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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Comments

[teufelshund]

[ you already know he's not doing this without good reason. ]

[voidshift]

...I think Itto most likely had you covered, considering.

If we've got reason to look more closely later, we'll let you know.

[ontrend]

Might still be there then...

[ontrend]

[if someone not me wants to volunteer to do this bc i'm having kura investigate the snake rn that would be awesome prayer emoji]

[voidshift]

[someone else is gonna have to deal with this one too he's genuinely too noodly to wrangle the scaramoose.]

[hellscapes]

Seriously, how are you still alive? What are you doing that's so special? [ it's a pretty large snake, so picking it up might be pretty difficult from the way it's draped. he also might not even have to do that, because kuranosuke can look and see that the thing is a stab wound that is still slightly bloody. ]

[ontrend]

Yeah, I usually go for the beers when I don't wanna deal with any weird effects.

[nascens]

[fair and valid have a good day]

[reignite]

A graze? But considering the width of his blade, maybe just something more.. I'm not sure.

[voidshift]

Is it the injuries...?

[hm.]

If anyone helped treat them, I'd like to at least have them take a look.

[greatvalue]

[HE SIGHS.]

Let's see if we can distinguish between the "whirlwind of chaos" and whatever was done intentionally.

[Is there an epicenter to the broken glass? Or is it just strewn all across the room haphazardly? What kind of types of glass are in the mix, also?

Is there blood in any of the slashes on the walls? Or blood anywhere as he carefully walks around the room, scanning the floor when he approaches the walls? He'll also glance at the stone pillars and statues for any damage.]

[ontrend]

No idea! I've just been drinking the pain away. Haha, maybe this is Satan's blessing for being a party animal--

[...]

Yo, this is animal abuse! It's been stabbed!

[hardrocklife]

[nodding. tell him more about this nerd shit.]

[greatvalue]

[the teen judgement intensifies]

[hardrocklife]

[let's sayyyy the middle.]

[cavaliered]

[she doesn't take her clothes off this time, but she's got faint remainders of what look like bug bites all over her arms. she also has a few burns on her hands. she's wearing face paint! it looks like a skull. other than that she's got the same bruises and such she usually does, just from being a jock.]

SNAKE UPDATE

[ontrend]

The snake was stabbed. The hole liquid was probably snake blood.

[greatvalue]

[PRURIENT...]

[teufelshund]

[ lmfao SINCE I WAS LITERALLY SUGGESTING THIS WHEN THE RESULT CAME BACK, gestures over at kuranosuke ]

Well....?

[firstandgreatest]

[ oh boy okay well

- hes definitely very recently bruised all over lol
- he has a broken arm in a cast. it has a lot of signatures!
- he has a sewed-up hole (harpussy) on the other shoulder that goes all the way through
- he has a sewed-up hole right in between his shoulder blades but this one looks pretty well healed over by now
- some generalized punctures along his shoulders and sides that look healed over
- his knuckles have some quite old-looking cuts on them
- as always he has the red tattoos
- OH YEAH HE HAS RECENT BURNS ON HIS HANDS LOLOLOL
- god i think thats everything? jesus christ ]

[cavaliered]

Is that where the sword blood came from?

[psynchronise]

The doors. There's one.

[ oop.

well he's going to straight up hop the bar now, have a proper look over here. he's going to... he's going to sniff the liquid. does it smell like beer...? ]

There's a beer missing from back here. I'll let the other know.

[ontrend]

[nvm i finished i'll give it a try now]

[hardrocklife]

[also nah, which is not new.]

[failbo]

Any idea if the destruction of that stuff was, uh, collateral damage from a fight, or if Zagreus for some reason was...destroying everything before getting murdered?

[Look, after the events of the last three weeks he doesn't rule out Zagreus for some reason decided to go destroy computers belonging to a pervy hamster and the culprit came across him and took a chance to murder.

Anything is possible]