7rings | WEEK 4 TRIAL

WEEK 4 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.

trial. noon.

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, Wrath, Greed, Despair and Sloth patiently wait as the TV above them displays a message.

Victim: Eleanor Shellstrop

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

Wrath is sitting on the table, organizing notes and gently sliding them to Greed. Sloth is here with what looks like a dog-shaped neck pillow sticking out of the edges of their hood. The spiraled horn on the top of their head is longer and sharper. Greed is leaning against the table in an attempt to be present, hands tentatively reaching forward to take the papers from Wrath. Despair has taken their usual seat, just vibing here as they quietly observe. Oddly, Sloth, Greed and Wrath are not in their cloaks today. Instead, they are in sweatpants (shorts in Wrath's case) and cozy hoodies in their color with their symbol printed on the front. The hoods are pulled over their heads however. Once everyone has settled, Sloth chimes in.

Everyone has nine hours again! You can do it! Last time, you even did it a little early! Wow!

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Hello, and welcome to your fifth 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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No body. Got it. Zixi if you're going to do the texting nonsense do you want me to carry all the glass or what? Tell them about the fire.

[seriously at least dont try and juggle glass and a phone at the same time.

Any sort of marks on the wall in particular, like a weapon might have been swung around? Or just like someone bumped into them or tore things off in a panic?

And if they enter the dining room, helping to search that too immediately - if mineo has the table are there any cabinets around or anything. stuff knocked on the floor in here too?]

[gu yun picks up another piece of glass that has a Q on it. and then another that has UIL and half of an A. in the air is the slight smell of tequila, but it's barely noticeable over the smell of fire and burning wood and smoke.

the things on the floor look mostly like pictures, or other knickknacks which had been hanging on the walls, and stuff from the dining room.

as gu yun walks along, his hand and wrist suddenly vanish into the wall near the doorway to the dining room. AHHH! kidding, it's fine. his hand slips into a little hole which molly can see when he glances around the wall.

in the dining room doorway, they can see everything inside is a mess. the flames peel back away to the corners of the walls when sloth leads them inside.]

[ STOP I JUST GREW THIS HAND BACK

anyway BEFORE his hand gets sucked up by a little hole in the wall he's going to turn and carefully give molly the glass, double wrapping it up in the fabric before handing it over. ] It's alcohol. Tequila, based on the label - I can smell it in here, too.

[ sometimes you have a dog's nose,

anyway he will send a quick text update and then immediately accidentally stick his hand in the hole in the wall as requested. ] What the hell? [ MY OUTSIDE HAND

was. was this hole there before. he spent the night here last night so. does it go all the way through? how big is it. is there anything in it besides gu yun's hand. let me investigate the hole ]

[well well well he hates being here. it seems like gu yun and molly are looking at a hole, good for them!! so mineo will walk ahead to the dining room.]

Alcohol is pretty flammable - so when did it get set on fire...

[what’s normally in the dining room, where are the tables and chairs? looking around on the floor first, is there more glass shards this way or did that stop in the entryway. does this room also kind of smell like tequila or nah?

mineo will step in to look around, checking the perimeter walls first before circling closer into the center of the room before checking the table. is there anything immediately off about it]

Hole!

[molly was also trying to text and continues to do so just briefly after HOLEGATE but quickly takes the glass and comes over to investigate yeah

it's a little hole but big enough for gu yun's hand? does he need help getting like

out of it

are there any other holes along the walls or anywhere? Ceiling? Up? Floor?]

Be pretty simple to light it with the stove or something, right? Should check the kitchen too. Anything in there, Mineo?

[HOLE! it's just big enough for gu yun's hand to go in (hehe), but it doesn't get stuck. he can take it out. it's concave, wider at the edges and narrower in the center, not very deep. it's also a lot lower on the wall than gu yun, molly too. there's no more holes anywhere else, though. just this one.

the inside of the dining room doesn't smell like tequila. there's a single dining table and some chairs. the chairs are either pushed around or flipped over. likewise, everything on the table has been shoved around, or tumbled to the floor.

by the table, mineo spots a bunched up rug.]

[ he lifts his head up to look at molly. bats his eyelashes. very innocently: ] Promise I can pull out by myself.

