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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[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.

[randori]

To slice the fingers off like that, I think he was holding still. If he were fighting and it happened, there'd be cuts on the fourth finger at least.

[ And there isn't. Just the three, like somebody needed to harvest that exact number after the fact. ]

[thesettingsun]

So, maybe it was when he was dead.

...Why would you do that?

[randori]

I didn't do it!!

[thesettingsun]

I'm not accusing you, calm down.

[randori]

Then don't say it like that!!

[thesettingsun]

"Why would anyone do that."

Better?

[randori]

Yes, okay.

[ now we can move on with the conversation

the riveting answer is...! ]



I don't know.

[thesettingsun]

Maybe an objective...?

[randori]

To cut off three fingers? You don't have to kill someone to do that, though, you could just ask nicely.

[thesettingsun]

...Do you think anyone would say yes to that?

[randori]

Me, if it meant nobody has to die.

[thesettingsun]

...Let me rephrase that. Someone with that objective wouldn't expect anyone to agree to it, whether or not you're ridiculously self-sacrificing.

[randori]

It's just a couple fingers! There's no harm in asking- maybe somebody will agree!

[thesettingsun]

The only person I'd expect to agree is you, and you're well-liked enough that taking your fingers, even with your consent, might make more enemies than killing Fitzgerald.

[fonlines]

[ ... no horse in this race, because he already has a baby pegasus to take care of, but wanly: ]

...... You clearly haven't been paying enough attention to some of the others here.

[ he is very deliberately not looking at his replica when he says this. ]