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Subdivided Mods ([personal profile] cyclists) wrote in [community profile] subdivided2019-07-19 08:20 pm

week six: trial

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!

leaberator: (the fuck? the fuck is in the air)

... A DISTRACTION?

[personal profile] leaberator 2019-07-20 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, before we get anything started--

[ axel shows off his oracle bell with this fucking beauty on it ]

Futaba sent this to me to see if I can find out if anyone here can read it. I don't know why, or why me, but... Just in case this might be important: anyone here decent at pictionary?

[ he has no idea what this means. ]
nonbelligerent: (twisted bird. 12-3)

dead corrupted

[personal profile] nonbelligerent 2019-07-20 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ANYWAY]

Sol has confirmed that all previous corrupted have been purified.

... Which means our corrupted from last week is among the victims this time.
papawolf: (☾headache is gonna come)

Corpse Soup (Julius)

[personal profile] papawolf 2019-07-20 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He has his cue cards, and is writing on the back of one.

Then holding it up. ]


He's liquid :(

[ Then pulling up another paper ]

Pebbles, his glasses, and metal inside coffin.

[ He'll point to the piece of metal on the floor next to the coffin. It smells bad, he's not going over there. ]
omegathree: (11)

Cinnachunks

[personal profile] omegathree 2019-07-20 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
About Cinnabar's body. There are some chunks of them that are larger than others, but the majority of them is powder now. There weren't any clean breaks when I looked at the chunks, like they were broken off into different pieces.

Their eyes were intact, but they seemed like a different kind of rock than the rest of them was made of. Does... anyone know what their eyes were made of?

... There's not much to go off of here.
leaberator: (huHUM)

AIR AREA PT 1

[personal profile] leaberator 2019-07-20 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 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?
televised: (102)

AIR AREA 2: THE ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

[personal profile] televised 2019-07-20 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Found a mess in the air region. It looked like Julius used his lightning manipulation to fight against his killers, and went to town with it. Some of the trees were fossilized, another was on fire, and... a third looked like it had been impaled by a knife. Everything was wet, too. [It was moist.] Emma found some kind of plant mixed in with something grainy and dark. That turned out to be poison ivy and gunpowder.

[Gestures at Emma, who's currently 1v1'ing a rash.]

Other than that... There was blood. A large puddle of it. We found a trail of the stuff leading to the fire region, and then a set of footprints leading towards the village.
Edited 2019-07-20 19:32 (UTC)
whitewalls: (it takes heart to love the rose)

(jan voice) it's past 3

[personal profile] whitewalls 2019-07-20 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
There are three killers, and they're all alive.

As for powers, there's one air manipulation, one water manipulation, one air power, one earth power, and one fire power.

When I asked Sol if anyone switched, he said that multiple people have asked about it, no one new has acquired the ability to change it yet. Apparently someone from before earned it though, and since the week rolled over from last week, their element changed?

[ or something. ]
nonbelligerent: (your seven years. 5-4)

housing area

[personal profile] nonbelligerent 2019-07-20 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[yo.]

The door of Julius and Grim Eyes's house was kicked in.

There were three sets of footprints leading to the air area, but one separate from the other. That fits in with what we know: one of our victims had two attackers, while the other had one....?

I drew the footprints down, if need be.


[he holds up his notepad. anyway,]

Milla and Akane's door was slightly open, as well. I think that was it.
unfriendliest: (Default)

FIRE AREA

[personal profile] unfriendliest 2019-07-20 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ two fires and a water have returned! kara, for some reason, is carrying a broken scythe? and he still has the gun from earlier? this is maybe a little concerning but it's fine, probably ]

A trail of blood led us to the volcano. Whoever was there seems to have been fighting the whole way, until they got to the volcano's edge. There were footprints, too - Valvatorez got sketches of them, I think - but it looks like they fell into the volcano.

[ so. another one, lost to the volcano. ]

Emma found a throwing knife. I found this - [ he holds up the scythe pieces in case somebody missed them somehow ] - and gloves.

[ he'll show those, too. they used to be white, but now they're just red with blood. ]

And there were pocket watches - one gold, one silver. The silver one was broken.

That's about it.
omegathree: (05)

Injury Check

[personal profile] omegathree 2019-07-20 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering it seemed Julius was fighting his assailant and Cinnabar was trying to use Rock and Roll to fight of theirs, we should do an injury check.

Sol has given us a privacy screen. Use it if you must.
unfriendliest: (down to business)

Power Usage

[personal profile] unfriendliest 2019-07-20 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We know the earth power was likely Cinnabar, but there was an air and fire power used, as well. Air was either Akane or Julius, but there's no way to prove if it was him.

[ so akane will have to prove it wasn't her, and they'll know. unless it was shess, who is still being a shady bitch about this. ]

...I haven't used my power, but I can't show it here. Everyone else who can should.
twinsightful: (BEMUSED ♜ Whatever you say)

Liar, Liar, Something Something Fire...

[personal profile] twinsightful 2019-07-21 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[So after Kara, Kaoru, North and Naminé return, Kaoru's going to hold up a hand. Yo.]

Fireworks and meteors accounted for. Which means...somebody else must be faking, yes?

[And he'll shrug.] Who's left to investigate?