#woud (implied)

[rocketbirdie]

uh huh. you sure about that?

[ask-ghazghkull-da-waagh-prophet]

Eh, boss wha' if you wer' turned innta a grot? wou'ds you stils be krumpin 'eads an' beings da big boss or you fink you myt just be a zoggin' grot an' some otha boss woud comez abou' ?

Jus' finking in hypathetikal

Not ta imply anyz of us finking of tryn ta turna you inta a grot

WELL IF IT HAPPENED NOW MAKARI'D PROBABLY TRY TA KILL ME, HAAA HAA!

*immediately turns to look at Makari, eyes squinting*

BUT IF WE'Z GO BACK TA WEN I WUZ JUST A NYOO BOY AN' IT HAPPEND, DEN...

*rummages around in weapons chest for a moment*

EY MAKARI, GO GET A GROT FOR ME, I WANNA TRY SUMTIN.

*orkish elevator music while Makari gets a grot*

*Makari returns with a very nervous looking Grot*

*Ghazghkull points the bolter at the Grot's head, pulls the trigger, and the grot's head explodes in a fountain of gore*

NAH IT TURNZ OUT DAT UMIE SHOOTA WOULDA BEEN DA END OF DAT. AH WELL.

[1moreff-creator]

DROS CH2 Part 6 First Impressions

It's Valentine's Day (or, it was when the part released), and I can't possibly think of anything more romantic than spending it solving a horrible murder! Let's get into this trial!

CWs

"Noah: Alright, let’s get started…!" Glad to see the trial grounds have lifted his spirits (?)

"Vanessa: Y-yeah! Let’s pick a topic and get to the evidence!

Harper: Are you two alright…?" Oh okay good, I'm not the only one thinking that's weird coming from those two xD

"Kennedy: We will! Because I’m going to solve this thing and figure out all the mysteries this game is hiding!" Ah, missed ya', Kennedy.

[Nonstop Debate] Let's go!

Actually I have no idea what to shoot :v Everyone's kinda saying what I believe, which is that Robert died of drowning. Maybe...

"Taylor: Couldn’t it be poison again?" Shooting Vivi's Autopsy at this?

"Vanessa: Like, it could be a lie, but it seems like it’s drowning, right?" Or Damp Body at this? Idk

[Answer: Vivi’s Autopsy → “it seems like it’s drowning”] Yeah that was another possibility :p

"Ellis: Vivi already told us that the Monoquin–or should I say, MQ– File..." Wait are we actually abbreviating "Monoquin" like this? I somehow didn't catch that, but it's pretty funny :p

"Grace: I don’t trust Vivi.

Vivi: Oh, come on! Why this again?!

Grace: Anyone can see that it would be beneficial for the killer to control information. 

Vivi: And anyone with a brain would understand that I’d do the autopsy either way! Stop accusing me just because I’m trying to help!" Leave my girl alone ToT

"Mark: Do we have any concrete proof to back up Vivi here? Just to avoid this argument?" [Evidence Select] Okay so I accidentally looked ahead but I'm pretty sure I woud have said the right answer (Damp Body) anyways :p

"Vivi: Great! Because, as you should’ve learned last time, if you actually trust me, this thing will be a whole lot easier!" I know Vivi, don't worry I trust you.

"Kennedy: Aidan! You still have to explain to everyone what you were doing earlier." Oh, time to talk about this!

[Aidan's explanation] Similar to what we had earlier, still just as sound as ever. It makes me wonder how future killers are gonna try to play around this. Now that the option is on the table and everyone's aware of it, the killer's gonna have to force the BDA, otherwise they're cooked. I guess that's a consideration for future trials, though.

"Aidan: If you don’t believe me, then it’s a good thing it worked out anyways." [Evidence Select] Uh... Body Discovery Announcement I guess, since Aidan's part of the three discoverers and thus confirmed spotless. Maybe mix it with Alibis to confirm that no one else saw the body.

[Answer: Body Discovery Announcement + Regulation #6] Okay I guess that's also fair xD Forgot those things were always bullets as well :p

"Paris: Or you had this plan going into the Class Trial, and you manipulated the Body Discovery Announcement in order to “clear” your own name~

Mark: …She raises a good point." ...No she doesn't? Unless she can come up with some way to do that. If no one else saw the body, the BDA clears them, there's no loopholes. What is she implying, that someone saw the body and didn't notice? That someone else saw the body, and Aidan's convinced them stay quiet or something? I mean I guess it isn't impossible, but y'know.

"Aidan: Do you trust Ellis’ luck?

Vanessa: Huh?

Aidan: Let’s say I am the blackened, and eventually, you’ll figure out that one of us three has to have faked being part of the Body Discovery. Why would Ellis be in that group? It’s the highest risk category." Well this is a hell of an argument xD I guess it isn't horrible, though. Although if you think about it long enough it kinda falls apart (there's no particular reason the others distrusting Ellis is a bad thing for her above distrusting any other spotless, since any vote on a spotless gets everyone killed anyways), but oh well.

"Taylor: “Luck isn’t something you can rely on so easily, darling~”

Vanessa: …

Taylor: I-it’s a pretty good argument…!" Hey I'm sorry Taylor but did you really take Antonia for that? I genuinely still find it incredible they keep doing this, what's wrong with them??? I love them xD

"Vivi: Isn’t it kinda weird that Aidan was so calm? Like, everyone freaked out when it was Cass’ body." Was Aidan even particularly freaked out by that? I guess he must have been, if Vivi's bringing it up.

"Davis: I believe Aidan.

Jeff: Of course you do.

Davis: What’s that supposed to mean…?" Lol. Lmao, even xD

"Harper: [The BDA] can’t be faked without doing something to fake it, can it? So, we’ll go through the Trial and figure out what happened, and if we discover a trick within those solutions, we’ll know the truth." Thank you Harper, that's what I'm saying! xp

"Kennedy: I’m not done with Aidan yet.

Davis: Can you please just… move on already?

Kennedy: Relax, I’m not accusing him. I’m talking about what he saw, if he is innocent.

Aidan: Yeah, makes sense. Alright, let me share with the class." [Nonstop Debate] I got worried about Kennedy for a moment, but yeah, Aidan is an important witness lol. Anyways, yay Nonstop!

