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

[alteracion]

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Here's a better question, why bother separating the boots and the shovel? That seems like extra work, to bring his boots back and also bring his shovel back to his bedroom.

[shiftingwinds]

...there was a lot more blood on the shovel, right? There was only a little blood on Ming-xiong's boot. If it hadn't been pinching him enough that he tried to adjust it, he might not have noticed the blood, and might've worn them to trial today.

But the blood on the shovel would have been impossible to miss. I think it had to have been separated so that he wouldn't notice it was bloody right away. And putting it in his closet would have made him look like he tried to hide it.

What would we have all thought if we hadn't known about the blood on his boots from the start?

[alteracion]

But he didn't see the shovel in his own closet. We never find evidence before Saturday except for hints, so it would've ended up the same by Saturday, wouldn't it?

[shiftingwinds]

That's my point. If it wasn't in the closet, it would have been with him, and that amount of blood would have been impossible to miss unless it was cleaned off that night.

By putting it in the closet, they made absolutely sure that we wouldn't find it until today, when it would look most suspicious if he hadn't already noticed the blood on his shoes.

So that's probably why they would have gone out of their way to do it.