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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EXAMINE EVIDENCE

[lesmodsalouette]

[ reply here if you'd like to examine any piece of evidence further! the body was automatically transferred here by ish, so get your body touching if you desire. ]

Dan Heng's clothing

[remainsilent]

[ He's bringing his moist and bloody clothing, bring careful not to fuck it up any further than when he removed it.

Does it look like blood spray pattern or drip drop blood? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ It looks like small splashes! The momentum of the pattern is upwards rather than downwards. ]

blade clothing

[baebladie]

[ same for the moist/bloody clothing he brought? ]

Glass shards

[oncefallen]

[Hi hello he's here to check whether the shards of glass in Tiamat's hands match the mirror shards he brought with him!]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The glass fragments in her hands are too small to make any decisive judgements, but it's a plausible match! ]

Wooden frog

[oncefallen]

[He's back again, this time to compare wooden frogs! Is the one Saber found a match to the one he has?]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ It's a match! ]

Bells

[vivens]

[ hullo sabo is here to compare the bells found in the theater to the bell found in the observatory! do they match?

also, do they look like the bells that were on the jester hat? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The bells from the different locations are the same type!

You have no frame of reference for whether or not they belong on the hats, because the hats are tragically bell-free... Unless someone has passionately been wearing the clown suits and remembers?? ]

[vivens]

[ interesting...

can sabo now tell if the flattened/dented bell could have been due to something hitting it or due to someone standing on it? ie. if its a more even/wide dent vs a more concentrated dent. ]

jester hat

[vivens]

[ hello now that sabo is not a frog....

if he looks at the jester hat, can he tell how bells were on the hat? you know, if there were notable holes or whatever from threads being cut or something. ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ The hats have tips that bells would normally attach to. There's three tips per hat! ]

[vivens]

[ CLOWN TO CLOWN COMMUNICATION!? ]

cutting clothes with mirror shards

[spotsalone]

[ If Hickey uses a mirror shard on Tiamat's clothing, would it produce a cut similar to the cuts already in the clothing? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[How big is the mirror shard he's using?]

[spotsalone]

[ Big enough to fit comfortably in his hand, knife-like. He'll wrap his sleeve around it to avoid cutting himself. ]

Sollerets

[divineth]

[Hello! Urianger is here to examine that stain underneath the sollerets. Is there anything he can discern from it? He knows there's apparently a metallic taste, but what are the colors and textures going on here?]

Re: Sollerets

[lesmodsalouette]

[It’s a pretty faint stain, sort of brownish-colored on the metal and crusted there.

He’ll probably also notice the other grainy light-colored stuff stuck to the sole.]

body

[coldseep]

( is something that could be a prize on tiamat's body? sad item check for the dead pls )

[lesmodsalouette]

[He’ll find her suite key, but nothing else.]

stab wound

[distain]

[You know what before I go too far down blade check, can we get an approximate width of the stab wound in Tiamat's shoulder region? Too thin for a sword? A close match to the rapier? Etc.]

[lesmodsalouette]

[It looks to be around the width of a finger (average size) at the entry point.]

Candles

[allrounder]

[ Do those candles found in the theater and the promenade have any scent or is the wax odorless? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ the candles are odorless. ]