week three: trial

[cyclists]

Week Three: Trial
22 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 the glass boxes perfectly centered before the benches in the room. Now that the trial is in session, Swift Wind and Hisoka'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. It's only when everyone has gathered that Sol speaks first.

"We've got a lot of ground to cover today. Don't give up."

They stop, glancing at Lune and gesturing for them to say their piece.

"Face the truth directly, and don't turn away from what you may find."

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the fourth 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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ASIDE FROM THE HORSEFUCKING; corrupted count

[autocatalysis]

All right, getting the basics out of the way early: neither Hisoka nor Swift Wind were corrupted.

[ pause, because man it really would have been stupid if the horse they put so much effort into saving got recorrupted, but then he died anyway so what's the point!!! ]

Lune has said that we're only looking at one corrupted this week, but wasn't able to divulge the number of total killers as of yet or whether any of them were repeats due to 'circumstances.'

[whitewalls]

Circumstances...? So something is different about this week then?

[autocatalysis]

That's what I'd assume based from their answer, yes.

[ but honestly who can know!!! ]

[blackcoats]

... Poor Swift Wind.

[ hisoka whomst ]

[autocatalysis]

... It's unfortunate, yes.

[ whosoka? ]

[blackcoats]

Oh, while we're sharing what we've found out... Hisoka's element was earth. And if anyone needs a reminder, Swift Wind was water. Lune said to come back later to ask if any powers were used.

[whitewalls]

I was told that it was possible it's his own vines in the vision we saw, but...

[ gross ]

[coastal]

Hisoka's preference was using vines specifically... [gross] But he was rather skilled with his magic. I believe he had experience wielding it before he came here.

[she sounds begrudgingly tolerant but her face says she hates it]

[leaberator]

[ he sighs ]

Yeah, fact is, the chances that Hisoka was involved with Kazuaki's death are pretty high.

[compendiem]

[ opens mouth

closes it ]

He lied to me?

[ BETRAYAL ]

[whitewalls]

[ pats his shoulder ]

[leaberator]

[





in the gentlest possible way: ]

Yeah.

[coastal]

... I know you want to have faith in people, but you need to be more mindful....

[compendiem]

Why would he kill Kazuaki when there were three of us there...?

[blackcoats]

[ damn minato... why you gotta make her feel this... when it hits really close to home

she may or may not sneak a glance at lea because of this. it depends on what side he's on relative to her? i hate playing fucks with one eye ]

[leaberator]

[ it's not a lie it's just not saying the truth, damn

CONSPICUOUSLY LOOKING AWAY ]

[compendiem]

[ he was betrayed, Xion ):
but then two seconds later he speaks with Lili and he's full of HOPE
there's going to be emotional whiplash all throughout the trial, sorry ]

[moonprisonpower]

Yes.

[ minato doesn't need to be told this by saix on top of everyone else telling him but here he is to be a blunt douche ]

[compendiem]

Why would he do that...?

[ Why would Hisoka not tell him he murdered his partner in cold blood?? ): why ]

[omegathree]

[wow lea. so cool. so helpful.

val is in a useless stupor for like ten second where he's just... staring at lea.]

That's not surprising.

[leaberator]

[ why the fuck was val staring at him ]

Is anything he does surprising?

[omegathree]

[Don't fucking ask!!!!

Anyway he can at least get himself together enough to deal with this.]

You know that answer better than I do. I'd only spoken to him twice.

[moonprisonpower]

[ :/ what is this ]

[autocatalysis]

Did any new evidence come to light regarding that, or are we just looking at that through the lens of hindsight?

[ and kicking themselves for missing the obvious, etc etc? ]

[leaberator]

Well, for one thing, Hisoka was awake and in Minato's house that night.

[ sooooo y'know ]