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🔫👽 ([personal profile] probe) wrote in [community profile] 7rings2021-02-19 09:12 pm

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.

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!

maelstroms: sᴋʏᴄᴏʟᴏʀᴇᴅ + ??? ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (067.)

[personal profile] maelstroms 2021-02-20 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's an active lack of enthusiasm about this, but this time Ming Yi at least shrugs out of his robes so that they hang from his waist where they're snugly wrapped by his belt, instead of just rolling his sleeves up to his shoulders. If people want to get him to strip more they're going to have to ask, but he doesn't care if a man or woman or nonbinary checks him.

There are bruises spread around on his torso that are almost completely healed, just that kind of blotchy, faded galaxy of yellow and purplish that comes with age. He doesn't shy away if anyone comes to check them out, but please don't touch him.

Also he's broad and well-built, core-wise, but despite how much he fucking eats you can kind of see his false and floating ribs a little easier than you'd expect.
]
sengokus: (♟ i'll reach my hands out)

[personal profile] sengokus 2021-02-20 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[he tilts his head]

What're the bruises, Ming Yi-san? Who gave 'em to you?
maelstroms: sᴋʏᴄᴏʟᴏʀᴇᴅ + ??? ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (059.)

[personal profile] maelstroms 2021-02-20 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone not in this realm, thankfully. It means they were finally allowed to heal properly.

I was held prisoner by a Supreme ghost, after having been caught infiltrating his city, and he made it very clear how... unhappy he was to have someone from the Heavens among his ranks. Qingxuan was one of the people that rescued me, if you'd like to confirm.

[ ( beyonce meme ) HUA CHENG???? ]
shiftingwinds: (051)

[personal profile] shiftingwinds 2021-02-20 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ah... she hears this, looks over, and winces.]

I'm sorry we weren't able to find you sooner, Ming-xiong.
maelstroms: sᴋʏᴄᴏʟᴏʀᴇᴅ + ᴍᴇʀᴜ90 ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (045.)

[personal profile] maelstroms 2021-02-20 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fine, Qingxuan. It's not as if you had much to go on, especially not in Ghost City. The Emperor wouldn't have sent you with more help.
shiftingwinds: (051)

[personal profile] shiftingwinds 2021-02-20 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
...you know, I was feeling a little bad about messing up the manor with His Highness before, but now I'm not.
maelstroms: sᴋʏᴄᴏʟᴏʀᴇᴅ + ʙᴇᴇғʟᴇᴀғʟᴏᴠᴇᴇᴇᴇ ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (019.)

[personal profile] maelstroms 2021-02-20 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's a surprised snort ]

Crimson Rain isn't here to catch you saying that, so I think you'll be able to get away with it.
shiftingwinds: (016)

[personal profile] shiftingwinds 2021-02-20 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Keep it secret for me when we get home, won't you, Ming-xiong? I'd prefer not to die.
maelstroms: sᴋʏᴄᴏʟᴏʀᴇᴅ + ᴍᴇʀᴜ90 ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (026.)

[personal profile] maelstroms 2021-02-20 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Like hell I'm going to tell him anything.
shiftingwinds: (093)

[personal profile] shiftingwinds 2021-02-20 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Good! Then it will be our secret.
sengokus: (♟ i'm not giving up no not yet;)

[personal profile] sengokus 2021-02-20 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . . . . . . . . .

this

this is a lot to take in mineo was just doing strip check he wasn't expecting backstory]


Oh.

[a beat and then, sincerely - ] .... I'm glad you're okay and healing.

But to be thorough, I think it's better if everything comes off. I can hold your robes if you need.
Edited (edits bc britt's fast) 2021-02-20 23:12 (UTC)
maelstroms: sᴋʏᴄᴏʟᴏʀᴇᴅ + ??? ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (064.)

[personal profile] maelstroms 2021-02-20 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ You asked, my dude, and Ming Yi has been nothing if not upfront when people ask him questions. He's just - very blunt about it. ]

... thanks. [ Bless your heart Mineo??? ] Here, I'll get the rest of it.

[ But he does shift a little, going to undo his belt. He passes that over to him for holding, as well as the robes once he shrugs out of them. Once he gets his pants off, he does have some more, similarly nearly-faded bruises as the ones on his torso. ]