Mini Trial 31 - INVESTIGATION!

[⋆⋅ Sage ⋅⋆]

The majority of you spend a night in your cells -- with two exceptions, you know who you are! -- in varying degrees of disappointment and exhaustion. The next morning, you are all instructed to gather in the cafeteria. Again, there’s no horn. Even the High Risk prisoners are brought downstairs from the very start -- this is how you know that something is very wrong.

The Warden is back from his business trip. He looks furious.

“Who the hell trashed my secret party room?!” he shouts.

Huh?

“And who the hell left blood everywhere?! And blew up the library?! And destroyed my beloved blowing horn?!”

HUH?!

“D-Did you say blood?” squeaks Margaery. Basically everyone else rolls their eyes. You remember last night’s events all too well.

You all look around… and notice the absence of two prisoners: Pop and the Annoying Dog.

The Warden wrings his hands, his demeanour shifting massively from anger to pleading. “Please… the press is here… so many reporters… We have to find out who did this! And it has to be now, goddamnit!”

Time to investigate.

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Quick, find a body so we can get this trial started! Each one of you can investigate a total of two places during this game. In exchange for searching a room, you will get a Truth Bullet. After you find the body, these investigations can continue in the Trial itself to further unveil the mystery of what the KUMA! happened last night! We have made you around 30 Truth Bullets or so thus far, so you’ll need everyone’s cooperation to get them all.

Oh, and check your Discord DMs for alibis, coming any minute now!

[Ame]

"Eheh, wait a minute, one more thing"

The Warden stopped, took a breathe and began to make an announcement.

"I’ve come to make an announcement:

Nakao Matsumi’s a new inmate at Horn E. Correctional Facility. She committed several war crimes in the Middle East. That’s right, she brought along a computer to the Middle East and hacked their government, and she said her code was “this big” and I said “no one cares”.

So I’m throwing her into jail: Nakao Matsumi, your code is weak, its the size of this walnut except way smaller. And guess what? Here’s was your sentence looks like. That’s right baby, all decades, no months, no years, looks like two life and a decade.

She Kumad! the governments so guess what? I’m gonna Kuma! her life. That’s right this is what you get, MY SUPER SENSE OF JUSTICE. Except I’m not giving you my sense of justice, I’m gonna go higher, I’M GIVING MY GODLY IDEA OF JUSTICE, HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT NAKAO, I PASSED ON GOD’S JUSTICE YOU IDIOT!

You have 50 years before your sentence runs up, now get outta my Kumaing! sight before I ruin your life too."

Nakao nervous walks in, she is a low-risk prisoner




"H-Hi, I'm Nakao Matsumi, the war criminal who destroyed multiple Middle Eastern Governments and breached the Geneva Convention at least 18 times in 3 different countries"

[Ktoasty]

That's not the only new prisoner that's joining the prison. Suddenly, a figure appears from underneath Nakao's puffy skirt.

Who is she?

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"Hey, I'm new prisoner #2. My friends call me Nao, but you must call me Tomori." She kneels on the floor and starts praying outloud for some reason. Something something Druandia. After a bit, she looks up. "Oh, you want to know my crime? Haha."

Nao reaches inside Nakao's skirt again and pulls out a familiar object. "I lied about what's inside THIS BOX!!" What's inside? The others may never know.

[mao]

No one seems to be paying little Nakao any mind... Everyone's too busy trying to find a body to chat!

And one of you is getting warmer... As Gareki searches through the west sector for clues, which he finds quite a lot of. Once he enters the Morgue though, he starts getting a little chilly. There's a bloody hand print on the door, a weird stench and suspicious traces of bleeding on the floor. One of the body drawer doors is ajar.

Gareki opens the drawer, expecting a body, but... there's none? Instead, there's a cardboard box placed in the middle. Curious, he peeks inside and... Whatever it is, it makes Gareki violently sick. He throws up on the morgue floor. Better add that to the Truth Bullet too!

Ah, it seems Gareki isn't able to quit describe what they find in the box. Would someone care to help?

[Tetsu]

Gareki continues vomiting and dies of vomiting.


He cover's his mouth

[Vaellin the Bard]

Wandering back from following a trail, Mukuro heads to the first area he'd considered checking out. Someone had been in there before, what did they find, he wondered. Upon seeing Gareki, however, concern takes over.

