grimmoired | PROLOGUE : TRIAL

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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!

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Where were you that you were stepping in ink? Nobody else as far as I see has shoes like that.

T-tapestry! Gi-Gan's tapestry— it was dripping ink, remember?

Natsuo... the place we investigated had purple ink.

[just STEPPING IN BECAUSE APPARENTLY NATSUO CAN'T DEFEND HIMSELF.]

Natsuo-kun was trying to clean the ink from the floor earlier this week. Was it from that?

From that, yeah! Souji was there too! We had to get up close to clean everything up!

That's true, I can confirm that. [BUT HONESTLY CHILD] You should really start off with that first in a situation like this, though.

Is your shoe similarly completely covered, then? Even after most of a week?

No, but I was taking much more care than Natsuo-kun and didn't step in the ink to begin with. I have a feeling he hasn't had to clean many things before...?

[Considering he didn't even get a bucket for their cloth.]

[ hey don't call him out like that ]

I thought I could clean it out after, but then it dried.

[look it's for the good of the cause]

Ink stains things quickly, so you would probably have trouble getting it off even if you hadn't waited.

[THAT'S WHY YOU AVOID STEPPING IN IT FOOL]

He doesn't seem very good with domestic tasks. He can't cook, either.

[...harsh, but she's agreeing with Souji's assessment here. It doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility that Natsuo just didn't know how to clean off the ink.]

He's also a little careless, so he might not have noticed he had so much ink on him until after we finished cleaning.

[They're being harsh to get Natsuo out of the hotseat here okay.]

[ y'all are harsh and Natsuo already lost both his shoes to Dazai so he's just.

internally crying ]

[JUST

REACHING OUT TO PAT NATSUO'S SHOULDER...]

[tough love]

Yes, that sounds like him.

Right?! [ HIS SAVIOR, DAZAI ]

So it's got nothing to do with me!!

[Oh honey no.]

So why do you have black ink on your shoes?! It didn't come from yesterday!

Edited 2018-06-09 17:24 (UTC)

Monday! It was from Monday— It's dry and everything, see?!

[ Shoves his shoe at Dazai's face ]

...I'm keeping this, thanks.

[Grab!]

My inch!!

[ Don't?? ]

Why do you need it?! Give it back!

It's evidence.

You don't need it! At least take both so I'm not wearing just one shoe!

Okay.

[Ganks both shoes.]

[ Stands there in his socks... ]

I can have 'em back after, right? There's no other shoes here.

You can have them back when you leave the garden.

[If you leave the garden.]

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