PROLOGUE : TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

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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who the fck stuffed gi-gan into a suit of armor

[sanguinairy]

Ah - well. Tiger-san may be responsible for moving around some of the unconscious people, but it doesn't seem like she's at fault for where Gi-gan's body was found. I think that's important, since it seems like it would be a difficult thing for some here to do... Alone, at least, or without additional help.

[Like magic abilities, apparently.]

[toughchoices]

...

[Sighs.]

So we're looking for someone strong enough to stuff an old woman into a suit of armor.

[g r e a t]

[sanguinairy]

It's one possibility, at least.

[ONLY ONE THOUGH. ONE OUT OF LIKE 4 WEIRD ONES.]

[toughchoices]

[THING IS, REYNA CAN'T SAY IT'S THE STRANGEST POSSIBILITY. She could probably stuff Gi-gan into a suit of armor if she wanted to.]

So - a strength test, then. I don't think we should do it with the body itself. [They've, uh, disrespected it enough.] Is there anyone approximately the same size and weight as her that we could use to test it?

[psychedelica]

Or more than one person.

[ hmmm ]

Someone was saying that 2B is strong - she's an "android." She's also demonstrated she knows how to use bladed weapons.

[toughchoices]

Are her movements accounted for? We know she searched part of the castle yesterday. Where was she the night before?

[axilium]

... Not to mention—why put Gi-gan's body there?

[asswipe]

Maybe they thought they were funny.

[sanguinairy]

That's what I'd like to know. Would there be any logical reason for it? There are easier places to hide a body, surely.

[axilium]

Maybe they had to hide the body as quickly as possible for some reason.

[asswipe]

We had, uh— dancing armor. [jesus, that's weird.] And it's confirmed that narrators have special "gifts," even if we don't know what all of them are. Whoever's behind this could've won the lottery and got something that would've helped them prop up Gi-gan's body like that, right?

[fonlines]

It's entirely possible. It's also possible- they were the same person? If they could animate the dancing armor, then they could also animate something else to lift the body.

That would also allow them to not stain themselves with the ink, though I'm unsure if there was anything else in the castle bearing stains outside of the knife...

[ pause. ]

Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be one person, still. It could be partners, working together.

[asswipe]

Her body was inside a suit of armor. What if they— I don't know... Animated one so it would suck her up inside? God, this is so weird.

[ugh.]

... People who knew each other before arriving could be working together. Literal partners would fit the bill, too, since our lives are connected.

[it doesn't narrow it down, though.]

[sanguinairy]

[THIS CASTLE IS WEIRD but he just rolls with this mess.]

Do you think the dancing armor and why Gi-gan's body was left inside of one could be related, then? A gift from the same person, maybe?

[asswipe]

Both events involved suits of armor. It's not that big a stretch, if you ask me.

[doublecrows]

It's a rather peculiar place to hide a body. Are we certain that whomever killed Gi-Gan was the one who placed her in the suit of armor, though?

[sanguinairy]

No, we aren't. Only that it isn't Tiger-san... If you'd like to believe Dragon-san's word, of course.

[doublecrows]

Unless Tiger-san and Dragon-san are purposefully skewing this game out of our favor to make this homicide impossible to solve, I can't imagine they'd lie to us.

[disclosures]

Everybody has a partner. It's not out of line to consider they're going to work together. Since their survival is contingent on their partner's.

That said, why don't you think Tiger is responsible for moving Gi-gan?

[sanguinairy]

That's true... Ah, but I asked her- [Nodding toward Dragon!] -if she was. Of course, there's no guarantee she's speaking the truth.

[disclosures]

Considering our hosts are the reason we're in here, they have no reason to tell the truth.

Do you want to check who can maneuver a body into a suit of armor?

[disilluded]

It is worth keeping in mind that it could be an assigned skill. If there really is a skill that would allow someone to manipulate a suit of armor or to lift Gi-gan's body more easily, it would be possible for practically anyone to do so.

[londonstar]

Animating inanimate objects. Doesn't that sound familiar to anyone?

[alchemenace]

Like puppetry?

[wagashis]

It could also allow someone who wouldn't normally be able to fight or kill a way to do so.

[if a suit of armor can dance, it can be a distraction, or hit or hold someone, or any number of things.]