[ bad

anyway. he's gonna take his phone out with his free hand and take a picture of the Hole so they can compare it to things later, and then put his palm flat on the wall next to it to size compare and snap a picture of that as well. is it oval shaped or round? there was nothing in it besides his hand right. does it look cleanly made (ie: are there any cracks in the wall around it or anything?)

also, where is it in relation to gu yun's height since its low? chest height? waist? closer to the ground? aaand i asked clarifying q so there's a door! does it match the doorknob/within reasonable distance of the doorknob? just in case

sorry he's too busy being useful to give any text hole updates rn so just assume hes dead. ]

It doesn’t smell like tequila in here - so I think that the fire just spread naturally after being started in the entrance! Why are you talking about pulling - Wait, are you guys being - intimate? That’s not the word I wanted. [louder:] Think of White!!

[explain the hole.

anyway calling back to Molly and Gu Yun with their hole bonding]

Stuff’s been pretty messed up here too. There’s a rug that’s kind of shuffled around, so I think Eleanor-san could’ve tripped…?

[time to go check out the rug!! is there anything off about it from first glance, does it look like it’s been rolled up on purpose? is it stuck on something?? once he’s closer to the ground does he notice anything else under the table or chairs i’m serious about never missing a sticky note that says Spear ever again]

No longer virginal, got it.

[molly had a similar idea because he takes a picture of gu yun taking pictures and just

texts it to white. hole!

Anyway moving into the dining room since he seems to have this handled. Does it seem like the fire spread FROM the front room into here? just trying to pin down fire origin and if it was at that bottle or not.]

Seems like a real fucking time of it in here.

[the hole is about as tall from top to bottom as gu yun's hand. the hole looks like this bc yall are making me describe a hole, and i'm doing my best. it's about waist height with gu yun; if he punched directly out with his arm, it'd be lower than where he would punch. the doorknob does not match the location of the hole, no.

mineo's haphazardly dropped in a ball rug is... crocheted! cute! except it's scorched and burnt. from his position, he can see red liquid on the floor under the table. something wet drips down onto his cheek. ☺️]

[ first, squints at his phone. ]

They thought I fell in a hole? Who do I look like, Fukuda?

[ he's gonna mime a punch at his own natural punch height, tapping his knuckles against the wall to check that distance. not punching another hole in the wall!

and then, if he squats down to roughly eleanor's height and tries it, would that be a better match? ]

You two see anything in there? [ have fun with your blood and your dripping over there. he's gonna go check over by the base of the stairs if that's not too far from sloth. ]

Edited 2021-03-13 19:32 (UTC)

Oohhhhhhh my god, this is so gross. Hold on, something's by the table.

[is he talking about the now slutty hole or whatever just dripped on his cheek who can say

whAT’S DRIPPING, HE’S NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO LICK IT. He’ll try to wipe it off his cheek and sniff it I guess? can he tell what’s on the underside of the table from his position? or does he have to move it? he’ll only do the latter if he can’t get a clear idea from just looking.

also looking at the red liquid… is it blood or ketchup]

[shouting out for gu yun who's fooling around with holes in the hallway:]

Either a very bad jam accident under this table or Mineo's got blood all over his face now!

[dropping to look at the red puddle too - and then since mineo's got under the table he'll look up at the table top. is there red on the top too and it's just dripping through or only on the underside?]

[when gu yun squats down, it is a better height, yes. sloth is by the door, so the stairs aren't too far. there's a wall of fire blocking the way to the next story. the stairs themselves aren't damaged outside of fire damage. a few things hanging on the wall near the bottom have been knocked off onto the floor, nothing in particular.

mineo brings his fingers back, and it's.... blood! yay! it doesn't really smell like much, but it's sort of sticky, and he can definitely tell it's blood. it's on the floor, and on his cheek now. when he looks under the table, there is blood at one corner.

the blood from the corner is right above the blood on the floor under the table. a few inches away, there's more blood. it heads right between molly's feet and back toward the door of the dining room. there isn't anything on the surface of the table.]

Don't let him lick it.

[ he will continue to be helpful despite the chat, so!! aight he's standing up proper. ] When we find Eleanor's body, let's check for bruising on the knuckles.

[ by the stairs: are the things near the bottom knocked off at around what eleanor's height might have been if she bumped into it?

otherwise he's gonna go join the others and then look in the direction of the kitchen, too, just to see if anything looks off at first glance there too. idk what other rooms are available in this first floor ] Must've been a struggle. Think someone bumped their head, maybe? Trying to crawl?

Why would I lick it?! I’m not Lenore-san!

