WEEK FIVE - TRIAL

[hellscapes]

Hello, deadlings. Ready to work double-time?

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, Cosmopolitan and Midori. 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. And he looks ready to fall apart.

The second, fresher Fieri is also still here. Why.

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 sixth trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about this week's murders! Characters will have time to examine the bodies 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]

[ we were not told otherwise so yes.

from the front glance, it looks like it's a lot of dirt. it's earthy. it's gritty. just...dirt. no blood. ]

[voidshift]

Thanks, Midori.

[we do not headpat small people she just gets a nod

he needs one hand for his cane so he's honestly just gonna go ahead and knock one back so he can take thancred the other one.]

[ragesqueaks]

Are you sure you're not just so tall today?

[birdeater]

[ stop look away it’s making sense now (to me not ljh) ]

[hellscapes]

[ midori hops down off the counter onto her shadow. letsa go ]

[outsidebones]

[hmm, okay. is the dirt all over the front of his clothes or in a particular area? also is there anything besides dirt on the clothes, such as something that could have caused the acid marks?

she's going to check all the pockets of his clothes carefully and then she's going to take them off.]

[murderofwoes]

[ she has an unending stare suffer ]

[ragesqueaks]

[ give him a second, he's going to dig through the basket next to him before scaling down the statue over to her and handing her an apple.

energy for harrowhark's hard work. ]

[preordain]

Mm, even if it's something quickly made, it's still better than nothing.

[ also it's good that it's lbx because otherwise he doesn't trust a lot of the people here to do this ]

[gloomist]

This'll help you get over that.

[outsidebones]

You didn't quite move like a spider, either. This is a little less jarring.

[cavaliered]

[hex comes over to sit on his head.]

[outsidebones]

Indeed. We've only failed once, but we still convicted one culprit. I'm certain we'll continue.

[tearduct]

[He gets it. The fucking costume... He smiles a bit. It might be a tad weak.]

It's good to have someone with you.

[refate]

[ he rouses a little and mumbles in his tiny, synthetic voice: ] Pineapple pizza's the best...

[ what ]

[hardrocklife]

Looks like we chose right.

[how's this blood look? is it a pool, drops, streaks, splatter? is there a trail for us to follow?

looking around the outside of the biome, is anything else immediately out of place about this entrance/hallway space?]

[gloomist]

[ thank you for not headpatting. that would be so condescending. ]

[outsidebones]

[oh! thank you. she'll take a bite of apple.]

...I prefer that to drinking so early in the morning.

[ragesqueaks]

[ he crawls down the statue to get closer and sniff at them. ]

Hmm....just one? Or can Francois have one, too?

[ francois is a stuffed animal and does not actually need to eat, but look. ]

[gloomist]

[ she thinks that whole situation was funny so is just kind of nyehehe behind a sleeve ]

[murderofwoes]

Well. He is missing three of the appendages necessary for it.

[ thing shrugs. how does a hand shrug? he just does. ]

But he's too big for any other insect.

[engineers]

[ lu bixing makes a little agreeing noise, frowning intensely for a moment and going to pull up his personal device's camera, snapping a picture of said blood. also - is there any outside any of the other biomes? ]

Yeah. [ great. is there any sign of smoke or fire in the actual biome entrance at all, or anything obviously out of place on first glance in that direction? ]

[onlythans]

[He's definitely here also, at least somewhat more bandaged up than he was when he reappeared from CYOA a few days back! Less overtly bloody. He's also wearing a brown coat today instead of his white gunbreaker one, over regrettably a crop top with "Baby Slut" emblazoned across the front. He's also slamming what is either a glass of water or straight vodka and showing no outward signs either way of which it might be.]

[psynchronise]

[ this opinion is only valid because yoru said it. ]

[greatvalue]

[The birdie will allow this.

Though now Hunter is looking at this basket and wondering who packaged these.]

... That's. A lot of tiny sandwiches. They're all for you?