WEEK 1 TRIAL

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POPULATION: 33

Rise and shine, little sinners. Did you rest well? Hope you weren't too perturbed by the events of the day before. Things seem to be perfectly normal throughout your morning, but at 12pm, everyone will receive a mass text message to their phone.

good evening, good morning and hello! please come join us in the conference room!

Whether you agree or disagree, soon you will find yourself physically moving toward the conference room on the bottom floor, filing into the room and taking a seat in one of the vacant chairs. Two metal boxes sit at the end of each table along with a collection of pens and colored notecards. At the head of the room, Lust, Pride, Envy and Gluttony patiently wait as the TV above them displays a message.

Victims: Kaz Kaan, Grell Sutcliff

Once the last participant enters the room, the door will swing closed behind them and lock them inside.

For a moment, everything looks completely normal, until you notice Envy slumped face-down on the table, bleeding out from a stab wound in the front. Lust is busy putting a pink fluffy towel under their head, Pride is sitting slouched in a chair twirling a knife, and in that moment Gluttony claps their hands together to get everyone's attention.

"If you would please get started. You all have nine fleeting hours to find out what happened, and place your votes."

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Hello, and welcome to your second trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about the events of the day before! While mini-investigations were held yesterday, today is the day characters will have time to examine the body of the victim and explore relevant locations.

There will be a mod-tag break between 4pm EST/1pm PST to 5pm EST/2pm PST. While the trial may continue and players can tag each other, mod-led threads such as questions and investigations will be on hold.

Finally, while voting is not mandatory, we do have a voting page should characters wish to vote! Please be sure that your vote is in by the time trial finishes (9pm EST/6pm PST) if you wish to vote.

Good luck, and have fun!

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QUESTIONS

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[The Avatars are just vibing here at the table.

Gluttony is sitting formally with their gloved hands folded over each other on the table, and their tail swaying behind them. There is a black cat sitting on the table in front of them, blinking its green eyes.

Envy is dead! This is not a joke. They just keep bleeding, and do not seem to be breathing.

Lust is next to Envy and occasionally fixes their hood, watching the blood and taking care not to let it spill over onto their side of the table or the floor.

Pride is absently twirling a knife with their clawed fingers, staring off into the distance, seeming very unconcerned.

If you have questions, or comments, all four of them look up at you.]

[shiftingwinds]

...Envy?!

[HELLO?]

Um- what... what happened here, exactly... ah...

EVIDENCE CHECK

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[If your character would like to examine a piece of evidence, please comment under this top level indicating what they're checking and how. That said, please comment under the body toplevel if you are comparing a piece of evidence against a wound, or any part of the victim's body. Thank you!]

CHAINSAW

[fluffier]

[ After beating up Takeru and stealing his gloves, Yuel is going to be examining the chainsaw they found in the opium den. Just gingerly holding it and taking a look for any bloody prints or marks on the surface. ]

BODY CHECKS

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[Once everyone has settled into the conference room, the sound of a motor begins to rumble as two platforms rise from the floor between the two tables. On these tables lay two white plastic sheets.

However, upon first glance, it seems as though the body is in pristine condition. You may have to look elsewhere first before examining the figure.

If you would like to investigate a body, please comment below with the name of the victim in your header.]

BODY: UPDATE

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[While Meg, Mollymauk and Nathan are gone on their investigation, all who remain in the room may notice that the table in the center of the room with Grell's body glows just slightly. With a soft creak...

...the body jolts as if electrocuted, knocking itself back onto the table as the sheet covers it once more.

Investigate?]

INVESTIGATION REQUESTS

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[As the Avatars continue to watch the proceedings of trial, they are also available to request a field trip for an investigation. When you approach, all four will look up at you.

Please state where you would like to go and an Avatar will escort you.]

[headmt]

Me and these two beautiful souls [gesturing: meg and nathan] would love to go nose around the tea room slash office, as you please.

INVESTIGATIONS

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[Once a location has been requested, a sub-toplevel will go under here for all investigations to be threaded out and to keep things organized.]

TEA ROOM

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[pride pockets their knife, for now, and stands up to lead molly, meg, and nathan off to the tea room. they open the door, and rest against the wall, watching.

the tea room seems normal, at first glance!]

CURFEW

[headmt]

[ okay well

very slowly and cautiously turning his back on gluttony and pride. envy is bleeding. everything is fine. clapping his hands together.]

Right. Lots to do, very little time, they said not to worry about . . . that. Can we gather the wagons for a moment here?

Where'd you stay, what'd you see, who were you with. Simple enough.

