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

[goalsides]

So here's the next question. Why move Malik inside and actually cover him with a coat to keep him warm versus putting Caiman in a freezer and stabbing him? Malik was covered in dirt, too, so...what? Did they carry him from the orchard back to the dorm?

[selfestheim]

...Did they think Caiman would die if he was stuck somewhere cold overnight? I mean, not just because that would eventually kill anybody, but because of his...... head. They might have thought he was cold-blooded...?

[headsplitter]

Hey! That's the worst joke I've ever heard in my life!

[selfestheim]

It wasn't a joke. We don't know what the person who did this to you was thinking...it's as good of a guess as anything else.

[goalsides]

Maybe? That's not a bad theory. If someone didn't know he really was like...mostly human, that could've been their thought. But then again if anybody got cold enough they could possibly die anyway.

[he looks at his frostbitten left hand.]

What I want to know is how they got him in there.

[selfestheim]

[ he also glances at taichi's hand. oof. ]

I guess...yeah. I was mostly thinking how it's basically guaranteed for a reptile to die if it can't regulate its body temperature, but as far as we know, it really is just his head. [ beat ] I don't know. Teleportation? A strength-enhancing potion?

[goalsides]

Even if it's just his head his brain's there? Maybe they thought if he couldn't regulate the temperature he'd die from brain failure or something. He was pretty pale when we found him...

[headsplitter]

I got an autopsy performed on my head, before. Outside of how it looks, all the internals' exactly the same as a person skull. Real person brain and everything.

[shaft]

If they'd already stabbed him, then they could've just slashed his throat.

[selfestheim]

. . .

Un...less they thought they couldn't because of the scales?

[ hope is looking kind of dubious as he says it but i started this stupid theory and im going to die with it ]

[refate]

Of the past two sets of sleepers, Sakyou and Malik would be easier to move physically than I would be, and Caiman... there's honestly not many people here that could do it without some kind of help. I know a number of people had teleportation coupons, but we can't... really check their uses now.

It'd be easier if we knew how people were getting moved in the first place. But since Sakyou and I were cold when we woke up, and Malik was dirty, it does seem likely that we were all outside at some point.

[ he's got nothing for the caiman stabs+freezer vs malik getting tucked in, unfortunately, and gives him a helpless shrug there ]

[modissty]

I'd like to know what changed in terms of where we're being left, as well. The first two sets were still outside, so why is that different, even though it's likely we're all still outdoors at some point?

[But he says it more idly than anything considering he assumes it will not help them solve this double homicide,]

[refate]

[ yeah, it's more something they should probably discuss on free time - the theories about wtf happens to sleepers ]

Something for us to think about. Maybe the remaining sleepers should compile all of their injuries, positions, and states at some point. Cross-check and compare.

[goalsides]

It almost sounds like people are just teleported when we all pass out. Hanayagi said she and Tomoe both woke up outside the night she killed him. And that Sieghart and Dimitri were already out there, too.

So it's less how you all got out there but how you moved, yeah. [...] I'm kind of out of ideas, too.

[refate]

... yeah. Rupert said the same thing. [ :pensive: ] But if sleepers are moved the same way the murderer and target are, then that just gives us "why and how are they moved," and "how did some of them get dropped back in their dorms."

[goalsides]

[...]

This is really out there, but we know the dorm heads are asleep at the same time we are. But what about Principal Bear?

[refate]

... you gotta know I hate that, right Taichi? [ in a tired kind of way. ] I mean, we can try getting in contact with him and asking, I guess.

[ambiography]

...well, if the message from this week about finding his keys is any indication, he just might be relevant in some way.

[which she says seriously, but like, also with the tone of someone who cannot believe they are considering the bear theory.]

[godcards]

[ He heard his name HE IS SUMMONED ]

I was only dirty in the front, not the back... I am not sure how something like that would happen.

And I was still cold, even with the coat.

[refate]

So you were likely chest-down in the dirt like we were dropped on the tables. [ so tired ]

I know you're only comfortable with a few people checking you when we do injury checks with Otome-sensei, so I won't ask for you to show us - but any injuries to go with the dirt?

[godcards]

Only a small mark on my face. Nothing else.

What I'd be interested in is if there is anybody who would have moved me if I were outside, or if I came back under my own power.

[ he may weigh nothing but he's still an unwieldy 5'11 noodle ]

[goalsides]

[kon's asking malik questions but he gives an encouraging nod. thanks for speaking up, malik.]

You must've been out there for a while then.

[godcards]

But why? If they wanted to die, they could have left me there. I'd be interested to know if someone - or something - brought me back.

[goalsides]

...[a shrug.] Same reason someone put Sagihara and Kon back last week. We're not sure. Maybe because you guys weren't actually involved.

[godcards]

I wasn't, but there would still be a reason, even if it's to make things more complicated.