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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[distain]

Quick thinking. We're on the same page.

Here. [She hands the bell over and into...evidence.] Let's see. Were the fasteners cut?

[vivens]

[ after comparing them— ]

They do appear to be the same bells, but there's not easy way to tell if they belonged to the jester hat. I didn't spend too much looking at them myself...

[ if anyone wants to confess to clown crimes now is the time. ]

MODS

[oncefallen]

[Surprise, Vanis is going to be trying to use that frog Saber found in the theater on Sabo--]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ There is a vague plopping sound, so quiet you feel like you might not even have heard it.

And then Sabo is gone.

And a frog is on the floor, where he had just stood. ]

1/

[fourtuity]

Oh, cute!

2/2

[fourtuity]

Wait, does this make him the Frog Prince!?

[vivens]

[ SOMEONE GIVE HIM A PAPER CROWN AND MAYBE. ]

[oncefallen]

... ah. It would seem the theater frog was unused.

[divineth]

[SO IT WOULD SEEM. HOWEVER.]

...Thou shouldst have first asked for Sabo's permission.

[vivens]

[ ribbit. ]

[oncefallen]

While that's true, he might have said no. This was the fastest way to allow us to keep making progress on solving Miss Tiamat's murder.

[antemeridian]

... Well.

[ that sure is a frog, ]

Perhaps the next thing we should do is to see if anyone is not in possession of whatever gift the snakes might have brought them?

[ though it could have just been Tiamat's... ]

[ocenon]

[ lmaoooooooooo get frogged, sabo. ]

The question now is why it was left there, unused, in the first place. Hiding it amongst other props in order to spring some sort of trap, perhaps?

[simulacres]

SABO?!

[ OH MY GOD SHE IS RUSHING TO PICK HIM UP ]

[vivens]

[ hello ayaka. ]

[baebladie]

[ It's now really become a circus, fam. ]

[vivens]

[ all someone needs to do is give him a little jester hat for full clownery. ]

[vivens]

[ ...

OKAY BUT LIKE. CAN HE TALK WHILE HE'S LIKE THIS? REAL QUESTION. ]

[distain]

[THEY WERE HAVING A CONVERSATION?]

[lesmodsalouette]

[ You no longer have the vocal chords that would allow you to speak human language... but you can ribbit really loudly, if it helps. ]

[smdr]

[ wow. maybe if all trials were like this, she wouldn't mind getting caught by the cops. ]

Petition to keep him like this.

[vivens]

[ croaks in her direction??

hello??? like. funny but also?? ]

[divineth]

It would be preferable to not lose an hour of Sabo's presence.

[He might have valuable things to say??]

[arbalestrier]

[Sousuke just stands here staring at Sabo!frog, his worldview completely shattered. Or at least wondering if he's been drugged and is now hallucinating.]

[vivens]

[ ribbits at him from the ground. ]