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WEEK FIVE: TRIAL

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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Guess I'm starting a collection ...

[ going to get the other book! is it also just chilling there. is anything on it. is it open or closed or anything weird about it.]

Congratulations on your growing library.

[ he will head off! and get the strip? anything else around here, or ahead? ]

[it is an open book! but when molly picks it up, he will see that there's kind of a circular dent in the cover of it. hua cheng can venture off and he will pick up a large strip of fabric. it looks a little worn. there's nothing around there, or ahead.]

[ picking that one up too - he'll note what page it was open to if he can? - and then adding it to his library. also taking a look around. any paths that go off anywhere else? Where's Aquarius ... ]

[ i misread that as a little worm and was like ????? woerm is here???

he will carefully pick it up so as not to disrupt any evidence. anything underneath it, or should he head back to molly and/or their chaperone? ]

[meanwhile i also misread and wondered if i had really typed little worm, so we're doing great.

anyway there's nothing under the fabric either, so he can wander back to molly. molly, meanwhile, will see it's a book about constellations? it's open to a random page though. there are other paths but there doesn't seem to be anything notable around them.

aquarius is sitting on the ground at the entrance still faceplanted into tanhua, but they look up at the two of them as they approach.]

...well? [what do you want to do now?]

[ oh. this is actually a good book, nevermind my book disparaging.

he'll wander back and look over at Hua Cheng. ]

Erm. Head back? Or could we swing by Housekeeping?

We could try housekeeping while we're out and about.

[ unless ??? will take us somewhere else but hc doesn't have the ability to lean on the fourth wall so. ]

Do you need help up, Aquarius? [ tanhua will lift his head, in case they want to get up, but he'll offer a hand down to them as he asks. ]

No. [it's debatable if the "no" is about housekeeping or about getting up, but tanhua gets a ruffle around the ears before aquarius gets to their feet. hua cheng does get a nod for the offer though and they extend a hand to open a shadow portal!

except when they enter through it, they are not in housekeeping. they are in the library. aquarius sort of pauses before sighing.]

Okay, well...sure. [they're going to whistle for tanhua so they can go sit out of the way and molly and hua cheng can look around!! because there's. a few things. just at a glance, they can see there are a few books on the floor. there's also a giant sword.]

Oh. Well. That works?

[ hm. well, going around to look at more books then? ]

Emet-Selch's?

[ THE GIANT SWORD. ]

[ white guy blinking gif ]

I see. [ tanhua obediently follows the whistle, moving to heel at aquarius' side and stay out of the way. hua cheng, meanwhile, looks at the goddamn sword. ]

I can carry this out one our way out, but I'll come back to it when we leave. [ molly can get books... he's going to put a pin in the sword to investigate in a moment, but goes a little past it to check, yk. other stuff first. what's the state of furniture/shelves? ]

[molly can look at more books! the books on the floor are very...varied.

-A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Great Tits
-The Demon Who Possessed My Dick
-Sexy Stories of Christmas
-Pounded in the Butt by Another, Smaller Butt.

one of the books is a little further away from the others, leading deep into the library. as they're looking at the sword, they will see that there appear to be drag marks on the ground that go deeper into the library. as hua cheng wanders further, he will soon come across a problem.

that problem is that there's a fallen bookshelf that has a little bit of blood on it that he can see from where he's standing.]

Edited 2022-07-16 23:49 (UTC)

[ HELP THIS IS SO MANY BOOKS. looking over at them, how are they ... laying ... just on the floor in random spots? do they look thrown or just dropped. Do any of them have anything on them? ]

[ helLO these books and, also, the fucking shelf.

is it blocking the way of anything? or is it just fallen down? if hua cheng checks it, is the corner bloody or is just a random noncommittal mumbling spot of it bloodied? ]

[they're just kind of scattered on the floor like they were dropped. when molly looks, he will notice nothing unusual about most of them, but on the one separated from the group (A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Great Tits) there appears to be a splash and some smeared marks of blood on the cover.

meanwhile with this shelf, hua cheng will check and see that there's blood on the edge along with a single white hair. in addition, there seems to be some blood coming from under the shelf itself. the drag marks on the floor seem to stop around here as well.]

[ he wants to see if theres tits in the book but there's work to be done ...

Is there anything else around here? On the table or by the soda machine? Anymore loose unsorted books?]

[ he will take this hair very carefully, and then kind of just. see how much blood is around the bottom? if he shifts the shelf any, is it a discernable shape or quantity? ]

Think Emet-Selch getting brained happen on this shelf. We'll have to double check the head injury.

[there's nothing around the soda machine, but if molly is moving into the library where hua cheng is (presumably, since he's talking to him), he will see there are three books on the desk nearby the downed shelf. there is some blood on the top book and the desk itself. terrible.

hua cheng can lift the shelf and ooh boy. there's a bunch of blood! there is so much blood under this shelf, even just from glancing at it. so that's fun!]

Who the absolute fuck is doing this much Thursday night reading.

[ Oh. Uh, yikes? He'll note the books and the desk and come over to help with the shelf though - he can't exactly lift it but he can look under while Hua Cheng is holding it? What's going on. ]

Depends on the book. This is too many, though.

[ he'll move the shelf as carefully as possible, trying to like - pivot it on one corner so that he doesn't fuck up the blood party going on right now, mostly so that molly can check it out and get a look at it while he gets it out of the way. ]

[yeah under the shelf there is just a Lot of Blood. it's pretty messy! books have fallen out of the shelf since it was knocked over, etc. enjoy your blood. there's nothing else of note here.]

It's just bloody. Do you want me to taste that too?

[ he looks so exhausted as he makes this joke. Anyway, standing up, then? ]

See anything else? Guess we should grab that sword.

I don't want Aquila or Lup to come down on our heads to letting you eat more evidence.

[ it's a joke but also not. anyways, he eases the shelf down. if none of the books are of interest he's just going to leave shit there and go to investigate the sword and area around it.

can he heft it up, pull it out, move it, whatever - or does he have to jimmy it back and forth to free it from where it is? ]

[the sword's actually just resting there. hua cheng can pick it up and do whatever the hell he wants with it.

aquarius, meanwhile, is watching all of this.]

...can we go? [you have one more tag round if you'd like to look at anything else!]

[ going to get all these damned books ]

Okay, okay already.

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