week six: trial

[cyclists]

Week Six: Trial
14 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, Julius and Cinnabar'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. They hesitate, looking back at Lune for a moment before they square their shoulders and face the participants again.

"Lune's going to be here to supervise, but I'll be the one taking care of things today. I know things have been kinda tough, but…trust your instincts and ask for whatever you need. I'll do my best."

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the sixth trial!

Things will proceed as normal, but for this trial and the next all NPC interactions will be via Sol while Dana is out of town! This means questions and locations will be handled by them.

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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Comments

AIR AREA PT 1

[leaberator]

[ he's holding a tree branch still? I. Shess never told him what he needed the branch for. so. here we go: ]

So, air area 1.0. Cinnabar used their power-- Rock 'n' Roll-- to try to fight back. Going by the pieces of them and the stains of mercury all over the path, they were less than successful with it. [ he holds up the branch that he is holding. the tree branch ] Whoever went after them must've used this at some point? I'm not sure why, since we also found a gun. [ he gestures towards kara with the branch because. he's got the gun. ] It holds one bullet, but that bullet was used, and Ookurikara found the casing for it. There weren't any footprints except for one half-smeared one, so they might've gone back and erased them. Shess used an item to get the murder path for this one-- village, air area, boutique, and back to the houses for our killer. Boutique prolly means the killer had to change from being hit with mercury splatter, but that's just a guess.

[ ... he sighs, reluctant ]

And since last Shess heard Akane was the one who had a gun that could hold one bullet-- you mind telling us what happened to yours?

[specialdog]

Why would I keep something like that? Hisoka-san gave me a gun and I went and tossed it in the lava in case I got corrupted.

Like how Kazuaki-kun gave me his pills so that he couldn't use them to hurt anyone.

[leaberator]

I kinda wish we could do that to all weapons in this place sometimes.

[ and themselves. lava end ]

[specialdog]

I guess it would be too much work to do enough favors for Lune-san and Sol to get rid of everyone's powers.

[leaberator]

I dunno if even that would work.

[specialdog]

And you can't blame the people that want to keep some kind of self-defense...

[leaberator]

Nope.

[ there's a beat ]

Hey, listen... Julius told me what you told him on what the top was spinning for you last week. You might wanna share with the class now.

[specialdog]

[ She sighs. ]

I healed Kinjou-san's legs. It didn't seem fair to keep him totally defenseless, and it also didn't seem like anyone else's business, since it's not like it helped him, anyway...

[leaberator]

Hey, I'm not gonna disagree on any of that. Wasn't a big fan of the whole leg-breaking thing when it happened.

[ like, 90% because it was his ex doing it, but. it's not like he was gonna object he was busy having been stabbed ]

[specialdog]

[ hey, she actually smiles a bit! ]

[televised]

Were you able to tell anything from the footprint? There was still part of it left, right?

[leaberator]

[ he shrugs and takes out his gummiphone. throwing the branch away somewhere to show her the picture he took of it next to kara's foot ]

I dunno if we can tell anything from this.

[televised]

[SQUINTS. Not even like the width of their heel or something...? Which part of the footprint got smeared, anyway......]

Not even if it's smaller than Ookurikara's feet?

[leaberator]

[ he shakes his head ]

They slipped a little. That throws the whole thing off.