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]

I think it's more like..... enchanted to do something, and theeeen... to end the enchantment, it has to get someone to dance with it? I don't know.

But she said that whoever did it could enchant any object, soo.... I feel like it was probably used in the murder, somehow.

[hakodate]

Hey.

That Red Shoes thing, on the title list. Might be that.

[hairbrain]

I don't think so. The gift is about controlling items..... I don't know that the dancing was part of it.

[ that's the impression she got from talking to zendragon, anyway. ]

[disclosures]

But the Red Shoes story was about an enchanted object.

[hairbrain]

Was it? I haven't read that one.

[ sheepishly!!! she's read a lot of things. ]

[disclosures]

It's a story about enchanted red shoes. The gist of it is a girl wears them for dancing, they get enchanted to never come off. Then she has to ask somebody to chop her legs off.

She died at the end.

[hairbrain]

That's horrible! Why would anyone write such a sad story?

[ says the literal fairy tale character. it's ok, her story got disneyfied. ]

[disclosures]

It was some horrible lesson like "women shouldn't be out having fun". Anyway, that's what the Red Shoes is about.

Take it up with Hans Christian Anderson if you want it to end differently.

[hairbrain]

I will! ... Once I get out of here!

[ good luck with that rapunzel. ]

[hakodate]

Controlling it could still be used to make it dance.

[ why, he doesn't know, but he doesn't know how y'all's minds work either ]

[hairbrain]

Oh... I see.

I'm not sure if that's it, but... I haven't read that story, so.... I'll take your word for it.

[fonlines]

[ why shoes specifically, thinks the one without any knowledge of Earth fairy tales and associated tropes. ]

I think I can follow the logic...? Shoes used for dancing, perhaps.

But unless everyone would like to share their title, or knowledge of what those titles mean, how does this help us?

[toughchoices]

We don't necessarily know for sure that's what that particular title does - but the story does involve a pair of shoes that dances of its own volition. If it's thematic in some way...

[Reyna shrugs.]

But I don't believe we have any way of pinning it to a single person, at this point.

[fonlines]

I see. It seems quite the story.

[ fairy tales are weird, says the kid who probably read the three kowz once or something idk ]

Certainly it would be helpful if we could narrow down the pool, though...

[ and now he's thoughtful because of Fitz below, hm. ]

[hakodate]

[ he doesn't know a one of these stories, except for Reyna telling him earlier so he can be like AHA, NOW I KNOW A THING ]

The story had a pair of shoes that made some girl dance until she cut her feet off.

I don't think this puts us any closer to who we're looking at, though, you're right.

[fonlines]

What a cruel and meaningless story. Who would write such a thing, and what was the moral intended to be?

[ because that sounds like some sort of weird fairy tale, what the heck ]

I hate to be the one saying that anyone's efforts aren't helpful- [ except Natsuo apparently but Natsuo accused him ok ] but yes, if only we had a better way to match titles to people...

[hakodate]

Something about not being vain or something, because wearing red shoes to church is apparently a bad thing? Reyna's the one who told me the story, she knows it better.

[hairbrain]

Well, I was just trying to figure out how the ability worked --- if we knew that, it might help us narrow down who did it.

[fonlines]

Oh, I don't mean that as a criticism of your efforts, since they're related to how the culprit may have accomplished what they did, just... I only meant it as a concern.

Even if we know that whoever is 'The Red Shoes' was responsible, the fact remains that we aren't any closer to knowing who 'The Red Shoes' is.

[spondulix]

I overheard the Dragon telling Rapunzel that the narrator who had that ability had a liking for music...so who in our group likes music? Let's line them up.

[fonlines]

... was it a liking for music specifically?

[spondulix]

I think she said an "appreciation" for music. Take that as you will.

[hairbrain]

Well, Red Shoes or not...... the culprit clearly used their gift to help with the murder. More than once, even. So.... I think maybe it's someone who would have struggled to overpower Gi-gan on their own.

[fonlines]

So we've been doing this wrong... We looked for those who were strong enough, but perhaps it's been the other way around all this time.

[ so. ]

Might the original women and children thought have some merit still?

[hairbrain]

.... Yeah, I think so. With the ink in the Tailor and no trail to lead to the foyer... maybe the other armor was enchanted to put Gi-gan inside of it..... and it walked away on its own?