7rings | WEEK 3 TRIAL

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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.

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Good luck, and have fun!

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Either that or someone slipped something into it while he was distracted. Either way, it had to be someone he trusted. Or he was just waaaayyy too trustworthy.

It had to have been before curfew, though. No one else was in the kitchen, and no one was staying alone anywhere. [ a beat ] Unless he ate some food after midnight.

Edited 2021-03-07 01:03 (UTC)

Got a feeling it was before curfew. I mean.... whoever the killer was, they fucked up the body super bad, right? If I hadn't wiped it off, I never would have found the poison. It had to have been deliberate... to try to cover it up, or something.

Have we considered the angle that maybe they did it with poison because... they didn't think they could take him out in a fight?

A good angle to consider, but we gotta assume they're strong enough to brain him in post-mortem, or had some kind of trick to get it done.

If he was already dead, it's really not that hard. I mean, the guy was apparently in a biker gang, right? So maybe that person knew that and knew they didn't want to get into a fight with him.

Don't know how many people knew, but Omi was pretty open about it during that week we were all seeing each other's memories. Got the feeling that he gave up on keeping it a secret.

That week sucked. [ important? ] So it's a possibility they didn't want to fight him for a variety of reasons, and knew he could fight back, so they went for poison.

Well, yeah, but braining a guy and dragging his body around? That requires some upper body strength. Like, I doubt lesbeanie baby over there [ gestures at aoi ] could pull it off.

So yeah, I think you're probably right, OR it's someone Omi wouldn't fight -- love, or whatever -- so they staged it.

I don't think she's smart enough either.

[ aoi didn't even do anything to deserve being called stupid but grace nods to say eleanor has a point ]

I don't think he'd lie down without a fight. I mean, he had pretty bad taste, but he wanted his wish the same as the rest of us.

[ grace just because it's true ]

The dinner setting, and the fact that there's no sign of struggle... that does make me think that this was perpetrated by someone he knew, whether before or after lockdown.

Yeah. The problem is, someone he knew and trusted really doesn't narrow it down at all.

For someone like Omi, perhaps not.

Though to accept a meal made by someone else on a Thursday would mean he was either remarkably foolish, or did trust this person unflinchingly.

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That too. [ rip aoi.......... ]

Well, we've all been pretty out of whack this week... [ what with sin city ] but yeah, all we know for sure is the staged fight.

[he nods...]

Even if it's just - killing him in the kitchen and then dragging him to the observation room, that's heavy. Especially for someone Omi-san's size when his weight's completely on you...

That's dead weight. Literally.

[he didn't want to say it but]

Yeah. So who could cook a meal that Omi-san would eat on a Thursday and be strong enough to haul him somewhere?

[his brow furrows]

Actually, when the hell did they do that? Are you telling me someone dumped his body in the observation room and then went to their curfew spot?

No one was in the kitchen, so they could have just gone to fetch his body after curfew?

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I'm kind of wondering if the poison was a slower effect, so he ate it before and then it kicked in post-curfew? It's.... weird.

fatalattraction - 2021-03-07 01:45 (UTC) - Expand

I think even those of us in Omi's size range would have some difficulty in carrying his dead weight. That doesn't stop someone of that size or smaller from doing it, but it is something to consider.

[nods...]

But then - would we have a hint for anything like that...?

maelstroms - 2021-03-07 01:50 (UTC) - Expand

Could be a pair. Accomplices. One to do the poisoning, one to carry. Help them cover it.

That could explain the weird-ass sequence of events we haven't even fully nailed down, I guess.

Mm. I think the blood and brains in the observatory are because they brained him post-mortem, to make it seem like a fight.

That's my thinking, babe. Probably someone who would lose to him in a straight fight, OR someone he wouldn't fight. You know, out of feelings and all that crap.