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WEEK 1 TRIAL
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.
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.
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."
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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[stop,
Anyway, the scorch marks seem covered, the tables are totally undisturbed? No tea set moved or chair even pulled out?
Also. Looking up the walls with their illusion and up at the ceiling.]
Got something over there?
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the tables are undisturbed, no tea sets moved. nothing on the ceiling.
by the wall, pride calls out:]
If there's another place you want to check, say so now.
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This is an insult to fire users every where.
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There's no rhyme or reason to this, is there?
[ ugh, this tells us nothing. yet. ]
Well? What do you two think - should we try somewhere else, if we're done here? They said something was off about the circus, right?
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There is fire there. The flaming hoops.
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Oooh that's a good idea. [ Looking over at Envy ] Mind taking us to the circus?
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pride pushes off the wall and waves a hand. the three of them all immediately feel a weird vertigo effect as they swap places with their shadows? and then they swap again. you're now in the circus!
hooray. the room seems relatively undisturbed, but there are a few spotlights on in the area with the tightrope, flaming hoops, and flying trapeze. it smells like cooked meat in here, and... burnt something else.]
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[ but meg has weak ankles, so she's going to check the floor first again! and, also, the walls. any trails of note, or lesbian hand posters? ]
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We couldn't have walked? It was literally right next door.
[Anyway, sneef. Does it . . . does smell like burnt person. Because I hate to say this, but Molly definitely knows what burnt person smells like.
Heading on over to where the spotlights are shining, to see if theres anything obvious.]
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[ Looking over at Molly for a moment. ] Still feeling alright there?
[ Time to get up to the tightrope. What do we have here? ]
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unfortunately molly does in fact recognize the burning smell, because it is burnt person. it's burnt hair, specifically, and a sort of burnt papery smell.
the tightrope itself seems fine, but around the area underneath it there are pieces of metal embedded into the ground, as well as a few stray scorch marks.]
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[ anyway. while nathan is going up, meg is staying on the ground! what are those metal pieces, anything recognizable? are the scorch marks similar to the tea room? ]
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So, uh, that's burnt person. Just so everyone knows. Hair and such.
[going over to the flaming hoops? Do they look disturbed?]
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[ Thank you Meg for saving a girl from going up and down while in heels. Anything else they can spot from up there? If not, they will mosey on over to the trapeze. ]
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as molly is walking to the flaming hoops, he'll see a tiny pile of ash between the tightrope section and the flaming hoops section.
however, the flaming hoops look undisturbed, and the trapeze does as well. they just seem to be in the same area as the tightrope area's spotlights.]
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[ disgusting. anyway! let's say she's looking at the area around the metal pieces too? like, looking at the scatter pattern and concentration, and how deep they're embedded in the ground. ]
Hey, Pride, got something we could use to pick up some of these shards? Thick gloves or some kind of cloth?
[ if they give her something, she'll very carefully pick some of them out of the ground, if she's able. ]
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tiny ash pile . . . if he inspects it, can he tell if it used to be anything in particular? What does it smell like? If he looks up he can see where it might have come from - like did it fall from above or does it look like someone just burnt something small here on the ground.
Also is there anywhere in particular it looks like there was a big enough fire for a body or anything?]
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[ That is a terrifying thought.
Can they see anything else from up there or is that everything? ]
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[pride snaps their fingers, and a pair of gloves drop into meg's hand.
there aren't a lot of pieces, but when she gets a closer look, she can see they're sort of jagged in places, and are all different shapes and sizes. the scatter pattern is pretty concentrated in area, with a few strays off to the side. they're easy enough to pull out of the ground, having been embedded about halfway in. the most interesting part about the metal pieces is one of the longer ones that meg picks up is wobbly. flimsy.
the ash smells like fire? but when he gets a little closer, he can see a bit of a small, broken red circle sticking out of the ash. it looks more like it's the remains of something rather than having fallen from the sky.
while he's there he can see an outline of scorch marks in the vague shape of a body, right next to the pile of ashes he's inspecting. nathan can also see this, from their high trapeze.]
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Whatever these metal pieces came from, it broke pretty easily. Either of you know anything flimsy enough for that?
[ you get three guesses, and the first two don't count. she's going to keep a couple of the metal pieces, and moves on to check the juggling pins and unicycle. are those all in order? ]
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[He'll just carefully remove that little piece of red circle and hold it up? He can take that back with them to inspect it not in the hell circus. He is not using gloves because he does not understand the concept. What if he eats this too? He doesn't, but it'd be funny if he did.
Looking over at the . . . body mark. Erugh. Anything unusual about its shape or size?]
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[ Since the kill was here and the hoops are here, too.
Time to head on down then since standing around and looking pretty isn't helping anyone. ]
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the scorch marks outline someone laying on their back, head turned to the right. it's about medium size as far as height goes.
nothing with the pins or unicycle!
pride yawns, from where they're standing. loudly, and obnoxiously.]
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Bingo. So they pushed one of them off the platform, and then burned the body to hide the evidence?
[ this is why meg hates heights. moving on! what aboooooout the podium? anything unusual about that? ]
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Looks that way to me.
[JUST ACCIDENTLY DESTROYED EVIDENCE IM NOT UPSET IM FINE anyway
rq rq does it look like fire was used anywhere else like up on the platform or just down here on the ground and -
going over to look at the sword barrel and see if any more are missing and just a quick CEILING CHECK before we wrap this up based on pride's hint]
Don't know necessarily that this and the tea room are related. Gonna have to lay it out all to see, I think.
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