CHAPTER 1: TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 1 - WEEK 134 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 Tiger at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand. Tick tock, Narrators. You have nine hours to deliberate. Throughout today's trial, the snow continues to fall as it has all week, though it's gentle and soft. Instead of tea and crumpets, today's snack bar includes the makings for s'mores, including sharp metal skewers. A fire could be built, should anyone have anything flammable. Additionally, every now and then, the howls of a group of wolves will penetrate the silence that occasionally falls on the the group...and sometimes even in the heat of the moment. Welcome to your 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 Danielle (entrappings), 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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BODY EXAMINATION

[themodsgrimm]

[At the head of the garden are the bodies of Soo-won and Dave Strider laying inside a glass examination case. This case may be opened, but please be kind to the dead...]

[londonstar]

[ someone else can handle dave's body, but waver's going to investigate soo-woon's! most specifically, the cut on his throat. is there anything notable about it? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[The most notable thing about the cut to his throat is how clean it is. There's hardly any (ink) blood at all, so the wound can be seen quite clearly.]

[londonstar]

[ waver is...actually going to try to investigate a little further in it. is it a deep cut? shallow? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Upon further examination, Waver will be able to see that the cut is deep enough to provide blood, but not quite deep enough to drain someone.]

[randori]

[ I wanted to write a sad tag about how Natsuo goes to Dave's case, crouching in front of it, forehead pressed against the glass so nobody can catch his face screwed up in holding back tears. But how am I supposed to do that while they're discussing the more important issue of Ion's name?

He'll just go and sit next to the case, knees drawn up to his chest while he looks at Dave. ]

Aibou.

[ No blood...? Aside from his head being askew, it's sort of like sleeping. ]

[themodsgrimm]

[No blood. Sweet dreams, prince.]

[randori]

[ He heard Dave was found in the bushes, so... any cuts or scratches on his hands or face? Shades still there? Eyes dead Homestuck white? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Everything about Dave's body looks pretty much the same! No cuts or bruises or scratches. Shades are still there.]

[alchemenace]

[ hey what's up it's science time!

Varian has a dingy stone axe y'all made the mistake to give me so what color is the ink if he cuts Dave's body a little with it :) ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Varian what the fuck. But science time! Science time reveals that if Varian cuts Dave's body a little...

...he bleeds crimson ink :)]

[alchemenace]

[ SCIENCE IS IMPORTANT YOU FUCKS, PROOF: THIS ]

[randori]

Um.

Are you sure that's not just blood?

[thesettingsun]

[Okay so Dazai's just going to come over here and. Sniff.

Does this smell like ink or does it smell like blood, because he's not entirely sure about Dave being an outlier to the ink thing.]

[themodsgrimm]

[It smells like like Dazai's favorite snack, ink. ♥]

[fonlines]

[ is the ink freeflowing or is it like, slow, like parts of it might be a little frozen or clumped or something? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[Well, it's about what you'd expect from cutting open a dead body and having it slow-drip ink!]

[axilium]

[belph does not want to do this but hey how stiff is dave's body.]

[themodsgrimm]

[Fairly! It's hard to say if it's from rigor mortis or Dave being out in the cold for so long, but his body is definitely stiff.]

[alchemenace]

[ what if i want to look at a dead body for bruises

strip the emperor mkay. this time ill even read the mod tag

EDIT: HE LEAVES THE UNDERWEAR ON!!!!! ]

[themodsgrimm]

[But what if there are bruises on his, you know, you know...

Anyway, uh. Other than maybe the very rare stray scratch from the hedge maze, it doesn't look like his body is injured at all (not counting the slit throat).]

[alchemenace]

[ if there are bruises on his you know someone not playing an underage child can check so i don't go to tumblr prison

speaking of that slit throat: y'all said it wasn't too deep. did it touch an artery? how deep is not too deep? does it look like someone cleaned around the wound? ]

[themodsgrimm]

[No arteries were touched in the making of this throat-slash. It's just deep enough to be bloody but not necessarily fatal, and nobody cleaned the wound or touched it after it appeared.]

[wagashis]

[you know what, we're going to be extra thorough here. now that we know about the rash and all with soo-won, shirasu is re-checking dave's body for the same signs, just to be positive.]

[themodsgrimm]

[He'll find no similarities between the two bodies.]