TRIAL II

[lesmodsalouette]

Trial

At least this time you were given ample time to wreck your sleep schedule before the clocks gong at midnight (no apologies for such little sleep in the first place withstanding). The carnival looks just as you remember it, with the banquet and drinks refreshed. The spread is the same as before with two new additions: a platter of cute cupcakes that might remind you of someone, along with baozi of all types.

Like before, mind the pit in the middle and settle in to vote out the guilty party for the death of Siobhan "Shiv" Roy. With the benefit of experience, maybe this will be a little bit easier? With the mood weather lifted, there won't be any floods at trial at least.

(( 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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[remainsilent]

[ some people can do both ]

[allrounder]

She was... rather fiery, as an individual. I could picture that occurring, though I must add that I did not know her particularly well beyond sharing quarters.

[snakeblood]

[baebladie]

[ help ]

[diel]

I have them on loan. I know they can't stay.

[distain]

To you, if you're the one telling people to throw in your name.

[But she thinks a little longer, her voice turning closer to the far-off contemplation he would have heard in the observatory before.]

Do you think they'd resent you for sacrificing your life just for their sake?

[This is a distraction, though, so she'll get back to the mystery at hand quickly enough.]

[diel]

Well, maybe!

[ is chara enjoying the show? ]

[baebladie]

We spoke on occasion. I did get the feeling she would be unafraid to be particularly wrathful if provoked.

[coldseep]

... So why would you say you'd "protect" me, when you still view me as a foremost threat? When your friendship and affection is purely conditional?

( He thought this was an interesting paradox when Cain said he'd protect him before, but he's only commenting on it now. )

Cain. You've accused me of some number of things. But, please understand... I did everything I could not to harm you and yours. I told you that, but you left that out of your story.

And... The one who has taken someone from me is you and yours. You left that out too. Right?

( His eyes wet, despite himself. Composure, composure - but the grief is too recent. It's hard to keep the tears from flowing. )

All of you drove Balthazar into that corner. I will never see him again. I will never find someone like him again. Balthazar is dead, and he would not be if not because of all of you. If not because I valued you all as Akira's friends, and faltered to protect him the way I should've.

Aren't I the one who should view you and Bradley as a threat? You, who would kill me if I would only give you an excuse?

You, who has already taken away someone I love?

Come on. Let's be fair.

[simulacres]

But who would be the desperate party. The killer or Siobhan?

[distain]

Are we really that unlucky? Hah...

[The laugh implies that she could believe it.]

[fourtuity]

[diel]

[ THANK YOU it's a water lily thing, y'know how it be ]

[uiscebeatha]

[ ...

He presses the heel of his palm over the (imagined, perhaps) prick in his left eye, feigning a headache. Shut up, this isn't your business. ]

[simulacres]

So you think... that she went to get revenge on her killer and ended up getting killed instead?

[the_obedient_servant]

[They hold up their hands wordlessly. Free of injury.]

[allrounder]

[ she kind of scared him a little....... ]

[coldseep]

( ah... )

Clover?

[spotsalone]

Then it's likely that whoever set the fire either hadn't been planning to involve so many people... or seized an opportunity. I would hope it's not the latter.

[calamitish]

You should be grateful you got to go in there once already.

[ though it seems like he's considering it, even if it's only for a moment. ]

Fighting isn't my idea of fun, unfortunately. If you want to play with me, it'll have to be a different way.

[the_obedient_servant]

I don't believe in luck.

Mine is simply a cursed existence - that is by design.

[coldseep]

( no let him cook )

[whileaway]

Well, they wouldn't have been a killer yet, would they? Only attempting to murder around eleven people in the library at that point.

[He's going to hum, and gesture over at where Vanis and Homura are talking about the lantern]

She died in the hedge maze, and there's the shattered lantern on the stairs. Maybe the killer held the lantern and dropped it while on the stairs. If Siobhan was chasing them, they got her to follow into the maze where they managed to get behind her and stab her?

[baebladie]

I believe it is possible.

[lesmodsalouette]

[ It is! ]