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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elevator: a summary by a socially anxious bird

[quailvering]

[god, well. one of their group can't speak and the other doesn't get technology so. he has to do this, doesn't he. oh no. ohhh no.]

Um. U-um- excuse me- um-

A-About the elevator! [do it for nana, he needs to be better!]

S- So, um, it was really messy, everything in it was... t-terrible. There were a bunch of scorch marks everywhere and- and blood. The lights w-were shattered so, um, there were shards of glass in Nana's body, right? Th- that probably caused those...

Um. [god he should have taken notes or something]

It doesn't l-look like anyone made the elevator fall? The wires and stuff were all intact. Th- the hatch at the top was open a little but it wasn't broken s-so if anyone used it they just used it like normal. U-Um, also the- the blood didn't reach the top of the elevator b-but the burnt bits did.

With her- There, um, there was a first aid kit and Nana's phone. Sol said there- there wasn't anything useful on the phone. They took it. S-so, working with what we have- maybe she was bringing the first aid kit to help someone with an injury? [somebirdie totally missed that we had like an hour long fit of stripping due to the very same injury theories]

... a-and a batch of brownies. That's all we found.

[whitewalls]

... they were able to open the hatch?

[ she sounds surprised ]

[quailvering]

Um, yeah! It was popped open a little when we investigated.

[...]

But, wait, it couldn't have been Nana! Because she was- p-probably already-

[a banana pancake]

[whitewalls]

Hisoka and I couldn't open it. He kicked it more than once really hard, so I'm surprised they got it to open without breaking it.

[quailvering]

... d- do you think it had a lock? I- Is there a power that could have done it?!

[whitewalls]

I don't know. It's hard to say what happened when we don't know what occurred in the elevator when all of that happened.

[quailvering]

Oh, shoot, I should have checked for a lock- stupid, stupid, stupid-

[whitewalls]

You did great, actually. You should be very proud of everything you uncovered for us.

[papawolf]

[ giving a nod. ]

unlocked

[nonbelligerent]

Thank you, Kazuaki. That was very helpful.

The brownies would've been Nana's. It seems like she'd been baking during the evening.

[papawolf]

[ Remembering what North said about Nana's injuries ]

burn marks in elevator. old one on victim.

fire after the body was removed?

[lionharts]

... Hm.

Thanks... uh, tiny chocobo.

[ that's what the bird is, right. names are hard. ]

[quailvering]

Oh, u-um, I'm a... button quail...

[lionharts]

... Huh? Oh, sorry, button quail.

[ sounds like a type of tiny chocobo but whatever ]

[globs]

... I have the first aid kit.

[ they put it on the ground in front of them and take a few steps back.

It's totally fuckin destroyed but if anyone who knows them better than Cinnabar wants to look, they're free to!! ]