"Vanessa: It seemed pretty normal during investigation…" I'm assuming we shoot State of the Villa here, since that's the bullet that mentions the water in the tub, which I'm assuming is where we're going :p

[Answer: State of the Villa → “what could’ve drowned him"] ...Or that, yeah. It's basically what I was trying to get at. With how many things there are to shoot in any given Nonstop, it's sometimes kinda difficult to tell some options apart from others xp

"Kennedy: The bathtub?

Paris: It’d be the best place to drown someone in one of the Villas, right?

Kennedy: That means it’s too obvious." Oh hey, me and Kennedy agree! What an unprecedented event which certainly doesn't happen a worrying amount! xD Though I more so believe that because of the lie in the MQ file (fuck it I'm using the abbreviation too), as the location is the most likely to be the lie imo.

"Taylor: Well, if we’re sure that it was drowning, then the only things that can be the lie are really the time or the location, right?

Davis: So, there’s water in the bathtub. What does that tell us?

Noah: That the location was accurate…?

Jeff: Does that mean the time’s the lie?

Mark: …Does it…? [Puzzling Pieces] Speaking of the MQ file lie :p

"Davis: Was anywhere else particularly dry or wet?

Jeff: The hell does “particularly dry” even mean?

Davis: If somewhere looked like it was messed with by the killer, I mean.

Davis: Somewhere that really should have been wet, but it wasn’t." Okay I tought "particularly dry" was hilarious when I first read it, but Davis raises an interesting point, actually. Now that I think about it, there wasn't any mention of water going from the tub to the closet, right? Oh that's extremely suspicious actually how didn't I notice before?! Unless it dried, which I guess might be possible... hm...

"The _____ _____ be _____ by _____." Okay wow I'm actually really bad at these what do I do.

Uh... "The body should be dry by now"? Going with the idea that the time is the lie. I don't believe the time is the lie, because Vivi's Autopsy, but I could believe that this is the direction the trial's gonna go for now. I hadn't considered how dry the body should or shouldn't be in my original theories, but I guess if the body should be dry if he'd been killed at 9:15, then that supports the idea that the body got wet a while after the murder, possibly if the killer crossed the Fountains while carrying it.

[Answer: The bathtub should be dry by now.] Ah, that also makes sense. Although this doesn't clear up anything actually, which is kinda why I didn't even consider it xp If the time is the lie, then the bathtub could be wet because it happened way later than the file says. If the location's the lie, then the bathtub could be wet because the killer turned it on to appear as though the murder happened there way after the murder actually happened.

I am... not doing well in these minigames am I? xD I gotta lock in chat what is this.

"Kennedy: The time being different is too obvious. Clearly, the killer knew we would be searching for the lie, so they constructed a world in which we would think the lie was the time instead of the location; that’s why they planted the water. Maybe they even expected us to see through that lie, so they also set up a false alternate location and the real lie–" I love it when I have to reread Kennedy's lines to follow along (/gen), it's awesome xD

"Mark: Could we step through it together?

Kennedy: …

Vivi: Uh… let’s talk it over as a group, okay? I mean, I’m pretty sure it must be the location, ‘cause my autopsy determined the time was about right, but… we can come to a conclusion everyone can believe, right? Kennedy, you wanna start?

Kennedy: …Alright." [Nonstop Debate] Theory Trio going in!!! And another Nonstop! :D

...Okay it's getting dire. I genuinely have no clue where I'm supposed to be going with this.

"Noah: …Hey, uh, what if it was the time though? What would that mean?" Maybe Vivi's Autopsy here? Feels kinda redundant since Vivi just mentioned it... This is maybe the most likely in my eyes?

"Paris: It’d be about who’s with who, right?" Though maybe Alibis here to start talking about that? Idk.

[Answer: Damp Body → “the water should’ve dried by now”] I am not doing well, I should've gotten this T_T

"Ellis: Robert’s skin had fully dried, huh…? That probably didn’t take all of five hours, but the time it would’ve taken for his skin to dry is still longer than the time needed for the tub. That would add to the idea that the tub is a trap." Yeah this makes sense, thank you Ellis Ortiz the GOAT.

"Aidan: Slow your roll. No one’s gonna listen to you if you go off on your conspiracies.

Kennedy: It’s a theory! And a founded one at that!" Have I mentioned how much I love this beef? I have, but it bears repeating :)

"Vanessa: So, wait. If Robert’s body is dry, then that means that the murder was at 9:15…?

Grace: I would say that seems likely.

Vivi: It’s definitely true. Like I’ve been saying the whole time… " This is why y'all need to listen to Vivi more! Smh.

"Grace: I doubt that would get us very far. Though, along those lines, it would be possible to see if anywhere seemed… too clean, wouldn’t it?" [Evidence Select] I also accidentally spoiled myself on the right answer here (Robert's Room), but given there's not a lot of places that could be talking about, maybe I would have answered right anyways.

"Ellis: Robert’s room seemed exceptionally normal. I know how that sounds, but literally nothing looked moved, like a ghost had been living in there. Er– you know what I mean." I hadn't clocked this as strange, but yeah, it's a good point.

"Davis: In any case, it seems like we can agree that Robert willingly let the killer in, or at least opened the door for them.

Noah: Does that tell us anything about the killer…?

Paris: Well, I heard Harper was going around to people’s rooms and giving them gifts to cheer them up. It would’ve been nice for the killer to have set that little precedent for themself~" You know Paris I really would like to stop suspecting you of literally every bad thing in the killing game, but the fact that the murder happened inside and you're my top suspect out of everyone inside, combined with you saying shit like this, when you know Harper has an alibi from breakfast to 11 (covering 9:15, the time of murder in the MQ file) is not helping. I swear I don't hate her she's just so suspicious always and for what T_T

"Harper: I was with Davis at 9:15 AM. Unless you’re suggesting that I committed the crime from afar or that the Monoquin File lied about both the time and location, that would be impossible." Yeah that.

"Kennedy: Me, Mark, Harper, Davis, Paris, and Taylor are all in the clear. Plus Ellis, Vanessa, and Aidan, if we’re going off the BDA." Yeah, if you trust the Taylor and Paris alibi. Thing is, indoors people without alibi are just Noah and Vivi, and I don't particularly think they're the killer here. Jeff also has no alibi, but it's risky to lie about being in the pool without making sure no one could have seen it.

