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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footprints

[nivation]

There are two sets of footprints going to the maze and back. If Soo-won's place of death was in the maze, shouldn't there only be one?

[ she's an assassin, not a detective. help. ]

[concasse]

... Does that mean we got a set of killers?

[Because um. Suspicious]

[axilium]

... If we assume Soo-won was poisoned in the kitchen or wherever and then carried out to the maze, it might make sense for multiple people to carry the body...

[hairbrain]

And they were... working together?

[axilium]

Maybe. We still don't really understand why anyone here is choosing to kill, do we?

[hairbrain]

They may be forced.

[ as someone helpfully pointed out to her after sharpaygate. ]

[selfinserting]

W-Who would, um, trust each other enough to do that...?

[alchemenace]

Partners or, um. And I am aware I'm included in that list. But people who already knew each other back home?

[vigilantics]

Last week, Sharpay said the Hostesses approached her. They might have approached two people this time.

[hairbrain]

Maybe it isn't about trust....

[ like what steph said. ]

[concasse]

That would check out... wasn't he a tall bastard, too?

[Frowning]

So they carry the body to the maze, slit the body's throat to throw us off track... something like that?

[axilium]

It's possible that he wasn't dead yet, just unconscious, and then they killed him there.

[alchemenace]

Or, like Hikage said, because he wasn't fully dead, and he tried to struggle, which is what brought the branch out.

[ since. plant. ]

[concasse]

Oh right, that was his ability.

[Hmm]

Was the knife a kitchen knife?

[Which has actually been answered two minutes ago BUT SANJI DOES NOT KNOW THIS YET]

[function]

... We still have the issue of the minotaur.

[ that fuck is hypervigilant and mean :( ]

[alchemenace]

... What if two people were carrying him? If he was poisoned, he wouldn't have been able to walk, and he's tall enough that his dead weight would be hard for a lot of people to carry?

[ a lot of normal people, all you freaks who are about to jump in to go "i could do it" ]

[psychedelica]

I think that's the logical explanation. If the matching hair we found wasn't planted, that would make both of the killers young women trying to carry a full-grown man. Reyna is pretty strong, but still...

[ a pause. ]

He might not have been dead until the every end, either. There was that branch, and the fact that his throat was cut. The poison might not have killed him instantly.

[toughchoices]

[Reyna scoffs.]

He's tall, but I wouldn't need help to carry him. I can prove it, too - if you'd like.

[she will absolutely haul around his corpse here and now, so help her god]

[psychedelica]

If he was fighting back while he died out, you might need help restraining him.

[ he believes you could carry him but STILL. ]

[toughchoices]

If he was fighting back, there would be evidence of that, I think.

Has anyone checked under his fingernails for skin or blood? I can't speak for him, of course, but if someone was trying to kill me - you can bet I would have scratched them in the struggle.

[nivation]

Would that make three total murders this week? If there were no footprints with Dave...

[ have we figured out when dave was killed yet ]

Or two murderers and an accomplice.

[alchemenace]

What counts as a murderer? Is it just the, um, killing blow?

[ listen this is a legitimate question ]

[nivation]

If they schemed or helped caused the death, I'd cal them a a murderer. If they only helped after the action was done, I'd call them an accomplice.

[londonstar]

No, there would only be two. We would be looking for a murderer and their accomplice, who worked together in order to take both Dave and Soo-Won down.

[nivation]

[ I MEANT THREE TOTAL MURDERERS not murders cries ]

Do we know for sure that those who killed Soo-won also killed Dave?