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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[cleansheets]

[ ............... don't just say that so casually. ]

[vivens]

[ places hand onto hand.... ]

I try not to start fights where there's no reason to. However, I know that the situation can take a turn rather quickly.

[dumbface]

[ a shrug and shake of his head, sorry!! ]

Lick it? [ someone licked the armor, right. surely that has to be right ]

[uiscebeatha]

Sure. Mind if I see?

[ Cain holds out a hand, not realizing she's taken off her gloves already. ]

[simulacres]

I keep telling you to STOP SAYING THAT! I DON'T CARE IF IT'S A JOKE OR NOT! STOP! SAYING! THAT!

[ she is PULLING on his STUPID RAT TAIL OF A BRAID ]

[dumbface]

[ help..... ]

[siffriend]

Maybe we should heat some stones for you at night.

[ But! A nod! Okay. ]

I'll be back.

[ The glass of wine'll be easy enough to get, but talking to Ish..... Give him a moment. ]

[thesharpestroy]

We don't have time for that even if we did. Would make our lives easier if we could, but fuck getting magic that'd actually be useful for solving this, apparently.

[antemeridian]

[ That is quite the thing to say in the middle of a murder trial, clownshoes or no clownshoes. ]

[coldseep]

( tbh he's glad that's not the case, that would've been too pitiful... )

Okay, then it just means that one of them had a wooden frog... I wonder why some people got those.

( Hmm. He feels like there's something here. He'll go bother Ish? )

[dumbface]

[ scratching his head... ]

Then I'm lost. What was all the stuff again?

[uiscebeatha]

[ He has no idea Junior is there, or has done this, sorry...

HICKEY HELP ]

[siffriend]

[ during the injury check, ]

Can I have some cigarettes? It's for Yoonhee.

[ For being a good guy and complying to his government assigned friend Siffrin. ]

[simulacres]

To get the DNA.

[antemeridian]

That's certainly one way of putting it.

[ not inaccurate, though. ]

[diel]

[ so this is friendship... ]

[thesharpestroy]

Yeah, I'm sure he is. Just kind of convenient that you can use commands on him like that.

[Her reaction to that does seem genuine, though, so Shiv doubts Ayaka would have done this despite admitting to killing someone a few days ago.]

[simulacres]

Unless someone here is a vampire, I don't think licking blood will help us.

[uiscebeatha]

Uh—

[ How does he explain that he hasn't seen anything?? ]

Sorry, my eyesight's not great. [ He holds out a hand. ] Could you come closer?

[divineth]

'Twas on the bottom of those sollerets, so 'tis also possible that they walked through the blood.

If it was blood at all. While metallic taste indicates blood, the texture seemeth odd for it.

[coldseep]

Do we find out if we were right or wrong?

[siffriend]

[ could this be.......... clown to clown communication? ]

[vivens]

[ closes my eyes. ]

Hardly anything is impossible. [ hmmm. ] You mean, two.

A clown posing as a witch and a clown who has decided to take the life of another.

cw more... underage prostitution...??? help

[spotsalone]

[ SIFFRIN TO THE RESCUE but alas, he's not going to save Angelo from a Hickey heckling. ]

An odd tack, to shame a man for the amount of coins in his purse—or were you selling your body for the joy of it?

[whileaway]

That doesn't sound like much of a drawback to having another person under your control-- unless there was a cost when you run out of 'magical energy'?