"Kennedy: Figuring out how the killer got inside or outside." [Nonstop Debate] Oh yeah we do need to talk about this, right? I'm assuming it's time to bring in Jeff's Account.

"Harper: That’s true… Robert’s room is quite far away from the body discovery site.

Harper: Is there a more direct way they could get his body outside?" You know, I thought about dropping Robert's body from a window, but that would probably cause some damage that Vivi's autopsy would have caught :p

...Though, wait. Order List mentions the rope that got ordered was long, which is strange, because you wouldn't need such a long rope just to tie the closet shut. Maybe the window idea isn't so insane? If you tie Robert by the waist or something (making sure to put the rope above his clothes to avoid rope burn), then you could lower him slowly so as to avoid injury, and then maybe climb down there yourself, which would avoid the whole "going through the Fountain Bridge" problem.

...Are there even windows in these rooms?

Okay I went back to check the Prologue real quick, yes there's a window in Ellis room and thus presumably in all the others. Though I've also realized that maybe I don't understand what the hell the layout of this thing is? According to the Prologue, Ellis' window overlooks “a pretty are with fountains”, which I assumed to be, y’know, the Fountains. But… how?

Like I'm probably being extremely silly here because today is clearly not my day when it comes to actual coherent thought, judging from my minigame guesses, but... if the Foyer door leads to the Fountains (which, it has to, right? There's no other doors to get outside), then Robert's window would overlook the fountains, but Ellis' would need to look past Kennedy's room to see those. Ellis' window would more likely face the Monorail. Unless the "pretty area with fountains" that Ellis says her window overlooks is different from the Fountains in the map... am I losing my mind? T_T

Okay me not understanding maps aside, I'm going to go with Order List -> a more direct way because I don't even know anymore.

[Answer: Order List → “a more direct way”] We got one!!! This is the start of the comeback I believe.

"Mark: Exactly. If you look at the map… Robert’s room is right in the front of the building. You could easily lower yourself and the body down and end up just slightly to the side of the Hotel door." Okay the fact we're actually bringing this up makes me even more confused about Ellis seeing fountains outside his window- no, no, I'm done talking about it.

"Jeff: Oh, come on. Why can’t they just have gone through the Fountains?

Harper: Through?

Jeff: Yeah. Take a quick swim, pop out over by the Monorail Station. No one goes to the Monorail Station. You’d be fine." You know, I may not have caught the rope thing, but I'm still somewhat proud I actually called the killer going through the Fountains (if that even is what happened). Like, it wasn't particularly hard to call, but y'know. I gotta take my Ws when I get them xp

"Vivi: Honestly, I think Jeff is right. The Villas have, like, hotel type stuff, so they have a blow dryer and whatnot. As long as the killer could make it into the Villa of choice without getting spotted– which checks out with it being the farthest from the Hotel– they could make themself passably dry and look totally normal." Alright that's very convenient and easier than my other ideas on how to dry oneself after doing this lmao.

"Kennedy: Then, we should figure out whether the people inside or outside are the ones responsible.

Grace: If the killer could easily move back and forth anyways, would it really matter much? They could dry off in both the Villa and Robert’s room. Thus, anyone would have access to anywhere." Incorrect, Grace! It's easier for someone inside, since the rope needs to actually be placed in Robert's room in the first place. If they were outside, they would need to put the rope in some other room before going outside, then go inside, move the rope to Robert's room, and proceed. Plus, it wouldn't benefit them to move the body, since the body being the Villa would make the people outside more suspicious if taken at face value. It makes significantly more sense for them to start inside. I'm assuming all of this is about to get brought up, but y'know.

"Kennedy: There are still things we can consider. Pick a side, everyone! It’s time to figure this out.

Taylor: O-okay! I guess we’re doing one of these now… 

Monoquin: I’ll prepare the Trial grounds." [Scrum Debate] Wow Kennedy was quick with it huh xD

Wait why is the doc title "Ch 2 ScrumDeb 1"? Could there be a second one in the same trial? Crazy if true. Also crazy is that I need to figure out how to format this lmao.

Also why is Ellis in "outdoors." Was I silly in assuming the killer would be indoors?

"Grace: Robert was killed inside. Wouldn’t it make the most sense for the killer to hang around the _____ of the murder?" Vivi - Site. No other option really :p

"Aidan: It’d be easier to predict where _____ might come from if you were inside. The walls and doorways give you something to go off of." Harper - Witnesses. I guess.

"Mark: People are in more consistent locations inside. It’d be easier to find an _____ after the murder there." Paris - Alibi. Hey "inside" people you're not really arguing the correct points here :p The alibis don't really mean anything.

"Jeff: We figured out the File’s _____, and that means the murder happened inside. End of case." Kennedy - Lie. I'll concede that maybe we jumped to Robert's room as the true murder location a bit too fast, but it is the best idea we have atm.

"Vanessa: Vivi and Noah’s behavior has been, like, totally _____, right? So it wouldn’t seem suspicious if they claimed to have been alone all day…" Ellis - Predictable. Because "predictable" is the only adjective there lmao. Also what is this argument. Is anyone gonna bring up that there's no reason for the killer to put the body outside if they were outside themselves? Alright, I guess this is the direction we're going now.

"Vivi: The killer is just as likely to have hung out around the site of the body discovery as the site of the murder! Honestly, it makes even more sense if the body discovery was where the killer ended up…" Does it? The killer would want to get away from the discovery location, especially if the wanted it to be perceived as the murder location, no?

"Ellis: I dunno, I just think that the fewer times that the killer had to move between inside and outside, the better. Swimming through the fountains again and climbing up the rope seems like a hassle. If Robert’s final resting place is outside, then doesn’t it make more sense for the killer to have just stayed outside?" Okay this is an actual argument, thank you Ellis. But it still has the issue that either Robert didn't die inside (which would make the rope useless), or the killer had to get from outside to into the building before the murder. The amount of times the killer moved between outside to in remains the same, unless the killer killed inside, went out and never returned, hiding when the BDA happened. Though I guess in that case they could claim to have been outside from the very beginning, instead of claiming to have been inside the whole time when they were outside for a while.

But that still leaves the issue of motive (why move the body outside? Just leave it inside, it gives you a better alibi. Unless you're playing four dimensional chess and claiming that because an outside killer would want the body inside, then having the body outside makes it less likely for the killer to be outdoors, but that's... a lot. Only Kennedy might believe that me thinks :v), and the fact that the only people outside who aren't cleared by either alibi or BDA are Grace and Jeff, which are looking less likely as we go.

