7rings | WEEK 3 TRIAL

POPULATION: 25

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.

goood morning! come join us in the conference room when you're ready!

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: Omi Fushimi, Ashiya Douman

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

Lust is at the table and seems to be finishing a topcoat on their nails. Pride is looking down at their claws, sprawled in their chair. Envy is slumped forward on the table... but don't worry, he's not dead this time, he just has his head pillowed on his folded arms. Gluttony is sitting up straight, hands laced together and waiting.

The rest of the Avatars all look at Pride after a moment of silence, and then, vaguely annoyed, Pride says:

What? They know they have nine hours by this point. Don't look at me.

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Hello, and welcome to fourth 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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Depends on if you only think it's concerning if it's relevant to you guys or something.

[Wow. She kind of makes a face.]

Have I given you reason to assume I'm so entirely self-absorbed?

How about this. If it's relevant to us, we ought to know about it. If you're just having a bad morning for your own reasons, it's not particularly any of my business to pry, which is not the same thing as being unconcerned.

[oh. well, he does look guilty about it, at least, just sort of burying his face in his robe sleeves a little more.]

...sorry. It's been, uh, kind of a shitty week. Nothing you guys have to factor in.

[Honestly, though, she implied she cared, but also like. Definitely lied and is now judging him for having his personal problems in the middle of trial.]

Ah. Well. There, there.

[it's fine, he assumes if he wasn't specifically checked in on already then people don't care about him.]

... it's fine, you can go back to what you guys are doing. I'll be here.

[Cry harder, baby!!!!!! No, she's not acting hostile, just quietly thinking mean thoughts.]

Very well. Try to keep your spirits up.

[Maybe Molly can gently hold your hand a lil more since his week was so cool and great!! Sorry about these mean metatext comments again I'm very sorry.]

I have literally zero people aligned with me now and figuring anything out here won't change that! So, y'know.

[the spirits will remain down, even if he manages to say that weirdly cheerfully.]

That is what I was asking after, you know. But perhaps it's a discussion for later - the implications of your depleted team.

[Okay, no mean thoughts this time.]

The implication is that you guys, generically speaking, apparently have it out for me specifically! But I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually matter.

If it did matter then it'd be too late for you all to do anything about it by the time you started caring about the results anyway, which is also a great feeling, let me tell you.

It's not as though I'm the one who killed them.

[To Envy or whichever Avatar is around.]

I would like you to provide a suitable divider. We are going to do this efficiently this time.

I'm sure you would like that, yeah, but you guys are going to have to work without one. Sorry.

Ridiculous. You'll summon taffy from the ether so we can bite down on it, but you will not accommodate a simple request that will make this entire process more efficient.

[Crossing her arms?]

Why.

I mean, are you really sure this makes it more efficient? Seems to me like you guys need all the help you can get for it, usually.

Thanks for the advice. This is how I plan on doing it. Does the answer continue to be a no?

Despair is going to be annoyed at me if I give you stuff they didn't, because then you're going to ask for it next time when they said no. I'm just trying to be consistent!

I can handle Despair next time, too. Is it a no.

I literally already said no, I don't know what you want from me--! Do I have to say it three times for it to count or something?

[Because she wanted to see if she could bully him into it, obviously. Proud of Envy. Anyway, she's storming off.]

[envy just frowns after her, looking kind of unsure, before leaning over to the other avatars and keeping his voice down.]

...did I say something wrong? I thought it was reasonable...

[at normal volume:] No. You had a spine for once. Own that.

[oh. he blinks over at pride, startled-- hello? is that a compliment?]

[Coming back, despite all the bullying earlier.]

I want to make sure we aren't making a mistaken assumption. What causes the body to update with injuries is that we walked into the place they died, correct?

[he's watching harrow uncertainly, but:]

Yeah, that'd be it.

So no - trickery. No - they ingested poison there but were moved somewhere else.

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