WEEK SIX: TRIAL

[retellers]

WEEK SIX: TRIAL (22 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: Please go to the Emporium at 12. 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. Wolf speaks. "Nine hours. You know what to do." ༶•┈┈⛧┈｡o°✥✣ 　　 ✣✥°o｡┈⛧┈┈•༶ Hello, everyone, and welcome to the seventh 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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INVESTIGATIONS

[retellers]

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LYRA

[retellers]

[ They have to walk because Fox can't teleport. Anyway, here they are. Go wild. ]

[axecessory]

Won, if you're napping in there, you're going to regret it!

[ thanks for nothing, team a (jk we love our jan). she'll take a quick look outside the room and around the doorframe first—anything that stands out? ]

[discernments]

[ Walking is fine! Jeanne supports everyone getting exercise. ]

.... I'll make him more than regret it, if that's true.

[ She doesn't sound like she has that kind of faith right now, though.

If here is nothing wrong with the door, Jeanne is going to open the door and step in? Since I assume if Fox is here, she can do that. ]

[retellers]

[ Through handwaving investigation/NPC magic, Fox can get the door open for them, yea.

Anyway, nothing stands out about the room or the doorframe! ]

[axecessory]

[ she sighs a little wistfully. ]

I love your style, Jeanne.

[ okay... time to go rooting around the room then. any dead soo-wons on the bed? otherwise she's going to start with the closet. ]

[discernments]

I must remain true to myself whenever possible.

[ If Hilda has the closet, Jeanne will check out one of the nightstands. ]

[retellers]

[ There is nothing in the nightstand.

No dead Soo-wons on the bed, though a spinosaurus is chilling there, among a bunch of kigus cut up to resemble blankets.

In the closet, Hilda finds notes and a stack of papers and two pens. ]

[axecessory]

[ ...she flips through the papers, idling on a few pages before she gathers everything up to pass to fox for now to take back. ]

Leaving me all this stuff to read... you're so annoying, Won.

[ her voice is soft. anyway, what kind of kigus? anything weird there, besides them being mutilated kigus i guess? ]

BOARDWALK

[retellers]

[ Wolf walks them all the way over to the Ferris Wheel and just. stands there, I guess.

The ferris wheel is looking as precariously tilted as yesterday for Alphi! ]

[arcsplainist]

[ It sure is! ]

Ware your step, Sora. As I mentioned earlier, it could very well topple over.

[reconnective]

[he follows along, glancing up at this thing.]

We could probably outrun it. [no. but he will approach to get a closer look. there's nothing visibly wrong at a glance, right?] Was it just like this when you guys found it?

[retellers]

[ except for its placement and how precariously balanced it is, no, there doesn't seem to be anything off about it ]

[arcsplainist]

Aye, just like so. Claude had given me a lift to climb it, and as I did, it was... creaking, to say the least.

[ He pauses, then looks up at it. It'll make investigating further tough. Unless... ]

Or we could eliminate the problem altogether, should we manage to push it to its side. What say you?

[reconnective]

I was actually thinking the same. [there's a half-grin, and he stops at the base of the wheel. give him a second to look...]

If it was moving when you climbed...I can climb up to give it boost and we can roll it flat. I'll just jump off onto one of the stalls. It gives us time to get out of the way and then we can check more thoroughly.

Plan?

[retellers]

[ how small do you guys think this wheel is ]

[arcsplainist]

[ LOOK ZIA SAID, AND I QUOTE, "even tiny is a lot". You debated on killing me last night and by god I WILL TRY TO KNOCK THIS THING OVER. ]

Pray act carefully.

BEACH

[retellers]

[ no one gets to skip things. im an asshole. anyway miraculously the wind or time or the water did not erase any of these footprints so go look at them hc ]

[supremity]

[ You're not an asshole I just don't know what counts as handwaveable and what doesn't in murdergames "snow this is a thing for all games" murdergames

A nod to Wolf, Hua Cheng is going to go and investigate them, yep! He'll press his weight down more as he walks on one side of them, as he walks steadily - what's it look like in comparison to the feetses left behind previously? ]

[retellers]

[ that... does look like about the same kind of gait as the footprints, though obviously hc has to shorten his own walk a bit to match it properly. because he's a giant. ]

[supremity]

[ Yeah he'll do that, it's fine. So nothing wibbly wobbly over here, no weird gait or crutch prints or some such? He's going to head towards the sand castle just in case to make sure there's nothing amiss. ]

[retellers]

[ was his gait not weird when he was putting more weight on one leg. please i don't understand feet ]

[supremity]

[ i'm crying i'm sorry and love you he was walking steadily but more heavily to leave better comparison prints behind, no weird walk ]

[retellers]

[ GOD then no his gait didnt match if he was walking normally! ]

[supremity]

[ COOL thank u Zia, at least they can clear that up, some funky walking happened down here! He didn't say anything about checking the sand castle, just about checking the feet, so he'll mosey back to Wolf so they can leave and Alphonse can head out. ]