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

Comments

[outsidebones]

[how many swords shorter.

no jk she will do her best to take down more precise measurements using her sword to measure but i'm leaving the grave mind palace.

...if they dig it up, will they find anything?]

[overruns]

[ dimitri is just here to be manual labor and i guess will help dig wherever harrow indicates. but there's also trees in the cemetery, right? he'll check those and see if there's anything in the branches, and also just the grass in general. ]

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[comparing like that she will get the sense that if dimitri and the body that once lay in this grave stood toe to toe the top of the grave body's head would come to a little bit above dimitri's ears but below the top of dimitri's head.

digging, they find nothing but more dirt. there is also nothing in the tree branches or in the grass in the cemetery.]

[outsidebones]

I think we may be finished here, yes?

[she will glance at virgo for confirmation?]

[overruns]

Hm... I suppose.

[ he's going to check the cemetery side of the gates, but besides that he's got nothing. ]

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[virgo wandered off somewhere! they'll need to call for them to come back.

there is nothing on the cemetery side of the gates.

anyway, unless you're about to come back at me with ACTUALLY I THOUGHT OF SOMETHING ELSE TO CHECK, when they call for virgo, virgo will come running back from somewhere off in the distance and open a shadow portal to get them back to trial]

[outsidebones]

[well NOW I WANT TO CHECK THE AREA VIRGO WANDERED OFF TO. is there anything there.]

[overruns]

[ WANDERS WITH? he'll check the path there to see if there's anything on the way. ]

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[they came from the direction of the mausoleums! there's no disturbed earth in this area - nothing to dig up.]

[outsidebones]

[that doesn't mean there's nothing. god. i want to head back but im so afraid now. checks the mausoleums so thoroughly from top to bottom and also opens them up and checks inside??? god.]

[overruns]

[ we're out here speedrunning help

he'll check the mausoleums themselves, like what they look like outside and if there's any damage to them? tracks? blood? a message in the dirt with a killer's name? ]

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[i'm not sure how harrow is checking the top of these mausoleums, since many of them are freestanding ones you can just walk straight into. like so. outside, they look pretty okay! no damage done to them, no tracks, no blood, no signed confessions in the dirt.

inside the second one they check, harrow will find several broken pieces of wood.]

[outsidebones]

[obviously she's telling dimitri to climb them? god. okay. i'm glad this really was britt flagging and not me wasting time. she takes the pieces of wood, and checks inside all of them to be safe.]

[overruns]

[ OKAY... i guess he's climbing these a little to see if anything got thrown on top? ]

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[HELP HE'S ACTUALLY SCALING THE WALLS?




anyway there's nothing in any of the other mausoleums and nothing on the tops of them, either.]

[outsidebones]

Dimitri, why are you climbing up there? We need to get back.

[anyway, time to get back?]

[overruns]

[ CAN'T STAND IT HERE

he doesn't say that, though. ]

Ah, yes. Are we finished now?

[ virgo our portal help it's 6pm ]

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...if you believe you are finished, I will take you back.

[since virgo running back is what prompted harrow to go check the mausoleums i guess they were just by the cemetery gates waiting again??

imagine if they were like, no, fuck you, i'm tired of trial and i'm burying you both.




they don't do that. they open a portal and take them back, instead.]