CHAPTER 3 ; TRIAL

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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

[axilium]

Maybe the killers requested it. I doubt something of that quality would've been hidden in the armory for weeks at this point.

[alttitude]

It could be...?

Though we have a few sword users here, don't we?

[axilium]

We do. The choice of an eastern sword in particular stands out... but there's too many possibilities to infer that I don't know if focusing on that would help.

[alttitude]

It's worth considering - it was only a recent discovery in the armory, wasn't it? It looks better looked after than the rest of the ones found as well. The killers may have requested it, but I'm still interested in what it exactly it was used for.

[who is deda by sword]

[vigilantics]

It would be easier to cut off someone's fingers with a sword instead of a knife, if it happened in one go.

[alttitude]

.... I would hope it happened all in one go.

[that's just

cruel otherwise]

[vigilantics]

All the cuts were even, so either yes or someone tried very hard to make it look that way?

[alttitude]

So it happened during a probable struggle - or someone was being cold and cruel.

... an interesting set of options.

I don't suppose there are any signs of restraint on him?

[vigilantics]

... not that I know of. We should probably go check.

[concasse]

Yeah, but if a sword user used their own blade, it might be easier to get a match for it.

[Basically they could just as easily want something else to hide their blame.]

[asswipe]

They may have gotten it from the well, or the Crafters themselves. We could ask who's familiar with that style of sword, but I doubt everyone would tell the truth right now.

[concasse]

Tch, right? We got at least three of us ready to kill, I doubt anyone's gonna put their necks on the line, even for the truth.

[alttitude]

It would depend on if anyone's missing their sword - though I'd hope that such a thing would be mentioned earlier rather than later.

[like a bad frame job

AKECHI WAS FRAMED-style]

[concasse]

[Given how these trials usually go?

yeah, fair point.]

Who normally carries a sword on em, anyway?

[okitactless]

[raises hand]

[concasse]

... So you're a sword who carries a sword?

[HM.]

[okitactless]

I wouldn't be a sword if I just had a human body...

[That's weird! Sanji!!!

But anyway, he'll at least... attempt to explain...]

My sword is my real body, and normally I'm connected to it, but they did something here so that I can't feel it anymore.

[sanguinairy]

Hijikata-san had a katana, but his is still missing. The one in the armory wasn't it.

[concasse]

It wasn't?

[Hm]

So either the sword we got on our hands was given to the killers by the Crafters, or actually belongs to someone.

[sanguinairy]

It would seem so, yes. I'd also like to know where his sword has gone...

[Since he assumes Hijikata's killer has it?? RUDE, HONESTLY.]

[axilium]

Nico, Magnus, Zelos, Yasusada, and Sousei. Hijikata, Dave, Soo-won, and Sandalphon also had one, if we're including the dead.

[concasse]

There are way too many goddamn swordsman here...

[Anyway!]

Maybe we can ask the living to show us their swords. It's nothing definitive, but might be a decent starting point, especially if someone doesn't have theirs on them.

[randori]

I have Dave's but people didn't like me running around with it so I shoved it under the bed.

[thesettingsun]

I normally use a scythe as a weapon, but I don't have it in the castle at all. Otherwise I would have shown it off by now.

[wearys]

Uh, my sword is stuck as a pendant, actually.

[ points to the f rune he has around his neck. ]

I mean, I can also turn into a sword, but that's... not relevant.