week one: trial

[cyclists]

Week One: Trial
27 in Competition

It may be difficult to sleep with the light shining so brightly throughout the night, but the participants can rest easy knowing they will not be plagued by unwanted, disturbing dreams. Early the next day, a bell chimes and all will feel compelled to enter the main meeting hall.

The hall looks mostly the same as it always has, the two thrones for Lune and Sol at the head of the room and scrolls hanging from the walls. The metal box sits on a table near the front, along with a glass box perfectly centered before the benches in the room. Now that the trial is in session, Tokidoki, Nana, and Junna's coffins are open, and their bodies will be available for examination.

Lune and Sol are seated in their thrones, patiently waiting for the last participant to settle. Sol remains quiet, looking over to Lune to allow them to speak first.

"Even if it is a rather daunting task ahead of you, I hope that each of you will not lose hope. One step at a time, one step at a time. It is not hopeless."

When they finish, Sol sits up a little taller in their seat to address everyone.

"I'm only going to say this once. I know it's not an ideal situation, but...the votes count, and the universe only gives one warning. Can we try not to repeat last week?" There's a pause. "You have nine hours. Let's start."

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the second trial!

We'll go over a few notes briefly as we will be playing this trial a bit differently than other games.

As noted, there was no investigation period on Friday. However, today participants will have the chance to investigate areas in the game setting as they see fit! This can be done by providing the name of the location you want to visit to the host header comment. To help with the ease of the trial and for IC mechanics, only one location may be visited at a time. In addition, these locations can be manipulated and adjusted upon request to test theories and solve puzzles, so please feel free to ask if you're searching for clues! Your host will also be accompanying you on these visits.

Most importantly, before the trial is over, please place your character's vote over on the voting page. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST, 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 do us know by pinging us on Discord! Dana and Ty will be in the chat and available for all questions. Thank you, and have fun!

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Comments

[hashtaghelping]

[he's chomping on some apples while he speaks because what are manners, but:]

So, like, I know it was dark and all, but did anyone see or hear anything weird that night? Other than the dream. That might give us somewhere to start while people are checking over the ... victims.

[whitewalls]

-- Swift Wind, hold on.

I read that it's safer to cut apples in half for horses, because they can be a really bad choking hazard.

[hashtaghelping]

A choking—

[...]

Was Sol trying to kill me? I thought they were being nice!

[whitewalls]

Oh! No, I'm sure Sol just didn't know what they were doing.

[ did she just call sol dumb? moving on ]

But once we cut the apples, it'll be much better for you.

[hashtaghelping]

[poor sol]

Do we have something to cut 'em with? 'Cause I'm real hungry now.

[...well. maybe if they find a murder weapon. did anyone get stabbed?? time to go read the body investigation threads]

[whitewalls]

Ookurikara has a sword.

[ she knows this because he pointed it at sol yesterday ]

[papawolf]

[ shaking his head. he heard nothing ]

[hashtaghelping]

Huh, that's too bad...

[twinsightful]

What are we even counting as weird in this case? [Just pointing that out.] You mean if someone was visibly acting strange and murderous?

[hashtaghelping]

[whew okay thank you kaoru swift wind looks up from his apple slices and gets back on topic]

Well, you know. After last week, it'd be pretty strange if anyone was out and about, right? Pretty sure most of us don't want to get murdered or murder anybody, so we should've all been staying in. So if you heard anyone walking around near wherever you were staying, or something like that.

[twinsightful]

You're right. You'd think people would maybe be a little more cautious unless they really felt that they didn't have a reason to be. Like they felt safe. Unfortunately I didn't hear anything that night...though I wish I had.

[RIP Nana...]

[foodbin]

You kind of have to wonder why they were all outside, right?

[moonprisonpower]

If you speak while eating, you will choke.

[ n-not that he cares, baka ]

[hashtaghelping]

[chomp chomp chomp]

Yeah, yeah, and then you'd get doomed too. Don't be a worrywart, I know what I'm doing!

[moonprisonpower]

Do what you want.

[ he doesn't care at all okok ]

I noticed Hisoka behaving strangely, but perhaps that is not all that strange for Hisoka.

[ rude.... ]

[hashtaghelping]

I always do!

[he's living his best horse life. BUUUUT... he leaves off chomping apples to seriously consider that]

Strangely how?

[foodbin]

What was he doing...?

[she probably doesn't want to know but it seems important[

[stillstands]

... That might fall under the category of "and the sun is hot and water is wet", though.

[papawolf]

[ huh ]

[leaberator]

[ was heading to talk to the horse and suddenly veers further away, weird. ]

[hashtaghelping]

[baby come back]

[whitewalls]

[ she doesn't like talking to saix either that tracks ]

[moonprisonpower]

[ avoiding looking at him for some reason, huh weird ]

[stillstands]

[ taylor swift medley in the background intensifies ]

[leaberator]

[ yeah ]