week five: trial

[cyclists]

Week Five: Trial
18 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, Shirasu, Lili, Miki and Minato'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.

"Nine hours. Don't forget."

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 fifth 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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MIDTRIAL SUMMARY

[forefall]

There are four dead, so there's a lot of ground to cover. I believe more is still being covered. [ See: shrine and farm investigation going on when I'm writing this but if they're done by the time I finish this I'M SORRY ]

It seems like Minato was killed in the airship as it exploded. Did... someone call it a blimp? [ Is that its proper name? ] Only his... leg has been recovered, and it seems like the rest of him was found underneath the blimp or was taken into the fire region to be.... [ She winces slightly. You know. ] in the lava. It was noted that there was a knife with blood on it, a... gun that was slightly melted, and an excess of... glitter everywhere. [ Gun and glitter are still new things to her. ]

As for Miki, it seems that her neck was broken, and the shark has some part to play. It seems that Lili suffered a similar fate with the shark. [ She frowns. ] That's so tragic... Isn't this the second or third time the shark has been mentioned in our trials? North said it was likely Lili died from blood loss or from drowning. Lili... was wearing some golden binds that people have confirmed were in Miki's possession at one point. Either someone stole them from her, or... [ She makes a vague hand gesture. Who knows? ] They seemed to be both in the Water Area, as there were three sets of footprints. Two of them are thought to be Miki's and Lili's. The third are... about a similar size in footprints.

[ Size matches: Cinnabar, Four, Lili, Miki, Xion, Naminé, Emma, or Akane. ]

Shirasu seemed to be stabbed twice, once in his chest and once in his abdomen but off center. It seems to be that the wounds were tampered with to obscure what type of blade was used, but the prevailing opinion is that it was a sword. His house was messily broken into, and it looks like he and his murderer fled to the shrine, where people are currently investigating. There were two sets of footprints leading from his house. [ Size matches: Squall, Ookurikara, Shirasu, Feral, Julius, and Minato. ] It should be noted that Shirasu's legs were unbroken, as some people seem to have taken it upon themselves to ask for them to be healed.

[ Wow, does she sound a little bitter about that? Hm. ]

As we seem to every week, we checked for injuries and for items. Who you find suspicious from that, if anyone, is up to your discretion. [ But some people were kind of worrying? ]

As for numbers of corrupted, there are two with one alive. The number of killers seem to be complicated, as there are two for certain but a third is... half-alive and half-dead. [ Whatever you think that means. ] The power use was.... one fire element use, one water element use, and one named fire power.

[ PLEASE SEE EMMA'S TOP LEVEL FOR SHRINE INFO. I KNOW NOTHING.]

I... believe that is the best broad overview that I can give at the moment. If I neglected to mention something, please chime in, so we may move forward.

Does anyone have... any idea for a culprit? We have less than two hours to go.

[foodbin]

...Is there a way we could check and see who's - not quite alive?

[Yikes.]

[forefall]

Didn't someone ask if Lea could do that...?

[ Or did she mishear? ]

[foodbin]

He already checked Lili, I don’t think he can do it again.

[televised]

Organic beings have vitals. Don't you think there'd be something different about them if they were half-dead?

[foodbin]

...Checking for a heartbeat would probably be easiest, but there are people on both lists that aren’t human, right?

[televised]

There are. But we can handle it on a case by case basis. Twiddling our thumbs while wondering what to do won't help us narrow it down.

[foodbin]

Do you want to check everyone, then?

[please i've made so many toplevels]

[televised]

Will you help?

[suffer with me eli]

[foodbin]

Sure.

[turn on your location]

[forefall]

Then... unless someone has an item that does something similarly, I don't know any other method. I doubt Sol would give a different answer, if we asked now.

[ Would they? ]