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ℬ𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓁𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒 ℳ𝑜𝒹𝓈 ([personal profile] lesmodsalouette) wrote in [community profile] bellelurette2025-03-15 10:22 am

TRIAL I

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 ))
divineth: (🌒 2)

[personal profile] divineth 2025-03-15 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[This as well.]

The original reason for testing the frog was to see if it had been used during the night, which does not seem to be the case. I do not believe a count of everyone's gifts is in order quite yet.
cleansheets: (45 anger; serious)

[personal profile] cleansheets 2025-03-15 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
If we're going to automatically cast suspicion on everyone who did not deign to bare their soul for complete strangers because they now don't own novelty trinkets... Then we're bigger clowns than even our rat bastard host.
divineth: (🌒 54)

[personal profile] divineth 2025-03-15 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[A bit crude, but...]

'Twould be a jump in logic given what we have learned of the case thus far, I do agree.
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[personal profile] whileaway 2025-03-15 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
There could have been theft as well, or an unrelated item passed off as a "gift." It would be too easy to potentially fake.