Eh. Maybe it's Grace. I don't know, I could still see it going either way :v

"Jeff: Okay, sure, but has anyone considered that I’ve been staying mostly in one place too? I’d be setting myself up to be obviously gone from somewhere if I were the killer, too!

Grace: Oh, definitely, because when Jeff isn’t present at a location, we all immediately jump to “because they’re murdering someone.”

Jeff: Aren’t we on the same side here?

Grace: Are we? If we’re the only two suspects remaining, we aren’t any longer." Ooh, things are heating up! :O Grace is starting to act a bit more hostile, but we're kinda early in the trial for that if they're the killer, no?

"Vivi: It is true that, for both sides, we weren’t really arguing based on anything…" Okay so I'm not completely insane. Well, maybe I am if the one agreeing with me on the shakiness of the arguments is the Mad Doctor, but here we are I guess.

"Aidan: If it comes down to it, we can just pick someone and go after them until they come up with a good enough excuse. Rinse and repeat until we find someone who can’t.

Taylor: “Isn’t that… unnecessarily cruel…?”

All: …

Aidan: If it’s what we have to do to find the answer, it’s what we do, cruel or not. Figure something out or I’ll pick for you." [Question Completion] Alright, interesting way to go. Also who is Taylor impersonating here? From the reaction, maybe Robert? Idk :v

"_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____?" I'm gonna lock in "What did the File lie do for the blackened?" I'm assuming that's the idea, though the wording might be a bit off. There's probably a way to word this so that you can say "Monoquin File lie" instead of "File lie", but I ran out of room :p

[Answer: What did the Monoquin File do for the blackened?] Ah, got it. So "Monoquin File" instead of "Monoquin File lie." Makes sense, I'll take it.

"Kennedy: …No, she’s got a point. There should be something specific.

Noah: Should there…?

Kennedy: That was a mistake we made last time. We thought that the murder location being a lie could’ve just been part of the Trial. But it was Antonia in the Casino. That’s something that’s inherently incriminating. There should be a clear path as to why the killer would want the lie in the File to be what it is." Thank you! So the killer was inside, that's where we're going with this, right?

"Harper: If we’re all agreed, then I suppose the next step is figuring out why the killer would want that lie in particular." [Puzzling Pieces] Yay more minigames! :D I feel like I haven't been making it apparent enough, but I do really enjoy how many of these there are. They're really fun to play!

"Mark: It is inside, though.

Mark: That could be incriminating to the inside people, if the point of it was to try to get the burden off their shoulders.

Kennedy: But that could be what the outside people want us to think!" Isn't this exactly what I said before? It's getting to be legitimately worrying how well I can read Kennedy's overthinking ahead of time xD

Okay chat I am bad at these. I've come up with stuff that makes no sense ("An __ killer would want the room to be open at one point"???), but maybe the most coherent thing I have is "An inside killer would want the murder to be outside at one point." Most likely wrong, but my brain hurts T_T

[Answer: An inside killer would want the murder to be outside at one point.] Okay hold on I'm goated. I have genuinely no idea how I managed to get that right xD Puzzling Pieces is probably the most satisfying minigame for me when I get it right because I never feel like I know what I'm doing and somehow it works anyways :v

"Paris: Kinda like I said, right? If you center the case around the lie, it falls apart. The lie is that we couldn’t go from inside to outside without getting caught." Yeah you wouldn't want the thing to be centered on one lie. So maybe you'd want there to be two lies. Such as if your bestie was possibly covering for you, right?

I don't know if Paris is the killer or not, I'm just suspecting her for funsies at this point xD

"Noah: So, it’s… one of us…?

Davis: That’s… how it seems, at least.

Vivi: I mean, I’ll fight for myself if I have to. It’s just… hard to believe that it’s Noah?" Yeah see I don't think it's either of you that's what's tripping me up as well. Then again, we still probably have an entire extra part to this trial, so maybe it's a bit early to really be down to just two suspects :v

"Harper: …I assure you, Noah couldn’t possibly–

Aidan: Do you know where he was all day?

Harper: Not… technically, but I believe that he truly was in his room all day. I know Noah, including outside of this… Resort. I’m certain we can trust him." Well, ve's trying at least, that's sweet of ver :)

"Kennedy: This is all about finding out who’s actually innocent. If you believe he is and put up arguments, it doesn’t matter if it’s you instead of him. So, get to it.

Harper: Alright.

Vivi: …" [Third Party Analysis] Oh shit, TPA with someone who is not a suspect! Cool :D Also I really like this one so I'm thriving. I just need to remember how I formatted this. Eh, I'll just go with it like this.

-Vivi-

Concession: "It’s kinda annoying that you guys are really suspecting me again, but I guess I understand why. I am always at the center of everything with my autopsies."

Defense: "If the door’s open to other people coming in, I couldn’t be sure that I’d be in the clear if I did decide to kill someone."

Attack: "Noah’s the one who’s been alone doing who-knows-what for who-knows-how-long!"

Proposal: "Maybe he was using that time to plan a murder instead of grieving like we thought…?"

-Harper-

Concession: "In all fairness, that would be true were she innocent as well."

Defense: "Noah is my friend, and has been for several years. If you’re looking for a character judgment, I attest that I don’t believe Noah would be capable of killing someone, especially under these circumstances. Isn’t it clear that he’s been keeping to himself out of grief? He’s already lost so much… What reason would he have to kill now?" (This one can probably be shorter lmao).

Attack: "Their medical knowledge also puts them in an ideal position to lie about details of the crime. [...] Still, their overall combativeness contrasts with Noah’s solitude; they have something they’re willing to fight for, even if it’s against us." (I don't know if I'm allowed to actually skip lines with "[...]", but since I feel like both of those technically count, I'm putting them both in :v).

Proposal: "On the other hand, Vivi has been… in conflict with others recently and defending herself rather firmly. Maybe it was all to ensure we wouldn’t distrust her inherently going into her upcoming Trial."

