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!

N̸A̵V̴I̶G̶A̶T̴I̴O̸N̷.̷

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

Comments

[unsaid]

Indeed, indeed.

Though now I would like to begin a discussion on the matter of a case to use the item for.

In truth, I believe Sylvain Jose Gautier's to be the most complete at present in terms of evidence and timeline.

Should we use the item to determine important evidence for either Claude or Emet-Selch?

[wisterin]

Between those two, I would personally like to know more about Claude's.

[unsaid]

[well

mikazuki has no major qualms]

Very well, very well. I believe us equally uncertain about both cases, in particular what happened on the mountain - so I do not see anything amiss with choosing Claude's case with the item if we ought pick one.

[headmt]

I-- Want to know what happened to Claude as well.

[unsaid]

[a nod in agreement

and he'll just hold a hand out to molly, palm up]

I understand.

[ashenvaliant]

I have a personal bias, so you don't have to weigh my opinion. But you can probably guess whose case I want to know more about.

[unsaid]

Personal bias is all we have here. To pretend otherwise is folly.

[but he nods in understand regardless]

I am nonetheless grateful to receive your opinion.

[aono]

'Adjusts your focus for one case'... that sounds like it helps us with the clues for one case, maybe. Depending on what it does, it might give us answers for both. Since Sylvain's is more complete, if we use the item on either of the remaining two, then whatever's left will belong to the third person's case, yeah?

[unsaid]

It may, it may. And in truth, if that is the case, I will hope it will sort out what items belonged to Claude upon the mountain and what did not.

Regardless, we shall see once the item is delivered to us.

[battling]

I also want to know about Claude.

[unsaid]

I wonder if he would be pleased, to know of how deeply he was cared for.

[but he nods along easily at that]

[preowned]

[ he just looks at him. ]

[unsaid]

[holds a hand out?]

[evocationary]

[she... frowns, listening to everybody else, but.]

... Claude is fine. [she seems a little sad, though.]

[unsaid]

[it's week 5 we're all sad, lup

but mikazuki just remains patient, listening to all opinions evenly]

We will endeavor to solve both, certainly.

But if the item relates to a piece of evidence, it may be more helpful to know immediately which case it is tied to. [rather than going in blind and having to guess]

Let us continue moving forward.

[headmt]

[ oh. frowning at her frowning. ]

We'll keep working on them both.

[toesies]

... Hey.

[She will offer her hand? Lup. :(]

[mustbepurged]

[A sympathetic look from over here.]

We'll just have to keep working at it...

[overruns]

...For what it is worth, I do not think we should use the item on Sylvain's murder regardless.

[ he's trying to keep it together but this clearly hurts him a little to say ]

[outsidebones]

Why is that, Dimitri?

[unsaid]

[ . . . he will just place a hand upon his shoulder]

[ashenvaliant]

[ frown. ]

[toesies]

[... She looks at him with concern.]

[wisterin]

[ she comes over and holds out a hand to him. ]

[malewife]

[ Joonghyuk sees this and frowns.

Niah however will come over to bump his nose against Dimitri's hand. Why sad? ]