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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ABOUT THE TOP

[globs]

[ Valvatorez has generously donated his cape to the cause of "shut the fuck up, top," so the screaming is mildly more manageable than it was before, as the top is currently wadded up inside it. ]

I asked Sol about this... He said it screams if someone is "doing something untrustworthy nearby."

[ a beat. ]

... It only started doing this when he and I came back. So the untrustworthy person is here, and someone other than the two of us.

[foodbin]

...You hold it and we'll all line up against the other edge of the room so we can see if it stops doing that. If nothing else, maybe we can make it shut up.

[televised]

And if that doesn't work, we can ask to leave in groups of three to test who it keeps screaming with.

[foodbin]

Yes, but let's hurry.

[televised]

I know. We have an hour and ten minutes left.

[globs]

... Okay.

[ they like the idea of everybody standing as far away from them as possible. ]

[unfriendliest]

And someone who might match the footprints, probably.

[moonprisonpower]

[ over the sound of screaming: ]

... We should test its range and try to narrow down suspects.

[liversandhyenas]

Then of course it would be doing all that noise. With killers and someone corrupted there's plenty of reason for that thing to say somebody is "untrustworthy".

[Everyone will have to accept that thing will never stop moving]

[autocatalysis]

There's probably a good several of said persons here, then, considering that it's louder than I've ever heard it...

[forefall]

... It made a noise with Minato incessantly. What does the item consider trustworthy?

[ If it considered Minato untrustworthy? ]

[whitewalls]

It might depend on its definition of trustworthy? We don't know what falls under that...

[forefall]

Is there any way to find that definition? I want this to help us, but...

[ If it's general, then ??? ]

[whitewalls]

I'm not sure, especially since we're not even in that area anymore so it's not like we can go and do research.

[globs]

...

[ they don't want to consider this. ]

[forefall]

My apologies, but it's a question we must answer, if this is to narrow down....

[ Whatever they're trying to find with this. ]

[leaberator]

Minato considered Hisoka trustworthy after he pushed him off a cliff. It might've just been screaming at his life choices.

[moonprisonpower]

Maybe those cards Hisoka gave him affected him.

[ but yea he agrees he also wants to scream at minato's life decisions ]

[forefall]

... I think many of us have made... interesting life choices.

[leaberator]

[ he stares at her for a second and hums before shrugging ]

Fair enough.

[autocatalysis]

... It did get louder when I ran into him in the village on Monday, too.

[ so, unless it was reacting to someone else who was around in the village at the time or something. ]

[forefall]

... Were you doing something untrustworthy?

[ Or is the item just defective? ]

[liversandhyenas]

Maybe the blue kid was corrupted and it sensed that.

[autocatalysis]

Haven't we caught all the corrupted up to this point, though...?

[forefall]

... Would that be an item that could do that?