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

Comments

[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.

[concasse]

Yeah and wasn't the guy a master swordsman or some shit?

The training that takes is ridiculous. Even with two people restraining him, there'd be a lot more evidence left behind.

[Basically yeah he's on Reyna's side for this.]

[toughchoices]

I didn't know him well, but I can't imagine someone who has skills like that would go down easily.

[



she could probably still take him but it likely wouldn't have been easy]

[nivation]

Both the hair matches... neither of them had wounds from branches.

[ so is this more proof that it's a frame job? ]

[toughchoices]

There's... something that bothers me.

[She frowns.]

If they were planted, how did the killer - or killers, since there were two sets of footprints - get them?

If it was from the bathrooms, then anyone in my dormitory could have taken it at any time. But the fact that the lock into our common room was picked... that meant they were coming from outside the common room after curfew, doesn't it?

[concasse]

So you're thinking whoever got your hair was someone outside your dorm.

[Hm]

Though if there's two killers on the loose, maybe someone from your dorm took the hair, and their accomplice picked the common room door to let them out.

[nivation]

It does, but I don't understand why the locks wouldn't have burned the person trying to pick the locks from the outside.

It did when we first arrived.

[alchemenace]

I don't know how much he could've fought back if all he made was one branch, and there's no wound on his body anywhere. I really wish we knew how potent that poison was. Or, just, what was in it in general.

[ but yea reyna could've probably carried him on her lonesome ]

[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.

[alchemenace]

But ... is that the same definition Tiger and Dragon take for it? We can ask how many killers there were soon, but it does us no good if we don't know what a "killer" is.

[nivation]

We can only vote for one person, so until we vote and it ends in a tie, we won't find out for certain.

Or I can ask.

[alchemenace]

Let's... start with asking.

[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?

[toughchoices]

I don't believe that we do. But -

[Reyna frowns.]

It's not an outlandish assumption to make, I think.

[selfinserting]

B-But why would they kill two people instead of one?

[toughchoices]

[would you rather believe that multiple people independently decided to kill...]

One of them may have witnessed the death of the other. If the killer was already prepared to kill one, silencing another through death wouldn't be that much of a stretch.

[londonstar]

[ he has to think about it for a while, and then frowns when he comes with an answer ]

Perhaps not. There are some discrepancies, considering that the possible footsteps around Dave have been covered by the snow while the ones around Soo-Won are partially covered. Therefore, we have a few possibilities:

One. That the possible two killers, or one killer and an accomplice, took down a person and then, for some reason such as possibly being witnessed or being told that they needed to kill someone else, decided to take another life.

Two. That you are correct and we may be dealing with more than two murderers-- the team that killed Soo-Won, and the possibly lone person that dealt with Dave.

[nivation]

I want to go with option one.

[ It's not a choice she makes based on logic. But Belph will come through the answer. ]

It would make this simpler.... and having fewer murderers is better, but if there's two, do we do anything to the second, if we solve the murder and correctly vote for one?