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

[antemeridian]

... If they then scattered the glass fragments in with the rest of the shards somewhere already, we would have no way to tell, would we?

I think... of the places where glass was found, I recall that only the ones in the promenade had mention of blood being found on them?

[oncefallen]

Yes. And it was only droplets of blood, not anything substantial.

[distain]

There was blood on the bottom of the sollerets, but no real blood trails either.

But the wound might have been too uniform for glass. It's quite thin at entry; about the width of a finger, I'd say. [Now that I have asked the mods...]

[antemeridian]

Mmm. If it was glass, then in essence, we are led to believe that our culprit might be quite methodical ... or at least had a lot of time afterwards to arrange things into a way they might like.

[ was this premeditated or a crime of passion? they never did come to a decisive conclusion on that, did they? ]

Between the descriptions of how those in the theater woke up to rather deliberately staged scenes— [ explain the candles and dolls. ] —and the effort involved in thinking to use glass as their weapon, and then disguising it in the rest of the evidence found...

[ she trails off. ]

... Is that not a personality trait we might be able to add to our current profile, actually?

[ "would set up weird ritual circles with dolls and candles in the theater," either for realzies or as a joke or something. ]