[aubins]

[ nice and simple! ]

I was in the planetarium with White and Gojou. Fireworks kept going off -- really loud ones. And then when we woke up, it was raining confetti and glitter on us.

But just us. And when we left the room, it stopped and there was no evidence of it on our person.

mini invest results

[toesies]

[STILL GLANCING BACK AT THE AVATAR TABLE, BEFORE SHE JUST. CLAPS HER HANDS AND MOVES ON.]

... Right. So, uh. Some of us might have noticed some fucked up things outside the rooms we slept in — like the kitchen. I saw something fucked up in the kitchen! Or, rather, I didn't because the door wouldn't open for us. [Pointing at Law and Childe.] It did smell awfully sweet in the corridor, though. Almost like candy. And we noticed some dark smears of what we assume was blood, but we're not totally sure that it was blood.

Anyone else?

[holeful]

Ah...
[Fukuda seems more languid than usual.]

Aoi, Mr. Vlad and I smelled something like smoke in the tea room, but we couldn't find a source. Mr. Vlad also smelled chocolate but we think that was because he slept there.

SKILL LOSSES

[enfangs]

[white is just here with a plate of cookies and a charcuterie board because lust is the best. maybe if you're nice he'll share. :/]

Anyway! We all, uh, suffered from weird shit this week, right? Like how that guy— [he gestures to omi] —keeps swearing and it's really fucking funny and Grell was apparently nice or whatever. Which I guess is less funny because it might be how she died, but eh.

Might as well go over what everyone else had and see if it makes any difference.

[sengokus]

[he's just gonna reach for a cookie]

Sometimes I forget how to.... [gestures.... vaguely... he still doesn't know what to call it] Physical stuff? Self-defense, speed, strength... [being a jock]

And then sometimes I can't remember anything about -

[ . . . . . ]

Fuck!

[IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW]

Healing Pods

[bonetiddies]

Has anyone used the healing pods this week? We ought to pool information on how they work.

I used them twice. On Monday, to test them, I cut my arm. It took a half an hour for the cut to heal completely. I was then dizzy for a half hour after. On Thursday, I. . . [haha] My injuries included broken bones and puncture wounds. I spent an hour and a half in the pod. The broken bones repaired into something more like a sprain. The puncture wounds faded significantly. I was covered in a viscous substance for an hour and a half after.

I. . . [haha again, she hesitates.] I believe that substance had something to do with the manner in which I was injured. The dizziness, in retrospect, could have emulated blood loss.

So I can only conclude the side effects last as long as one remains in the pod, and bear some relation to the manner of injury. But if anyone else has evidence to contribute, it could verify these suppositions.

[toesies]

Viscous—?

[She cuts herself off. Lets Harrow's word sink in. Immediately makes a face.]

Oh, my god. Ew!

hewwo

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[it's at about this point in the trial that there's a quiet groan from envy's side of the table! he slowly pushes himself up to sit properly, still bloody, reaching up to gingerly touch the spot where he got stabbed as he frowns down at it.]

I just finished fixing my clothes from the last time you did this! Can't you just strangle me or something, this is a mess--

[he's been unhooded the whole time, for the record, since I'm not icon embedding here.]

[shiftingwinds]

"the last time"???]

Oh, good, you really are alright... what a relief.

MINI-EVENT REWARDS

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . well.]

Hey! Are you all - you know, done?

[with the fuck alarm talk. he did not join in because it was not relevant to him because someone didn't lose his sense of virginity this week,, also two people are dead!]

Can we talk about the weird notifications we got last week on Friday? Where it said "Congratulations!" and then gave us a weird attachment. What did you all get - what's it called and what can it do?

[aubins]

Another thought -- did we all get the same thing? By "we" I mean you, me and Sheila.

MEDBAY/OPIUM DEN

[fluffier]

[ Here's Yuel brandishing a chainsaw! ]

Hmm, so me, Endorsi an' Takeru went with Gluttony to see the med bay but there wasn't anything unusual there. Nothin' weird about the pods or anything missing. [ For once. ]

We headed to the opium den after that, where we found this! [ waves chainsaw ] I think it belonged to Grell, but it was just sittin' there on the table. There was no blood or anythin' knocked over...

[ Her ears droop slightly as she thinks about it. ]

There're fingerprints on the chainsaw, but nothin' else that I saw. So unless somebody cleaned it up after, I don't think she got to use it to defend herself.

[shiftingwinds]

...that's probably a safe assumption - after all, had someone cleaned it, they'd have cleaned off the... fingerprints as well, wouldn't they?

GRELL BODY RESULTS

[holeful]

[After a diligent investigation, Fukuda returns to the group from checking Grell's body.]