"Kufufu, what have we stumbled upon here?" the illusionist notes, leaning over to check out the box, while also checking out Gareki. "Find something interesting, bomber?"

[Tetsu]

Gareki looks up, he looks green

"B...box..."

He points to it

[mao]

Mukuro comes to check on Gareki and finds the box. He peeks in and... falls silent and incredibly pale.

Maybe the two you have already investigated enough horrifying things for the day?

[mao]

You try again. Both of you peek in at the same time and...

Huh? There's nothing. Sure, the insides of the box are covered in blood and dog fur, but it's not that disgusting or scary to either one of you.

[mao]

Rorona snoops around the Security Room and the Armory. The Security Room is wrecked: the blowing horn is broken, the control panels are smashed and floor is all bloody. She's a bit thick-headed, but even she recognizes a corpse then she sees one.

But... It doesn't match the height or the weight of any missing prisoners?!

In the Armory, she finds the walls emptied of any and all kind of explosives. There's a key laying on the ground.

[Sachi]

"I guess I'll help out, but definitely not because you told me to. Having to take orders from a man is a real pain in the ass. I shouldn't even be in here!"

"Although... this old timer can't have many years left... if the next warden was a cute girl... Heheh, maybe I'd be okay with that. GAHAHAHA!"

[mao]

As Rance finished his investigation into the visiting room, which was indeed quite fruitful, he came back out into the courtyard. Noticing the Goat Pen, he decided it wouldn't hurt to check out, although it seemed rather unlikely.

The pen is rather spacious, proper fit for the prison's mascot. The goat seems to be happily bleating. You notice something in the shelter built for it. A toy? It's fluffy and small. And shaped like a dog.

Oh my god, it's a dog. You quickly get everyone to gather around as you climb into the pen and inspect it closer. It's definitely the Annoying Dog you all know, but something seems to be off. Shouldn't some sort of jubilant music be playing now that you found the corpse?

The goat opens his mouth. "So close! But that's not even half the victim! I'd say... that's somewhere around 10-30%?"

You all look at each other confused. The goat can talk? And what did it mean by that?

The goat gives the puppy a little kick, sending it flying into the air and rolling into the grass. The dog's movements seemed unnatural for a corpse, bouncing around like a fluffy plushie rather than a dead body.

"I'll give you a hint, though! The rest of him is not too far away!" The goat bleats before continuing eating.

[Sachi]

"HOW DID THEY KILL THE FUCKIN' DOG?
IF I KNEW YOU COULD DO THAT I WOULD'VE DONE IT MOTNTHS AGO!"

[yuu]

Well, I guess the answers to riddle of Schrodingers cat- trick question; it was a Kumaing! dog all along. What bullshit.”

[mao]

Tomori, the newest addition to the prison gang, marches to the toy and inspects it. It is as the goat said. This is definitely a part of Annoying Dog - or was, before he was cut into pieces, stitched back together and stuffed with cotton balls. He's fluffier than in life, basically the dog's skin over some stuffing.

That must mean... Somewhere close... Well, the only close place would be the only place in the first floor no one has inspected yet, you reason. You lead the gang into the bathrooms in the western sector, starting from the boys' bathroom. All clear. Probably not even used recently based on how clean it is. Then, you open the girls' bathroom door. A foul stench fills your nostrils. Yeah, that's definitely it.

There's a plastic bag near the toiler, leaking blood into the floor. The sink also seems to be bloody to a degree. You take a step in and put you hands in, pulling out a kitchen knife covered in... fluids and a sewing kit similarly seeping in not-quite-blood. You show the rest of the contents of the bag to the prisoners. That would be the removed insides of the Annoying Dog and the largest remaining chunk of his body.

"Good job!" The goat bleats. It appears to have followed you from the courtyard. "We'll be seeing each other soon, once the Trial starts. But, until then, you still have a short while to investigate the dead boy in the security room and the three (3) remaining rooms upstairs, that you have yet to search. Good luck!"

The goat walks back to it's pen and a lightning strikes the fluffy doll of Annoying Dog out of the clear skies. Annoying Dog is resurrected as a plushie?!?! He joins you guys, although you'd much rather have him be dead again.