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

[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.

[katzepaw]

. . . Ja. Maybe that's possible.

They did have very similar backgrounds. Maybe that made for some good drama.

[headsplitter]

[ Oh, motherfucker. He tenses. ]

Who... the fuck...

[katzepaw]

Caiman. . .

[He actually drops a little bit of the cold fury again when he looks at him; there's something sympathetic.]

If you were manipulated here, then I want to get to the bottom of that, too.

[headsplitter]

...Yeah. I... yeah.

I just hope... not.

[ Everything is happening so much. ]

[steelo]

[ fuckin hate that. his scowl deepens, angry. ]

And... the way Molly was - the way he was on the ground. I saw one of Beau's memories, when we were together on Thursday. [ he can probably guess the one. ]

... Those things pair together like something out of a script.

[disreguarded]

If the blade was sticking out of his chest, then yeah. That's the way he died the first time.

[in the cold. she kind of just like, lifts a hand to cover her head?? she swears to fantasy christ if she memshares right now]

[duranduel]

[Mandricardo closes his eyes.]

These sick bastards.

[overlimit]

[...!]

[commandertoolbelt]

...So it's possible someone could have seen that in your memories, and set out to copy it.

[ this keeps getting worse and worse, damn. ]

[katzepaw]

. . . He was stabbed nearly over the same wound.

[He frowns for a second, a little sad.]

Or maybe it's not the autopsy. When, uhm. When Mollymauk woke for the first time, he couldn't speak. The only word he could say was 'Empty.' I thought at first perhaps that was, uhm, the joke.

[steelo]

[ :unamused: at alli

he looks. horrified. and angry. really angry! ]

.... That's fucked up. [ god FUCK this place. ] Why not both, right? Why not, for the most drama possible? Fuck!

[modissty]

[Wow the way he's just seething silent fury over here.]

[duranduel]

[HAHA HE HATES THIS]

[alitaba]

[ why does it get worse every time someone adds more to this ]

[divineimpulse]

...Either they saw the scar tissue as a potentially weak site, or... they planned it from a memory.

[repress]

...Someone did raise the possibility of Caiman being a culprit last week due to his strength. We dismissed it because he could not feasibly ride a horse [ lol ] but ultimately Rupert claimed responsibility for Bradley's death.

Between the level of violence against Sieghart and Mollymauk, perhaps something has been controlling Caiman. [ only conjecture, but. ]

[headsplitter]

You're... you're saying I might've also killed Sieghart?

[repress]

If you are telling the truth, [ and dimitri sounds wary about that, tense ] then your situation differs from that of Kaoruko or Rupert, in that they seemed to remember everything.

There may be some larger, more insidious plot at work. Details of which we cannot know for sure.

[ghoststrums]

[ taps him and whispers something ]

[steelo]

... and they were both stabbed in the front with their own weapons, too.

[refate]

[ ... haa. the way he says it implies he's probably bounced this theory around before, but is still unhappy to say it. ]

And Rupert had to do it twice. Maybe the same could be said of the person who killed Sieghart.

[ambiography]

...it was his strength, as well as what seemed to have been used in Sieghart's murder. There was a wound I'm not certain the baseball bat accounted for, but he otherwise seemed to have been struck by it multiple times, with some level of force.

[which is just-- another tie-in.]

[amain]

Over some singe marks, I believe, but Denji also had similar burns because of Winter Formal with the fireworks and bonfire.

[ So. ]

I find it difficult to imagine if Caiman wanted to get away with murder enough to make Denji a suspect, that he wouldn't clear himself up before trial, too.

[refate]

... the adlibs you guys got. [ he makes a very similar foul face. ] Maximum drama.