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."

✩★✩

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!

main navigation.

locations ✧ powers ✧ profiles
private conversations ✧ audiences ✧ faq

Comments

Tick Tock Spirit Clock

[tothemaxwell]

We now have only an hour to discover at least a single killer.

Everyone must cast a vote. I imagine those of you who attempted to manipulate the process last week will not be so lucky with a repeated performance.

If you are willing to do so, please state who you are leaning towards here. Additionally, if you have experienced a memory gap, please speak up now. Honesty, trust, and forthright behavior will get us furthest, for the moment.

[compendiem]

[ Minato mumbles something about knowing fuck all what happened for most of the week, but he's not going to speak up bc people are mean.

He was just playing slots the entire time, multiple people could probably confirm. ]

[tothemaxwell]

...Did you ever take your clothes off?

[compendiem]

For- what?

[ he's still half asleep and is 27.3% sure he heard that wrong ]

[lionharts]

...

[ thinking is hard. ]

What do you think, Milla?

[tothemaxwell]

It's hard to say. If it were allowed, I would vote for myself, at this point. Better to pass than to allow an innocent to die.

[...]

But we still have time. We must press until the last moment.

[wagashis]

You mean you would allow your partner to also potentially die?

That sort of sacrifice won't help the situation, Milla-san.

[lionharts]

As would I, except for the danger to North.

... Yes, we do.

[televised]

You'll be putting your partner in danger. So unless you don't consider your partner an innocent for whatever reason? Save the heroics for another day.

[whitewalls]

Would people even be aware of a memory gap? Or would they just think they were asleep like everyone else?

[tothemaxwell]

I wonder.

We could ask if the feeling of being corrupted versus the feeling of falling asleep is different.

[televised]

Lune's right there if you want to ask.

[Though she doubts it'll yield results.]

[autocatalysis]

Any memory gap would only come into play if any of the murders happened before curfew, and I imagine at least some of us would have heard if that was the case...

takes out the batteries

[stillstands]

How are we even supposed to do this? We know barely anything about what happened here.

[lionharts]

We have to, whether we understand what happened or not.

[televised]

... Abstaining isn't an option. We're going to have to pick someone if nothing changes in the next hour.

[tothemaxwell]

Correct. And as I understand it, picking ourselves is also not an option.

[specialdog]

Talking about the logistics of getting our votes to tie earlier sure was optimistic of us.

[ They don't?? Have any fingers pointed to even divvy up?? ]

[wagashis]

And we'll have to keep in mind what the results may be, when we do.

[like, they can't just get rid of hisoka without considering that axelea just gets added to the potentially-dying list.]

[foodbin]

In that case, who are you leaning towards?

[tothemaxwell]

I have not decided, and that is the truth.

North raised the option of choosing a partnerless person. At the moment, that seems our best option—and we may already have a volunteer.

That is the worst possible scenario.

[nonbelligerent]

[this is a bit random, but—]

Akane, Four, may I ask what your respective element is?

[hashtaghelping]

Hey, they already checked! Four didn't smell like brownies!

[leave four alone!!



and akane too but he's talked to four more]

[forefall]

[ .... ]

It's earth.

[specialdog]

[ She'd probably be more worried about this, but she already mentioned it publicly once, so. ]

It's air. Am I a suspect?