7rings | WEEK 1 TRIAL

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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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Her roommate is Misa, so if Misa was in Kaz's room, then Grell could have been in her own.

Huh.... I guess.

[ . . . ]

But then - why leave...?

Particularly if you were aware that someone was murdered because of this very situation the week before.

[

.... ]

....Then again, I wouldn't call Kaan particularly observant.

[a beat]

Yeah.

So I think that could've been the case for him.

I wonder if he went from his room to the kitchen, first, to get a snack, as if nothing were strange about the situation at all.

.... if Amane-san and Aoi-san were just... passed out around him... Wouldn't that be pretty fucked....

[MINEO STOP ACCIDENTALLY SPEAKING ILL OF THE DEAD]

Honestly, the dude was pretty weird. Probably had a few screws loose, so it wouldn't surprise me.

[he just. looks so bothered...]

I just can't imagine leaving people behind like that...

[HE'S SO IRKED BUT]

Maybe. But we'll have to see based on where evidence turns up....

Maybe they can't kill someone who's still asleep?

You think they're just prevented from it...?

[i really wish mineo wouldn't just immediately follow whatever string takeru dangles in front of him]

Then what decides whether someone's awake or asleep?

Well, wouldn't it just be easier to kill someone who's still asleep versus someone who's awake? I assume that once you become a target, you might wake up, but in that case you could just stand over someone sleeping, they wake up, and you kill them right then and there.

So there's something more to it.

[hmmm]

So it's gotta be at least partially premeditated? More than just 'oh, this guy's conveniently snoozing in the hallway', sort of thing.

That would make sense, since that's the difference between the killer and victim waking up in two completely different spots, and thus making it more difficult to kill them, versus just killing the victim right away if you pick them while they're sleeping.

[nodding more!! takeru smart....]

Yeah. So that means Kaan-san definitely left his room, either because he didn't realize anything was weird because of magic, or because he's just like that. Then his killer had to go find him.

So we can definitely check the rooms of the victims... and once we get a sense of suspects, let's check their rooms too. In case they didn't bring anything with them that could be actually incriminating.

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[ hmmmMM ]

Sasazuka makes a good point—if it were simply about killing the easiest target, then I think our evidence would reflect that.

[ it's all a little more elaborate than that ]

...Additionally, if this place reacted on every mild urge to harm someone, I think we would have many more bodies.

[ so it's probably deliberate and pre-meditated to some degree? ]

[he nods....]

I think so too. So it's gotta be at least kinda planned out that you want to seriously kill somebody - not a spur of the moment thing.

[a beat as he thinks about something before he nods]

So - people who genuinely wanted to kill Kaan-san and Sutcliffe-san, for whatever motive looks like. Indulgence or otherwise.

Last week, we theorized there might be an illusion of some kind in place that protects those who were still asleep, since the murders themselves may be connected to indulgence - he may have woken up to think everything was perfectly fine.

[ a beat. ] However, I agree with White, though. So. It could be either.

It'll be easier to confirm once we actually catch a killer.

Weren't we wondering the same thing about Tamaki? There's probably something going on at night that we don't know about yet.

... I kinda get it, if it's the first time. My first instinct would be to try to look for other people and get help too.

But...

[ . . . ]

I guess if we're thinking that every door unlocks once we're all asleep - it doesn't make much sense to stay in your room either. There's not a lot you can use to defend yourself in there if you aren't already prepared.

It may be better to be on the move. And even though she was quieter, that doesn't mean she was suddenly unskilled, so maybe she thought she could take on her potential attacker?

[ . . . . . . he

thinks about their brief scuffle]

... she probably welcomed it.

She was pretty messed up, yeah.

[he scowls]

Yeah.

[HE TRIES NOT TO SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD BUT DAMN]

[ sasazuka has no problems with speaking ill of the dead. if you sucked in life then you still suck when you're a corpse, babey!! ]