WEEK ONE: TRIAL

[retellers]

WEEK ONE: TRIAL (38 remain) Rise and shine, gremlins. Hopefully you found it in you to make and eat breakfast, despite yesterday's news. At 11am, everyone will receive a message on their PHS, simply stating: empoti enp emporium. by the strike of twelve. Shortly before 12pm, every participant will feel compelled to move towards the Emporium, if they aren't already there. No exceptions! Though they will have to navigate around shelves and merchandise and the like, everyone will fit neatly inside the room. Once all the participants are present and the clock strikes twelve, the doors lock behind them. Three of the Leaders are there with them: Swan, Tiger, and Goat. Tiger speaks. "You have nine hours. Try not to stab each other during them." ༶•┈┈⛧┈｡o°✥✣ 　　 ✣✥°o｡┈⛧┈┈•༶ Hello, everyone, and welcome to the second trial! For the next nine hours, the characters are expected to discuss among themselves, ask questions, examine the bodies of the victims, look over the evidence found yesterday, and revisit locations as needed in order to find the culprit(s). There'll be a one hour break from 5-6pm EST, where no mod tags will occur. Before the trial is over, please remember to place your character's vote over on the voting page. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST, and will serve as our activity check for the week, so please be sure you get your vote in before it ends unless you have contacted us previously. If you have any questions at any time, please let us know by pinging us on Discord!

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QUESTIONS

[retellers]

[ Tiger is sitting on top of the counter, their legs dangling over the side. Swan is leaning next to them with their elbow on the counter, tapping it with their fingers impatiently. Goat doesn't appear to be around--oh, wait, if you peer over the counter, they're there! Just sitting on the floor. ]

[siblingless]

[Hello, leaders... Yoshizawa brought trial snacks for everyone because last week she got hungry halfway through and that was terrible, but she's specifically shoving some to-go containers with tea, sandwiches and other goodies at the leaders. Tiger's sandwich may or may not have a beaver face made out of food on one side. Accept it, binch.

To whoever wants to respond:]

Um... Are you still having trouble summoning items for us?

[retellers]

[ swan smiles at yoshizawa before taking a sandwich. they don't eat it quite yet since... questions ]

Thank you. [ they drum their fingers on the table and sigh again before leaning further on the table ] Yeah. It's like something's on the fritz and it's soooo annoying.

[siblingless]

Is it our fault...? It started after last week's trial, didn't it?

[robopriest]

[Just walking up, frowning - he'll address all of them.]

So...are we dealing with one murderer, or multiple, here?

[retellers]

[ well. it's swan who pipes up after looking up at tiger and down at goat ]

I... don't know?

[exercisms]

Hello.

[He looks at all three of them - any can answer, if they want.]

This time, was it on purpose or an accident?

[retellers]

[ they look at him. ]

You're going to have to figure that out.

[antaressnipe]

If there were two killers, would we need to evenly split the votes to condemn both of them?

[retellers]

Yup.

[ yup. ]

[supremity]

[ Everyone else has the murderquestions covered atm so here's another one. ]

Does this coincide with another disturbance in the nova?

[retellers]

[ a voice speaks from behind/underneath the counter. it goat. ]

That child spilling blood first in this world damaged something... but the flow of nova now doesn't feel disrupted the way it was then, although I cannot say it hasn't been affected at all, in some manner.

[reconnective]

Morning. [can sora jump on the counter with tiger because he's going to do that! he's kind of angling himself so he can see all three of them and offers them a stack of breakfast pastries.]

...I just want to make sure. If someone's awake after the doors lock and after we all fall asleep, are they awake for the entire night until we all wake up again? Or are they on a time limit of some kind?

[retellers]

That's a great question that I am sure someone who was awake during all that could answer.

[chanteuser]

[ mornin' furries. ]

Goat, did you wake up with injuries on Friday?

[retellers]

[ from under/behind the counter: ]

Yes.

[frostythehitman]

So...

What determines who's on what team?

[retellers]

As far as we know, it was random? If there was a secret pattern the Realm picked from, I can't tell at all.

[ they pause and whisper to themselves: ]

Wait does saying that count as hinting about my team?

[dianxias]

[ with a polite if vaguely stilted bow of greeting to all three of them! xie lian's standing on his tiptoes so he can see goat, too as he speaks. ]

Hello, all of you. I have a couple of questions, if you would be so kind... This week, many of us experienced strange behaviors on Thursday evening. Is that related to the disturbance of nova, do you think?

[retellers]

It happened to everyone on the space station, right? The town was made for you guys, but everything past the bridge is connecting to different worlds' memories. So probably you felt some side-effects from staying there while all.... that was happening.

[ the exasperated gesture they make at the that. stop killing each other ]

[uhhhmagic]

Hey - what the hell is the deal with the Alien? Is he just like, there? Hanging out? Has he always been there? What the fuck.

[retellers]

I think it's from beyond the closed off area. It might have wandered out from there for some reason.

[showyourself]

Hello, Tiger.

Are we missing anything? It feels like we're overlooking something major, and just... jumping at shadows. I'd like to hear from you for your opinion on it.

[retellers]

[ Swan is Tiger now, it's fine ]

We don't know who did it, either. And since we can't check that stuff for ourselves... [ swan is kind of flopping slowly to fall off the counter they are leaning against ] I don't know. Maybe check everything over? I'm sorry.

[dianxias]

Can I have a "blender"?

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