WEEK 3: TRIAL

[dormheads]

week three: trial

victims:

Good thing yesterday was just a dream, huh?

Just kidding. Everyone will wake up to a text on their phone that has only a simple message:

Go to the gymnasium at 12 PM. Attendance is mandatory.

Everyone is free to go to the designated spot on their own, but once it hits 11:55, any stragglers will feel compelled to go and will join the others at the gym. As soon as every student is inside, the doors will lock behind them.

All of the bleachers are out, so students are free to sit wherever they like. At the very front of the gym is a gathering of a few items, one being a large desk where two of the Dorm Heads are present. When the clock hits noon, the scoreboard turns on, starting a countdown of nine hours.

From where she's seated, Sally speaks.

"You have nine hours again. It's... you'll be able to do it. Work hard."

Better get to it. That scoreboard is ticking.

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Hello everyone and welcome to our fourth trial! the next nine hours, the characters are expected to discuss among themselves, ask questions, examine the bodies of the victims, look over the evidence found yesterday, and revisit locations as needed in order to find the culprit(s). There'll be a one hour break from 5-6 PM EST, where no mod tags will occur.

Before the trial is over, please remember to place your character's vote over on the voting page. Voting will close at 9 PM EST, and will serve as our activity check for the week, so please be sure you get your vote in before it ends unless you have contacted us previously.

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Comments

[alitaba]

[ gotta love memory fuckery!! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ ]

[steelo]

....People having their memories screwed with has been - that happened to most of us that went missing. Right?

[overlimit]

[wow, all of these details are terrible, thanks]

Blood on... wait, blood magic? What kind of power could he have used?

[refate]

[ joins this branch of MEMORY FUCKERY ]

crow body!

[supercatty]

[and once Catra finishes examining Crow's body, she stands up atop a bleacher and says, voice loud but not quite loud enough to be shouting]

Hey. Not to interrupt everyone while they're dealing with Caiman, but I looked at Crow's body.

[her voice is deceptively even, her tone surprisingly. . . calm. the only thing that gives her away is the tight fist holding onto the chained pendant at her side]

First off: his neck is completely broken. There's bruising all over it in a thick, braided shape-- probably some kind of rope? If anything killed him, it was probably-- that.

[. . . an exhale]

There's braided rope-like bruising around his front and back too, like he was bound way too tightly. Hard to tell if it was before or after he was killed. He also has some fresh nicks and cuts over his front and his arms.

And finally-- his legs from the knees to the feet are completely blue-purple. It looks like bruising, but there aren't any gaps, so it doesn't really match the same braided rope-like pattern over the rest of him. Everything else about him seems fine.

. . . I found his phone in his pocket. It's locked with a passcode, so if anyone has any suggestions, now's the time to tell me. He also had his scarf and his ID in his pocket, though there's nothing weird about them that I can see.

checking his own stabby

[headsplitter]

[ This is not how I expected my first ever evidence-check to go but hey what can you do. Anyway Caiman's walking up to the evidence stuff and just. Staring at everything.

He picks up the golden sword first, and cross-examines it with his wound. Matchies? ]

[supercatty]

[sometime after she is done examining Crow's body, she approaches Viola!]

. . . hey, Viola.

[refate]

[ curse you, theatre...

okay, well, since there's nothing in the seats, he'll head up to the stage itself. he's going to watch where he walks, but he's heading towards the curtains to check them - are they open or closed? crow was... he was hanged, basically, right? are there ropes on the curtains? are there ropes on the curtains that are missing? ]

[selfestheim]

Your face said enough.

[disreguarded]

Yeah. Might want to see if we can see anybody else in his memories.

[she's very tense.]

[katzepaw]

What would be the point of that. Some kind of evidence, in his head? Just fucking senseless cruelty?

Mollymauk knife check

[duranduel]

[cha cha real smooth slides over.]

[First, the big cut. He'll just insert the first part of the knife carefully, just to compare the side of the wound to it, and won't go further if its too small for it. Is it bigger or smaller than the knife?]

[lifeless]

[maybe it's time to take a page out of ichiro's book and punch a wall too,

Manwol nods.]

We received entirely new memories. [She gestures with her chin to Kon and Alphinaud,] And we lost our original memories -- but that was only temporary.

[duranduel]

Blood on his hand...? Like...from a wound, or?

[I know there was no wound but Mandi wants IC clarification.]

[disreguarded]

He was tangled up and hanging from ropes, I think. When we found him. Maybe the blue-purple legs was just no blood getting there?

[azuta]

[ . . . ah.

she's still tense but she looks to catra and offers a small, tired smile. she briefly eyes the scarf she brought with her before dropping her gaze down to the assortment of foods everyone brought to her.]

... hello, Catra. Thank you, for looking after him.

[branches]

[UM.]

They... So they removed his brain? How big was the hole?

[refate]

[ he nods, and stays close to her, letting the others handle gathering evidence from and talking to caiman. ]

[alitaba]

[ her face now says shhh let her have her .02 seconds on joy ]

[katzepaw]

He could have used his magic to create ice. At home, he fights by cutting himself with weapons, and they take on magical forms from his blood. He had the ice back, which would normally mean coating a sword in ice to make it sharp and deadly.

[katzepaw]

No wound that I could see, but I think sometimes his eye tattoos bleed when he uses his power.

[sawboned]

[it loosens him up a bit, probably enough for his non-apology to caleb]

[supercatty]

[not only is she wearing Crow's scarf, but she has his pendant held in both hands, pressed against her chest. to Viola's gratitude, she just nods]

[. . . and then holds the pendant out to her]

[katzepaw]

About the size of my hand.

[steelo]

[ ...

he looks like he hates suggesting this, making a foul face, but also. ]

...If someone... either was controlling Caiman or... even trying to create drama that matched a "character"... he did literally say he saw his own head get autopsied.