WEEK TWO: TRIAL

[retellers]

WEEK TWO: TRIAL (35 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: This is your reminder to be at the Emporium by 12 PM. 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: Wolf, Rabbit, and Fox. Fox speaks. "... Third time isn't the charm, as it turns out. You have nine hours. We'll help with what we can, as before." ༶•┈┈⛧┈｡o°✥✣ 　　 ✣✥°o｡┈⛧┈┈•༶ Hello, everyone, and welcome to the third 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

[recrowns]

[soo-won is just going to clap his hands to get everyone's attention]

It would appear as though we have rather scattered evidence this week - could everyone report what you found, where you found it, the condition it was in, and whether or not you believe that your location is worth checking again?

Please also check on the condition of your evidence throughout the trial today and compare it to the findings of the body. I'd also like to suggest a weapons check sooner rather than later given the crunch we had for time previously.

Thank you for your assistance.

NORTH TOWN & TAILOR SHOP

[chanteuser]

So, Sora, Taako and I looked around the north of the town, and in the tailor's shop.

[ and what larks they had ]

There was a lot of paper scattered around the town? Like flyers. They had arrows drawn on them that seemed to be pointing into town, but when we tried to follow them they just led us in circles.

Some of them had blood on the edges though, so they might've been near a fight or a body? But as a direction guide they were pretty useless.

In the tailor's shop I found some empty pill bottles in the glove section – which was empty, by the way. Someone took all but one pair of gloves. The pill bottles look like the ones for painkillers, from the first aid station? I don't know if they were taken specifically for tonight, or if someone just had them on them after Wednesday, but maybe we need to take a look?

Um... Sora found part of a broom. Just the sweeping part though, there was no handle. And that really creepy costume, with the skull mask that's been in the tailor's shop all week was just gone. So I don't know if that's significant or if someone just really took a shine to it.

That's about it, I think?

[uhhhmagic]

Thiiiiiink the flyers were a malicious attempt at wasting our time! Or someone else's? Like a murder victim, maybe?

[chanteuser]

Like something to keep us away from the tailor's shop? [ and the pub, apparently. ]

It didn't work very well, if that was the goal. It just delayed us a bit. So maybe it was meant for someone else?

[recrowns]

Were the gloves different sizes? It may be that all of them were taken in order to mislead us about the size of our culprit's hands and which set of gloves was actually used for the murder.

The rest are rather interesting - I wouldn't suppose someone could admit to rummaging or witnessing someone else rummaging in the first aid station? I took some medicine as well, but I still have all of them on my person.

[chanteuser]

I'd need to check. I managed to put them on to handle the pill bottles, in case there were prints on them, so I'm assuming they were the same or similar sizes? [ they couldn't have been smaller than her hands, at least. ]

I used the first aid station for wound dressing, but I didn't take any painkillers out of the first aid station with me. Archer can confirm if you like, he showed me how to stitch my leg wound and knows what we used.

[riegan]

I'm pretty sure we found a pair of gloves at the port and another at the fort's jail but that's only two sets.

[chanteuser]

Oh, really? [ hm ] We should probably check they are all from the tailor's then, but that would explain why so many pairs were missing.

PUB

[infreefall]

...Raven-san's body was in the pub, sat in one of the chairs like he fell asleep there.

Everything else was a mess. Tables were overturned, and there were broken bottles and glass everywhere, like there'd been a fight. But whoever it was that killed him, they must have had a drink with him first, because there were two glasses there.

[uhhhmagic]

Can't believe the sitting down and having a drink with the rando that's gonna murder you is a thing here. It's a thing! Why? What the fuck.

And we got a lil' rowdy, but there were certainly no tables overturned before I passed out that I remember anyway.

[exercisms]

Isn't that strange. . . ? Every week.

[recrowns]

People seem fond of this trend... but thank you, Ochako. We'll have to discern whether or not that was where he met his end once we get a better idea of his injuries.

PORT & FORT

[riegan]

Archer, Lup, and I checked the port and fort.

At the port, we found a pair of gloves on one of the boats and then we found a second pair in the fort's jail. There wasn't really anything of note about them that I could tell right away. Otherwise, everything else seemed fine to us.

I would suggest revisiting the fort. It's a large area so it's possible we might have missed something before the announcements.

[recrowns]

Could you examine the two sizes of the gloves, Claude? Perhaps turn them inside out to discern where there's any hints on the inside of their condition whether it be blood or otherwise.

But that sounds acceptable. Would anyone be interested in returning to the fort? Nothing was awry before we all went to sleep there, but I understand that's unhelpful.

[siblingless]

What style of gloves were they?

[arkitect]

Evidence appeared to have been disposed of within the swamp. A trail of footprints led to and from the water, and within it we found a strange outfit and a... well, I cannot truly call it a spear. A steak knife tied to a stick. Along the way we also located a pair of bloodied gloves.

I believe Izumo claimed they fit her, and the measurements of the prints have been compared to both of these two. [he nods to her and vezda.]

[reconnective]

Izumo told me about this last night. I kinda wonder if the stick you found was the handle to the broom we found in the tailor's. It'd at least link two of the locations together.

[frostythehitman]

There was also a weird mask that we found floating in the water along with the bloody outfit.

[ is he still salty that emet-selch refused to do any of the hard work?

Maybe so. ]

[recrowns]

.... did someone improvise a spear? I'd almost call that impressive. What was it tied with?

The bloodied pair of gloves is a bit more of an interesting find - we should see who could conceivably wear them, and whether there's any signs of strain to suggest that the fit wasn't good.

[siblingless]

... We found a set of footprints on the boat as well. If they're still there, we ought to compare them.

HOWLING ROSE

[siblingless]

Um... Elsa-san, Hua Cheng-san and I found Brick-san's body inside a cannon, on the Howling Rose.

[A glance at Elsa and HC, like. Please correct her if she hecks up.]

There was a splatter of blood on the deck, and I think— [Cutting herself off to swallow, like she's nauseous. She continues after taking a deep, deep breath.] There were pieces of bone and brain matter mixed in. As if someone fell from a great height, and hit their head. I looked up to see what parts of the boat were nearby, but nothing stuck out to me. From the splatter, there was a trail as if Brick-san's body was dragged to the cannon? We noticed a set of bloody footprints moving away from the splatter, to the exit. I noticed some rope was missing from the cargo downstairs as well, but nothing else.

[exercisms]

Brick-san spent the night on the ship with us. So whoever did it must have come on it and . . .

[Yikes.]

[recrowns]

[it's

a little bit automatic how he reaches out as if to console her - before catching himself very quickly and dropping his hand with a sheepish look]

.... thank you, Yoshizawa. Could we return to the ship and climb atop the masts and see if there are any hints higher up?

[dianxias]

[ xie lian reaches to pat her back, stops and remembers the curse... and ruoye wriggles out of his sleeve to give yoshizawa a little pat between the shoulders. :c ]

...I'd like to look at the cargo hold again. Vezda and I did some stock of it the night before, so I might be able to tell what's missing.

[supremity]

[ He can't pat her for getting through it, but Hua Cheng stands close enough to offer a more supportive, encouragingproudsteady emotion in lieu of physical contact. ]

Nothing seemed amiss, the night before. But you could say that of every Thursday night we've had so far - even if he seemed so set on figuring out some means of solving this.