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

Powers

[omegathree]

Two Air and two Water powers were used.

[He says. And then he steps through a portal and goes to investigate the Casino.

See ya.]

[blackcoats]

W-wait, that's it—?

[ HELLO? DON'T JUST YEET YOURSELF THROUGH A PORTAL AFTER YOU DROP KNOWLEDGE? ]

[leaberator]

[ ... well, since val fucking left: ]

While we're discussing answers, there are two corrupted still around.

[ so like we had. three. total. ]

[whitewalls]

... so unless the vote gets tied, one will still be around...

[forefall]

[ Math is bad actually. ]

I don't like that at all. What are the chances we can find both and get a tie....?

[twinsightful]

Very, very low. [Thanks for being optimistic.] Especially if it's like last time and our culprits don't even know it.

[foodbin]

...We don’t necessarily have to vote for them for them to be purified, do we?

[wagashis]

...with an air and a water user among the dead, but each of those used twice-- then I suppose we might know what we're looking for.

[leaberator]

Yeah. Someone aligned with Water or Air is our culprit, here.

[hashtaghelping]

That's bad.

[thank you captain obvious]

[leaberator]

Yep.

[ he got. nothing. ]

[blackcoats]

... thanks, Axel...

But... that means we have to figure out who they are, and coordinate so that the votes they receive are equal...

[leaberator]

I don't know that we can coordinate the votes. There's an uneven number of us.

[blackcoats]

The odd person out could always... just vote for someone random?

[ xion, no, ]

[papawolf]

[ And one has air and the other has water.

Just going to write Air. Water ]

[leaberator]

[ points to Feral's writing ]

Bingo. Since no Earth power was used, and two of our victims were Water and Air, whoever we're looking for had those as well.

[hashtaghelping]

Hold on... does that mean one of the victims was killed without any powers getting used? Or maybe two of them were killed by the same person?

[stillstands]

I doubt everyone'll be willing to just openly state their powers and put themselves under suspicion though.

[papawolf]

[ bork bork.

they don't know everyone's powers though, so it'll be back to last week. and the whole they don't know usually...

rubbing the back of his neck and just clearly noooot really happy about this. ]

[autocatalysis]

[ muttered: ] Why is it always Air?

So, what then. If we find both, we put one to death via vote, and the other by the means Akane was inquiring about?

[ means that. just involve stabbing them real good so- ]

Then what's the point of a vote at all?

[blackcoats]

...ask Lune or Sol, I guess?

[hashtaghelping]

What, you wanna get even more people killed? It's not just the Corrupted you'd be dooming.

[math is Bad.]

Right now we've got three people without a partner. Worst case scenario is none of the partnerless people was a killer this week. If we only vote off one person, that's gonna be four people without a partner. We can save two of 'em. The other two are going with the killer and the victims.

[...]

We kill off the other killer on our own, and their partner makes Innocent Person Number Three who turns up dead from this.

[nonbelligerent]

[and piggybacking on axel's comment—]

Tokidoki was the one who was corrupted.

[coastal]

[on the one hand she feels satisfied knowing that nana definitely didn’t kill junna

but on the other]

.... so he attacked someone and they retaliated?

[leaberator]

[ rip shess's theory, but otoh ... hmm. ]

So who killed Tokidoki?

[ goes to ask a question ive already asked ]