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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CAT HERDING: FEAT; TIMELINE DISCUSSIONS

[spondulix]

Listen up, all of you incredibly incompetent people! [CLAPPING LOUDLY TO GET EVERYONE'S ATTENTION. LISTEN, 5'S! A 10 IS SPEAKING!] This has done on long enough. This armor - [GESTURES TO IT] - is nothing more than a worthless distraction, unless it's conncted to some ability to move around armor...anyways! When we're done, I'll see it to it personally that it'll be torn up and used for scrap.

Now that you're all listening, we have not even established when and how the murder happened, let alone when the unconscious people ended up where they did! Jae-Ha told me that he took our murder victim to her room at 7pm. After that, no one knows. We know that Tiger woman moved some of those people during the night, but it might be nice to establish what the hell went on in the first place. To those people we found knocked out, when were the last time you were awake?

[toughchoices]

A few hours after curfew began... I wasn't watching the time, but I'd say probably around 11 or midnight.

[Ish.]

[randori]

Besides any of the other people who got knocked out, and maybe Gi-Gan, did you see anybody else out late?

[wearys]

[ LET THE ARMOR GO TO COLLEGE ]

How should we figure out time of death? Is anyone here a doctor?

[spondulix]

[Snaps his fingers.] Yes! Does anyone have any medical experience? Finding out when she died could be the key to this whole thing.

[alttitude]

I'd intended to stay awake all night - and normally that's not a problem for me so long as I don't do it too often. It seemed like the right occasion, so I must've been up for quite a few hours after curfew but...

Well, I imagine something must've made me fall asleep since I don't even remember that.

I can confirm that no one can leave their chambers after curfew - I went to check the lock to be safe and felt that same burning feeling as the first few days when the dorms were locked up initially.

[wagashis]

I can confirm the same. There didn't seem to be a way back out.

[fragileprophet]

I was in bed very shortly after curfew fell, but it took me a long time to fall asleep. I was talking with Sandalphon for quite awhile. I'm not actually sure what time it was when I did finally fall asleep. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful than that.

[spondulix]

Did Sandalphon go anywhere during that time?

[hairbrain]

You don't need to be rude about it.

[ gosh, fitz!! ] The Tailor must have been the real scene of the crime, right? Because the purple ink was found there..... so, the killer must have struggled with Gi-gan there, and.... later the foyer, where her body was moved.

[ hmm. ]

[okitactless]

Or killers.

[THIS IS NOT HELPFUL... but Dragon-kun wouldn't answer him so he's mentioning this anyway]

[spondulix]

I'll be rude all I want when people are dancing with armor.

[HE IS PEEVED! PEEVED I TELL YOU.]

Why do you think the Tailor was the scene? Because of the signs of a fight?

[asswipe]

Did anyone see a trail of, uh... ink, leading from the tailor to the foyer? There was "blood" in the tailor, but not enough that it made me think someone had died there at first.

[unromanceable]

[ This question doesn't apply to her, she's really just here to offer Fitzgerald a sympathetic look. He's doing his best to keep them all on track.................. ]

[disilluded]

[... Sousei sighs, and speaks up from where he is:]

It is worth noting that I did not go to sleep that night. I remained in the room with Gi-gan from the time we retired to morning. With the way her tapestry was ink-stained, I was concerned something might happen.

[...]

I watched her leave the room this morning none the worse for wear.

[A beat, and he adds sourly:]

Clearly she was dead by then. What I saw could not have been real, and yet--that is what I saw.

[So something is very much Fucking With Them.]

[discardia]

... Eh? Did you talk with her at all during that time?

[thesettingsun]

...That seems like something important? Worth mentioning?

[doublecrows]

[. . . . . . . oh my god]

A hallucination?

[spondulix]

Did she say where she was going? This...hallucination of Gi-gan.

[resumed]

A ghost...or a hallucination? [That changes everything.]

[toughchoices]

That sounds like a trick of the Mist...

[not everyone here is a demigod, reyna. so she clarifies:]

An illusion, that is.

[okitactless]

Oh, so she's a spirit. [yams stop] Where do you think she is now?

[he's trying]

[unromanceable]

[ .... ]

After you saw her leave the room... what then? Did you not see her again until...?

[resumed]

I couldn't sleep that night. I don't remember falling asleep, but it was really late.

[wantsitall]

A few hours after curfew. I fell asleep before Jae-Ha, but when I woke up I was in the hallway. So Tiger must have moved the both of us for some reason.