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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[chanteuser]

[ she's just leaning in and tugging hua cheng's sleeve, whispering something that is just loud enough to be made out if you're close: ]

Hua Cheng, the RSVP--

[supremity]

[ Because it's Alex, Hua Cheng will let the tug pull him a little away from the two of them. Which is probably a good thing, because he nearly slugged Claude midtrial. Dorothy would not be exempt even if he's not the one cursed this time!!!

Crimson Rain off the string, what will he do when you bring his relationship with Xie Lian into question! ]

- fuck, alright, we need to find out who had it -

[chanteuser]

[ crimson rain calm down or go sit in the corner. ]

It's the only thing I can think of, given their names were on it. But... it took a while to kick in?

We don't know what it is though... was there one for jealousy? Or ...

[horologia]

... I have one for physical repulsion, if we want to try to. Counteract it.

[ but also, imagine them interacting somehow and making this worse? ...pause. ]

Wait, no, they would have lost their effects by now if they hadn't already been used, right?

[chanteuser]

Yeah, by this point. We'll... probably just have to keep an eye on [ hua cheng, so he doesn't mid-trial ] them until it wears off.

[supremity]

Maybe we just haven't been able to see any of the signs of it until more of us were around.

[ He's not fucking up another trial day by almost obliterating someone it's fine. But, see: Hilda's response.

He's going to be in such a foul mood for the rest of the day. ]

[chanteuser]

... Right. No need to be jealous if there isn't anyone around to be jealous of.

[ ... there there. she just pats his arm. ]

It'll wear off.

[supremity]

[ It's like three people were cursed with one RSVP! ]

It's - fine. [ Hua Cheng just won't be able to comfort Xie Lian during the trial, because he's logical enough to know that doing so will make it worse, and it's going to be a spiral of irritation for the next five and a half hours. ]

Let's just... focus. [ And then some. ] If Ochako and Yona had them, then that lends credence to Ochako having been the one to write it. And it's in effect today, when there were no signs of it during our curfew as a group, it had to have been written after.

[chanteuser]

[ it's fine, she can babysit everyone apparently. ]

So... someone went to the trouble of finding her RSVP, writing on it after she was dead so the effects would last until now, and then... left it at the location of her death?

[supremity]

Or she did it. Ochako and gege are close, and she wouldn't - [ A beat, jaw tightening, before he continues. ] Ochako cared about gege and I, [ you know, like that ] and she wouldn't do something like this unless she had a reason to.

[lecarre]

Um... doesn't it seem more likely that someone else wrote on it...?

[Ange is frowning deeply, brow furrowed.]

If Miss Ochako had the time to write down Miss Dorothy's name because-- [well, she can't even say that, it's too awful to contemplate] --I think she would try to make it more clear. And um... I do not think she would have needed to write Mister Xie Lian's name if that was her intent.

[An rsvp with only one name would be even more suspicious, right? It would point right to someone.]

[stillnot]

... It's easy to destroy an RSVP itself as evidence. But the effect of one is a clue that can't be hidden.

[lecarre]

... I suppose that does make sense.

[She looks discomfited by it.]

Though... that could still be true of someone else making use of it as well.

[and trying to frame dorothy :(

Ange can't believe anything else.]

[stillnot]

We'll see. We'll, uh... Look at the rest of the evidence, too.

[lecarre]

R...right. [she tries to muster up her best smile.]

Thank you, Clementine.