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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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]

[fisherwoman]

[Nodding!]

He asked me to get him a pizza.

[toyska]

[Looking over at her with a furrowed brow and pointing at the bopper--]

Did you see that in there? [what the fuck is a bopper why does everything modern have bop in the name]

[fisherwoman]

[She shakes her head.]

No, I didn't.

[toyska]

[A sigh! This is what he gets for trying to be nice.]

Next time I'll just give it to them personally...

[bonetiddies]

The pizza and the note?

[Hmm.]

Was the bopper there as well?

[toyska]

[Me, crying because I forgot to add that--

He looks at the? Bopper?? In confusion and shakes his head.]

No, I didn't see anything else in there. [Endorsi might have? But unlikely...] The pizza and the note were both from me, but that's all.

[bonetiddies]

[It's a Bop-It. But. What.]

[toyska]

[A helpless shrug?? He doesn't know what it is!!]

[kokytos]

...So he was killed in his own bed?

[messybench]

Seems like it. The next question is, where the fork did the body go? And what the fork is with all these toblerones?

[kokytos]

We already have evidence of a total immolation bordering short of cremation.

There's clearly... ways to get rid of a body.

In the possibility that it's the same person, maybe he was turned into ash.

[messybench]

But how and where could that have happened? I mean, there was burning evidence in the circus for Grell, but nothing for Kaz other than the bloody made up bed?

[kokytos]

Bodies can be moved. The killer could have made the bed to hide initial evidence of wrongdoing.

Any missing sheets or towels?

[gamerbrain]

[ aoi shakes her head ]

We didn't make the bed.

[ and then she continues to stare very intently at harrow... ]

[bonetiddies]

[Wh. . . she stares back?]

What is it?

[gamerbrain]

Did you leave the photo there?

[bonetiddies]

We brought his clothes with us. It's still in the pocket.

[. . .]

Did you put the photo in there?

[gamerbrain]

No. He told Aoi he was keeping it on him for now.

Aoi just wanted to make sure it doesn't get thrown away...

[fatalattraction]

[ popping in here to nod ]

We didn't go into his room at all, not even after we found out he was dead...and I never went back to mine, after we found out about Grell-grell, too.

[fisherwoman]

Is it possible there are any clues on his phone?

[bonetiddies]

We didn't check - it would be good to do so now.

[fisherwoman]

[Nodding!]

In case there are any messages, or anything else.

[heliosenergy]

So the killer stripped him after murdering him?