That looks good enough. I don't have any bright ideas for the Inquire section, though. My only guess would be shooting Vivi's Autopsy + Monoquin File #2 at Harper's Attack? The idea being that Vivi is in a good position to lie about details of the crime, but she didn't. They gave a time and cause of death which matched the MQ File, meaning if the cast had believed them, the lie would be found out immediately, which would be bad for the blackened because the entire point of the lie was to pull off the whole "inside-outside" trick. I'm not sure it's right, but I don't know what else to shoot, so.

[Checking Distill Answers] So I got most of it pretty right, even if I still have a tendency to use more text than strictly necessary. Issue is that Harper's Attack doesn't include the "lying about details of the crime", meaning my Inquire's gonna be wrong, but oh well.

[Answer: The Motive → Harper’s Attack] Yeah I guess this makes sense. Forgot you could agree with these. I mean, I typically don't like arguing on motive until there's literally no other options, so I'm not sure this would have crossed my mind anyways, but here we are now!

"Ellis: Unless he’s like, actually gone mad with grief– poor word choice, sorry..." This is Mad Doctor discrimination and I will not stand for it >:( (/silly)

"Vivi: No! I mean, yes! I mean, it’s not me, so it seems like it has to be him… No. I think you guys are still wrong about the killer being inside. Like, this all just feels wrong…

Kennedy: It’s true; it’s possible this was all a mind game from the killer to begin with, and they only wanted us to think that the killer was inside! Like I said earlier, with the current motive, mind games–" Mad Duo stand strong, you love to see it :D

"Harper: It’s true. They are guiding our debate…

Vivi: Wait, what? If I did, it wasn’t on purpose!

Aidan: Insistence doesn’t mean anything on its own. If you want to defend yourself, use actual arguments.

Vivi: Okay, fine! I will!" [Nonstop Debate] Don't worry Vivi I believe you, let's go!

"Vivi: Okay, how about this: I’m a doctor, right?

Vivi: That means I’d know more than anyone else how to kill someone.

Jeff: …That’s your brilliant defense?" Yeah, we're not off to a great start here xD

"Vivi: If I was gonna plan a murder when I’ve been in the Infirmary all day every day, I would try to pick something that had to be tied to a more specific location." Not... a great defense. We'll see how we work with it.

"Noah: Are we all gonna just… ignore how much thought it seems like she’s put into this…?" Yes we are Noah, let Vivi come up with hypothetical murder plans in peace >:( (xD)

Okay jokes aside I got nothing. Like I genuinely have no idea what I'm supposed to do here. Uh... No yeah, abstain, idk. I really did not bring my A game to this trial huh :p

[Answer: Order List → “no weapon like that”] You know I did think about this, but it didn't really make sense in my mind. Like yeah the rope is a portable weapon, technically, but you'd be arguing that Robert died strangled, meaning the MQ file lie is the cause of death and thus the death location is true. But that comes with its own problems, of course, such as why Robert would be in the Villas in the first place, and why Vivi wouldn't just give the true cause of death in their autopsy to make the Villas the true death location before all these arguments about going back and forth began. I guess they did say asphyxiation and drowning are hard to tell apart, though. Hm... let's see where this goes.

"Ellis: …Okay, look, if nobody else is gonna say it, I will. Gun!" ???? Wait what the fuck are we talking about Ellis. The gun's not involved. You know the gun's not involved. Where are we going.

"Paris: Oh, did people not hear? My b, I’ll make sure to be more upfront with information next time~" Paris.

"Vivi: It could be! It means that… What if the killer was able to coerce Robert to go somewhere, or do something? If a gun was in the equation, it could’ve totally shaken up what happened! Or, there could’ve been an accomplice, if they were coerced into helping…" This is what I meant. We know this shit didn't happen. The one with the gun was Ness and she's cleared by BDA!

"Vanessa looks at me, attempting to steady the panic in her eyes. What, does she think this is my choice? It’s hers." It' your choice to bring it up when you now it's not connected, though. I don't get what Ellis is trying to do, his moves are too big brain for me.

"Taylor: But, doesn’t the fact that no one’s claiming they got it imply that it is connected to the murder? Otherwise, why wouldn’t they say something?" We've completely derailed the trial here. Maybe there's some kind of point being made that I'm just not seeing? What is Ellis trying to do?

"Aidan: Hey, eyes over here.

We all turn to Aidan– who’s holding the gun." WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT?!?! I mean it's probably gonna end up helping but geez.

"Aidan: It doesn’t have any relevance to the case, though, so we can move on already." Thank you Aidan. Did he hear the conversation between Ness and Ellis? Or does he just not think it's related to the case through regular reasoning? Probably the latter ig.

"Aidan: I’m still cleared from the BDA, and neither of those things have literally anything to do with the case. 

Jeff: What, so we’re just supposed to take you at your word and move on?

Aidan: I’m not gonna tell you what to do. It’s your move.

All: …

Aidan: Cool. Let’s get back on track, then." [Intermission] ...So, what was the point of bringing up the gun again? Just so everyone knows it's on the table? I guess it’s not a horrible idea, but I'm still confused xD This trial is breaking me lmao.

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Yay!!! Really enjoyable trial so far! You know, part of me wonders if at times I may come off as slightly frustrated at the characters’ lines of reasoning, but I assure you that’s not the case. It’d be kinda boring if the trial just went the exact path of reasoning I would want it to go anyways, so I like seeing so many perspectives on the mysteries of the murder xp As always, fun minigames, fun mysteries, and good character moments for good measure! Peak as always, can’t wait to get my heart broken next chapter, when the killer might get revealed! (Or not, what do I know). See you all then!

[rogha]

hinestly i know the quarter quell was heavily implied to be switched so katniss woud die but theres a funnier au where the 74th games is super rigged so district 12 has a female victor for next years games

[coraniaid]

I really do think that the least interesting way to approach any longform narrative written over the course of several years by different writers is to act as if it everything that happens in it must somehow be internally consistent. Especially when we're talking about television writers with an (at best) flexible approach to world building and logical consistency; writers with a clear willingness to abandon previously established facts about the setting if it allows for (what they think will be) a more interesting story in the moment. In such a context it is just not sensible to insist that any late season retcons definitively establish some singular Truth about how the show Really Worked in its original seasons.

