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

[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.

[concasse]

Ah...

[...]

So at least while you're here, you're a human with a sword.

[okitactless]

I... suppose...

[THIS IS A WEIRD THING TO THINK ABOUT HE DOESN'T LIKE THIS]

But I'm still Okita-kun's sword! [just in case anybody missed the 275382658735 letters he sent about Reasons Why Okita Is Great]

[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.

[axilium]

It was kind of concerning when you chased after people with it.

[randori]

I wasn't! I was chasing people... while carrying the sword. That was a coincidence.

[concasse]

... Please keep it there.

[Actually]

It's still under there, right?

[randori]

It's still there, yeah.

...Or, I think so? I haven't actually checked to see if it's still there.

[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.

[concasse]

Not too familiar with those weapons, but I don't think they would have made the wounds on the victims.

[So at least in this, Dazai is clear]

[thesettingsun]

They're not good for stabbing. Slicing yes, but I could never make a clean stab to the heart with one even if I had mine here.

[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.

[concasse]

... Huh. That's convenient.

[He means that neutrally. That is a nice way to carry your weapon]

Can you just... call that shit out whenever you want?

[wearys]

More convenient when he can fly around and do stuff himself. I say he, because he talks. It's... it's a whole thing. Magic.

[ canon is stupid. ]

Yeah, I guess?

[okitactless]

[wait

IMMEDIATELY PERKS UP]

You're a sword too? [WHAT!!!!]

[toughchoices]

[reyna has to say it, i'm sorry -]

And you make a fine piece of weaponry, if I do say so myself.

[like. she's just saying? she would totally kill a man with magnus-as-a-sword.]