CHAPTER 3 ; TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 3 - WEEK 329 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 delightful, delectable scent of freshly brewed coffee will linger in the air though there will be no coffee present. Instead, today's trial snacks include...finger foods. 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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[faceripper]

[ Fane nods, and his rather sour posture loosens up significantly. ]

Hmph. Thank the Void we at least have some reasonable people here. It's far better than making this a blasted competition.

[ 👀 jae-ha and belph ]

[toughchoices]

[this entire castle makes reyna tired]

It's a matter of figuring out what we need to focus on first, at this point. Personally, I'd like to know why there were fires but none of the bodies seem to be charred.

[faceripper]

[ timelines don't matter in murdergames wHATEVER so overhearing this, Fane pauses, then gestures to Tiger ]

Perhaps one of the victims' ability?

[axilium]

... I'm pretty sure that was Francis's ability. He pretty much implied it after last trial.

[faceripper]

...Oh. Was it?

[ Fane clearly wasn't paying attention because I, Christy, was not following along very well SWEATS,,, ]

Hm. Well, that likely explains the source of the fire, then, doesn't it? I suppose it's a small blessing that if Francis was an arsonist, well. [ He shrugs, but doesn't say it... Look, he's learning some kind of tact! Maybe! ]

[fonlines]

[ well he doesn't care to be wasting time with this, now that this point is moot. ]

Self-defense, or otherwise unrelated incidents as with the previous cases.

Sir Fitzgerald was the Little Match Girl.

[toughchoices]

[Hm. That would make sense for the fire, then -]

Then we have evidence tying Fitzgerald and his killer to two locations, do we not? The kitchen and the puppet theater. But he was found in the... music hall. And there was evidence found there as well, wasn't there?

[So maybe his death is the one they should be looking at?]

...if that's the case, then... it may be a little early for suspects, but perhaps we should think about who was eager to take matters into their own hands last week.

[...herself included, but.]

[axilium]

His killer definitely went through some effort, at least—it's probably safe to say they were deliberately trying to ensure we wouldn't find the body.

[toughchoices]

That's right... so we can count certain people out, I would say.

[like, uh. oh, this is going to be rude, but here goes.]

There are some people here who I don't believe have the ... foresight needed to come up with something like that.

[axilium]

[belph snerks a bit because he knows what you're saying, reyna!!]

I can see that. Though... if his was the Blotter kill, then we have to keep in mind they work in pairs. It doesn't matter how... lacking in foresight one of them is, as long as the other compensates.

[toughchoices]

That's true. Still - if we consider who may have been able to come up with such a strategy, it may give us a place to start.

[...]

Though I suppose another place to begin would be checking people for burns.

[axilium]

... I'm not going to suggest it.

[you can do the honours, reyna.]

[toughchoices]

[ugh]

Fine, I will.

[fonlines]

... It wouldn't be the first time that a body's been moved, I believe?

[ sharpay??? ]

Though I am not entirely sure he was simply a body while he was being moved, if that is the case. The room where he was found was meant to dampen sound.

[ you know, the soundproofed rooms he never bothered using because he's neither self-conscious nor that bad of a musician, smh. ]

[toughchoices]

No, it wouldn't have been.

[Reyna frowns.]

...but it does seem odd - the lack of ink in that room. Especially considering his wounds. [stab wounds, slash wounds, missing fingers... where the heck is all the blood?]

[fonlines]

Either it was cleaned up- [ shirasu apparently mentioned somewhere across the table that there was a knife that smelt of ink, even if it didn't have any stains ] -or perhaps... If a person is cold enough, their bloodflow might slow.

[ thanks, canons with elemental mages everywhere. ]

Are there not a few titles here that might be capable of that sort of thing?