Specifically (and I'm aware I wasn't being very vague before) the idea that the (often rather bad) writing of Buffy's later seasons establishes definitive Facts about the world of the first few seasons which, if they contradict earlier claims, mean the original world-building lore we were given must actually have been examples of the in-universe characters being wrong or telling deliberate lies is, I'm sorry, almost offensively stupid. We don't "find out more" about the rules of how the world works in later seasons of the show in a way that implies these rules always existed in some fixed and unchanging state. The world of the show has no such rules because it does not, in fact, exist. What happened is that the later writers of the show (who were mostly different people) had different ideas about what would make for an interesting story (and unfortunately these were mostly worse ideas).

There seems to be a bizarrely popular take online that says you can't really understand the first few seasons of Buffy until you've watched the later ones, as if the entirety of Buffy is a single coherent narrative meticulously planned out from the beginning in advance. But you do all get that that is absurd, right? Yes, sometimes the show frequently changes its position on how its worldbuilding is supposed to work, but that's not because the writers are slowly revealing something they had planned out years earlier and knowingly had characters lie to each other about. It's because they are making things up as they go (which, to be clear, is more difficult and significantly more impressive when done well).

The reason Giles claims in Season 1's Witch to have never cast a spell before is that the writers had no inkling of the backstory they were going to give him next season. You obviously can go back and interpret this as a lie Giles is telling Buffy for some reason, but it doesn't meaningfully improve your understanding of the episode to do this. Similarly, the reason that nobody in the show talks about a "Watcher's Council" until Season 3 is that before Season 3 the writers had no conception of such a thing. It's fun to come up with in-universe reasons for why Giles might not mention the Council, even when meetin a second Slayer, but I think we should admit than when we do this we're engaged in something closer to fanfiction than analysis.

We don't "find out" that the character of Anya introduced in The Wish was probably autistic even before becoming a vengeance demon: the writers just changed their mind about how her character worked and why she acted that way (and indeed in The Wish itself she doesn't act that way at all; Anya being "strangely literal" didn't really take hold as a character trait until the show's fourth season). It is not "revealed" that Buffy tried telling her parents about vampires before the show began and they had her locked up: this is just a particularly stupid retcon that doesn't make any sense if you actually remember the first two seasons (woud Buffy joke with her mom about being distracted by thoughts of "saving the world from vampires" in Bad Eggs if the last time she'd mentioned vampires to her mom she'd been institutionalized?). We don't "learn" that Giles and Buffy were always wrong about people not "turning into" vampires (meaning they were specifically wrong about people like Jesse and Ford, and that Buffy herself is some sort of unrepentant mass murderer): the later writers who imply that this is what happens after all just didn't care about continuity (or what this change would mean for the morality of the show's protagonist's entire reason for being).

You have to watch each season of the show as if it were telling you the truth about its world building as the writers understood it at the time, or none of them make any sense. That is, in fact, how you have to watch most television of this form: there was no long term master plan. There is no singular truth about what "really" happened. The rules of the setting are just subtly (or not so subtly) different from season to season. Nobody writing Season 1 of the show had the slightest idea what would happen in Season 7 and anyone who suggests otherwise is full of shit.

[cienie-isengardu]

Du you think splinter woud name the turtles after the human he know(aka,yoshi,shen,nagi,saki) if he didn't fide the art book

And if so with wonde woud he name after the human's

I doubt so. For one, there is no reason for Splinter to call any turtle under his care after Nagi and Saki - the first brutalized Shen, the letter killed both Yoshi and his beloved.

Also, if Splinter adopted his master’s culture (as could be seen with him speaking Japanese, and practicing ninjutsu among other things), the choice of naming was most likely affected by it. I’m not an expert on Japanese culture, so you need to do your own research on the subject, but I don’t think using the same name after members of your family - and especially the dead ones? - is that common practice there. At least not the way it happens in some European countries or USA. Splinter could use some of the same (presumably) kanji characters from Yoshi name to make proper and no less unique names for turtles. But the fact he didn’t do that before finding the book implies for me that Splinter never intended to do so in the first place. 

[fulltimecatwitch]

You know what is my actual roman empire ??? the fact that all the details we have about Kaz's life prior to joining the Resistance are so vague

Sure, some things are implied or can be deduced but there are so many that are ???? like we know he has a mother but what was his relationship with her like? or why did Hamato wanted him to be a part of the New Republic Navy and not the senate ??? why did he amost get expelled a couple of times from the navy??? was Hamato always hard on him? because even if he's though he does seems to genuinely care about Kaz's wellbeing

i wouldn't mind a comic or something that woud fill in those gaps

[magical-glimpse]

”and in a celebrity's case i think it would be logical to assume it is easier to find the kind of person you are looking for in a lot of cases”

well that would be beneficial mostly on a superficial level like status, looks etc. but finding the one/that person you can truly connect with would be even harder for a celebrity. and with jungkook, you even said he’s looking for his ONE Special person and he would most likely subconsciously be disinterested in the people around him on a romantic level. sure he can find someone conventionally attractive or hot but to actually pursue anything or even finding the energy to talk to them would not be so simple. and bts have had crazy work schedules before the hiatus so not much time or effort for wasting energy on a superficial/temporary relationship in jks case.

I agree that most of the people who would be into him at first woud likely be for superficial reasons. But he still meets a lot more people through his job than another job would give him the opportunity to. For example, a producer would not go on tours, on fanmeets on show all over the world etc.

I dont like your "he would most likely subconsciously be disinterested in the people around him on a romantic level". It implies he will only be truly interested in pursuing his twin. At no point does having a soulmate or a twin flame means that you will be disinterested in everyone else. At no point does that means that you will never be into or can never be into a temporary or superficial relationship. There is this expectation of " virginity" when we talk about romantic soulmates and twin flames that i hate and i am not the only one who noticed it. People with "a One" can have a hoe phase. They can date people of all genders before getting with the "One". They can change their mind and decide to marry another person and stay with them forever, then meet the "One" and become besties and that is it. They can decide to become a monk and end up being at the same place of worship as their one and they become two friendly monks for the rest of their days. There is literally nothing about the general soulmate experience which requires to not be into other people. And honestly, if it did, i would find in unfair. Every soul does what their want, and every human as well, it is unfair to expect someone you have not met yet to never be attracted to anyone but you, and it is simply irrealistic.

