince style you have no idea how. She walks over and stabs the the meat that was either between Hu Tao or Ruka. "That was the first time it was used to stab something. Interestingly enough, there is a chance the knife in the 4th kitchen was used and then replaced there. So it looks like a missing knife and a non missing knife, but there was no one noting about if it had recently been cleaned. Also! my results showed me only the 4th prince's bathroom had been cleaned, how was another one cleaned also?"

"Regarding the bathroom, one question can easily clear this up: which bathrooms did you search in the Prince suites? Was it just the master bathrooms, or did you search the servant bathrooms as well?"

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Odelia slaps herself in the face "God-******, I forgot about the servant bathrooms that's my bad. I would presume that means the servant bathroom that has been cleaned is the bathroom they used to clean themselves up however?"

[Arie Camillia]

Apr 5, 2023 6:28:43 GMT -8 Falin Touden [Ven] said:

Odelia slaps herself in the face "God-******, I forgot about the servant bathrooms that's my bad. I would presume that means the servant bathroom that has been cleaned is the bathroom they used to clean themselves up however?"

"Only Otoshin can answer that one, unfortunately. I also neglected to check all the bathrooms during my investigation so I know not the full picture. One can presume he means the servant bathrooms if the master bathrooms you searched were not recently cleaned."

"It seems like the biggest loop we have yet to close is the murder weapon. Odelia claims her knife has never been used, but that hers is likely the reason that there is a knife missing from the Deck 1 kitchen. No one else thus far has claimed to be in possession of a knife, and so far we have not found another room on the ship that is missing a knife. As everyone has previously stated, it's still entirely possible that the knife was simply replaced either during the blackout or during the investigation phase. Or perhaps, it was never replaced and just overlooked in a random bin on the ship."

"Nonetheless, this seems to be the biggest point of contention in the current debate and the biggest wall to us putting out a definitive theory on a murderer and the route."