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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CHIRON'S BODY

[evocationary]

[ well, okay, after she takes a minute to duck behind the counter and quietly lose her shit, she claps her hands. don't look at her too closely, her eyes definitely aren't rimmed red. ]

Chiron was found in the ocean, so. That probably explains why his skin and lips are blue. He's still wet. His eyes are bloodshot, too.

He's got broken bones and bruising all on his right side. Mostly his right side, anyway. There's no discernable pattern. His baskets are missing. I don't know if that means we missed them anywhere or he just left them in his room, but. Maybe we should look for those.

I don't know, maybe he got pushed off of something high and then fell into the ocean. Or something fell on him. He's pretty heavy. We had to get Goat to teleport him out, so I'm just. I'm, uh, not sure how he got there.

Someone else can double check to see if he's got something I missed if you want, I don't want to look at him being dead anymore.

[reconnective]

[fair and valid...he's just going to lean against her.]

...it's possible some of his stuff got washed away somehow, isn't it? People found his bow and an arrow at the beach so maybe he still had his things. [let's talk about that and not about chiron being dead because that's not okay.]

[evocationary]

[ she wraps an arm around his waist, at least. ]

Could be, for sure. We can double-check the beach? I don't know if he had anything useful in his baskets.

[reconnective]

[good. let him be supportive since...yikes.]

We can, sure. But if it's gone then...[he frowns softly.]

I'm curious how somebody managed to get him that far. Chiron wasn't exactly the smallest person here.

[evocationary]

[ gestures at ferris wheel talk

in the meantime she'll just stay here and rest her chin on top of his head. ]

[chanteuser]

... Does falling into water from a height cause broken bones?

[ 'sup lup. she doesn't have red eyes yet but she looks fuckin' miserable so i guess they can misery vibe. ]

[evocationary]

It might, actually. It'd explain why it's mostly on his right side. I don't know, I'm not a rocket scientist.

[ except for how you are but that's fine

anyway, definite misery vibes!! she doesn't reach out to touch or anything but there's a little nod of horrible solidarity. ]

[chanteuser]

With... so many people mentioning the ferris wheel being gone, and then collapsed somewhere, I just... wondered.

[ this is terrible. dammit marie. ]

From the way you described him it sounds like he... drowned... more than anything.

[evocationary]

... Yeah.

I'm sure. He probably, um. Was on the ferris wheel, and then hit the water hard, and drowned because he couldn't... swim, then.

[canned]

A fall from around 50-100 feet could have that effect, but...where could he have fallen from? The Ferris wheel was probably the only thing tall enough, but I don't know if Mister Chiron would have got on it.

[no body no face so no one can see his feels haha..he instead finds distraction in discussing the physics of the problem]

[chanteuser]

With the breaks being on one side of his body, it sounds like hitting the water might've done it. Like Ruby said.

[ ... ]

... It's the only thing tall enough. So... maybe we just have to figure out how or why he would've been on it. We probably need to check the boardwalk again.

[evocationary]

I don't know either, but uh. He kept forgetting he was a horse, and I know he was trying to do it earlier this week, so. He might've just brute forced getting on it.

[arkitect]

...he was capable of being very stubborn, in that way.

[discernments]

[ Jeanne takes a small breath to collect herself, too. ]

Thank you, Ruby. I know - it's a lot.

If you had to ask Goat for help, that brings up the question of how someone else could push him.

[evocationary]

I'm fine, don't worry about it.

[ but she appreciates it. ] I think it must've been the ferris wheel? Maybe someone put him on it and then... knocked the ferris wheel over somehow? Did we ever figure out where the ferris wheel went?

[discernments]

[ who is fine today? haha ]

Ah. I believe the ferris wheel was found by all the games on the boardwalk. It somehow moved over there.

[ i don't know where all the rides are situated on the boardwalk help ]

I don't know how close that is to the ocean.

[evocationary]

Maybe, uh. Maybe he was on the ferris wheel, the killer fucked with the ferris wheel's settings, and made it go so fast it came off the... hinges, or whatever?

And he got thrown out of it into the water. Really hard. [ she'd make a yeet joke here but it's insensitive ]

[canned]

[he's not going to comment on the body to Lup because she's done enough so instead he just lightly places a hand on her shoulder]

Maybe you should take a short break, Miss Ruby. You don't have to push yourself.

[evocationary]

[ she gently rests her hand on top of his. ]

Nah, nah. I'm okay. I already did the grief thing, I'm here. But thanks.

[supremity]

Water can become as solid as stone from a certain height.

[ Backing up everyone else's talks of the fall breaking his bones, and he'll be the one to just look somber while y'all are miserable. But he does touch his fingers to her wrist gently before continuing. ]

It's the most likely, even if we can't say for certain how it happened, unless the tides had something to do with it after he was in the water. If there were rocks underwater... it could explain both the fact he suffered more injuries on the right, and that he had some on the rest of his body.

[canned]

There's also a reef out there, right? I didn't go out to the one here, but I've read about them. They can be really dangerous, too. Almost like rocks.

[supremity]

En, I'd seen some people swimming out there at the start of the week and coming back with coral and the like. Ruby and I were a little preoccupied with trying to make sure we didn't lose Chiron for good, so I didn't get a good look at our surroundings before Goat came for us.

[canned]

The way the waves move, things might get caught in there. If someone can go there safely it'd be good to check.

[evocationary]

[ she just nods a little. she's mentioned what she thinks to a few people standing around - though she does appreciate the fingers to her wrist. thanks buddy. ]

[supremity]

[ He's got you, buddy. There's no talk of her sitting anything out, or needing time to grieve from him - she knows what she needs and what she can do, and he won't call that into question when she's still standing. ]