seasonality | WEEK 3: TRIAL

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.

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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It might be that someone controlling Caiman ordered him to teleport.

No. [He says this a little more harshly than he means to, but.]

There is no mind control! None was used at all! No memories erased! Look at the receipts. Viola said such a thing would be at least 12 vouchers. No purchase was made near that size.

We are fixated on a fairy tale.

[He jumps a little at the harshness there.]

Just memory erasure then?

Even that would be 12 vouchers.

Then was it just the usual thing, of how two people are always outside without any memory of what happened?

...are those two people ALWAYS involved in the murders somehow?

So why doesn't he remember?

I don't know. But he was awake to use the coupon unless Byleth or Leo or Wang Lu used theirs, and a power was not used to make him forget.

...

[ here's an option he hates: ]

Do they not remember what happened that night unless they're caught?

Rupert remembered. When Beauregard punched him. He was able to answer.

He remembered he did it. But did he remember doing it?

Yes. He did. He said he remembered running around, and he'd run into the geese.

I know, but that was after, right? After trial. After he was caught. [ he shakes his head ] I don't know, I'm trying to figure out why his memory wouldn't show anything.

I feel like - it was because he was asleep. You can't remember shit if you were asleep. And it was only for a minute, so.

But Beauregard, the Teleportation Coupon was used. How.

[she stares at the ceiling]

I don't - know, I don't know. Are we sure it was for Molly's case? Maybe it was for Crow's.

. . . I suppose you are right. It could be the case. It could have been Byleth who teleported, her prints would match.

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But we don't have anything that could account for someone controlling him?

[ i, zia, have a headache ]

What if he does not remember because he is Caiman, and he has troubles with his memory?

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Now, now, let's think about this carefully. Kaoruko-chan remembered enough to purposefully stay off her feet for a whole trial, right? I'm pretty sure whoever did this, knows exactly what they did.

Hmm... And possession would be on the same wavelength as the options we've already explored? There has to be some explanation for the gap in his memories.

[ Jesus, shit, fuck. ]

I'm -- I'm not lying, I swear to fuck all, I don't remember anything...

Huh? Come on now, calm down. I wasn't saying anything like that.

No, I know -- I mean.

[ A hand over his head. ]

What the hell is going on...

Hmm, that's what I'd like to know as well.

[He's standing here running his hand down his face, not looking at Caiman. Clearly goin' through it.]