TRIAL IV

[lesmodsalouette]

Trial

Another Saturday, but this Saturday is your last Saturday. If everything holds, if everything works out. After all you've been through, are you capable of being an optimist? The carnival calls regardless, furniture arranged around as they always are with banquet table and pit in the middle.

This week's new offerings are: a fluffy loaf of a certain type of rye bread, a hearty beef stew and an assortment of fresh pies with candied fruit and cream.

For the last time, find out who killed two of your own: G'raha Tia and Sariel.

(( 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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[baebladie]

It was.

[ He's the one who put it up. ]

[arbalestrier]

How was it broken?

[I don't remember if this was specified but if not I guess we get Blade mind palace??]

[baebladie]

[ Blade mind palace with his shitty memory... ]

...It was "broken" by every piece of furniture being thrown out of the way. There was furniture all the way outside the hallway, and then some on the floor itself.

[safetycheck]

Sounds like we may be looking for a culprit who's pretty strong, if they were able to best Sariel and throw all the furniture like this, no?

[arbalestrier]

It's possible, but...

[hamster wheel is spinning]

Could the culprit have left together with G'raha and Sariel?

[safetycheck]

...Possibly. And maybe it was Sariel or G'raha who threw the furniture...

[ But the thought of it being anyone in the tea room is just.

Wow.

She doesn't like that at all. ]

[baebladie]

We are looking for a culprit who is at least skilled in operation of firearms, traps, and is in at least good shape in order to pursue the people they did. Potentially in other forms of combat if we're to go by Sariel's bruised knuckles being evidence of a fist fight. I would say that they'd generally have good physical strength, at the least.

As for the furniture...

Unclear. The two could have moved it themselves, if they woke up, and thought it was better to head their separate ways. It'd be easier to do with two people - particularly if it was removed from the inside.

[ He supposes he can figure...why, they might? Do that... ]

cw dismemberment

[safetycheck]

That's true.

[ taps chin ]

I agree. Sariel also had some broken bones in his rib cage, not to mention the severed arm. G'raha also had a lot of bruises too, didn't he?

[baebladie]

There was mention of a potential fall for Sariel's case. I know we have to factor that in too.

[ It's unclear, though to him he thinks it at least possible, which does further muddy the waters, but it also doesn't take away from what's been said. ]

G'raha had bruises; though only in two spots.

[safetycheck]

That's true. And if he was injured in the same trap like G'raha presumably was...it's no wonder he was probably weak enough to fall down without too much force.

[littlegentleman]

With the state the barricade had been reduced to...there must have been a sense of urgency, right? Otherwise, why not just move what was necessary...

[It really seemed as if it had been tossed.]

[baebladie]

Likely urgent because they'd want to leave right away.

The quicker they get away, the better.

[ It does make sense, in his opinion; people waking up and seeing other asleep know that it means that they're being targeted.

...And it being two kind people? Who are perhaps relatively self-sacrificial? ]

...They wouldn't want to involve anyone else.

[ To keep them safe, perhaps. ]

[divineth]

[Urianger bows his head.]

...Aye, they would not.

[coldseep]

( i'm not gonna stick this depressed noodle in every thread just to establish he's crying at everything but this one Definitely gets him to tear up again )

[arbalestrier]

No, I wouldn't necessarily say they were particularly skilled with firearms. They missed once, and the other two shots were taken at close range. I can only assume the culprit did that to finish them off after they were already exhausted from the blood loss.

[baebladie]

They knew how to operate that weapon.

I would think that'd suggest an adequate amount of skill or experience, as opposed to someone unfamiliar with firing a gun completely.

[arbalestrier]

Hmm... I suppose. Then perhaps they weren't familiar enough to use it effectively at a range.

[oncefallen]

... Sariel hated fighting. He would have had to have been forced into it.

[baebladie]

On a night with his life at stake, it could have been the time.

[ Though who knows. Even if he believes there was an Attempt. ]

...It seems likely he did try to move from place to place; as if running.

[ So it does fit with the picture of someone unwilling to fight. ]

[oncefallen]

[He nods.

Usually at the previous trials he's hidden how tired he is from his depleted mana reserves, but today? Today he isn't even trying.]

He... may have been trying to protect us.

[arbalestrier]

[Thinking...]

It seems it was opened from the inside.

[safetycheck]

[ ...??? ]

Opened from the inside...

[divineth]

[...yeah, he doesn't like this either.]

[arbalestrier]

Did you all decide to stay together on your own?

[safetycheck]

Junior and I usually stay together – Clover, too, as of last week. I was fine staying in there, personally...