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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LYRA - SOO-WON'S ROOM

[axecessory]

[ well soo-won's body is here just in time for them to get back! cool. hilda pointedly does not look that way as she goes over some findings. ]

Won left me a note while I was sleeping—it said to check his room. There were these notes and pens in his closet... I think everybody should take a look. He addressed a lot of us personally, and—I don't know. Maybe there's a clue.

[ first set of notes
second set of notes ]

[evocationary]

[ yoink she shoves her note in her pockets immediately and flees ]

[stillnot]

[ wow! hate this. ]

... He splintered.

[axecessory]

...Mm. He was acting pretty flighty and forgetful on Thursday night.

[ it all kind of checks out. ]

[reconnective]

[well...he just bows his head a bit.]

Thanks for checking, Hilda.

[axecessory]

[ yeah. she'll hand sora his note to take. ]

Couldn't turn down his last request. Guess he really wanted us to see these.

[reconnective]

[he'll take his note to read, but he's also listening to some of the others.]

Doesn't surprise me that he was prepared for whatever would happened. [a pause.] You said he was acting strange on Thursday?

[clem already said he splintered, but...for comparison's sake, he's asking.]

[axecessory]

Yeah. He said he'd forgotten someone he was supposed to spend Thursday night with, which feels strange? And no one's mentioned that they were supposed to meet up with him. He seemed forgetful in general...

[ so. ]

[papasha]

[He frowns a little at the note for him. Poor Soo-won...]

Thank you, Miss Hilda. I'm sorry.

[axecessory]

[ she shakes her head. ]

Won is the only one who needs to apologize.

[ it's not soo-won's fault he died? but no, it's his fault. ]

At least this makes it pretty clear—especially with the way he was acting—that his memories were acting up. I'm going to comb over the text a little bit more and see if he might've left us anything else.

[papasha]

Please go easy on him.

[HILDA, PLS.]

I noticed he was acting a bit strange Wednesday when we were at the petting zoo. [Won....] I didn't notice anything immediately, but it wouldn't hurt to inspect it a little more closely.

[axecessory]

I'm not feeling generous! Look at all this reading he left me.

[ THE NERVE OF THIS DEAD MAN ]

Anyway... strange how?

[canned]

[he does his best not to read any of the personal notes too closely—they're not meant for him, but he does closely study the general notes]

He says he "went ahead to scout," but do you think he meant to the northern area? Or to where the others who were killed went?

[axecessory]

[ al is a good boy. she has her own note tucked away in her pocket. ]

Hm... my thought was that he meant wherever the removed have gone. But I don't know for sure?

[canned]

That's my thought, too. He seems confident that we'll connect the two somehow and bring everyone back. [Al doesn't think it's impossible, but he wishes he had the same confidence—that here, at least, the dead can come back]

But we're not sure how to do anything but survive, and...keep watching this happen.

[discernments]

[ Jeanne also grabs her note for later. ]

[dianxias]

...Thank you, Miss Hilda.

[ xie lian takes his note, and the unlabeled note, and bows. he will look at those later.... ]

[axecessory]

[ she's already skimmed the notes for pertinent details, so they're free to take. she just curtsies a little in response. ]

[misstrust]

... [ Dorothy just kind of slumps, pressing one hand over her mouth once she's done reading. ]

[uhhhmagic]

I thought I said no more public feelings . . .

[shoving his note in his pocket for later!!!!!! How could this happen.]

[axecessory]

Too late! I already read it.

[ now all of china knows taako cares ]

[soulus]

[Rufus pockets the note addressed to him after giving it a quick read. His expression is as impassive as ever; evidently there was no clue to share in the message.]

[lecarre]

[Ange also takes her note, folding it with care and tucking it inside her pocket.

... .... ... Her shoulders slump.]

I should have noticed... or done something. He truly was acting oddly on Thursday night. I knew it, so why...

[axecessory]

[ hilda doesn't hide her own melancholy, nodding. ]

I noticed it too, but... there's nothing we can do when that happens.

[ it's not on ange to act. ]

Don't blame yourself too much.

[lecarre]

You are right, of course... there wasn't anything we could have done.

But still, I wish...

[... She sighs, shaking her head.]

No... we have to focus now.