7rings | WEEK 2 TRIAL

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!"

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

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!

✨ FULL NAVIGATION ✨
🌙 Locations 🌙 IC Profiles 🌙 Statuses 🌙 Private Conversations 🌙
🌙 Audience Requests 🌙 Murder Proposals 🌙 Indulgence Reports 🌙

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Just that he messaged her out of the clear blue, to ask where she was staying. Seems as likely as always she'd stay with Ming Yi, because they're always together.

Vlad did? I would say that is incredibly relevant information.

It strikes me that way, but on the other hand, Shi Qingxuan is one of the more welcoming of us. If you were rather on the outs with a large amount of people here, and didn't know where to stay, perhaps she's who I would turn to as well.

Hmph.

[Hmph!]

Trying to frame someone so blatantly would be an interesting move, since we'd already be on edge for that after what happened before. Especially if you left a trail like that.

[ who texts the person you're gonna rob ]

Certainly is distracted us, isn't it?

... yeah. Even if it's something as simple as a distraction technique, they got us there.

[ they're forced to waste time on it regardless ]

At the very least, should focus on finding that shovel. See if took any of these people out. If Vlad did take it in self-defense, maybe by some miracle he managed to get a swing off too.

It does seem a little suspicious that he'd do that out of nowhere if he didn't have any kind of plan.

Rather odd, yes?

Then again, perhaps he had little else in the way of choice.

Was that on Thursday?

[oh hmmmmmm]

Good question. One for Shi Qingxuan, I'm afraid.

[piping in - ]

Yes, it was on Thursday.

Did he seem worried or fretful after you were locked in? As if he expected something?

He mostly seemed annoyed by the plants trying to hit us.

[snrk]

Fair enough, I suppose.

They were really annoying.

[she huffs, brushes some of her hair away from her face, and points at a mark on her forehead. it's like, kind of a faded bruise, but also there's some scratches.]

Just look at this! If the plants weren't important to Pride, I'd have ripped them all out of the ground.

Before or after two people lost a hand?

[(checks with lisa)]

Before that.

... So, well in advance. I'm sure someone could gleam something off that, but it isn't me.

It did strike me as odd, because... well, we hadn't spent much time together! But I thought maybe he didn't have anyone he could ask, so I didn't want to turn him away.

... Don't take this the wrong way, but maybe he messaged you because he knows you're nice and wouldn't say no.

I'm starting to think that may have been the case.

[... reaches over to pat her shoulder. there, there?]

[she smiles a little]

...well, it's not the worst reputation I could have.

(no subject)

toesies - 2021-02-27 20:10 (UTC) - Expand

shiftingwinds - 2021-02-27 20:12 (UTC) - Expand