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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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[clip-clops back]

Whoever makes a poison with Toxicity is immune to it.

Interesting. Would Toxicity be able to create a gaseous poison, though?

It does just say poisons, so... any poisons?

Uhh... good question! Your turn to ask!

[ha.]

All right.

[swift wind awaits answers]

Yes, it can.

Oh snaaaaap.

So a gaseous poison isn't out of the question, then.

Well, that just sucks. Someone could just spew gas and not leave any other evidence around at all.

Like, yeah, we'd know a Water person did it, but we wouldn't know who that person was.

[...]

Wait, so why the cover up to make it look like she was partying?

Perhaps so that we wouldn't suspect the ability was used, or to try and pin it on someone she was close to.

I suppose there's the question of why Junna was in the casino to begin with, if she was actually there at all.

Yeah, but we all heard 'em tell us powers got used last week, so why would they think that would work...

[this murder is giving swift wind a migraine. he frowns]

I just don't... get it.

Misdirection. Obfuscate manner of death, or, alternatively, try to pin the blame on one of those elements that could cause such a change in mental state.

[ Air and Head in the Clouds come to mind. ]

But last week they told us which elements got used. I could buy it if this was the first time, but...

[uhghhhh... his head hurts]

I need an apple. Or three.

It could be meant to mislead, or... they may have simply made a mistake, and meant to try to get her to ingest something they didn't realize she would refuse.

It'd have to be a pretty sketchy person to try and get a young girl to drink...

[thinking about this is giving swift wind a headache]

Arguably, it would have to be a sketchy person to want to murder a young girl at all.

Okay, so who's the sketchiest person here?

[(everyone voice) it's hisoka]

Do we really know enough about each other to say with any certainty...? Some of us have made others uncomfortable [hisoka] but beyond that...

(no subject)

hashtaghelping - 2019-06-15 22:41 (UTC) - Expand

We wasted a lot of time investigating that, so I wouldn't be surprised if they just wanted us to take a longer time to figure out the actual method.

Ugh, that's cheating!

[sulks. lies down.]

This whole thing is giving me a headache. I need an apple.

I'll go see if I can get you one.

You're an angel...

[swift wind loves u namine]

[ she's back with three apples. let's assume kara cuts them so we don't force ray to tag this. ]

hashtaghelping - 2019-06-15 22:57 (UTC) - Expand

Perhaps a liquid or solid poison initially, but they purposely made it at a temperature where it would evaporate or sublimate?

[ can they do that??? ]