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

[stillstands]

I've been assuming that someone may have used toxicity to make the poison, but if we have water and air users as culprits one can potentially turn invisible, and one can potentially turn into a liquid or gas state.

Both of which would be good for sneaking up on someone.

[hashtaghelping]

Maybe they shoved the poison down her throat then?

[stillstands]

If you plug a person's nose, they'll instinctively breathe through their mouth. Eventually, if not immediately.

[hashtaghelping]

But wouldn't the person doing the plugging still have to breathe?

[stillstands]

If the poison is a liquid and in the glass then it shouldn't be an issue? Or are we assuming it's a gas now?

[ i'm not on flat view i'm very basic ]

[hashtaghelping]

Shess said it might be a gas.

[...]

But like... that glass is full, but it's still not very big. Even if someone was plugging your nose you could probably hold your breath long enough not to open your mouth while they were trying to pour it in, couldn't you?

[stillstands]

Once a mouth is open, it's easier to keep it open.

And this is potent stuff, there's... a whole novel written by an English author about someone who kills more than one person with a drink laced with cyanide.

[hashtaghelping]

Yikes, really? It's that strong?

[...EYES THE GLASS]

Shouldn't we dump that out now then? Just in case? Or, like, as soon as possible after the trial's over because I don't wanna see any of you get killed by mistake!

[stillstands]

As soon as the trial's over, we can't get rid of evidence in the middle of a trial. But it's definitely dangerous to just have it lying around like this.

[hashtaghelping]

First thing after voting's over, then. We dump it.

[stillstands]

Or we get Lune and Sol to dump it somewhere specific and safe and far from us.

[hashtaghelping]

That is an even better idea. You're a smart girl!

[the horse approves]

[stillstands]

[ she just wants sol and lune to do some damn legwork. ]

I... thank you? It just sounds like a better idea than dumping it in the river or something.

[hashtaghelping]

Yeah, if it's really that strong we super wouldn't want to poison anyone by accident!

[nonbelligerent]

The one thing that strikes me as odd is that if they did that, Junna should've struggled. Either we should see marks on her assailant or they held her down, but there's no evidence of such on her body either.

[stillstands]

So... basically we know she was poisoned, we just don't know how or by who.

[ Good hustle. ]

[nonbelligerent]

Unfortunately. We're running out of time too.

[stillstands]

This is the same as last week. And we were dealing with less too.

[specialdog]

That's where powers come in, right? Water powers can make the poison, air powers can make someone dumb enough to drink it.

So that's the how. We still don't know who, though.

[stillstands]

It's... [ hm ] possible? That would mean two corrupted working together to kill Nana and Junna though, do you think that's what happened?

The who is really the most important part.

[specialdog]

[ shrugs... she did her best, here. ]

[stillstands]

[ good hustle ladies, you did good. ]