bellelurette | 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 ))

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I'll continue this myself.

Unless you'd like to... hop, or something, in the direction of the next thing you'd like to discuss.

[ gazes at her...

how do you want him to hop to something. there is interest here but the forgginess. how do you communicate. ]

[She stares right back...

Until it dawns on her that she is, in fact, having a staring match with a frog, and she turns away.]

Forget it.

[ time shenanigans as he's no longer a forg now. ]

....well, that was an experience. I wonder if this will help explain something or if we can just see it as a distraction.

[ you know, the presence of a wood frog and all. ]

Glad you could rejoin us.

[Literally it is not his fault.]

It was with the hat? If things started in the theater, then it might have been dropped.

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?

Two of them?

[Huh?]

Only one hat was found.

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

But what even use those for?

[ about that... ]

Break seems to have a few ideas of what someone could use the bells for.

[ At the mention of another hat, something seems to come to Richard. He starts patting himself down for a second and materializes... lo and behold, a second jester hat with missing bells. ]

My apologies! I seemed to have omitted something in all of the excitement. I think that should have all the bells accounted for, then?

[ guys i missed that there were two hats. I'm so fucking sorry lmfao ]

Edited 2025-03-15 20:02 (UTC)