week seven: trial

[cyclists]

Week Seven: Trial
9 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, Squall, Kaoru, Grim Eyes and Milla'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 less this week, looking back at Lune for a moment before they square their shoulders and face the participants again.

"It's going to be harder this week than last, especially with so few of you. But I'll be handling things today, so...please ask for whatever you need. I'll do my best."

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the seventh 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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depression chat

[televised]

[... well. today is an awful day!]

We've confirmed Valvatorez is one of our corrupted killers. Naminé is likely the second one. If the person who killed without the corruption wants to speak up, now is the time. The corrupted are our priority. If we find out about it later and you don't have a fucking good reason to stay quiet about it, we're going to be pissed.

[a beat.

and she sighs.]

We have a little under two hours left. Let's use that time figure out what we're going to do now.

[foodbin]

[she looks like she wants to cry? but.]

...Since we all had to do a task together to get items this week, we might get transported to a different place in the gateway in the coming week. If that happens, we'll get new items on Tuesday, as opposed to Friday, right? And one of them might be a purification item.

[...]

Before we do anything more than we have to, we should wait and see what happens then, shouldn't we?

[televised]

[...]

I don't know if that's going to happen. Didn't you notice we broke the pattern this week?

[foodbin]

As long as someone is making sure nothing else happens until Tuesday... I still don’t see the harm in waiting.

[unfriendliest]

If one of them remains alive, they could easily kill again next week. Is that worth the risk?

[omegathree]

You could kill me now.

[televised]

We could.

But let's discuss our options exhaustively before we resort to that.

[omegathree]

[He has very little motivation to do anything except die, but alright.]

There's the possibility of splitting the vote.

[televised]

... Yeah. There's that, too. If we all agree to it, it would work.

[papawolf]

[ He likes this option. ]

[whitewalls]

... you can try to split the votes. There's nine of us, but if the last person votes for someone else, we can make it even.

[blackcoats]

[ in a small, small voice: ]

I can be the odd one out, if we all promise to work together on this.

[ it works bc i placeholder voted for [redacted] anyway so i won't have to edit my original comment nyehe ]

[omegathree]

I'll be voting for myself.

[nonbelligerent]

... I will be voting for Valvatorez as well.

[but he hates this, thanks]

[whitewalls]

If it's what everyone wants.

[televised]

... You think Emma and Lea would agree to cooperate with us on something like that? You'd die if we successfully coordinate our votes, Naminé.

[since. yeah.]

[whitewalls]

[ she shrugs ]

I should die.

[leaberator]

[ he's. a widdle mad. ]

I know how everything has to end.

[leaberator]

... Something else we should ask ourselves is what happens next week. [ he's managing to sound almost normal but like, there's an effort. on both our parts. ] We're under ten now, and so the darkness will not show up on Thursday.

[televised]

... Sol and Lune are vulnerable now, too.

I don't think we're going to make it past next week.

[leaberator]

Yes. We are looking at the end.

[blackcoats]

. . .

I wonder if Sol will answer my question from earlier now.

[nonbelligerent]

[... as an aside—]

Since North has proven her ability, maybe we can ask Sol to nullify its effects now? With her consent.

[leaberator]

Please.

[televised]

I'm fine with that.