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

[dianxias]

[ shaking his head! ]

The people sleeping in their bedrooms didn't either, right? I wonder if perhaps that was because we were in the inn...

[recrowns]

[he nods]

Some combination of being 'indoors' perhaps. Not in the Northern area, even though you were in a group.

Though... those in the forest didn't experience anything last week, did they? And Virid was among them.

[hmmmm, theory building with soo-won]

[dianxias]

Did anyone experience anything strange last week?

[ remind him (and me) he's old. i don't have to do research on old trials anymore ha ha ] It may be something to do with disturbances in the realm.

[recrowns]

No, I don't believe so. That's the other oddity this week. Mood swings, surprise injuries....

Though currently the theory runs best if it has two requirements: you needed to be outside, and you needed a group in order to receive an oddity. However the second stipulation is only to clear Clementine, who does not report having found anything strange despite falling asleep in the station, and Yona who did not experience anything strange in the Planetarium.

However, both the station and the Planetarium were involved in the murders.

Otherwise, everyone who was outside of the inn received an oddity.

[dianxias]

How curious, indeed.

[ theorizing 101!!! ] And Miss Cater was in the Planetarium with Miss Yona, so... what about Miss Sharon?

[recrowns]

It sounds as though she may have returned to her room with Emet-Selch, but otherwise she has not been accounted for.

[dianxias]

Emet-Selch was with Archer and Miss Usagi.

[ shaking his head. ] So, she could have been alone in her room.

[recrowns]

[oh i misread that thank you sisi i forgot the chiron/emet-selch agenda how could i]

... but if she was there - why would she leave? Going to meet her attacker...?

[dianxias]

[ my old man yaois! ]

I'm not sure. Perhaps she heard a noise from Miss Cater and whomever her attacker was...? Maybe not being able to hear on the outside wears off when we're all asleep... though, she would've had to leave the room to hear anything, less they were shouting along the way.

I still have some questions about the effects of the sleep as well, too. ...Let me go confirm something, really quickly.

[ brb going to check in with the npcs.... pls hold ]

... According to them, all of the nova-related effects of our magic-induced sleep happened to those in the new area over the bridge, so what happened to you all in the plaza was unrelated. You woke injured, right?

[recrowns]

[hmmmm, he nods his head at that, looking thoughtful]

But if the doors have locks on them that can't be opened without the device, and Emet-Selch was elsewhere... why would she choose to leave? To assist Cater? Though I still maintain that I don't think that Cater encountered her attacker in the town.....

[though - he looks surprised at that, there goes his curfew theory]

Mm, that's correct. All of us and - I believe Alex went to check if Goat was injured as well.

[dianxias]

Brother Swan said that they are unaffected by the same "effects" caused by nova. That means that if Brother Goat was also injured, it was caused by a participant somehow.

[dawnblushed]

[yona can answer this question! she was in the forest last week.]

We didn't experience anything at all. Or, at least, I didn't.

[recrowns]

[he nods]

Most people didn't - I believe only Rufus awoke with something odd on his face.

[ . . . ]

It's merely a theory I am building for now - I'm afraid I need more information first before I can confidently share it.

[heartablaze]

[She's still on the floor looking like a Tired Ass Zombie but she'll raise her hand.]

I didn't have anything weird last week, Haku-san. I was with Virid-kun and Yona-chan... Vesda-san was there, too.

[recrowns]

[sweetheart please nap]

Mm, that's right. Though it may be that the oddities only begun this week....

Well, we'll consider it for the future.

[heartablaze]

Mmn... It was just Rufus-san last week, right...?

[she's fine she can sleep when she's dead

just gonna go right back to watching Kano flop around doing Kano stuff while also talking, it's fine]