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

Comments

[randori]

It's harder to slice off just three, than all of them at once. That's what's weird, isn't it?

[thesettingsun]

That is weird. Why just three? ...Was he making a rude gesture?

[randori]

Dunno. There's something I want to see about his hand later, but...

[ pending mod response, but, anyways ]

If it's one finger at a time, it's not hard with a knife. The yakuza do it, you know?

[thesettingsun]

I'm not sure the yakuza are your benchmark for 'anyone could do it'.

[randori]

Yakuza are people too. If they can do it, anybody else can.

[thesettingsun]

Yakuza are people with skills and experience.

[randori]

So... like us. Cutting off fingers isn't hard— like what I told you about stabbing.

[thesettingsun]

...Even so, I think it was probably someone who knew how to use a knife.

[randori]

Knives aren't that hard to use? Have you never used a knife?

[ does the handjob motion again!!! god ]

[thesettingsun]

To cut up dinner, yes. To stab people, no.

[randori]

You use it the same way... Fitzgerald's fingers were sliced through, anyways, not stabbed.

[thesettingsun]

Dinner usually holds still while you try to slice it.

[fonlines]

Was his body found holding anything?

[ Ion has. suspicions, but nothing concrete? ]

[thesettingsun]

His ring was in his pocket and couldn't have fit on his fingers anyway.

Maybe the money?

[fonlines]

Would there even be any title that has an objective of 'claim money,' though ... ?

[ he knows his partner was rich by some metric but like that actually means jack all here ]

[thesettingsun]

Apparently there's an objective of kissing people. I wouldn't rule out anything.

[fonlines]

I wonder how much overlap there can be in terms of similarity in objective, then. No duplicates, but...

[ hmmm. ]

[thesettingsun]

Do you know someone with a similar objective to 'get cash money'?

[fonlines]

[ ... ]

There's an objective out there that is along the lines of 'obtain other persons' belongings.' I won't say more on that for their sake, but I don't have reason to believe that they'd lie.

[ unlike, natsuo??? ]

[thesettingsun]

...Do fingers count as belongings?

[That's a question he never thought he'd ask and never really wanted to!]

[fonlines]

I don't believe they should?

[ ALARM??? he's 12 and very desensitized but also, come on!!! ]

[thesettingsun]

[It's a reasonable question!]

...Also, does this have anything to do with why my novel has gone missing from my room?

[vigilantics]

Huh. Really.

[fonlines]

... Is something there wrong with what I said?

[vigilantics]

No, that's just... good to know!