WEEK TWO - TRIAL

[hellscapes]

Hello, deadlings. Wow. Just...wow.

You may have been wondering what you could possibly do in the aftermath of yesterday's beek. Your demons weren't entirely helpful, and it seems that there were no answers to be found. But on Saturday morning at 11am, you'll soon hear a sound coming from the dock. There's a large ferry waiting for you, and even if you resist you'll eventually find yourself compelled to climb aboard and set off on a short voyage. The islands around you look fairly blurry, but you don't go very far before you stop at a slab of land with two large buildings stationed. The Execution Bar is locked tight and you won't be able to head in that direction. Instead, once again, your feet navigate you to the building on the right as the door creaks open.

Inside is a bar. It's dimly lit in several places, but bright enough for you to see each other and navigate without running into the furniture. Tables and chairs are scattered around in front of the bar counter, and the floor is far less sticky than the bar on the other island. Stained glass windows decorate the walls depicting images of humanity's suffering, and concrete crosses and tombstones are gathered in the corners. The bar itself is fully stocked with all types of alcohol and mixers, along with an array of bar food to help keep your energy up.

At the head of the room lounging among the statues of saints and the Blessed Virgin are Blue Hawaiian, Cosmopolitan and Midori.

Above them hangs another hand-painted banner, sloppily thrown together.

CONGRATS ON YOUR TRIAL!
12pm - 9pm
Vote or suffer eternal damnation

You can try to leave, but the door to the bar has been locked. All of the windows are reinforced, and there isn't another way out. You've been called here for one reason...let the misery begin!

Hello, and welcome to your third trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about this week's murder! Characters will have time to examine the body of the victim and explore relevant locations.

There will be a mod-tag break between 4pm EST/1pm PST to 5pm EST/2pm PST. While the trial may continue and players can tag each other, mod-led threads such as questions and investigations will be on hold.

Finally, we have a voting page for characters to vote on the culprit! Please be sure to read this page carefully and that your vote is in by the time trial finishes (9pm EST/6pm PST).

Good luck, and have fun!

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Comments

[hellscapes]

Man, it's an octopus and that kid's head was pretty beat up! And so was the octopus's? It probably just got so excited to play that it didn't think about what it was doing and somebody else got involved.

[hellscapes]

Dunno. The lockdown was originally just supposed to be like a calm down time for you guys after that first party.

[selfdestructs]

We were with Lulu the other day, checking out the residential district, when it attacked us with a nightmare doll.

[ she is still salty ]

[bookpapers]

[STOP THERE'S NO NEED TO BE VIOLENT

but while Lavi doesn't say anything, he looks grateful that Junhyeong is there and not saying anything. sometimes, you just need to breathe?]

[outsidebones]

[good because she will later appreciate that he was nice about it.]

[astika]

I feel as though locking people in did the opposite of calm them down.

[hellscapes]

[ kicking their feet. ]

A big mess, what else is new? I told you you guys are good at those.

[toyska]

[He nods, mulling that over.] He did tell me he never really got to speak with his siblings, but I don't know much else about him.

[toyska]

I didn't either. [A sigh.] I suppose we'll just have to see.

[anothen]

I know you're working hard... And this isn't your usual—you are meticulous, almost aggravatingly so. It's still much appreciated.

Thank you.

[ warmly ]

[hellscapes]

[ they just shrug and give a nod over to cosmopolitan. that answer makes sense to them! ]

I don't think it has a name. Just write octopus.

[ don't!!! ]

[firstandgreatest]

[ HIS HEAD HURTS. ]

Uh, right, I guess!

... So when it changes, ain't it either something super scary, or someone you ... like, care about? Why was it in that kid's shape?

[cavaliered]

Yeah, it's the other cavalier from the Ninth. It... doesn't matter, I guess, I just wasn't expecting to hear that name of all the fucking names.

[psynchronise]

[ after a moment... date swings his feet as well. ]

We've done okay at getting out of these messes too. So... watch this space.

[refate]

Yeah. [ what she said ] It menaced us from the residential district, through the shops and the aquarium, and then we found the onsen.

Cut us up across the legs and our clothes along the way while it was basically hunting us.

[teufelshund]

They were created to be a power source for something. He may have only ever seen them behind glass themselves.

[hellscapes]

Yeah, you're all bigger babies than we expected.

[engineers]

[ nodding to this... ]

It also may be relevant that the two versions of Cosmos both had the same head injury - that's the sort of thing someone just doesn't come back from. Did they both occur at the same time? And if they did, then how? Or was the octopus just copying what it saw?

[firstandgreatest]

[ im gonna do it ]

hand check

[refate]

[ comparing hands to the aquarium blood smudge. will also compare to ... actual nameless' hand just in case. ]

[hellscapes]

[ hm... ]

Um...guess you're just gonna have to think about that one yourself, huh?

[anothen]

This makes mine and Date's visit to the aquarium sound a lot nicer.

[ HELL OCTOPUS ]

ONSEN

[hellscapes]

[ midori leads them to a ferry to subnutica, then through the long tunnel up to the surface of the island! wow, it's your onsen!

they enter the waiting room first. whatcha looking at? ]

[onlythans]

Now that we've acquired both bodies, mayhap we should take a look and determine whether they're simply similar injuries, or identical ones.

The best fighter to ever live would still be hard-pressed to enact two perfectly identical head injuries. But a creature imitating what it sees is a much different story.

[eleusinia]

[ fucking help WELL I GUESS SHE'S GLARING AT BLUE BEFORE SHE TRIES TO TRAP URIEL INTO A BEAR HUG which isn't very effective since she is the smallest living person here. but by gods is she trying! ]

Zelgadis, grab the glass before she gets it!

[ i really hope there's nothing else here i'm in tears ]