WEEK 1 TRIAL

[probe]

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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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.

[toesies]

Oh, yeah... Gu Yun mentioned something similar yesterday. Did the smoke smell like anything?

[holeful]

[He thinks for a long moment.]

... I think it just smelled like smoke.

[toesies]

Hm... Well, I guess we'll find out more later.

[A beat.]

You okay?

[holeful]

Envy isn't.

[Whether he's ok or not, this is the issue he has.]

[toesies]

Oh... Yeah... Well, Lust and Gluttony seem to think they might be! Later. Just not now.

[holeful]

But it isn't fair they had to suffer and nothing is going to be done about it. They don't deserve that.

[dotcom]

That's a few things that seem to be related to fire then...

[sengokus]

[he nods...]

When people go to investigate, they should ask the Avatars for masks so they don't have trouble breathing if they can.

[he's not thinking

there might be an active fire

but there might be an active fire]

[dotcom]

Appropriate gloves for it would be helpful too.

[holeful]

I hear being burned to death is a painful way to die, so I hope it was just how a body was disposed of.

[dotcom]

... well, we'll see when we take a look.

[notaccurate]

If I hazard to guess, it's saying that one of our dead this week died in a fire. It might be wise to search locations that have access to open flames.

[dotcom]

There's potentially a few places, but you can also start a fire, too... but checking out the kitchen first is probably best.

[fluffier]

When I woke up in the opium den this mornin', none of us in there could see anything but smoke. Maybe that's where the smell in the tea room was comin' from?

[holeful]

... It wasn't.... it wasn't... drug smoke, was it miss Yuel? I'd hate for you to have been subjected to the harmful effects of opium against your will.

[Drug smoke.]

[fluffier]

[ sweats... yes... against her will ]

It didn't really smell like anything... and all of the opium bricks disappeared durin' the night.

[holeful]

[YUEL!!!!]

They all disappeared? And you're sure the smoke was just smoke? You don't feel strange?
[HE'S SO CONCERNED.]

[fluffier]

I'm fine! [ wow how weird for someone to worry about her? fukuda is so nice? ] But I wonder where the smoke came from? It was kinda like it was just tryin' ta keep us from seein' anything.

[holeful]

It might be something supernatural in origin, like the blood in the kitchen last week.

[dotcom]

Oh. That makes sense.

[fluffier]

Huh? What does?

[toyska]

[Dryly--]

We didn't lick it.

[toesies]

[nodding fastly.]

No licking here!