[cidr-monologic-trials]

gotten a somewhat uncertain question, do you think there's a chance that the entire crime scene was fabricated? As in the culprit killed Star earlier and made it seem she died near midnight? asking 1) because the message was sent at the exact same time, a little weird, and 2) the Monofile said that her neck slit was 'likely' the cause of death, implying she might not have died from but in another method, like suffocation (not strangulation)

It's an interesting theory, and I'll admit that the message being sent at the same time Kyle & Cartman started arguing is kinda convinient.

And the fact that we don't know much about what happened during the day of the murder due to Dipper being unconcious makes it a posibility since we don't know at what time did everybody leave to their rooms, or who was the last person who saw Star.

So it woud've been posible for someone to have killed Star and either fabricate the scene of the crime or just hide her body in the kitchen, with Cartman messing with the Kitchen after finding the Body.

This creates a problem though, and that's thefact that Dipper saw the killer, if we assume that the murder was fabricated the killer woud already have hidden everything away except for Jenny's Monocaller, which was found on the second floor, so it woudn't make sense for the killer to be down on the first floor by that time.

There's also the issue of the Lights that Gaz saw, which now woud make no sense.

[a-student-out-of-time]

So here's what Hu sharing the same name as J implies, when the Chapter 2 victim dies, they leave a note saying along the lines of 'Julia' which immediately woud cast blame onto J. But then Teruko, David and Nico would point out that is also could be referring to Hu. But this is also makes David and Nico sus as they would be the only people to know this.

//As soon as it came up, I was like "Oh yeah, this is gonna be important" ^^;

[foolsmask]

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. There's a show or movie called "Landman" with Billy Bob Thornton. I don't know anything about it beyond this one small clip I've seen. In the clip this woman who seems to be an environmentally conscious person and BBT are out in the scrub lands and BBT gives this speech about how petroleum (the substance that makes gas) is essential to life as we know it. He lists a bunch of products it is made into (stuff that woud make life difficult if it went away), then points out the wind turbines the woman seems interested in create a carbon footprint and implying they don't generate enough energy to offset that footprint.

And that argument sounds very compelling. BBT delivers it with a dispassionate calm, but stern tone like a disapproving parent talking to a child.

But then he keeps talking and shoots his argument in the proverbial fucking foot.

He starts talking about how we don't have the infrastructure to move the power from the wind turbines and solar panels to the people, and it would take 30 years to make a significant dent in that problem, and such a project would have a huge carbon footprint. Then says something about only having less than 200 years of petroleum anyway.

From my memory that's where the clip ends, with BBT walking away.

But the writers didn't listen to themselves and this story about President Carter illustrates my problem with his argument.

We could still try.

Imagine if Regan had not killed this idea. The 80's were 40 years ago. The internet was developed back then. Look where it is now. If we had people focused on engineering clean energy for 40 years, made it profitable for companies to invest in researching, where would it be? For all we know we might have eliminated our dependency on oil. We might still have tires and roads that require petroleum to be drilled for, but it might not be the big pollution problem it is.

This is my problem with society. We see problems that need fixing and if we can't fix them all in one fell swoop, we decode it's a dumb idea and give up. It boggles my mind.

I live in a midsized city in the U.S. We don't have a good public transportation system here. It's busses only right now. People howl and complain about how the bus doesn't go where they want to go, so a bill is passed to expand the routes and add more. Now people are howling and complaining about the construction clogging the roads. It's supposed to take 3 years and will greatly increase people's ability and willingness to use the bus. But this little inconvenience makes people scream about how they don't want it because they own a car. Well great, not all of us do. Maybe you could save money and have a nice night downtown and ride the bus rather than paying for gas and parking once or twice a year.

It benefits everyone to try and improve life. It might not work, but could we try?

[llycaons]

I do think cql lwj is just a better person than novel lwj but also think it’s such a waste to make cql lwj this pure flawless beacon of moral perfection - that really is boring. maybe he is jealous and maybe he is possessive and I’d much rather see him recognize and work to overcome those flaws than the narrative just pretending they don’t exist. that’s makes the final separation and return so rewarding. for me

[fuckingfinwions]

In your sexual proxy verse I get the feeling that it's high ranking elves who use proxies, and maybe that - usually - it's lower ranked/low class elves who are used as proxies. Relatedly, given Miriel's presumed lower rank than Indis, what if the whole proxy thing was originally a Vanyar thing, something she brought over, and her supporter spread a slander that Miriel had been her proxy with Finwe, until she turned up pregnant?

Oh wow! I just want to sit and embrace how amazing an idea that is for a moment.

Yes, I think it’s normally high ranking elves using proxies, partially because they’re most likely to both have duties that keep them in specific far away places. And for practical reasons, the proxy can’t be who’s in charge of anything time sensitive in their day job (because they have to travel at short notice to go fuck the couple), which eliminates high-ranking military at the very least.

So yes I think it would be amazing if proxies are a Vanyarin tradition. And if it’s the only cultural script anyone in Valinor has for non-monogamy or serial relationships, of course they’re going to try and describe Finwe’s relationships with it!

“Miriel was Finwe and Indis’s proxy” as a rumor explains so much to the average gossipmonger. Finwe isn’t actually marrying two people, Miriel was just there to stand in for Indis (who is very busy as of princess of Valmar). Miriel’s talk of Feanor having a fire beyond her measure was her saying that she realizes she overstepped her role; her purpose was sex, not bearing Finwe’s child. Miriel embroidered tapestries, which are mobile at least compared to like, architecture, so it would seem plausible that she took her work with her on trips to Valmar. I headcanon that, like many elven craftspeople, she would focus on her work to the exclusion of all social contact for days or even weeks at a time when really in the zone. So all of Tirion knows that sometimes Miriel just disappeared for a while - there’s no evidence she didn’t  go to Valmar to sleep with Indis.

To Indis’s partisans, it also neatly backdates the relationship, so that Finwe and Indis were involved the whole time Finwe was with Mriiel. It flips the pro-Miriel script completely - Finwe didn’t accept Indis as an adequate replacement when Miriel died, but Miriel was the replacement for Indis!

As a bonus, Feanor hates the rumors so much.

As a second bonus, this means a lot of people “know” that Fingolfin is Finwe’s oldest legitimate son.

[not-so-lost-after-all]

Im so happy reading your thoughts about Astarion! It’s so cool and I do think you have such an interesting view and your ideas make so much sense to me. I’m glad I’m not annoying you much! Do you think Astarion could be truly loyal? And be so annoyed by that?😂 man, I love this guy so much and I could listen to you taking about him for hours. Any unpopular opinions about our vampire?

