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

[goalsides]

[squinting...]

Maybe the gun's not a literal gun but it's something else like a gun?

[txt]

... Maybe if we count the state of the back of his head as an exit wound. But then, where's the entry hole?

[headsplitter]

 

[steelo]

On Thursday, though. I mean... these receipts are only for Thursday, right? [ OR NOT IDR AAA ]

So... I guess if I was a murderer and I knew my weapon would last me more than a day, I'd do it the day before...

[ghoststrums]

[ every week ... he hates these hints ]

... Molly isn't a wizard, right?

[feytality]

Oh.... wow.

[katzepaw]

Viola,

I know Mollymauk made some purchases, and I can guess at them, I think, but might need assistance. If he used them in the murder, they would be on there, yes?

[supercatty]

[she actually stares at him for a moment but]

[ultimately she does not say anything]

[duranduel]

What could be like a gun? Like a drill?

[somewhere, fukuda sneezes]

It shows something shooting out...

[divineimpulse]

[??????????

what an insulting piece??]

A gunshot could explain the holes...

[THEN WHY CUT HIS HEAD OFF]

[selfestheim]

Viola mentioned that the receipts are either for transactions on Thursday, or ones that are relevant to the crimes regardless of what day it was used. So...it still would've showed up.

[commandertoolbelt]

That's what I'm saying! There'd have to be an entry wound, but Caleb would've found it. So what the hell does that even mean?

I guess it could be like a taser or something that would incapacitate him but not actively wound him...? But that doesn't seem likely, if they were out to kill him anyway.

[duranduel]

...Wait a second. If the bullet stayed in the brain, and didn't exit...maybe that's why his brains were thrown out? To hide that?

[azuta]

[she nods]

That's correct. If those purchases were used and were relevant to what happened to him, they would appear even if they weren't purchased that Thursday.

[illuminance]

He didn't seem to consider himself one. Despite the hemomancy.

[ambiography]

Well, I suppose the other possibility is it has something to do with who killed him, but otherwise I think we're just-- assuming it's him with the hat, yes.

[disreguarded]

Yeah, it was. [folds arms.]

Which - that's what we assumed. But someone shot him, and then decapitated him to...

Did they use Caiman to cover up their tracks? That has to be right.

[steelo]

[ nodding... sorry his brains are still scrambled from cyoa (thank you andie) ]

""fine print""

[refate]

[ how many threads am i going to put into the toplevels and pings channel, sisi said it didn't matter so we're just going to make a new toplevel for this

kon is so tired and staring off into the void still, but it's obvious he's spending the entire time thinking. ]

When doing the exchange, Viola stated that the power would work once a week, and allow me to "see up to a minute of someone's memories." I've pulled weeks before coming to Wiwaldi, and so the memory length limit isn't shocking - but there's no fine print, no limitation, in place that would result in me getting nothing. I literally didn't pull or see anything with Caiman, it was only an impression, and I aimed for the broad range of midnight to morning for anything that I could pull.

Like a scanner, if there was something to pick up, I would think it would pick up. This place isn't that cruel.

[ i'm also spiritually tired and these terms were negotiated monday of w2 but the power was received OOCly thursday w3 and never used before so i'm going to lay down on the floor now ]

[goalsides]

Or maybe a gun that doesn't shoot bullets, like a flare gun. That makes less sense but that's an example.

...don't we have tools available in that lab though? [urgggh.] Somebody brought up a good point that there's only one hole in his head, right?

[disreguarded]

I wouldn't call him one, but he can use magic. So maybe that's what it's implying.

[branches]

[Please imagine someone just picking Tsuyukusa up by his ankles and shaking him until a bunch of plants and stuff falls out. Because he's got no pockets so he's just pulling a bunch of various herbs and flowers (both dried and fresh) out of his shirt. Some small containers of salves he's made. paper packets of powders.

And then his phone, ID, and two vouchers. That's it!!]

[ghoststrums]

[ please don't say "hemomancy", it hurts him ]

The x's... it has to be Molly, though, if it's someone dead.

[selfestheim]

[ IT'S FINE he pats ichiro...lil bro's got u... ]

...That's only coupons, though. It could still be one of the voucher purchases that hasn't been accounted for yet.

[txt]

Oh! Like was shot through the back of his head, and the rest happened afterward to conceal the fact?