The Trifle MMBC, or A Mere Trifle of a Bachelorette Challenge, is the third successful attempt at a Murder Mystery Bachelorette Challenge. It's also the first to be produced by tosimornottosim, who would later become one of the more consistent and well-known contributors to the genre. It can be read from the beginning here
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Deaths and Survivors (spoilers)
- Azure Slate - fire
- Violet Frostplum - being stuffed in the fridge
- Maizey Citrine - Philosopher's Stone misfire
- Lithodora - falling off a rock-climbing stand
- Beryl Star-Jinx - drowning
- Flame Almond - electrocution
- Mirage Bliss - buried alive in a Box of Danger
- Nevada Riesling - jellybean fluid syringe to the neck
- Baxtor Rose, murderer - taken by the Grim Reaper
- Sloe Cyanide, winner
This MMBC provides examples of:
- Early-Installment Weirdness: This story was written before a lot of the tropes of the MMBC were established, and the author herself was in the early days of writing proper stories (having only written a bachelorette challenge before that wasn't plot-heavy). Trifle MMBC therefore can be considered less coherent than later stories of its kind. The murderer's motive is less clear and complex; Blueberry's illness is handled with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and seems to come out of nowhere. Later MMB Cs by the author would handle the genre better.
- Hereditary Curse: Almost everyone in the Trifle family has met some kind of tragic fate. The BC was originally intended as Blueberry Honey's attempt to break it.
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Memetic Mutation: AND ANOTHER THING YOU TROUT-FACED DILDO. - Murder Ballad: While taking care of the last victim, the killer sings a refrain from Jill Tracy's The Fine Art of Poisoning.
- Phony Psychic / Not-So-Phony Psychic: Sloe Cyanide oscillates between these, depending on the day.
- Secretly Dying: Blueberry herself.
- Spontaneous Human Combustion: How Azure Slate is killed initially - the murderer tricks them into dividing by zero to create this effect!
