WEEK 2 TRIAL

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POPULATION: 28

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.

Proceed to 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, Greed, Wrath, Despair and Sloth patiently wait as the TV above them displays a message.

Victims: Vlad Masters, Steven A Starphase, Luca Valentino

Once the last participant enters the room, the door will swing closed behind them and lock them inside.

Greed is seated at the end of the table with a series of papers in their hands. Wrath is sitting sideways in a chair, leaning against Despair, feet in Greed's lap, with their phone out, taking selfies. Despair seems to be holding still to allow this. Sloth is dead asleep, head down on the table and snoring. When some of the last few people enter, they startle awake suddenly with a yelp which gets everyone's attention.

"Ahh, I'm up! Wow, it's time already?! You guys have 9 long hours to figure everything out!"

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Hello, and welcome to your third 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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Comments

[chevaleros]

...Given the voting results every week thus far, it wouldn't surprise me if he was preparing himself for this.

[ wow we hate vlad so much ]

[shiftingwinds]

He did seem to think that someone - or, perhaps, multiple someones - had it out for him...

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

Yeah. He drank himself into a stupor last week after trial, all grouchy. I'm guessing it's 'cause he got second again even though he didn't really do much.

I wouldn't say he was preparing... but he could tell he was unpopular.

[shiftingwinds]

[


and now he's dead.]

Aaah... what a mess.

[chevaleros]

Indeed... [ was he really killed for being unpopular? was kaz killed for being annoying? our murder standards ] In any case, it could make sense that he didn't want to be caught off-guard or alone. But we'll see once we find the shovel.

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

...and this isn't the only mystery we need to solve, either. I want to figure out what happened to all three of them. Even if we can't necessarily do anything about it with a vote [because lol, coordinating a three-way tie] it's better to know than to stay in the dark about it.

[chevaleros]

Yes, regardless of matters of punishment, knowing how these murders work will only help us all moving forward.

[ so they won't be haunted by toblerones and such for six more weeks. it's just a lot of unknowns. ]

[sengokus]

It is.

But... well, we can start putting stuff together. I know that Vlad-san was with you both, but there's also where Luca-san was staying with Leclerc-san, right?

Does anyone know where Starphase-san was? I think we should check all the rooms that we know they started from.

[shiftingwinds]

Luca was with Yuri and Omi, in the rec room. I'm not sure where Steven was... [hmmm] But someone has to know, right?

[nodo]

[ idk how time works in trial but— ]

I invited him to join me in the med bay earlier this week but he didn't show up.

[fluffier]

We still don't have any bodies either... They show up when we start lookin' in the right places, right? So we gotta start diggin' in the right locations so we have more time to look at 'em.

[headmt]

He complained to me about his 2nd place finish at the Tamaki trial rather loudly.

[gamerbrain]

He talked to Aoi about it, too.

He just wanted to be liked.

[headmt]

It wasn't as if I was particularly pleased with those results either, I'll just say.

[sengokus]

[nods]

Yeah, he was bummed. Though to be fair, I would too if I was just trying to help and I got dogpiled on. [is this why mineo defends white so much]

But either way, I think people are getting the idea of who's unpopular and might be targeting them on purpose. But that's just a theory, and only counts for Vlad-san this week.

[headmt]

Mm, yes. Likely. Thinking we wouldn't investigate it so thoroughly. I'll say we're doing a good enough job of stay on task so far for Vlad.

[holeful]

Aah, he complained to me last week too. I said that maybe he could try to be nicer and he said that people would just think he was faking it so it wouldn't work.

[sengokus]

Was he really that mean....? I mean, barely any filter or ability to read a room but....

[MINEO BARELY REALIZES PEOPLE IN THIS GAME ARE MEAN]

[liuli]

That was definitely why. [ vlad your drinking. ]

We had also just come back from our little adventure, right before the doors locked. Most of Vlad's injuries were healed, as far as I remember, but it would certainly be a reason to be jumpy.

[sengokus]

Did he jump in the pod first? I know that he wasn't as obviously bleeding as you all, but I didn't get a chance to look at him.

[liuli]

[ ... ]

No, the goat man healed him before we stepped through and returned. [ ???? ]

[toesies]

People kept voting for him even after we learned about the executions, so... It wouldn't surprise me if he did come up with a plan.

[shiftingwinds]

Right... I can almost understand voting for him before we knew what it would do... [but only almost] But doing it even after that, when we have the option not to?

That feels like crossing a line.

[toesies]

Agreed. If you vote for someone now, it's because you don't mind if they wind up dead.

[shiftingwinds]

...I wonder if there's some way to know how many votes were cast. Not - not who voted, exactly, but... the numbers we're working with.