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

[laid]

[Binch.]

The kid obviously keeps it on for a reason. Yer old enough to read social cues. You're just choosing ta ignore them.

[robopriest]

[His gaze is as sharp as a knife.]

Ah, yes, because social cues are a great excuse for overlooking a person in armor who could easily hide anything they want inside of there. I mean, if you want to overlook potential suspects and sacrifice someone innocent because you just wanted to be gracious, go right ahead.

[laid]

I'm sayin' you've got multiple people vouching for the status of his hair or lack thereof. Is this really about trying ta be thorough or do ya just enjoy making other people uncomfortable?

[Fight fight fight.]

[infreefall]

Um, Raven-san... I don't think he's wrong...? Even if there's a lot of people vouching for one person, that doesn't necessarily mean they weren't involved in something.

[ not

that she thinks al was? but hansa has a point. ]

[laid]

[Well he can't not relent when one of the nice girls says so. He sighs.]

Well there were better ways of going about it.

[infreefall]

He could stand to be a little nicer, maybe. But he's right that we should still check everyone, just in case. I don't think any of us want to believe someone here would kill someone, anyway.

[robopriest]

And I believe them. Now that multiple people have come forward, I'm not pressing as hard. I really am here to be thorough.

[And his smirk disappears. He stares the other man down..]

Don't drag your personal issues into this, Raven. Two people are dead. Think about that for a moment.

[laid]

People bein' dead ain't an excuse ta be callous towards the living. I'm just saying you of all people oughta put yourself in his shoes.

[It's his personal issues but it's yours too, SIR.]

[robopriest]

...

Wait, is he-?

[SORRY HE'S LOOKING BACK AT ALPHONSE BECAUSE HE'S JUST LIKE?? HE'S LIKE ME??????]

[laid]

[NO, STOP.]

Even if I knew the answer ta that it's not like I'd tell you. I just meant he's clearly got a good reason ta wanna keep that armor on. Same as you not wantin' ta strip last week.

[robopriest]

But the fact is, I did strip, didn't I?

[like]

[raven he did actually strip]

So did you. So your argument is moot. I understand what you're saying, believe me, but we weren't exempt, and he shouldn't be either. Fair is fair.

[laid]

Yeah, after you badgered me into it.
[He didn't even get to take advantage of the nice horse man. Chiron would surely have been kinder and maybe wouldn't have bothered him about it later.]

You and me didn't have a bunch of people who could vouch fer what we were hiding, though.

[robopriest]

And after you badgered everyone else and tried to skip out on being checked yourself. Come on. Also, it was the first week, and nobody knew what to do. I'll give ourselves a pass. Now, we know that we could miss things. I mean, we did miss Virid until Detective Pikachu had to save the day.

[so can't be too careful, here!]

Anyways, we need to get back on track. [Huffs!] We can talk about this later.

[laid]

[HUFFS TOO.]

Yeah, we'll see.
[Lets talk about it never actually!!]

[canned]

[Alphonse emerges from his check with Elsa and senses Fight Energy, so he clanks on over]

Thank you, Mr. Raven. I know it's not a good time to be hiding things, but everyone's being nice about my feelings even if they just met me.

[and turning to Hansa]

I'm sorry, Mr. Cervantes. I don't want anyone innocent to get blamed for this, either.

[laid]

[God Al has such tremendous good kid energy. Raven pats him on his big metal arm. He sees this attempt to diffuse the fight for what it is.]

It's the golden rule, y'know? Treat others the way ya want to be treated.

[canned]

[on patting his arm, Raven might notice there's a magnet stuck to it showing the castle with fireworks behind it]

[laid]

[Ah.]

What's this you got here?
[Is this from the emporium...]

[canned]

[spins around fully, and plucks it off]

Oh! I must have bumped into that rack of magnets. That's...a little embarrassing.

[trying to look at his own back]

There's not any others on me, are there? I don't want to be decorated! This armor's already gaudy enough.

[laid]

I dunno, it looks pretty intimidating ta me, magnets or no.
[Hopefullyt that's the look Al's going for.

Regardless, he'll give Al a full 360 and pluck any more magnets he happens to find. Iki, how many magnets are stuck to this boy.]

[canned]

[unless kano someone's put more there, none at the moment!]

I wish it was less intimidating...it's too scary for any girls to like it. Only weird old men ever want to talk about it.

[laid]

[As a weird old man: hm.]

Maybe if ya took these parts with spikes on 'em that'd help?
[Or just, took the armor off, but Al seems weirdly attached to it, so.]

[robopriest]

Not a problem.

[He gives him a warm smile.]

Its literally nothing against you. You seem like a nice kid. Thanks for getting checked out, for everyone's sake.

[canned]

[nods happily after having been called a nice kid]

Thank you for understanding.

[then, a bit quieter]

And I think I know why you didn't want people to see you, last week. My brother is kind of the same. If you want to, we can talk later.

[robopriest]

...Hm? Your brother?

[That nets Al a curious look...but he nods.]

Sure. I'd be down for a good talk.