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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:sclurtle:

[engineers]

[ as the time starts to tick down, after the strip check, and the pocket check, as the last investigation group returns, it's lu bixing who speaks up again.

this time, he puts a kitchen knife on the closest table, setting it down with a very decisive thunk, and when it's silent, turns his attention to two people in particular. he speaks evenly, calmly. prime minister of the eighth galaxy. ]

I found this during patdowns.

[ ... ] ...Tuuri. Zelgadis.

I think there's a story here that needs to be told, and I think you both need to tell it.

[ both of them. ]

[hardrocklife]

[there's an icy look.]

There's nothing to tell. I've had that knife since the beginning. It's never been used.

[cavaliered]

[squinting.]

Did you show it for weapons?

[hardrocklife]

[a shrug.] The point of having a hidden weapon is that it stays hidden.

[cavaliered]

That'd be way smarter of a thing to say to me if someone hadn't literally found it during a murder trial.

[psynchronise]

...

He showed his sword, but not the knife.

[cavaliered]

Great. [sighs.] Help me up, Date.

[polyglotti]

[Her mouth is open like she's about to say something, but then Zel goes first, so.]

Zel, wait-

[hardrocklife]

It's fine. I'll handle it.

[polyglotti]

[She's grabbing for Zel's arm now.]

No, you can't. You didn't do anything wrong here.

[psynchronise]

[ awkwardly slips this in here because i don't know where else to put it. ]

Sword, Zel.

[ he gives him an apologetic shrug. ]

Until we have this cleared up.

[eleusinia]

...What were you going to say?

[greatvalue]

... Tuuri, what's going on?

[outsidebones]

Did it slip your mind earlier, when we did weapon checks?

[harrow is here, being patient and kind and angelic as always.]

And immediately after weapon checks, when we had a long discussion about whether anyone happened to have a knife on their person and we decided it would be stupid for someone to have brought one to trial and not said anything?

[hardrocklife]

I was busy with the investigation. Guess I didn't hear that.

[it's ok it's confidence week, his pride isn't wounded.]

[outsidebones]

Ah, how unfortunate. And even more unfortunate that you chose to bring it at all, rather than hide it in your room...

[greatvalue]

[...]

[engineers]

Would you have preferred I started with something else?

[ there's nothing particularly accusatory in this, but he doesn't look away from eye contact. ]

[hardrocklife]

[there is a glare here.]

There's nothing else to talk about.

[selfdestructs]

[ she is just nervously watching this exchange, while yoru vibes. wish i was yoru... ]

[teufelshund]

[ ooh, het drama.

busts out the koalas and popcorns. ]

[tearduct]

[Looking at the knife.]

Does it match his wounds?

[onlythans]

[Assuming he's back from investigation now —]

We decided we were looking for a blade slightly smaller than one of mine.

[He'll offer one for comparison if you want.]

[psynchronise]

... We have the knife now. We can check it against Kon's stab wounds if we want to be sure.

[ depends on if they want to be sure. ]

[voidshift]

[hi. he's chilling with him while this is all going on.

probably leaning on him a little in a silent gesture to just stay put instead of checking this himself, he just went investigating.]