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!

NAVIGATION locations ₓ˚. statuses *+:｡ ic profiles :ₓo ic rules ･ﾟﾟ･｡ audience requests murder proposals ｡✧o private conversations ･ﾟo｡ curfew ･ﾟ✧ memories

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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. ]

LOCATION REQUESTS

[retellers]

[ Reply here if your character is asking the Leaders to take them a location to (re)investigate. ]

BODY

[retellers]

[ Two steel autopsy tables are now in the Emporium, standing in a corner of the room. Sheets cover them and, presumably, Sharon's and Cater's corpses underneath.

Reply here if your character wants to examine a body! ]

INVESTIGATIONS

[retellers]

[ Once a location has been requested, a mod will post a sub-top level will be posted under this comment. ]

EVIDENCE

[retellers]

[ Various evidence is automatically available for examination, as well as anything else that characters find or bring to trial.

Reply here if your character is reexamining any of the evidence. ]

[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?

[robopriest]

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

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

[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.

[exercisms]

[Space suit examination time. We're looking first at the ones with cuts and rips and damage - wanting to see where all of the damage is.]

[retellers]

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

I... don't know?

Cater

[antaressnipe]

[Me stumbling in here with no coffee, yet, do not expect any braincell moments from me.

Anyway Chiron will be looking at Cater's body (AFTER HE TAKES OFF THE SHEET, see this is why I need coffee), so what does a general glance-over show him: her clothing ripped up? any major areas where there is blood? Does she lack a whole ass head and I forgot?]

[robopriest]

[deadeyes all of them]

You don't know, or you won't tell?

Sharon

[suddenlybees]

[ whips the sheet off Sharon's body and wraps it around his shoulders like a cloak, what are we seeing here at first glance? ]

[retellers]

You know we're just as asleep as you are when this happens, right?

[ in an. annoyed tone. ]

[retellers]

[ Nothing much! She lies there peacefully with a doll nestled in her arms. ]

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?

[robopriest]

[JUST. SIGHING.]

I understand. [So no help there.] I guess we can't vote for more than one person, too.

[exercisms]

Hello.

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

This time, was it on purpose or an accident?

[siblingless]

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

[suddenlybees]

[ Cute. Kano pats Sharon on the head and then picks up the doll and sort of squishes it in different places, checking for any tears or lumps inside that might be hiding anything. ]

[yamantaka]

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

[ THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL ]

[retellers]

[ Well, it's in multiple places! From a quick look, Mob will see that an area with a cut is where the bloodstains are. ]

[antaressnipe]

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

[recrowns]

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

[he

had a corpse to find apparently]

WHY CANT PEOPLE READ SIGNS aka CURFEW SUMMARIES

[reconnective]

We knew ahead of time that if something happened on Thursday night all of the doors would lock. And people tried to tell us to stick with other people that night just to make sure we weren't alone, but I have a feeling some people didn't listen.

So...we should probably report where we were on Thursday night when all of the doors locked. Where you ended up, who you were with, and where you actually fell asleep? It might give us an idea where to start.

Oh, uh, and if anything was weird when you woke up? That'd be good to mention, too.