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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[safetycheck]

Present at the library, you mean?

[ Hang on. ]

Scarlet mentioned there were scorch marks that were identical in nature, from the banquet hall to the solarium, right? What if those were caused by lightning strikes?

[divineth]

Ah, I now understand what thou meant.

[With a nod,]

The storm may have very well persisted throughout the altercation.

[baebladie]

It certainly may have.

[ Since this seems to be a consistent pattern.. ]

[safetycheck]

[ ... ]

Yeah. Someone was definitely angry.

[caporegrimme]

...that'd make sense. It'd be likelier than someone dragging something and getting a perfectly identical mark every time.

[Scarlet can't believe he's taking a magical thunderstorm as a likelier scenario than the grounded, logical explanation]

[safetycheck]

Right. I thought maybe the lantern could have set fire to the library, but there wasn't any glass reported to have been found there...so now, I'm more inclined to believe that the fire was caused by lightning.

And that very well could have been accidental.

[littlegentleman]

But if it was an accident...why barricade us in?

[safetycheck]

The barricade could have been a means to keep us from escaping before the fire started.

[antemeridian]

But what does that do to the timeline of events suggested earlier?

[ that a fire set closer to the beginning of an altercation would have been a lot worse for them in the library? ]

[safetycheck]

[ ...

She looks like she has nothing to say to that, because she isn't sure. She makes a confused sound, like she can't quite figure out the answer to that, either.

(AND, AGAIN, I MAY BE STUPID.) ]