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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[oncefallen]

If whoever was carrying it was being pursued, it may have been the result of that.

[fourtuity]

So like, maybe they threw it at them and tried to use the darkness to their advantage?

[oncefallen]

No, because there was a trail of glass on the stairs.

[...]

That does puzzle me, though. Why would the lantern be on the landing and the trail of glass going down the stairs into the garden?

[antline]

Does the glass match the lantern?

[oncefallen]

Let me check.

[oncefallen]

[RETURNING]

Yes, it does match. We can assume that the glass is in fact from the lantern.

[fourtuity]

Hmmm... Okay, thanks for checking. Gotta rethink this then.

[antline]

So...was it thrown? Used? And then someone picked it up after it was broken?

Was the lantern...lit when it was broken?

[fourtuity]

I dunno... But if I'm picturing this right, then...the lantern got broken somehow, then whoever's holding it went up the stairs before dropping it.

The lantern was probably to see in the dark, but what broke it then? There wasn't like any weird projectiles around there, right? I think someone would've mentioned it by now.

[oncefallen]

That's the part I found the most odd-- there was nothing around the lantern. No blood, no signs of a struggle, nothing. All of the disturbance was to the gravel path in the gardens themselves.

[antemeridian]

Are there any dents or damages to the parts of the lantern that aren't the glass?

[ did it get banged against something? but what would it have been knocked against in that case? ]

[oncefallen]

The frame is slightly dented, though I don't know how much force it would require to cause that sort of damage. Would merely dropping it on the stairs be enough?

[antemeridian]

I could not say. I have not brought the one I used to see in the hedge maze when checking on Siobhan with me.

[ is this something they can test now with their host. ]

Just a dent, and no scuffing?

[oncefallen]

Scuffing as well... so it may have been thrown rather than dropped.

[baebladie]

...thrown, in order to buy time...?

[whileaway]

Wouldn't one of the rocks work? It was mentioned there were plenty displaced in the area.

[fourtuity]

A good rock could do the trick.

[ but who was rock??? ]

[cleansheets]

So you think they were coming from the garden and going back to the castle when it broke?

[simulacres]

But how did it break? Did it explode from the heat or something? It can't be that badly made.

[fourtuity]

They'd need light to see outside, so that's what I was thinking. The glass was on the bottom steps, and the lantern was higher up. I guess if it was windy, the glass could've blown towards the stairs, but that's kinda stretching maybe...