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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[alchemenace]

Yes! [ a beat ] If it's not a problem.

[ they're in the middle of a trial but listen he wants to see this :/ ]

[fonlines]

I'd thought it might be better to keep this from serving as a distraction, but it isn't a problem...

[ He pulls this out of one of his sleeves (or maybe it was a pocket in the robe somewhere? who knows...) and hands it over to Varian to look over. ]

[alchemenace]

[ he stares at it once he receives it ]

Ah, yes, I see, it's... [ he turns to stare deadpan at Ion ] Yeah. I can't read this. I mean, give me a few days and I probably could decipher it, but I don't think you were trying to give me code?

[fonlines]

Oh. No, I was not- that's the script of my own world. I'm sorry, I hadn't realized...

[ all the books in the library are apparently legible to the lot of them so ]

In any case, it reads:

[ fuck it i'm not writing the whole thing, just assume ion repeats all this as is though maybe not literally as far as the blots and smudges go.

he also has his own guesses of what the blots say, but. ]

... when I'd received it, I thought it might have been a threat or a warning.

[ and now look where we're at ]

[alchemenace]

[ he takes it all in and... yeah both his eyebrows are raising at the sheer amount of blanks. jesus. was this a letter or a crossword puzzle that ion received. ]

Fascinating. We should-- we should concentrate on the trial for now, but I'd like to go over this with you later?

[fonlines]

I think I've already managed to figure out... the general idea of most of it, but I wouldn't mind a second opinion later.

I was going to ask my partner, but...

[ he's kind of dead ]

[alchemenace]

Yeah, that's... unfortunate.

[ ... awkward ]

But alright. Later.