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!"

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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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It would be so very stupid, to bite into a croissant, realize you'd been mortally wounded somehow, scramble for a piece of chalk, begin to write my croissant, realize you didn't know how to spell croissant, and then write bread.

[Staring, remorseful.]

It would be exceptionally stupid. Absolutely stupid. Only an extremely stupid man would do this.

[damn harrow the guy is dead!!!]

[ harrow do you think it was vlad? ]

[I'm just saying I think this very stupid thing is exactly what happened!!!]

[Are we stupid or are we dancer]

[ stupid ]

...He could have just wrote the murderer's name, but no.

Unless it's written in another language, or easy to mistake for multiple people's names or a sequence of numbers or something, the mystery is too easy.

Edited 2021-02-27 23:41 (UTC)

I'd like to think a killer would be smart enough to try and erase their own name, somehow...

[THEN AGAIN, BETWEEN TOBLERONEGATE AND CROISSANTGATE, HIS FAITH IN THE MURDERER'S CLUB IS LOW]

[okay she's

cracking up a little

DAMN, HARROW.]

I know Mr Vlad was stubborn, but I don't think he was that stupid, miss Harrow....

Yes, I can see how you would have thought so.

Well. If you think him and me are the same, I can say I definitely wouldn't do something like that. Does that help?

[ wanders over here. ]

I am here to confirm that there was nothing unusual with the croissant, and it truly was a waste of time all around.

[ vlad is still trying for second place even while dead...... ]

I'm not saying we ought to discount the message altogether, only - entertain the possibility that it is an extremely stupid dying gesture by an extremely stupid dying man.

Did they confirm that it was all the same handwriting?

[ holds up hand for a high five ]

You know, I'm all for roasting Vlad, but I gotta wonder if it was a code of some sort.

Like an anagram?

Yeah. I mean, like, honestly, if he did try to write a name or an actual clue, I'm guessing the killer would have gotten rid of it. Like, who the hell is just gonna walk off with their name on a chalkboard? But if he wrote something that looks like nonsense, they probably would have left it.

Or it's just there to waste our time. Or he's just a moron. Who's to say?

(no subject)

fisherwoman - 2021-02-27 23:51 (UTC) - Expand

Putting aside what Aoi said, why.

[She. Looks warily at her like she doesn't understand why Eleanor is planning to strike her?]

Yeah, she might be onto something.

[ hold on this is important. ]

Dude, I'm trying to give you a high five. Have you never had one before?

bonetiddies - 2021-02-27 23:50 (UTC) - Expand

messybench - 2021-02-27 23:52 (UTC) - Expand

[ holy shit ]

There were more of them in the hallway, too. So... maybe... he was trying to point out that he'd left the path.

I... think he would've known how to spell that word. I hope.

A breadcrumb trail!

Really, really big breadcrumbs!

[ the thing gu yun hates the most about this is that it kind of makes sense

he. pats aoi's head. ] Right. Exactly.

Edited 2021-02-27 23:54 (UTC)

[ okay despite the fact that they have two hours left and everything is terrible, she laughs a little. ]

You have such a way with words, Harrowhark.