PROLOGUE : TRIAL

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The Story Continues... PROLOGUE - WEEK 037 Narrators Remain ; Wakey wakey, naughty murder children. It's a lovely Saturday, after all. Breakfast is served piping hot at its usual time and all of the evidence has been removed from the scenes of yesterday. No matter how you choose to spent your morning though, the clock will begin to chime the moment both hands reach the large, ornate twelve. Before your eyes materializes a door...but not just any door. Unlike the door leading to the festival, this door sits primly and properly right in front of the foyer. Whether you exit the castle on your own or you feel a friendly, invisible push, you begin to walk under an arc of wisterias. Behind you, the clock continues to chime with every step you take. By the time the time the clock strikes twelve, you've entered a beautiful garden. In front of you is a long table, 19 seats on each side. Around the garden are several glass cases containing evidence collected yesterday. As noon intensifies on the sun-shaped clock, you'll find Dragon at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand. Tick tock, Narrators. You have nine hours to deliberate. Welcome to your first trial post! Please see here for the OOC summary of events from yesterday's investigation. In addition, please be sure to vote! Please see the voting page on how to vote, as we will have two special things to vote for. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST! If you have any questions, please ask on our Discord server or ping us on plurk. Please direct pings for the NPC to Dana (decals), as she will be taking point for today's NPC, and the moderator team will be on deck for all other questions. full navigation. locations taken (statuses) stories (profiles) info & faq wishing well private conversations

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[hairbrain]

[ csi music plays. ]

So --- there are a couple of things really bothering me about this case, but what I want to know is how several people all ended up unconscious in different places, without being able to remember how they got there.

So.... could this be one of the so-called "gifts" we all received? Or did the killer -- or killers -- just somehow drug all of these people and deposit them at different places?

Also, there's the evidence. Why all the glitter and confetti? Why was the sign for the ballroom stolen? Why is the armor breakdancing? Does it have something to do with the other one being used to house Gi-gan's body? Like, disturbing it activated a curse? Or the gifts?

[spondulix]

The Dragon claims that the Tiger had something to do with the unconscious people. However, who she moved and why she moved them is still in question.

[hairbrain]

Just that she moved them. I don't know if she was the one to knock them out.

[spondulix]

Yes, but I can't see why anyone would go to so much trouble to knock out so many people. If you were trying to cover your tracks, why not one or two?

[hairbrain]

I think it's more likely they wanted to create more suspects. Being unconscious without remembering why or how it happened isn't a good alibi.

[discardia]

Some of them might have already been asleep, too. There'd be no need to knock them unconscious.

[spondulix]

Yes, but unless they're sound sleepers, how in the world would you move them without waking them up?

[disclosures]

There's a possibility of it being a gift given ability. I think everybody knows their own, but we can't talk about them in public, according to the rules of the game.

I don't know enough about curses or magic to answer any of those questions.

[hairbrain]

Well, I asked, and she said that one of us is responsible for the break-dancing armor. Soo...... Either a gift, or.... I don't know.

[disclosures]

... Somebody decided to enchant armor to dance?

I mean, I guess it makes for a good back up dancer. But it's not like we're out here trying to start musicals.

[hairbrain]

[ or are they!!!!!!! ]

Maybe it was just part of the gift.

[disclosures]

They can enchant inanimate objects, but only to dance?

[wearys]

I was wondering about the glitter and confetti, too. It didn't seem to serve any purpose when it was strewn around Reyna. Like, what, is the killer into arts and crafts?

[hakodate]

Obfuscation.

[ Anything that seems pointless, that's the story he's sticking to. ]

[wearys]

Does it really obfuscate anything, though? It's confusing, sure, but would a killer really grab glitter and stuff from the festival just to do that? We were already so thrown off by the unconscious people in general.

[hakodate]

The more pointless shit we have to speculate about, the less time we're spending on something that might be critical. Under most circumstances, I'd say it's not worth the bother, but with a strict time limit, getting us to spend ten minutes off topic could be enough to make a real difference.

[wearys]

But how do we know what's actually pointless versus what's actually critical? It could be just to make us think it's pointless, when it isn't.

[ this is the most twisted his brain has felt it feels like a pretzel ]

[okitactless]

[Yasu is just gonna

nod along unhelpfully

Go Go Fukuchou]

[hairbrain]

Or maybe it's necessary to... summon the armor?

[wearys]

Like... throw it in the air and chant, "I summon thee, magical armor!" ?

[hairbrain]

...

It sounded smarter in my head.

[wearys]

It wouldn't be the weirdest thing here, honestly.

[toughchoices]

I didn't have any of that stuff with me when I was knocked out, so it must have been there for a reason. It didn't come with me.

[wearys]

Yeah, I figured not. No offense, but you don't seem like a wild mardi gras type of partier? Or a scrapbooker.

[toughchoices]

We Romans invented parties. [she can... party... when she wants to.... when she's not being Praetor Buzzkill......] But you're right, scrapbooking isn't really my thing.