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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INVESTIGATION SUMMARIES

[uhhhmagic]

So, uh, might as well get started. Maybe we'll finish early and can go get dinner at Fantasy Denny's to celebrate or something.

[haha]

On The Moon we found, um, some blood splatter near the rovers, with some tracks nearby that were most likely made by the space suits - I made one to match just to check, an alien with a knife who tried to kill me that I will never forgive and . . . uh, we may need to go back and try and get the knife from.

Also a body? Also a body. Sharon. She was floating off opposite of the rovers, in the great void of space. Or, like, simulated space.

[adios muchacho . . . ]

Anyway. What's the deets from you guys yesterday, compadres?

[yamantaka]

We'll be ready to face the alien this time.

[ THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL ]

[recrowns]

I'm sorry that I left you both with it...

[he

had a corpse to find apparently]

[cuedoves]

You found the creature?

BRIDGE/KITCHEN

[evocationary]

For the bridge, Usagi threw me into a river and I almost died, and most certainly have tetanus. Also, Rufus made her drink tea that may have been poisoned so let's keep an eye on the egg girl, hm?

The kitchen was empty except for a tea kettle. No bodies stuffed in the oven.

[soulus]

There was a tray with two teacups on the bridge. The tea in question was most likely chamomile. We also found something in the river.

As for the kitchen, there were two strands of hair—purple and blond—on the floor.

[siblingless]

[TETANUS???]

Are you alright?

PLANETARIUM/RAILROAD STATION

[dianxias]

I checked the Planetarium and the Station with Archer. We found a... I think it's called a fanny pack? That Archer brought back. It contained some of the astronaut food, a crystal, and had a pin in the shape of a bird on the outside of it. He found it underneath the benches.

In both locations, notes were written on the walls with the same writing utensil. The one in the planetarium said - [ briefly checking his phs because im not gonna pretend his memory is as good as my copy paste button ] "If you find this, then don’t touch Yona! I’ll be waiting for you. Come find me and don’t drag anyone else into this."

The one in the station said, "Come out and face me you coward!"

The handwriting on both was similar enough that I believe they were written by the same person. It wouldn't hurt to go back and look.

[suddenlybees]

How high up the wall were they written?

[ You can get a general gauge of heights from that, maybe ]

[dawnblushed]

...

[that's. depressing.]

[exercisms]

Cater-san must have left those. . . she was brave.

DOCKING BAY

[exercisms]

[He's still nervous at talking to the whole group at once, so he's just going to speak directly to Taako and you can happen to overhear.]

Um. . . Yona-san, Zuko-san and I looked at the Docking Bay. They looked in the shuttles, not me, but the doors to them were open, and inside it was messy and there was a little blood.

But, um, in the lockers. . . in the fourth locker, there was a space suit that was all cut up and bloody, and in the fifth locker the space suit had blood on it, and then, um.

Cater-san was in there. She was just stuck in there.

[suddenlybees]

Did it look natural, Cater's body? Like... somebody shoving her in there, instead of her hiding there herself and dying before she could get out?

[dawnblushed]

[nodding to confirm this!]

It was just a little blood, not a lot. I checked the chairs and the controls on the shuttle and didn't see anything there, and I didn't see anything under it or outside of it either.

[uhhhmagic]

Cut up like with a knife, maybe? Hm.

ENGINE ROOM + ??? ROOM

[sacredchants]

Vezda, Hilda, and I checked the engine room and the one next to it. [ do we have a name for that room? ] And we didn't find anything explicitly incriminating if only just concerning.

[ because everything is gross in the engine room and everything awful in the other room by default?? ]

In the engine room Vezda found a bloodied lab coat and a bottle of lye; the other room we found some a saw with blood on it by the sink and on the ground was a bloodied scalpel as well as some hair. One of them was purple and another was blonde.

[suddenlybees]

Does the sink work?

[ Wash off your murder weapons, guys, god ]

EMPORIUM + PLAZA

[siblingless]

Um... I met up with Sora-san and Ruler-san, and we entered the Emporium together. [She. Glances at both of them, like. Please correct her if she hecks anything up.] The Emporium was a mess when we arrived. Everything was scattered, and the shelves and stands had been knocked over. It didn't seem as if anything had been thrown across the store, though. Just toppled over.

We found a strand of blond hair. A blood t-shirt as well. It looked like it was just discarded on the ground, and I didn't find any blood on the floor around it. Most of it was on the shirt, and I think some of it transferred to the floor underneath it. After that... We found Zaidelle-san in the plaza. She was still asleep, but she's okay.

[exercisms]

Blonde hair?

[Neither Cater nor Sharon had blonde hair. . . right?]

[axecessory]

Blond hair... seems like someone was shedding a bit. [ is hair the new feet ] You guys didn't find any purple hair?

[reconnective]

...something that I thought was kinda weird was that the t-shirt said "I love New York", but it had a heart instead of the word love. It was also pretty big, so...I dunno. It didn't seem like the kind of thing you'd find here.

The hair was in one of the shelves that was knocked over, so it probably got caught when somebody ran through.

Also, anybody know who Sasuke is?

vr room/tech lab

[arcsplainist]

Alongside Ange and Homura, we had looked over both the VR room and the laboratory just across the hall. I am uncertain how much could be said of the former—I fear I have little familiarity with the technology of this place, but the simulation it had currently on was... hm, unstable, of sorts? 'Tis best combed over a second time with a more experienced pair of eyes, I would say. There had been writing on a board, however—"Hurry it up", were the words.

The laboratory was a complete and utter mess upon walking in, as well, with unknown chemicals trashed all along the floor, and various missing items. Aside from a pair of missing wires, I've little idea what that missing could be and why, but mayhap someone else could more accurately discern what has disappeared from the room.

[lecarre]

There was, um, also a missing pair of gloves and lab coat and a missing bottle of lye from the laboratory.

[siblingless]

... Did anyone find the wires in another location?

[laid]

[STOP]

What the hell do you mean "an alien with a knife"?