Well, the reason for all the smoke does seem to be miss Grell's murder. Her entire body is badly burned, I'd say most of it is forth degree, she was charred black with areas of exposed bone. If we hadn't been told who died I wouldn't have been able to tell, honestly, from how badly her face was burned.

Still, it's possible she died beforehand. Her right shoulder was dislocated, and the shoulder blade on that side was broken. Also, there was significant damage to her spine... towards the top, in the neck. I'm afraid I wasn't able to count out which vertebrae it was.

I think someone might have attacked her from behind? I don't know if the damage to her spine could have been fatal... but I'm hoping it is since otherwise I can only guess she was burned to death.
[He's a little downcast about this.]

Re: GRELL BODY RESULTS

[bonetiddies]

[Suddenly she forgets how to bones, so I don't have to run and bother the mods with irrelevant questions about the vertebrae the second she hears this.]

We felt heat in the med bay, too. I think it's likely whoever killed her was also burned, and healed the burn.

TEA ROOM/CIRCUS INVEST

[headmt]

Nothing looked particularly disturbed in the tea room, chairs and tables and snacks all the same as they have been. Tasted normal - no chocolate, sorry - but we did see some scorching on the fake grass in there. No direction in particular, just scattered about.

Then we teleported to the circus instead of walking ten feet, and found a great deal more. Ah, looks like this might have been where one of the two met their end. Smelled immediately of burnt flesh and hair, maybe a bit of a paper smell too.

The tightrope was clearly messed around with - someone had been on it, maybe. Metal pieces, sort of flimsy like the fake swords [hi he has one in his hand, meg has the pieces] and scorch marks were under it. Even more of the fake swords are gone, for the record. We went through those fast.

Also the imprint of a body. [that too.] Looks like they must have been burnt, possibly after a fall. Sort of laying on their back. Also found a smaller pile of ash next to the imprint - couldn’t really tell what it used to be, just that it had a bit of broken bright red circle in it. Fell apart when I tried to pick it up.

So. There’s that for you.

[shiftingwinds]

[just what the fuck HAPPENED in there while she was sleeping. lord almighty.]

That's... disturbing. I'd... assume it was Grell, that being the case? Since she's a bit... [...] Crispy.

SELF-DEFENSE THEORY

[bonetiddies]

We don't know where Grell Sutcliffe was when she fell asleep, do we? All of the locations on the upper floor, save the elevator bay, were occupied, meaning she wasn't there. She may have been somewhere else, but her own room is a possibility.

If someone targeted her, it means that she somehow fled up two floors and chased into the tea room and up a tightrope before she was killed.

On the other hand, if Grell came to the upper floors at her own leisure and targeted someone who successfully fended her off, wouldn't that make a little more sense?

[notaccurate]

WOULD she do that? Her personality was so different this week.

STRIP CHECK

[fluffier]

[ Yuel claps her hands, unaware that she about to be voted off the island for this grievous mistake. ]

We're startin' to figure out how Grell and Kaz died, but it's still really hard to know who actually did it... Which means that we gotta start lookin' at each other more closely. [ pauses for boos ] I know the killers mighta used the healin' pods to get rid of injuries, but it ain't instantaneous so they might not've risked it or gotten rid of 'em completely.

[ She holds up one of the plastic sheets that she stole from Kaz. ]

We ain't got a divider, so me an' Vira will hold this up and look at the girls, and Mineo'll look at the boys.

ACTUAL RESULTS

[fluffier]

nap corner

[sistocracy]

[A few of today's attendees have made themselves comfortable in one corner of the conference room. Among them is Lenore, who until now was sleeping peacefully in her seat with a blanket wrapped around herself.]

[About halfway into the day, she awakens, shedding the blanket and stretching, looking satisfied with her very good nap.]

Good evening. Or is it still afternoon?

... Is it going well?

KITCHEN RESULTS

[commedia]

Hello, hello!

[And the kitchen crew is back! Douman is waving what looks to be a bloody, dented Toblerone, and they also have at least two regular Toblerones under their arm.]

Omi, Vira, and I have seen the kitchen. For one, there were all of these triangular chocolates everywhere! Some were even in a small pile, and Vira and I saw two bloody chocolates sticking out of it! I have one here. Underneath the chocolates were some streaks of blood that went to the furthest end of the kitchen.

I believe Omi said that this "Toblerone" chocolate was Kaz' favorite chocolate? It was on his profile. Everything else looked in place, as far as we're concerned. The vending machine looks alright, too.

[Now that being said, Douman plucks one of the non-bloody Toblerones they carried back with them, opens it, and gives it a bite. What? They're hungry.]

...Oh, this is really quite fucking good, though.

