redactable | WEEK TWO: TRIAL

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."

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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.

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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.]

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.

It may well be. It should be here for comparison, if you are so inclined.

May as well get it out of the way, sure.

[AND HE'S BACK.]

Took a look at the spear. Definitely looks like the broom handle was used as the spear's handle itself, but it wasn't broken off or anything? So they took their time disassembling it. And the rope holding it together probably came from the ship.

So that links at least three of our locations together, right?

So it does. If only the rope is linked to the ship thus far, however, I would still view the two incidents separately-- they could have taken it and left easily enough.

Yeah. We'll have to see which of the bodies has spear wounds, if any. That'll give us an idea of where to go next.

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. ]

So there was, yes. I believe that should clarify what happened to the one missing from the shop.

Hmm. So then we know that the killer went to the tailor's first. Makes sense--they'd want to hide their face.

Which is interesting, given that the rest of us are unconscious at the time. An abundance of caution?

We know the victims are awake, because they usually struggle. Maybe they weren't confident they'd pull off the kill and wanted the insurance that if they survived, they wouldn't be able to say who tried to kill them.

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arkitect - 2020-10-17 17:08 (UTC) - Expand

frostythehitman - 2020-10-17 17:12 (UTC) - Expand

Oh! So that's where the shit went. Right into the mud.

What shit? The mask, or the outfit?

Both? They were part of a set I think.

A themed murderer, then?

uhhhmagic - 2020-10-17 16:44 (UTC) - Expand

frostythehitman - 2020-10-17 17:05 (UTC) - Expand

.... 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.

It was simply tied with rope. But given the apparent number of gloves that were found, if you intend to pursue that, do it sooner rather than later. Any results may take time to sift through.

[a slight hum, and:]

The prints as well, really. Anyone striking out into a swamp should have known they would leave such a trail and accounted for it-- there appeared to be no attempt to obscure them.

[it's worth considering that direct results won't be the best ones.]

[he nods at that]

Then I believe we should move forward with both a hand check and a footprint check. If we're to generate suspects, it would be easier to create them early and then remove them.

We do need to discern which items of evidence belong to which murder as well.

Best to get on with it, then, if we'd like to avoid a repeat of the last time.

Thank you for volunteering for collecting one set of information, I appreciate your dedication to efficiency, Emet-Selch.

arkitect - 2020-10-17 16:55 (UTC) - Expand

recrowns - 2020-10-17 16:56 (UTC) - Expand

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

It would not be a poor idea, I believe. Did you take note of their size while there?

[A shake of her head.]

No... I'm sorry. After we found Brick-san's body, we didn't think to examine anything else.

I see.

[well! before boat crew leaves then, they'll get called out to:]

Ensure you get the size of any footprints there, if you would!