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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Comments

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.

[papasha]

Missing lye...

[WOW, he frowns.]

Lye is fairly corrosive depending on how you use it...

[robopriest]

Don't they use that to dissolve things? Someone could've used it to get rid of evidence...

[papasha]

[He nods.]

It's possible. If we find we're missing something, or a place we didn't think to check it could have been used.

[robopriest]

You'd need a container for lye so you don't get it on yourself...so we need to look for a place where it was kept.

[papasha]

Hmm. The laboratory then, by Miss Ange's claims. A bottle was missing, so... if they didn't use it in the laboratory, they used it somewhere else.

[frostythehitman]

We found it in the engine room with a bloody lab coat. Haven't been able to figure out yet where it was actually used though.

[lecarre]

That was, um, the only chemical that was missing, I think.

[papasha]

[He offers a reassuring smile.]

Thank you for your hard work, Miss Ange.

[lecarre]

Of course... We all must do our parts in moments like this.

Though... I do not think any of us was particularly suited to understanding what was happening with the--er, the VR room.

[frostythehitman]

We found the lab coat and lye in the engine room. The coat was bloody and the lye was at least partially used.

[lecarre]

[eeurgh...]

I suppose they must have taken it with that intention, then.

[frostythehitman]

Definitely. The question is just, where the hell did the lye get used? There might be a third victim whose body was destroyed.

[lecarre]

[MELTING BODIES...]

... But many bodies were found as well, right...? I do not understand why only one body would be disposed of in that way.

Perhaps it was used on evidence instead.

[frostythehitman]

We found plenty of evidence too--why destroy only some of the evidence that way?

It could be multiple killers. The other, or others, killed the two that we've found. But another one could've used lye to get rid of the body.

[sacredchants]

Do you think we should ask the leaders if they can confirm the number of who died?

I know that they can't confirm the number of people who are responsible for this.

[siblingless]

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

[axecessory]

Didn't somebody mention they found wires and weights in the river?

[ sooo maybe they've found where those came from? and the lye and labcoat... ]

[siblingless]

Oh! Lup-san did, didn't she?

[discernments]

[ Hmm... ]

I wonder if that writing matches what Xie Lian and Archer found.

[arcsplainist]

Aye, there does appear to be a similar sense of urgency to them all, though our perpetrator certainly covered a lot of ground that night, in that case.

[discernments]

A lot of evidence points to that. Although it seems that Cater may have purposefully gone as far away from Yona as she could.

[arcsplainist]

[ ... nods ]

It would make the most sense, given the messages. Even with her life in danger, she still worried about another up until the end...

[discernments]

It's admirable. I pray that we'll give her the justice that's deserved.