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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breakdancing armor.........

[randori]

Hey, hey! When everybody looked everywhere yesterday, was there anybody missing? Somebody else was in that other armor, right?

[thesettingsun]

If you were breakdancing in a suit of armor, wouldn't you be too sore to walk today?

I can account for you, Kyouka, and Fitzgerald.

[spondulix]

What's...breakdancing? Is that what that armor man was doing?

[thesettingsun]

Yes. That's all you need to know.

[spondulix]

How strange...it must be something poor people do.

[GOD FITZ JUST SHUT UP]

[psychedelica]

It might be more important to figure out which of us can "break dance."

[ he doesn't know what breakdancing is and you can tell ]

[thesettingsun]

I died in the forties, I just learned what breakdancing was through the internet a few months before I came here.

[psychedelica]

[ he learned what it was yesterday when he saw the armor doing it but. ]

I didn't know, either.

[randori]

You can lie about not knowing how to do something though?

[psychedelica]

Sure. But there are some of us who don't even know what it is. We can discount Souji, for example.

[randori]

I think I'd be able to do it?

[vigilantics]

Break dancing aside, who here can even comfortably walk around in armor? There are definitely some people who are probably too short, and if you're not used to it, you might not even be able to dance properly even if you can do a windmill.

[thesettingsun]

Magic walking armor is enough of a fairy tale staple that I personally doubt anyone was in there.

[hakodate]

Yeah. That kind of armor is heavy as hell, I don't see many people here who look like they have the strength for that.

[toughchoices]

[reyna is wearing legionnaire armor

but she'll agree:]

Even by my standards, the suits of armor in this castle look heavy.

[concasse]

That shitty thing came into the kitchen and tried to get us to dance.

[It did not go well.]

[randori]

Did you dance with it?

[concasse]

No I told it to come by some other time, wasn't in the shitty mood.

[londonstar]

Armor? [ GUESS WHO IN THE TAILOR DIDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH A DANCING ARMOR ]

[randori]

Yeah, down by the stairs where we found Gi-Gan, the armor was moving around! You didn't see it? Where were you?

[alttitude]

They had to have been a very skilled dancer.

[ . . . ]

I don't imagine it has much to do with solving what happened to my Captain, but it's worth investigating another day to see how well everyone can move.

[randori]

It might! Dazai was saying whoever's in the armor wouldn't be able to move very well! Whoever can't dance is suspicious!

[fonlines]

Whoever can't dance, and also would be capable of fitting into the armor you mean?

[wagashis]

It was suggested that someone might have been able to make the armor move-- which could have helped with getting her into the other suit too.

If her chest was punctured and the armor isn't, that must have come after she was injured, and it may have been... unwieldy, to maneuver someone into it.

[randori]

There's no way to make armor move unless they're inside it, though? Maybe they were all bloody so they had to hide inside!