Why, thank you, Nonnie :D Could he be truly loyal? I suppose you don´t think the version of him we currently see. To make it clear, no companion is truly your friend or lover in Act 1, not yet. Notice that in the scar reading scene, he is suprised you would help him with his situation even when your Tav romanced him. THAT promise actually is something and if you keep it, only then you will truly earn him. If you mean something like risking his life for you, then I can only see him considering it after years of being together, you risking your life for him before and he woud only do it in the Tenth Doctor Who fashion - cursing and claiming how much more he could do.

Unpopular opinion? He barely likes us. Even at the end of Act 1 you can only claim that something is actually starting to develop between them. People are overestimating the romance scene and there are so many dark things about it. He would sleep with you and say the same things after you slaughtered some druids and refugees and he is probably wary of what you could do to allies. Here, he´s doing it to stay in your good graces and seducing you from the get go. So much for him liking you. The things he says in the romance scene, he said them houndred times before in the last two centuries to people now dead. Oh, Tav is so special :D Not to mention that in a true vampire spawn fashion, he thinks he is better than everyone, Tav included. In many scenes, he clearly says or at least implies you´re an idiot. You´re doing things he approves? Congratulations, you´re a tool he doesn´t respect. You´re the savior of the needy and avoid fighting? You´re a fool uncapable of helping him. It will be pretty hard to get him to like you and not encouraging his worst tendencies - and keep in mind that these tendencies include not wanting competition, you included. Hell, we don´t even know that sleeping with him after a week is not a mistake.

And I don´t know how unpopular the opinion is and people are free to imagine what they like but there will be no dark or twisted romance when you become partners in vampire crime. Even if you don´t know what DnD vampires are like, Astarion at least says in the game that they are power hungry creatures who hate competition. If anything, he would make you his spawn and compansate what was done to him on you - so yeah, that´s the only twisted romance I can realistically offer.

[random-meme-bot]

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[I will try to keep this as Spoiler free as posible, but since it's imposible to talk about a piece of media without spoiling some of it, the only part's I will be covering are the ones that the Manual tells you about (These come in the form of locations and plot points that I will try to make as subtle as posible to keep the surprise)]

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[videoworm]

alright here we go: i did read the shortstory [here, have a link]. surprisingly there isnt much more technical information in 5 pages of text BUT there is more information about the Resonators effect on the senses and the Pink Horny (not horny in the shortstory) Dimension. which is really cool and i wanna talk about it:

So, Crawfords whole motivation behind the Resonator is to experience the universe with more senses than accessible to humanity - until then. (Understandable. Who isn't frustrated by our filtered interaction with our surroundings):

The Resonator supposedly amdis a frequency that activates unused sensual organs, the Pineal Gland only being one of them. (they dont tell us what kind of waves its producing. Audio? Electromagnetic? describing the machine by its sound and the massive tuning forks in the movie would imply audio, i guess)

The first thing that happens when turning on the Resonator is that it radiates ultra violet light - now visible to the human senses. (Really demonstrates the whole concept behind this. )

(They do not explain why it already glows while turned off though. The light is probably at the energetically higher boundary of what is visible to the homan eye (near UV). but like ?? where does it come from? why would the machine just glow with no energy source. this makes no sense, Lovecraft *disapprovingly wags with my index finger* explain it)

here the machine is turned on:

I find it interesting that the 'unnamed protagonist' is immediately able to tell that this is UV. They have never seen UV before in their life - but it just immediately makes intuitive sense to them. How would one cope with suddenly gaining the capacity to receive new stimuli? There woud be a learning curve probably (just like how babies first have to learn how to process the visual signals they get from their eyes [visual neurodevelopment]). But those stimuli would quickly just make sense. (like when you put one of those horzontal mirroring glasses on and after a few days your brain has already adapted)

Also how is the unnamed protagonist suddenly able to see UV? Do their photo-receptors in their eyes gain the capacity to react to UV? Or where they capable of doing that before but now the neural pathways in their brain are able to process this information? Or are these signals not going throught the eyes at all and they sense it through the pineal gland ( Lovecraft writes that the protagonist cannot see (well) with their pineal gland yet - unlike Crawford who had lots of exposure and training) this also isnt explained >:(. i want to know.

Now to the really cool part though: whats going on in the Pink Horny Dimension (physically not a different dimension but from a human point of view its like overlaying a whole new dimension to the universe) ?

the jellyfish!!! they were also in the movie :-))

although not spacially overlapping. also the movie version of that dimension is ways emptier. i dont know how they should've done a wholly filled pink dimension in the film though. technically difficult and also not practical if youre trying to have characters act inside the dimension. but also! the cool pink glow of the dimension in the movie is probably like the UV light: these creatures (and the whole dimension really) are a totally new different kind of color not percievable with the human eye.

i imagine the overlapping of the creatures with other physical objects kinda works like a forth dimension in space. from a humans perspective in a 3d world this would look like two objects occupying the same space at the same time. but in the 4th dimension they might not. (this might also explain why the pink dimension is so completely filled with creatures and objects. there might actually be more space between them. but we cant see that space bc its projected to 3 dimensions.

also i imagine the devouring of each other kinda works drops of oil: one creature isnt really devoured by the other they just fuse together [reaction diffusion]. (kinda like star trek Changelings hehe) - which would also allow them to un-fuse (or un-devour (or puke eachother out))

here the left gif is of a 4d tesseract projected into 2d on your screen (see how it overlaps with itself? it wouldnt overlap in 4d-space). and the right gif is an example of diffusion (see all these blobs joining and unjoining like liquid. here they are long strings but you could also edit the conidtions and they would be more like blobs) (hehe math :^) )

i full heartedly support shortstory-Crawford on his quest to see the universe - for it is beautiful. the unnamed protagonist has a boring opinion though.

yeah ok 🙄, there is some undescribable beast that could always be in the same space as them. but these two are never gonna meet again bc the Resonator is gone. They are just terrorized by what they saw. not even a little bit inspired :( (lame)

now i really wanna know the technical details of the resonator >:(

edit: the lovecraft shortstory is only 5 pages long. imma see if they explain anything (further than "it resonates and stimulates the pineal gland")