WEEK SIX: TRIAL

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W̴͍̎E̴̝̊E̸͚͝K̸͕̿ SIX: 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:

MAIN MEETING HALL (VILLAGE)
Should anyone venture inside, they'll find a number of long benches set up against the walls. At the head of the building are two chairs, a sun and a moon carved into the back of each. The area in the center is wide open, allowing plenty of space to move around and while decor is lacking, hanging from the walls are several blank scrolls. There's also a large (blank) scroll above the two chairs in the back.

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 seventh 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

[unbested]

[ yes, unlike SOME people

okay. is the ice cream trailing over to where yuri is? is there a starting point for the ketchup and mustard and stuff that he can see anywhere/can he actually kind of follow this mess or is it just A Mess ]

[ashenvaliant]

[ well. so molly has something to put in his mouth later, yuri will grab a napkin from the coffee counter and scoop up some of the flakey brown bits and also the coloured bits from the

CREAMY WHITE STUFF

and hold it awkwardly i guess, he isn't putting that in his pocket.

but. hm. ok. he can see it rising against his boots. ]

Sebastian... does it look like the white stuff is becoming... more?

[ is there the sound of a machine whirring nearby? this is, of course, totally inaccurate to real life and very unfair. the mcblurry machines would never work this long without breaking. ]

[guestservices]

[There's no clear pattern to follow in the mess, it is just a Mess. But it doesn't seem to originate where Yuri is, at least. In fact, the volume of CREAMY WHITE STUFF is increasing from the other side of the room...? Which is also where there may be a whirring sound.]

[unbested]

Huh?

[ oh god ]

Oh jeez, did someone leave the ice cream machine on or something???

[ squints at wherever that whirring sound is coming from and points ]

I think it's coming from over there?

[ashenvaliant]

Oh is that what it is?

[ i hope it's a murder machine honestly. ]

Let's go check it out, but be careful you don't slip in this stuff.

[ let's go find the source of the CREAMY WHITE STUFF. ]

[guestservices]

[As they head over to the burger & co. counter, they will notice that the C̸̲̩̩̩̞̆̈́͐͛R̴̨̥͇̠͙̉͒̈́͠É̸͙̱̮͔̱̰͚͛̋̽͐̅̂A̷̫̼͆̒̓M̸̛͔͓̻̮͍͙̖̋́̔̿Ỹ̷͇̃͐͗ ̸̼̼̆̋̌̈́͋̂͝W̸̘̝̬̎H̴͎̳̫̳̖̙͊I̵̬̜̬͍͈̼͑̈́̈́̾̂̇͆T̴̲̫̳͓̬̳͍̆̈́͗͘E̶̛͍̗͇͕̕͝ ̴̟͙͋͛̈́̈́́͑̒S̵̗͔͈͖̍̓T̶̩̖̗͉̰̟̝̉̎Ư̶̩͖̫͇͊͋̄́̚͜F̸̠͍͌͒͝F̴͇́́̔̚ is looking a bit more like a... creamy pink swirly?

Anyhow, nothing immediately stands out about the counter itself beyond more condiment and ice cream messes, but the noise seems to be coming from behind it.]

[unbested]

[ closes my eyes

he gets up carefully and puts forth his Best Effort to not slip and fall in this shit, and heads over to the counter with yuri... and just gets this look of horror and dread when he sees the pink ]

Ohhhhhhh no.......

O-or maybe it's just... strawberry syrup...?

[ashenvaliant]

[ also closes my eyes. i make my promise in front of the mods and everyone, if yjh's body is in the mcflurry machine i will throttle hei in person. ]

... I'm not going to coddle you and lie about it, Sebastian. We both know what that probably is.

[ ... c'mon big guy. he'll go ahead, and around the counter. what are they looking at here. ]

[guestservices]

[Behind the counter, there are Happy Meal boxes resting on top of napkins, more red and yellow streaks everywhere, and... an ice cream machine! Chugging out ice cream nonstop, which might have to do with the fact that it looks broken, what with the prominent slash across it.]

