WEEK FIVE: TRIAL

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W̴͍̎E̴̝̊E̸͚͝K̸͕̿ FIVE: TRIAL

Rise and shine; you know how Saturdays go. Even if you'd rather sleep in, you'll find yourself waking up and getting out of bed. Once you're out of your room, a door appears down the hallway, compelling you to walk towards it. Upon entering, you'll discover a room that's familiar if you've gone exploring this week or possibly from even before then:

EMPORIUM (THE REALM)
The exterior of the building is welcoming, with windows lined with various eye-catching trinkets, ranging from stuffed animals to t-shirts. After stepping inside, the very first thing that will greet guests is a statue made out of L*gos. Yes, the black bar is somehow there.

The interior is filled with row upon row of shelves filled with different items. There is a collection of stuffed animals, ranging in size from small enough to hide in your pocket to some as big as a toddler. There's a wide range of other toys as well, like dolls, L*gos, puzzles, and more. Different display cases show off pins, lanyards, keychains, sunglasses, jewelry, and other accessories. Participants may even find one of those keychains with their name on it...?

If you consider it a typical souvenir item, it's here. Cups, shot glasses, pens, t-shirts, hats... Everything is stacked neatly, proudly displaying the silhouette of a castle. There are also now items featuring tigers, rabbits, goats, swans, wolves, and foxes. However, there is no one at the cash register, so it seems like participants can't purchase anything.

There are a few tables in here behind room dividers. One is labeled 'Evidence' while the rest are covered in white sheets. Elsewhere in the room is a table with pencils and slips of paper for voting.

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Welcome to your sixth trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about the murders. 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 to 5pm EST. 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 that your vote is in by the time trial finishes 9pm EST. Voting is mandatory in this game.

Good luck!

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█ LOCATIONS █ STATUSES █ PROFILES █ AUDIENCES
█ REPORTING █ PRIVATE CONVOS █ MURDER

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[WE'VE BEEN SPARED FROM ARMOR CLATTERING he'll check if there's any distinct scuffs or blood anywhere besides the shirt collar.

as for the neck cuts, he will check how they wrap around? does it look like if you took a wire and wound around someone's neck? does it look uniform all the way around or is there something about the cut that favors the left side?

for the bloody wound on his shoulder, does it look like it was closed and recently reopened? like it was starting to heal and then it got aggravated? similarly, is the bruising recent? is it a lot of different impact areas or is it just a larger bruise? are they just sinjuries.]

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[There are no distinct scuffs or blood anywhere else in the neck area.

Mikazuki would probably have to fetch a wire to be sure, but it could plausibly look like that. Nothing about it favours the left side in particular, no.

As for the bloody wound on his shoulder, that looks like a possibility. All of the bruising is relatively recent, and there are different sorts of bruises? Some are largely widespread across the rib area that would be consistent with fractured ribs, while there is smaller, general bruising in other nondescript areas. They do not look like sinjuries, though.]

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[having to check a body after they went on cyoa is so fucking hateful god

but he'll just check sylvain's arms then! any other injuries? he'll also check his hands for any injury, as well as on his palms and under his fingernails]

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[Also to go back and edit/clarify: the neck cuts are bleeding a little, but not like. specifically on the collar.

There are faint bruises on his arms, and his left arm is fractured.

There are thin cuts on his hands, same in size of those on his neck. There's a bit of blood on his fingertips, though not necessarily under his nails which are relatively clean.]

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[so the neck cuts are bleeding evenly, but there's only blood on the left side of the collar? is there any sort of like. blood drips that indicate a direction in which the blood was dripping.

for the thin cuts, how do they stretch across his hands? across the palm or mostly concentrated on the fingertips?]

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[The blood does not drip in any particular direction, but back when Mikazuki was looking at the neck, before he stripped Sylvain of his clothes, he would've just seen blood on the left collar at a glance.

The cuts are mainly in the finger area.]

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[he will look back at the clothes later... this is a note for me.

but cool. based on the blood on his fingertips, does it look like the blood could have come from the cuts? or do they differ?

he will also check the rest of sylvain from mid-torso down!! any other injuries at a glance?]

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[How would Mikazuki tell if they differ?

There are chafe marks on his lower body.]

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[like does the blood come from areas where the cuts directly are, or are there random splotches of blood that don't seem like they'd naturally bleed from that area?

chafe marks.... like. redness? is it on his legs, his ass, what's happening. did someone actually slap sylvain's ass. (belatedly remembers courtyard inves) or is it more equivalent with being dragged,]

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[Yes and no, there are some that might've come from the cuts, but some that aren't necessarily where the cuts are. But for reference it's not exactly a ton of blood he's looking at here.

It's... chafe marks, aka that's the most descriptive we can get here. They look more consistent with being dragged than an ass slap.]

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[that works, thank you!!

so it was definitely just a really specific ass slap got it. then just for the record, where are the chafe marks located? on his legs? back?

just going to do a more thorough check on if anything stands out on his leggies, his feet, bottom of his feet, gotta be thorough with these feetblems]

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[Lower half of body in general but more so on his legs.

Nothing else stands out about his legs or feet!]

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[ok time to flip this bitch over* to check if there's anything that stands out on his back


*despite the carelessness of language used, jiji is very careful and respectful throughout the process but that's just less fun to type]

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[Nothing of note about his back that Mikazuki wouldn't have already seen or inferred from the front!]

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[i see.... well, i'm slowly running out of ideas.

mikazuki will then carefully place sylvain back so that he's lying down comfortably. time to do a check for his inventory and clothes!!

aside from the blood on the left side of the collar, is there any other blood once mikazuki does a more thorough check? are there any tears anywhere?

what does sylvain keep in his pockets.... i hope he just always has a condom on hand like a chad]

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[Actually I lied I'm sorry forget everything I said about the collar, the blood is around where his neck injuries would be.

But there is also blood on his left shoulder area and torso, re: clothes. No particular tears anywhere.

In his pockets, he has:

- Room key with a rubber keychain attached
- 5 tickets]

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[HELP that's ok i love u jan. did the blood pool on the back of the shirt collar at all like if someone was lying down or no

how many lights are on the room key?

also sylvain is so rich help me.]

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[It's not necessarily a lot of blood coming from the neck so hard to say one way or another.

There is one light!]

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[not that much blood..... from these neck cuts.... i see.

well then mikazuki will wave dimitri down to help him redress sylvain so that it doesn't icly take another hour.

though he will also pull from his sleeve a red camellia flower and tuck it behind sylvain's ear. good night, sweet slut.]

Until next we meet.