[closes eyes]

[fatalattraction]

It really was used as a murder weapon...

why is it always vore

[aubins]

HEY.

Kaz is still here, apparently. So maybe we look around? And stop eating the evidence, for Seiros' sake.

Lust was vague about whether he's still... Kaz shaped, so check anything and everything.

[shiftingwinds]

...he's still... here?

[??????????????????????????????????????????????????????]

hand check... ish.

[shiftingwinds]

[here's sqx by the chainsaw! she claps her hands to get people's attention.]

I know the smudges aren't much to go on, so we're not likely to get an exact match, but could you all put your hand over them? Don't actually touch them - I just want to see if there are any of us whose hands are drastically too large to have made the smudges.

[she holds her hand over the chainsaw to demonstrate (and also so she'll be included in the check)]

[enfangs]

[hand...]

BODY UPDATE..............2!

[toesies]

[STARTLING WHEN THE BOLT OF LIGHT HITS THE TABLE

and immediately makes a face when she notices it's still fucking empty.]

Goddamn it, how does that help?!

[DISCUSS.]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

I mean.... Lasers....

[just

gonna throw it out there]

CATHERD...2: the grell edition

[liuli]

[ after returning from investigating bop it crimes... ]

Alright, listen up. [ here is the marquis of order, to establish some order! he barks this loudly enough to be heard by everyone in the room. ] Things have gotten rather out of control, so let's talk through the evidence that we have.

First, Grell. Its likely that Grell was killed in the circus, based on the evidence that was brought back. The current working theory is that she fell from the tightrope, causing her injuries, including broken bones at the shoulder and spine, and the burning of her body may have occurred while she was down on the ground. She was burned to the point that her bones were charred; that may have been what killed her, if the fall did not. There was a small pile of ash near where her body likely was, having left an imprint, and a roughly ring sized, broken, bright red plastic circle near that, which turned to ash after it was touched. There were also broken pieces of flimsy metal and scorch marks under the table, and missing swords from the display in the circus area.

Her chainsaw was found in the opium den, still warm, but unable to be powered by any of us. It's here if you'd like to investigate it. There were also scorch marks in the tea room, on the false grass - they were scattered, but nothing else in the room was particularly out of place.

We think she stayed in her room on Thursday, but can't confirm it. She also was on Despair, and likely had the power to cause others to fixate on something lost for 24 hours. Over the week, she was acting demurely, which must have something to do with the skills we all seemed to lose.

Someone else handle what happened to Kaz, but now is a time to theorize. We're coming up on two hours left.

[headmt]

And we were told to consider what is in the room for, ah, the Kaz's body conundrum. Consider all the evidence we have, is there anything we haven't double checked?

INVENTORY CHECK

[gamerbrain]

[ aoi raises her hand, presumably dragging either douman or fukuda's arm up with hers! ]

We still haven't found Kaz, so empty your pockets.

[ you know. in case he's in there? ]

RESULTS

[gamerbrain]

CLOTHES CHECK

[headmt]

Look, sorry about this, but we're going to forcibly rifle through your pockets now. Coats, pockets, clothes - let's just get this over with.

[CLOTHES CHECK checking for damages or stains on any clothes, anything hiding in pocketses or seams, knives hidden in boots or kaz's body stuffed into your sexy lingerie.]

[commedia]

[There is.....................nothing! Just still the Toblerone given to them by SQX and their phone. That's it. Nothing is in their clown clothes or shoes, and there are no pockets. The clothes have no burns or stains on them. Douman is a clean clown!]

Planetarium + Bedroom

[bonetiddies]

[The investigation crew is coming back with their loot in tow. You may be dismayed to find Gu Yun is carrying another giant Toblerone. Harrow is carrying a tray with. . . half eaten pizza on it, and they also have a note, a Bop-It, a camera, and a pair of bloody clothes.

They look. . . so tired.]

We're back. In the Planetarium, we found this damaged Bopper. Please do not touch it. It makes a most loathsome sound. There was also uneaten crusts of a pizza, and a note that said 'For Lust - C' on it. Childe, was that yours?

We checked Kaz Kaan's room, as well. The loft bed had been made, but beneath the covers it was soaked in blood. Aoi, Misa - did either of you by any chance make the bed in there this morning?

In his closet, we found his bloodied clothes and another Toblerone. In the pocket of his clothes was a photograph of himself and Aoi, his phone, and more toblerones.

. . . Did I miss anything?

[toyska]

[Hm? Oh, yes. He looks over from where he's just been vibin', letting his clothes be checked.]

Yes, that was from yesterday. Endorsi was with me, since I wasn't able to get into the kitchen. [mods really said starve, team kitchen]