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.

If you have any questions at any time, please let us know by pinging us on Discord!

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Comments

[katzepaw]

What if he was sleeping? What if he was one of the sleepers outdoors, but his body was used?

[duranduel]

...Is this more evidence that he was controlled or forced to do it? Like brainwashing...

[ghoststrums]

... So whatever happened, he wasn't awake or aware of it.

[ambiography]

At least there's that, then.

[-she will come back in a bit though which i am doing so i don't tag you repeatedly while we live in notif hell.]

Just to be sure-- you're certain that's what they're from? The two of you don't match up.

[headsplitter]

[ He's seconding Beau with this one. He gets up and just looks like -- idk, what his icon looks like I guess. ]

Wh -- what do you mean there's nothing...!

[ IS THIS BETTER OR WORSE? ]

[dormheads]

[ Digging will reveal dirt and worms, I guess, whatever lives in dirt. Maybe Childe's there.

The prints are the same ones from earlier, yes. They're not bloody, the drops of blood just go along with them. ]

[illuminance]

This does make finding the true culprit harder. But it's a relief to have some assurance that it wasn't Caiman in control of himself.

[alitaba]

[ HAW ]

D-does that mean someone else was driving?

[txt]

You mean, during our adventure? I thought about it, but my phone was totally gone.

[ghoststrums]

Ichinose-san and I didn't have our phones in there.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ bending time and space so mabel can be conspicuously looking literally anywhere else rn ]

[disreguarded]

[nods!!]

It is for now. Did you have more than this at the start of the week?

[repress]

If the pattern persists that two people are outside every Thursday night, then perhaps he was encountered by someone... or they controlled his body, somehow.

[lifeless]

[THIS FEELS LIKE IT'S WORSE HONESTLY]

[commandertoolbelt]

[ muttering ] Why is it always like this.

Does that mean someone took his memories, then? Or that there's some kind mind control out there that makes the target go totally blank?

[ creepy and alarming! yay! ]

[refate]

[ he's obviously frustrated but it's not at anyone, and he draws it back in. ]

It could be a few different things. Could be like our hint, in that it's better timed in the later half.

Could be that he was, genuinely, a sleeper in the time period I aimed for.

Could be that he was overwritten.

[goalsides]

[ah.]

That definitely changes some things then. If he was only moving for about a minute...would that've been enough time to get from the start point to the freezer, you think?

[headsplitter]

This might as well fucking happen. Trial's already so goddamn weird.

[ He is ready to just piggyback on Mandy, let's go bitch. ]

[disreguarded]

What kind of magic. Don't play with me right now, I'm not in the mood for it.

[selfestheim]

Gone? [ nani ] Did you guys have...anything on you?

[godcards]

No.

[shaft]

I believe all the healing coupons from last week were accounted for. [ Caleb, Molly, Mabel, Yamato and Crow? ] But yeah, someone could have received one Friday and used it to patch themselves up.

[ Gives Sakyou a meaningful look. ]

[branches]

[I think we got the go ahead to check stables so. Tsuyukusa gets up to head over with Mabel.]

Yeah, lets. There's nothing here so... Maybe there's something that got overlooked there.

[selfestheim]

Did you guys have anything on you...?

[refate]

[ side gesture at dimitri ]