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Beast Boy ([personal profile] thebeastwithout) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-09-25 09:46 pm

Justice

Beta#12013275

Ladies and gentlemen of the public court. The following is submitted into evidence for your viewing.

Zee Carlisle, also Zachariah Carlisle, was murdered in late August by persons unknown. The cause of death appears to be stabbing by a long sharp object on the roof of the Wiffle Waffle Waffle House. No other persons appear in the video. However, the series of events is recorded as follows:

1) Zee Carlisle is observed approaching the Wiffle Waffle House and checking the mailbox repeatedly for some time.
2) Zee begins to fall as if he has been struck, disappearing as he does so. Outside sources have confirmed that Zee was able to teleport short distances.
3) He next appears on the security tape on the roof of the building, impaled on an unknown object.
4) He teleports again, where his body is found obscuring the entrance of the Wiffle Waffle waffle house some time later. Witnesses confirm that it was as if he appeared out of nowhere.
5) The words "Jim, did you know" appear on the side of the waffle house written in blood.

Video of the death has been loaded onto a working laptop in the public library for your examination. Do not try to destroy the video or the laptop. There are many copies.

In Zee's office, the following evidence was discovered:
1) A list of former Retrospec users who appear to no longer be on the app. It is not certain when they left.
2) A list of non-Retrospec users who have died within the last few months. These people are all criminals. They have all died in strange and unexplained or self-inflicted ways.
3) The last six individuals Zee checked on before he left his office and died. These individuals are: James Barnes. Akira Turner. Eren Jaeger. Leo Valdez. Minato Arisato. Hitori Togusa.
4) Conversations between Zee and the following individuals concerning a task he needed to focus on or on the increasingly dangerous situation in Recolle: Eren Jaeger. Leo Valdez. Minato Arisato. Hitori Togusa.
5) Multiple photos of the mailbox.

We propose the following:
Zee Carlisle was investigating the mysterious deaths and believed them to be murders. Those who had left the app were no longer suspects as they did not retain their regained items or abilities. Zee believed that the murders were conducted by the use of an item returned to a Retrospec user. Zee was concerned that other items would be returned, either to the same Retrospec user, or to others, that would be misused.

When he went to the mailbox in person, the Retrospec user realized that Zee had grown too close to their identity. Zee was thus murdered using this item. We know that this person is able to use this item to commit murders while making it appear to be something else, even after medical examination. The deaths were ruled as heart attack, suicide, and choking. It is possibly something extremely powerful, such as a kind of illusion ability or mind control or even a magical spell that causes death. At least one of the victims called the police in advance to report that they were dying. However, we know the ability must be used as a physical item as it was returned through the mailbox.

The words in blood are a red herring or an unfinished message to the Retrospec app manager called Jim. We do not know what was being written at this time.

The identity of the murderer is likely to be one of those Zee had personally identified. James Barnes, Akira Turner, Eren Jaeger, Leo Valdez, Minato Arisato, and Hitori Togusa. Currently, James Barnes has been arrested and convicted of this murder. However, we are uncertain if he is the true culprit as his arrest was due to a misunderstanding.

All evidence and information has been passed to the legal authorities. If you have doubts, you may await their investigation.

Enemy of justice, your days are numbered. We will continue to work.

Signed,
The Watchers in the Dark
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[personal profile] usurpers 2018-09-26 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Leo, It’s Eren.

[ togusa is a different number, james is in prison and minato’s off the app. he’s also pretty sure akira turner is a beta. ]

First off: Calm down and don’t expose yourself like that.
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[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-09-26 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"calm down"? i'm totally calm - i'm just being publicly called out as a murder suspect. why wouldn't i be calm?

[ okay maybe it's more than a little panic happening right now ]
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[personal profile] usurpers 2018-09-26 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
If it wasn’t you, you don’t have a reason to worry, do you?

We have capable people on here, they’re going to solve it. We were just all the last people to talk to him, it’s the more obvious route to take.
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[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-09-26 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
but how do we know it wasn't any of us? with all the weird memory bullshit that's been going on for the past few months, i don't even know if "valdez" is actually supposed to be my name or not, and i...
if i've killed someone before, that means i could do it again, doesn't it?
maybe i just don't remember
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[personal profile] usurpers 2018-09-27 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Our real time memories don’t work like that. If we remember Zee dying, we’d remember something like forcing him to kill himself.

Leo, we’re all capable of killing. I remember killing people from my other memories, more than what’s countable. From the sound of it, you remember, too. But that doesn’t mean we’d kill Zee out of no where, or anyone even.

Togusa’s too hung up on rules for me to imagine killing Zee. Neither you nor James could come up with something this smart and get away with killing ten more people. Zee saved my life more than ruined it, and I can’t speak for Akira Turner, I don’t know him.

This entire post is full of holes even though it’s informative. We don’t even know who this is other than the edgy bullshit name they came up with. How do we know for sure they’re not the murderer pointing fingers away from them? How do we know this isn’t just a distraction to keep us busy from Vanderweele?
Edited 2018-09-27 12:23 (UTC)
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[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-10-04 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
the same way you guys remembered entirely different lives than i did?

[ is it wrong that he's a little annoyed at being called "not smart enough"? they're talking about killing people, for fuck's sake. ]

i guess there's no way of knowing they're not yet
it is kind of weird that they went out of their way to do this though
like, say they aren't the murderer and they really are trying to help
what makes them so sure any of us did it?

wait
what about vanderweele?
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[personal profile] usurpers 2018-10-05 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ u gotta be the next hannibal levels of smart if u don’t want to get caught leo ]

Maybe they’re just desperate.

Zee told me about Vanderweele a little while before he died. They’re suspecting he’s the one that’s been causing all these problems.
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[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-10-15 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ other leo never got caught tho ]

desperation isn’t going to help anyone
least of all james

that... sounds right
he never wanted to help us, even last august when unreality was all screwed up
but how would he be doing that?
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[personal profile] usurpers 2018-10-16 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
What bugs me more is a well minded adult on this person’s side.

But Re: Vanderweele: He’s some master illusionist. It’s really hard to think he’s actually alone in all this, though.
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[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-10-19 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
you mean the police?
because taking their so-called evidence to them is one thing
it’s the broadcasting it to everyone else that’s fucked up

if he can write the rest of the founders out of history all on his own then why couldn’t he do the rest of it
the guy seems to like being the star of the show
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[personal profile] usurpers 2018-10-20 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Turns out it actually is a kid from James’ school.
So that explains a lot.
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[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-10-21 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
so the person who thinks i’m a better murder suspect than james might be in my class?

[ excuse him while he freaks out again?! ]
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[personal profile] usurpers 2018-10-23 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They probably don’t even think it. They’re just trying to sound cool and neutral about the evidence they found in the office.

Who else is in your class/school and has the app?