[that said. . . sticky?

mineo’s brow furrows at that and he’ll actually try to get a better idea of texture? is it normal level of blood viscosity or is it more like it’s congealed, like, I don’t know, boiled blood?

is the corner of the table especially sharp?? he’s also gonna do one more check on the rug to see if there’s anything on it or if it’s just burnt]

I don't know - maybe? If she fell and then hit her head... We'll have to find her body quick - but if she got out of here, where would she go?

Edited 2021-03-13 20:00 (UTC)

Why do I have this reputation? I've never licked a single thing myself.

[just encouraged people to do it?

When the rug was all balled up does it look like someone did that intentionally or just looney tunes scooted it during a chase scene that involved wall holes and falling into tables?

Anyway he'll follow the blood trail - does it look like just drips from someone trying to run or walk away? Or a more violent injury. Where's it lead.]

If she was running around this floor trying to escape, makes sense she might have ducked into another room on this floor.

[the things knocked off the wall are everything that's fairly lower down. there is fire everywhere else in the house. nothing else looks out of place, though, in the direction of any of the other rooms.

the blood on mineo's fingers is just normal blood. it just gets tacky after it starts drying a bit on his skin like blood is wont to do. the corner of the table has a very nicely dangerous right angle. the rug looks like it was dropped aside, but it hadn't been balled up tightly. nothing is in it, and the only thing on it is heavy scorch marks from fire.

molly's blood trail leads him directly out the door and bumping right into gu yun who comes in. oof! it takes a turn and heads in the direction of the entrance. it's a hurried trail, but not sporadic. it's not a ton of blood either.

"they would have seen this before mods?" yes, but (anna voice) follow natural order of progression rules.]

[ oh, looks at phone. he's playing deaf to both of their protests now. ]

Think the other group found her - also, the dog she had breathed fire, apparently, so that's likely how this started.

[ gu yun does in fact bump into molly when he heads out, bracing himself briefly and giving him a pat on the chest, and then turning back to look at the blood trail on the way out. was that there before. (anna voice) yes

he'll turn to go follow it, too, though. is there any places where it's more collected, like someone might have stood still? ]

...Maybe they put the dog in the rug. [ if it was blowing fire everywhere?? who knows ]

[ANNA OUR BLOOD LOGIC. but just to confirm the blood trail looks like it goes from the table and then back out the way that they came? through the tequila bits.]

.... but with the tequila, it kinda feels hard to believe that it's all an accident? Maybe it was, though.

[like. huge murder comedy of errors type thing. at the mention of putting the dog in the rug mineo is now going to look even more closely for dog hairs. hello? pomeranians shed, don't they. are they able to find any dog hairs on the floor in general amidst the blood and everything strewn about? mineo will try to shuffle through the stuff

is there any other way out in the bottom floor of the house? like a back door or anything.]

Dog that--?

[oop! sorry gu yun. chest patted. And then his phone dings.]

Ah-- body was in the city, apparently.

[so there you go]

So ran from in here to there, then? Does seem like a bit of a farce happened. Lots of running around and setting things aflame. Sloth, there anything else in here? Do make it easy on us if you can, the whole damned place is on fucking fire.

[there isn't any doggy fur on the rug, nope. every so often, there's some little pom furs the fire didn't snatch away, but it isn't in any particular area or clump outside of being near the entrance area.

there is a collection of blood where the tequila bits had been near the door to the house.]

Sure! Imagine just being in a whole house of fire and not dying! Wow!

[sloth holds out their hand to whoever wants to be the first to take it.] Ready? Let's follow your trail if you're finished looking around here, huh? [time for the float train!]

Edited (wait i forgot to answer dana about the blood) 2021-03-13 20:50 (UTC)

Lucky for us that we had you, Sloth, so we didn't have to imagine it at all. Thank you.

[ glancing down at that blood and kind of sup nodding towards the other two. he'll take sloth's hand, though, and offer his free one out to whoever wants it for the float train. ] The house will be alright, right? It'll restore itself?

[ poor envy :( ]

[thank you for my blood - that said right before they're on the way out, mineo's gonna check around the dining room and entranceway for one more thing - there's no liquor cabinet, right? so no easy place to get tequila from?? he'll take a picture of the path just for posterity but otherwise he'll trail after for the float train]

Man, I hope so... Thanks for the help, Sloth-san. It made it way easier.

[even if he still looks anxious about the idea of leaving when there's so much fucking fire]

Right, got it, fire got bad after they ran out.

[one last ceiling check for the road because i do NOT trust sipp but hooray, time to follow the trail]

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