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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[fourtuity]

[ That's the question, isn't it? What value this has for her now. ]

...I want to keep it. I was really happy when you gave it to me.

[dumbface]

[ ...it makes him happy to hear that, too. being able to protect someone when he wants to—that's a precious thing. while he can't say exactly why he was compelled to try to protect clover, even if as indirectly as trying to provide her something she could protect herself with, he can say that it felt important.

he smiles, and this time it's a pretty obvious expression. ]

I hope it protects you. [ given sousuke bringing a gun and gunpowder to trial, though... a bedpost won't do much. ]

[fourtuity]

[ Simple as it is, the gesture is one that stuck with her. Chu Wenshan's one of the most straightforward people she's met here—even baffled over the how (where the heck did that come from), she intuitively got the why. But that later niggling feeling of paranoia in her mind wouldn't let her take that why at face value.

Maybe she still shouldn't.

But if she's acting on her current emotions, on the sight of his smile, then fuck it. Whatever the motivation, she's keeping it simply because it made her happy. Full stop. ]

...I'll carry it around more this time.

[ That's probably all this unsmiling girl can do for this smiling man here, ignoring how their expressions should be reversed. ]