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

[ghoststrums]

Have you had memory issues here before? Caiman.

[ this is the only maybe, and even that's not. uh. great. ]

[headsplitter]

I... I mean, I don't remember anything of my old life before I woke up with the lizard head...

[ghoststrums]

Have you forgotten anything here before? Woken up somewhere you don't remember getting to?

[headsplitter]

I -- I don't know, I've gotten knocked out before -- there was that time I got my head ripped off and I just woke up later in my hospital bed, but I mean -- I was injured, both times. I don't think I've just forgotten shit on the spot.

[ghoststrums]

I'm talking about on this campus, specifically. Has it ever happened on campus before?

[headsplitter]

On campus? Uh... I haven't had blackouts, specifically.

But I do get my nightmares like usual. And really weird memory flashes this past week...

[ghoststrums]

Everyone had memory stuff this week. It's some kind of effect. [ ... ] What kind of nightmares are they?

[headsplitter]

Really... bad. I have bad dreams of my head exploding, or really gross and bloody rooms that I don't recognize...

[ghoststrums]

[ fucking yikes. anyway; ]

When you wake up after those, you're where you remember falling asleep, right?

[headsplitter]

Uh... if I sleep in my bed, usually?

[ Oh. But he does seem to pale suddenly, remembering something. ]

[duranduel]

...?

[Huh?]

Caiman?

[headsplitter]

Y-yeah...

[ He glances back at Mandricardo. ]

[duranduel]

What's wrong? Did you remember something?

[headsplitter]

Maybe... [ Now whether he wants to admit it is a separate story. ]

[ghoststrums]

Caiman?

[ he paled so. like. hello? everyone else is on byleth im alone in lizards

CRYSTAL CAME TO PROVE ME WRONG ]

[headsplitter]

Uh...

O-one time, after Nikaido kicked my ass, I blacked out, and I. I woke up with blood on my knife...

[ghoststrums]

What? What happened that time?

[ LEGITIMATELY WHERE WAS THIS EIGHT HOURS AGO, CAIMAN, ]

[headsplitter]

I don't know! I don't remember either, just -- it was after we made up and it didn't seem important, I don't know! I didn't really hesitate to use my knife then...!

[disreguarded]

[hey what's up i'm sorry you're getting punched]

Did you fucking kill Mollymauk or not?

[katzepaw]

[Wow he's standing right here with his hand in his pocket ready to throw down for Beauregard if need be by the way.]

[ghoststrums]

Caiman! If it's happened before, then it's possible you blacked out and attacked someone else this time!

[ WHICH IS VERY ANNOYING ]

[goalsides]

[you know. he was going to ask all of this but yamato's got it covered so he will just be pingponging between here and byleth, jesus.]

[txt]

[he is not alone in lizards

ichinose is just ??? uh]

... A fugue state?

[headsplitter]

I don't know what that means, Kuon.

[ All these dramatic tags and then you just get this one I'm sobbing. ]

[txt]

Call it the "you blacked out and did a lot of crazy things" state.