TRIAL II

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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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catherd LETS TALK TIMELINES

[simulacres]

Uhh... excuse me!

[ ayaka's not someone that's great at calling people's attention. but she claps her hands together, trying to get the attention centered on her.

despite being anxious to be speaking to so many people, she raises her voice and starts. ]

I think we need to take time to put our thoughts together. Um, I think we've been talking about whether the barricades or the fire happened first. And if that's the case, then I know Andrew was thinking about why the door handle would be ripped off in the first place, or if it's even possible.

And another thing, why would the solarium doors be open if she was running away from the library or the banquet hall? [ ... ] I just think that once we have settled down the timeline, we can work from there. So, uh... please, share your thoughts. I guess.

[ that's a lot more public speaking than she has done in a long time. she's slinking over to the side now. ]

[diel]

What makes you think she opened the solarium door?

[distain]

I think that's part of the question. Whether she did or didn't, why was it opened?

[diel]

Nothing was missing or disturbed there, if I remember correctly. But why else would you open a door? To go in. Maybe they simply had to go back because the people there had seen them before the spell took effect.

[distain]

You think the culprit could be one of the people there.

[Andrew does a little listening. A lot of listening, actually, to the conversations that have been happening in lieu of narrowing things down.

She had been hoping that, if it was one of them, they might out themselves in the ensuing discussion, but Yoru has cut the corners here a little bit, at least.]

Any fingers to point just yet?

[simulacres]

To be frank, I'm not sure about anything here. Maybe it was her that opened it or maybe it was her killer. But... she had to get to the garden somehow, right? That's why I want to iron out the timeline...so we can figure out who got to what, and when.

[antline]

Remind me. Does Shiv have any burns on her?

[simulacres]

[ she shakes her head. ]

I think they mentioned scratches and bruises but...nothing about burns on her.

[allrounder]

Was it thrown open in a search for Siobhan, I wonder? Our culprit could not spot her inside and as such moved on towards the gardens instead.

[simulacres]

But then... why the library?

[whileaway]

This is a fairly sound idea. The simpler ideas might be the better ones to focus on if we're trying for the bigger picture.

[siffriend]

[ Oh, mood, they also don't like it. Join the shy club friend.

For Siffrin's part... Eating the torta di cocco still, sorry. ]

... Um. I'd understand it if the window in the solarium was broken, since it leads out to the gardens too, but... It sort of feels like... They were just passing by. Since the salon's the only way out into the gardens.

[ That! Is fact. Timelines, timelines... ]

But it does open up to the stairwell too, if... someone took a different path, to cut her off. The fire might've been an accident, but if the blockage was purposeful to make her go a certain way...

[simulacres]

So you think that the blockade was set up after the fire? Or that she started the fire to escape?

[siffriend]

[ Let's see. Siffrin will... draw a... diagram in the tart????? tw germs sooooo sorry andrew ]

When you want to hunt animals, you only give them one route. The bathroom... wasn't a possible escape route, because of the poker. The odds and ends of the other one feels more like it was trying to trip whoever up, but if that was the case it shouldn't have stayed that way.

[ A pause, staring hard... Eating some of the coconut. ]

I don't think... it was someone in the library's fault, because it'd be hard to set either one up if you're locking yourself from the inside. The poker was probably first, and then the blockade after, but... I also don't think... um, that this was a one person job.

[ Which is new, Siffrin's thoughts, the more they stare at the loose "map" they've made. They've done a little more traversing, on the first floor. They have a better idea of how to get outside than they did last week.

You know. Just in case. ]

There's a door to the outside of the chapel, isn't there? I wonder why... through the house, then. If that was a clean exit.

[simulacres]

You don't think this was a one person job?

[ she tilts her head. ]

You think there were... um... multiple people?

[arbalestrier]

Their technique was insufficient if the door handle came off.

[simulacres]

What do you mean? Who's technique?

[arbalestrier]

Breaching the door. If you encounter one that's locked, you can force it open by kicking the area near the locking mechanism. Hitting the handle itself can result in injury, so it isn't recommended.

I'm not sure who was responsible, but they may have been desperate if the door seemed locked.

[simulacres]

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

Re: catherd LETS TALK TIMELINES

[whileaway]

If we think about the marks that were mentioned inside the building, as well as the odd stone that is mentioned to be from lightning, that mean that as someone left the library, they were under the effects of the emotional storms.

Perhaps someone trapped us in the library, Siobhan managed to get out, and then while angry chased the perpetrator outside into the hedge maze?

[simulacres]

You think she chased her killer? Why would she do that?

[ at least hide??? ]

[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.

[baebladie]

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

[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?

[ocenon]

Are the wounds not from the front, though?

[ opens up invest sweating ]