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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Comments

[vivens]

While motive is important, I wonder if we should try to understand the logic of things.

[ and despite homura bringing up a very good point here, there is something that has been bothering him. ]

What I still can't understand is how the theater remained free of blood throughout this entire encounter. Blood was found in the promenade and observatory, but none in the theater, however you cannot get from the promenade to the observatory without going through the theater.

[ distressed naru noises. ]

[antemeridian]

[ their two points actually dovetail neatly because if the theater was seeing as much foot traffic as it apparently was on murder night, why is there no blood anywhere in it. ]

[vivens]

[ petition to kill sabo next week so that he (i, naru) no longer has to think about these things. ]

This is becoming rather confusing, isn't it?

[perfectpower]

The blood could've been put there later to trick us maybe. If it don't make sense, then it don't make sense.

[vivens]

Deciding on that just leaves us open to more questions.

If it was planted there later, then how would the blood be intentionally planted? It would require some sort of object or vessel to move it or complete, right? But we haven't found anything, so far, that would accomplish this.

[ hmmm. ]

Unless there is another idea?

[dumbface]

Couldn't someone have just wrapped the wound or something? [ assuming there was enough blood someone would need to bandage themselves anyway, he is not following like half of this. ]

[vivens]

Perhaps.

But given how little was disturbed compared to the other two locations in terms of their scope, it's still strange.