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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EMET-SELCH

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[By Emet-Selch's guest page is a letter, with shadowy letters writing themselves out before your eyes whenever you look at it. You get the sense that these are the sentiments the victim would've wanted to leave behind.

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Vax’ildan-
I am sorry. I meant to live for both our sakes, I truly did. I was confident that I could, but I suppose that was, in some degree… misplaced. A galling thing, to tell you the truth.

…it has been easy, in circumstances such as these, to miss you and the others. To feel somewhat isolated around all those who arrived here with people they could trust. I am well aware you would tell me to make friends, then, genius, but you know I have never been good at this. I wish you were with me. I wish you were far, far away from here. But people like ourselves are not so easily restricted by death if it should come, are we?

I will not say ‘if I see you again’; there is no other option. I love you. I will still save you, somehow.

Hythlodaeus-
You are hardly going to believe this tale, either, but… I think that I shall leave this part out, for your sake. I hope you are well, in my absence, and that someone is keeping an eye on Azem (no, watching them as they cause trouble is not ‘keeping an eye on them’, do not start with me.)

I will return to you as well, love, I promise you.

Azem-
If I return to find you’re a step away from censure once again, I assure you, I have gained familiarity with the concept of murder and I shall introduce you to it.

Lup-
…I do not know what to say, I think. I am not certain I ever have; I do not think I have been there for you in the ways I would have liked to be. Mayhap he was simply better at it, but I wished to know you as myself, not only as the Emet-Selch you knew. You are the only one who ever said there was anything redeemable in him– in me, eventually– however, and I will not easily forget it.

Thank you. I am sorry; I promise you I have tried. But it is a relief to know that he knows someone such as yourself.

Estelle-
Take care of yourself, foremost. I know you are capable, but I do not wish to meet again through your death. Your presence has always been a soothing one, and I am sure this is so for others.

Leave flowers, if you would– mayhap by now I shall recognize them.]