WEEK THREE - TRIAL

[hellscapes]

Hello, deadlings. We're right back at it, huh?

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 Bloody Mary, Malibu Sunset and Rosé. With them is also a cut-out of Guy Fieri, dressed as a (sexy?) samurai with a bunch of cool flames cut out of construction paper glued to his back as he walks away from an explosion. He is also holding a sign that says "YOU CAN SOLVE IT!" However, there are now paper tears glued to his face as well.

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 fourth 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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[hellscapes]

[ it's possible, but he won't really have a chance to examine the feathers that closely at the moment. however, he now has a total of four. as kuranosuke heads for the back wall, he can knock! he will not find any sort of hidden door, but he will find a small hole in the wall. and the faint sound of hissing.

rynlan, meanwhile, finds a sword? this is definitely a sword. there is some more garbage thrown about, including an actual garbage can tucked out of the way. on occasion, the machines will spark and flicker due to the damage taken.

ljh does not find anything else of note on the beach, so he can go back to the house now just in time for whatever the hell is going on here. ]

[engineers]

That is the ticket, isn't it?
Thanks for the update, Commander. 😘

[ontrend]

Oh, FUCK NO! NOT TODAY, SATAN!

[he


slams his hands down over the hole to block it off, mostly because he has nothing with him to keep whatever is hissing in that hole. this is the dumbest possible thing he could do.]

Yo, Rynlan! There's a snake in here! Get Lin Jingheng and his harpoon gun!!

[hellscapes]

[ It's a cloak, so it can be draped over anyone and still 'fit'! but as far as length:

The cloak reaches the ankles on: Persephone, Tuuri, Uriel, and Chandra!
The cloak reaches the calves on: Akira, Kuranosuke, Hunter, Thancred, Zelgadis, and Zagreus!
It's just past the knees on: Lu Bixing, Gideon, Date, Childe, Filbo, Kon, Lin Jingheng, and Rynlan!

It barely reaches Itto's knees. ]

[voidshift]

[he looks up

looks at kuranosuke's hands over the hole

his ears perk STRAIGHT UP in alarm as he grabs the net and quickly gets up, hurrying over to join him.]

Move move move--!

[he's shoving kura's hands away to slap the net over the hole this shit is what lin comes back to]

[awol]

[ he leaves you two alone for fucking five minutes and here you are doing exactly what you told him not to do? ]

Hypocrites—

[ he is pocketing the bottle in his coat for safe-keeping quickly and bringing his harpoon gun out to aim it at the stupid snake. he's gonna hold off on shooting it unless it slithers out of ryn's net.... then he will shoot it.

smh ]

[hellscapes]

[





the snake rockets out of the hole because of the threat of danger and a mod nat 20, tearing straight through the net and past all of them into malibu's arms. there's a moment where they don't seem to move, frozen for a bit as they look at this kind of large snake before draping it around their neck gingerly.

and they raise an eyebrow. ]

Giving you guys harpoon guns was such a mistake.

RESULTS

[engineers]

[ aaand we're back. after some math and some measuring, here's lu bixing. ]

Alright, so! Now that that's done, based on the length of the cloak fabric... The cloak's barely reaches Itto's knees. It hits just past the knees on myself, Date, Childe, Filbo, Kon, Lin and Rynlan.

The cloak goes to the calves on Akira, Kuranosuke, Hunter, Thancred, Zelgadis, and based on my calculations, on Zagreus as well.

And then, finally, it's an ankle length fit on Persy, Tuuri, Uriel and Chandra.

For those of you who didn't try it on - based on visual calculation and relative heights, I can estimate that Mephisto's likely in the tallest end group, where the fabric hits roughly at the knees, and that Scaramouche and Harrowhark are likely in the smallest group, closer to an ankle fit. Those are just calculations, though, so you can take them with a grain of salt as you'd like.

[ there u have it ]

[ontrend]

Oi, don't let it bite you! It fucking hurts when they bite!!

[he is



freaking out a little and doing the "points at eyes, points at you, HO DON'T DO IT" thing at the snake. DO NOT BITE MALIBU.]

INVENTORY / POCKET CHECK

[hardrocklife]

... Well, there's no point in us just standing here while the others are off investigating. Someone here might be concealing evidence on their person.

Empty your pockets, and let's take a look at what everyone has.

If any of you want patdowns, someone else will have to do it, though. I don't plan on touching anyone if I can avoid it.

PRESENT YOUR ITEMS

[hardrocklife]

[firstandgreatest]

Yessss, I win. Arataki "Too Tall for Cloaks" Itto!

[ this is something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve ]

CHATTER

[hardrocklife]

[outsidebones]

Agreed. The cloak, if it dragged in beer, was likely worn by someone in the ankle length group, which would include myself and Scaramouche, as well as the others you mentioned.

[nascens]

[Just over here looking GRUMPY about the local mathlete champion.]

[outsidebones]

[she's in so many layers of blankets just putting this here that someone needs to help her if they want inventory.]

[astika]

[chandra and scaramouche are practically the same build anyway so this is very funny]

[voidshift]

It was a huge mistake! No harpooning in here! None! There's evidence in this house!

[his voice is a little shrill, tentacles highly wiggly with adrenaline after fucking ROCKET SNAKE.

pointing first to kuranosuke and then to lin-]

Hole! Sword! Look at them so we can get out of here before anyone does anything else!

[he's going to look in the garbage to see if anything out of place was thrown away, what is in here. then he will look at the machines to try to see Why they are sparking.]

[engineers]

[ i needed to edit my comment so watching you have to edit this four times brought me joy

anyway he pats his arm very gently. he doesn't get a real praise because he's still in trouble ]

[refate]

[ kon only holds up his phone and dorm key, this time, compared to his usual large inventory. yoru is attached to him.

he does not acquiesce to patdown like usual if someone not-zel decides to do that. ]

[nascens]

[YEAH NO ONE NEEDED TO THROW A MURDER CLOAK ON HIM!!!!]

[engineers]

[ looks at chandra

its not very hard math but get schooled anyway moosh ]

[psynchronise]

[ hello he has


- a funky straw in a mostly sipped drink.
- a little crab friend
- his phone with a funky phone case
- his room key ]

[failbo]

[As usual, all Filbo has is his sash, his phone device, the crab multitool, the key to his room, and a notebook!]

[firstandgreatest]

[ ITS STILL MESSED UP I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT I DID ]

So it's gotta be someone short enough to drag it, right? Otherwise, why wear it?