[unbested]

[ well since yuri isn't immediately reacting like he found a body (presumably???) he will peek around there too

MAYBE IT'S JUST KETCHUP ICE CREAM?????? ]

Nnngghhh... I don't see a lever or anything to turn it off...

[ashenvaliant]

There's no plug to pull?

[ hmm. anything else around the machine? is there anything notable about the slash mark -- is it wide or thin, which direction is it angled? ]

[guestservices]

[There might be a plug or something, but there doesn't seem to be anything of note by the machine besides the ice cream. The slash mark is of a [mumbles] angle, and while the slash is relatively long, it's not hugely wide or thin.]

[unbested]

O-oh, yeah, I guess there should be one of those...

[ he will... carefully go behind the counter and look for a plug, i guess?? ]

[ashenvaliant]

[ sebastian can go and pull the plug, yuri will do a slow circle of the machine and nearby area, looking for anything that might look odd?

LIKE A CORPSE? IN THE MACHINE?? :Stressed: ]

[guestservices]

[Sebastian may pull the plug. The ice cream machine stops chugging out ice cream.

Nothing of note in the machine's vicinity!]

[unbested]

[ SIGH OF RELIEF EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING IS STILL OMINOUS AND BAD at least it's less stressful when they're not getting flooded by death ice cream ]

O-okay... um...

[ exactly how much pink is in it at this point?? and DOES NOTHING IN THE MACHINE'S VICINITY MEAN NOTHING INSIDE IT??? idek how much room there is inside an ice cream machine

is there like... anything notable about the ice cream on the floor back here? any... lumps under it... or places with more pink... ]

[ashenvaliant]

[ i just think that would've been a great way to die on investigation.

anyway. now they're not going to drown in ice cream-- ]

So we have a broken machine. Slash mark, quite long.

[ ... can he clamber up on the counter and try to force the top open to see the area where the ice cream would be? partially because holy crap how much ice cream does this thing hold, and obviously because the pink in the pink ice cream had to come from somewhere in the machine... right? :( ]

[guestservices]

[I'm making the executive decision that ice cream machines are not large enough to hold a corpse unless we're talking about Pikachu here. Sure, Yuri can open it up, but there's nothing inside that suggest that it'd be causing pink. In fact, all of the new ice cream that it'd been chugging out pre-pulling the plug was white!

There are no lumps on the floor besides more of the candy toppings, but the pink does seem to intensify in the area where the Happy Meal boxes rest on a counter.]

[unbested]

[ oh is the ice cream safe... i'm gonna go get a mcflurry after this tag then

but okay i guess we're checking out this UNHAPPY MEAL then... he will... very anxiously nudge some of the boxes with his baton to try to identify the source of The Pink ]

I-I think it's actually, um... coming from over here, maybe...?

[ashenvaliant]

From the boxes?

[ he'll hop down off the counter. and then he'll help nudge some of these unhappy meal boxes around with sebastian. carefully and gingerly though. ]

[guestservices]

[I should clarify that, like, the pink swirly isn't growing or anything. It's more like in various areas on the floor, and by now, it's been overshadowed by all the white.

Anyhow, Sebastian and Yuri can nudge the boxes away, albeit with some difficulty. Careful, though—the boxes also have the red and yellow streaks on them.

From under one box now that they've nudged it an inch or so away, they will see red peeking from the center of the napkin underneath.]

[unbested]

[ me tagging from the mcdonald's drive thru ]

Nnngghh...

[ nudges the napkin to see what's under there... ]

[ashenvaliant]

[ help be like britt and get hot fudge in your mc*lurry. ]

...

[ look at sebastian go! yuri will try and nudge the box a little more. what's under the boxies? ]

[guestservices]

[Yuri can continue to nudge the closed box with some difficulty, and Sebastian can nudge the napkin, but there is nothing underneath]

[unbested]

[ god was i supposed to ask what the red on the napkin was instead of looking under it, SORRY FOR MY POOR DRIVE THRU INVESTIGATION SKILLS

what is the red on the napkin, is it blood? does it look like any of the boxes are leaking blood?? ]

M-maybe we should... look inside that box...?

[ since it seems to be WEIRDLY HEAVY according to this text ]