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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[siffriend]

Fights aren't helpful.

[ Standing a little straighter, oddly present for someone who's normally so... quiet and background character. ]

Don't taunt someone about their past. You find a different approach.

[spotsalone]

He taunted me first.

[ HE'S TELLING MOM. ]

[siffriend]

[ PLEASE hickey. ]

And you let yourself be riled up. [ ... Quieter: ] It only takes a single vote to frame someone. If we split it evenly, and someone doesn't like your attitude... then they could put theirs in, and you'd be considered guilty.

[ That's how Siffrin's looking at this, too. Making sure to get along with others. Not causing too much of a fuss. Easy processes, both because they have nothing to hide right now and so they aren't seen as a potential to turn on. ]

[thesharpestroy]

...Siffrin's making sense. Without a culprit, we could use some preventive measures to get rid of a problem.

Maybe you should leave your interrogation tactics on that rotting ship you came from, Captain.

[spotsalone]

[ He's all ready to fire back, but then she addresses him as captain. He simmers down a bit. ]

Seems to me that I'm not the problem you're citing, miss. I didn't throw hands just now over mere words. An unchecked temper is dangerous.

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[thesharpestroy]

[Oh! She was being sarcastic, but she'll let him take it as genuine if it gets him to calm down.]

I'm not supporting violence. But you did blunder straight into that one by talking shit, so...little warning.

And yeah, twenty-first-century update: grown men asking about teenage escorts is all kinds of fucked up.

[Maybe Shiv shouldn't be the arbiter of how grown men should behave around women and children given the shit going on at Waystar Royco, but they don't know that about her.]

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[cleansheets]

[ Angelo breathes out harshly through his nose in the background, as if to say 'and since when did anyone care about that?' but he's not going to say anything because he doesn't disagree that it's messed up. ]

[spotsalone]

[ He shrugs. He has no idea how old Angelo is. ]

Where I come from, it's just as rude to put a man down for what he's worth.

[spotsalone]

[ He scoffs. ]

If this lot wants to condemn me to death for my attitude while allowing a murderer to roam free, then all hope's already lost.

[ ...But he doesn't argue further. Perhaps he sees the value in putting this tiff aside to focus on the trial at hand. In any case, he goes to grab a napkin from the refreshments table to clean himself up a bit. Now he's got a bloody nose. :( ]