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calloperators ([personal profile] calloperators) wrote in [community profile] 1_800_hotline2019-06-15 12:00 pm
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TRIAL 1 [DAY 4]

[The sound of rapidly approaching police sirens indicates that it's time to leave the crime scene.

When you reach the previously-defunct laundry room at the motel, you find that the door swings open easily. A wave of air carrying stench of rotting flesh immediately hits you in the face, accompanied the sound of flies buzzing incessantly, having finally being released from their disgusting prison. Two rotting corpses lay on the ground, both with gunshot wounds through their bodies. Curiously enough, these corpses are both wearing masks--one with a wolf mask, and another with a clown mask. From the general state of these corpses, their bodies appear to have been here for weeks. Some of you might feel a twinge of recognition at the sight of them, though you don't remember why.

Once you manage to look past the corpses, you'll find that there's an open door on the back wall with stairs leading down. Whatever washing machines that used to be here have been removed, leaving rusty impressions on the walls and floor. As you carefully make your way down the concrete steps, the air grows colder and mustier, and the sound of the radios fade. You eventually step into a dimly-lit chamber that only vaguely resembles a boiler room, as a series of pulpits have been arranged in rows, labeled by room number. Pyro's stand, of course, is conspicuously empty.

You realize that this has been the only time during your time here that you haven't heard any music at all.

Standing before all the pulpits at the front of the room, there's a CRT TV buzzing with static. As soon as everyone files in, the metal door swings shut with an abrupt CLANG and locks behind you. The static fills the silence for several minutes.

The screen flickers, and a face appears. His blonde hair is slicked back in an unnatural fashion, his plastic smile is almost permanently affixed to his face, and the suit he's wearing looks...far too shiny to be remotely real. His movements are jerky, occasionally changing completely in pose in view to the camera.

He opens his mouth and speaks in a stuttering, artificial tone, rising and falling with no sense of rhyme or reason.]


This IS M-M-Max HEADroom, and YOU are all all all HERE to catch a murderer! Your JOB is to find out who's g-g-g-g u i l t y, and I'm here to help move things along, in a sense. ense. ense. [A pause.] Then again, you're--all guilty of something, aren't you?

[And he throws back his head and laughs.]



< TRIAL START! >

worldchampofmartialarts: (3)

[personal profile] worldchampofmartialarts 2019-06-15 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got my doubts about that... sure, doesn't take a pro like me to tell you a punch'll leave a mark- but there's plenty way's to wrestle! Gasmask still could'a been grappled- and I've got a feeling they might've been, 'cause they got whacked by their own weapon!
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[personal profile] knifegf 2019-06-15 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. If it was their weapon, then either it was taken away or perhaps carelessly abandoned. ...If even for a moment they left it unattended, the murderer could snatch it.
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[personal profile] worldchampofmartialarts 2019-06-15 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Boy, idn't that a raw deal... for them AND us, 'cause it's not like we can find out who done it by tracing the weapon, now. Perp's tricky enough to use something they can't be tied to... they might've even made sure there ain't anything leading back!
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[personal profile] knifegf 2019-06-15 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
There's always a clue. Whether it's intentional or not. [ she smirks. ] That's how it is on tv anyway.
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[personal profile] worldchampofmartialarts 2019-06-15 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[...something tells him he shouldn't like that smile she gives when she says that last bit, but he tries not to think about it.]

R-right... I mean, there's still that big nasty trail, right? Y'don't leave that much blood behind without a bit winding up where your killer doesn't want it.
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[personal profile] seventhsign 2019-06-15 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right. If an altercation occurred, the killer might've gotten themselves injured or perhaps didn't have enough time to wash away some evidence that'd reveal their culpability.
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[personal profile] worldchampofmartialarts 2019-06-15 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! ...and if not on the killer's body- then, at least something should've been caught in the bloodsplatter that could give us a lead? Any stray knicknacks or other loose accessories that could'a fallen out when they fought...