redactable | WEEK SIX: TRIAL

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."

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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.

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Because they seem jealous? Or close?

It could be something else, but I'm having trouble keeping all the RSVPs straight in my head, if you've got other ideas.

Yeah, but if it was Ochako... was she trying to make a point, tying them together? Or was it a frame? It seems more like forced jealousy to me. Dorothy is.... confident, and Xie Lian isn't the jealous type. So I don't think it's affection.

I'm not sure why she did it... Obviously it couldn't have been Yona, and Ochako seems more likely than Sora.

[ who was the other person with that invite that i forgot, oops. chalk it up to her trying to remember something from two weeks ago. ]

Maybe there's some significance to the names she picked.

... Ochako and Xie Lian are close friends.

If I were going to try to send a message, I would try to send it to a close friend.

[ ...she tucks some stray hair idly behind her ear and nods. ]

Yeah, I would too.

I think there was.

[ Hua Cheng is keeping his distance from Xie Lian, which is obviously very difficult, but he's pensive in a way that implies they're all heading on the same track instead of outright brooding and saying this because he's petty. ]

Mmhm.

[ all these mopey boys. she thinks they're kind of on the same page without having to say much, so she just takes his hands and swings them a little playfully. ]

I know it's annoying, but Xie Lian is really helping us out with this.

[ Hilda is permitted to have his singular hand, since that's all he's got, and they'll all just vibe on this train together. Six weeks ago he would have made a face but nowadays he's just resigned himself to people being tactile with him.

He is pretty grumpy about this, though. ]

We've got more important things to focus on than causing more of a scene than what's already happened. At least we know what the invitation was, now.

[ sometimes in the midst of trial you forget how many limbs people have, it's fine. she just gives him a bemused smile. ]

Yeah. I think that a big clue, if it's really Ochako's... Now it's just a matter of figuring out what pieces go with which puzzle.

[ the real memory loss was the players' all along, let's be honest, nu ]

En. [ At least he's not, like, looking longingly at them or something. He's behaving. She has his attention. ] It's a matter of narrowing down evidence, at this point, and finding any that we might have missed. It's all spread out, and there was so much chaos at the boardwalk that we might need a second sweep there.

[ it's true ]

Mm... yeah. It might help for us to try and link like pieces together, and see if we can build connections that way. Then someone can go look through any locations where we're missing stuff.

[ when there's three bodies, organization always becomes a nightmare. ]

[ Casually going to keep swinging their joined hands a little, absentmindedly, because sometimes that's all that you can do: just vibe and distract while you think. ]

There's so much gun evidence everywhere, it wouldn't hurt to check all the locations it was all found in. But the possibility that Soo-won's killer also thought to dispose of evidence is something that complicates that particular area.

[ Chiron has none gunshot, Soo-won has left gunshot, but Ochako is one with killing blow gunshot. So. ]

.... We should probably verify that it's her handwriting. Just to make sure someone isn't playing games.

Izumo tried. She wasn't able to match it.

What did she compare it to...?

[ peanut gallery comment. ]

If you're referring to me, then I compared it to the memory book that Hikaru left us.

Oh, that's what it was.

[ the memloss.... ]

Did she write in it?

I couldn't find anything that matched so likely not.

... I guess that'd be too easy.

[ irritated sigh! ]

Isn't that the general consensuses about everything here?

[ says the girl who is still vibin due to a body being dropped on her. ]

You're looking for Ochako's handwriting?

Yeah. You have something?

I... yeah. We made some notes together last week, for the, uh... flower bouquets we made. There were a lot, so... we had to write down what we wanted.

They're in my room, I'd need to go and get them, if the leaders are okay with that.

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Did she give any notes to anyone, or write on something else?

.... I don't know.... wasn't there...

[ something people wrote on? to help them remember? ironically, zuko has forgotten it ]