TRIAL I

[lesmodsalouette]

Trial

Today is going to be a loooong day. You knew that pretty shortly after waking up, didn't you? On the plus side, it means you've had some time to process the death of one of your own, or leisure time at the very least. But come midnight, the clocks in the castle all strike out in unison again. This time though, you barely have time to clutch your head before you're transported elsewhere.

Yes, you're coming in your pajamas if you were already in bed.

The place where you find yourself is obviously not the castle, that much is obvious from an immediate look alone. The look is very circus fair meets hell, minus any actual fire (for now). The walls, the lighting, the atmosphere is different, reds and purples and exposed rock face all together with furniture that should belong in a courtroom, and a carnival, not a caldera. It's a stylistic choice, for sure.

Seating consists of various stools on the outer ring, the layout suggesting that the preferred way to conduct trial is to free mingle towards the center, unless you're partaking in food and refreshments. A veritable bounty of a spread is available for you to partake as you like. There's even an entire table's worth of chocolate, cut out in various animal shapes for you to enjoy. And yes, alcohol too, because a banquet without the finest wines isn't a feast at all.

Even with all the food there's plenty of space for all of you, but do be careful around the pit in the center of this room. How deep does it go? Where does it lead? There are other unanswered questions to answer, and you've been tasked with finding out who murdered Tia. The Witch of Ruin demands a show and unfortunately you are his captive actors. He presides over all of this from a balcony above, the best seat in the house.

(( OOC: Welcome to your first trial! You'll have 7 hours (until 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT) to vote one (1) person guilty of murder. As this is scapegoat style, a correct vote is not necessary. Please remember to vote unless otherwise discussed with the mods, as that is our AC for this game ))

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[antemeridian]

[ she's starting to think they're all going to need a diagram for this or something. suddenly she misses her holoprojector living room; it's so much easier to organize information in there... ]

Where is it that the bells were all found, again?

[divineth]

Thou hast every right to be angry with that man.

[Not that everyone else's feelings are invalid. He's just saying Ish deserves it.]

[diel]

Oh... I... Ah, just in case, but I think... we have to be careful about how we interpret the plaques. Not everything is there.

[ a couple of people have noted some skills are missing. ]

And what's there... isn't... completely accurate.

[vivens]

Thank you.

And yes, that does sound plausible. Each jester hat seems to have three bells [ NOW THAT I WENT AND EXAMINED IT. ] so it would explain why you found the one bell that you did.

[ ... ]

Unless there are others?

[fourtuity]

No, but if we find corn, we can probably make some.

[the_obedient_servant]

It's his preferred response even.

[allrounder]

It is certainly possible. Even so, I imagine she was also concerned for you more generally, especially if you had interacted more often.

[ he did catch that they roomed together, after all ]

[antline]

What's a ho?

[thesharpestroy]

Yeah, uh...that's probably why that little talk we had happened.

[Surely she wasn't crying because of authentic stress and sorrow.]

But a lot of this stuff feels more premeditated than a crime of passion would be.

[arbalestrier]

[His gaze gets really intense for some reason.]

...How did you know?

[caporegrimme]

I didn't notice anything off about my emotions.

[But that's only because Scarlet behaved with the same caution and longing and other emotions as normal, in his opinion. His opinion is wrong, they were all a little heightened]

[the_obedient_servant]

The quest for popcorn will continue until the enemy - our lack of popcorn - is eradicated.

[distain]

Two of them?

[Huh?]

Only one hat was found.

[uiscebeatha]

She isn't the only dragon here.

[ Isn't bothering to face people when he talks anymore there's just too much noise— ]

Why her and not the other one?

[antemeridian]

I have practice with controlling them, but...

[ love when you know something's affecting you and you can't do anything but to accept it. ]

[diel]

[ ayaka :(

she looks so stressed, he feels bad. never mind that he looks the same amount of stress. ]

So she'd defend herself. And it sounds like... she'd defend others, too.

[dumbface]

That's true. He even told me he lied when he said we were the only ones he brought here.

[vivens]

[ it would be beneficial if they did have some sort of diagram. ]

Five were found in the theater and one was found in the observatory. There was also broken mirror fragments near the entrance of the theater towards the hallway.

[divineth]

[He nods, not getting into their conversation more than necessary for the sake of Shiv's privacy.]

I would hear thy reasoning regarding the premeditation.

THIS TAG TOOK ME OUT

[distain]

Do you stick leaves in your hair for fun?

[diel]

[ a man so bratty, he defies magic ]

[simulacres]

So there's another hat out there that's missing its bells.

But what even use those for?

[vivens]

[ and here i was thinking i was misreading. ]

Then we're looking for another hat.

[oncefallen]

[Not such a mad thing to this fellow non-human.]

Humans do seem quite fragile to those of us who live much longer. Your lives are so short, and your bodies so delicate.

[...]

I wonder if she was actually the intended target at all.

[antemeridian]

Likely not. In his eyes he didn't play a direct hand in this, after all. That probably equates to relative innocence, in his view.

[ And also he already took their powers to avoid them being able to do anything to him anyway, so. Obviously he has a vested interest in self-preservation. ]