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

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[fonlines]

[ ALARM??? ]

Most certainly not.

[randori]

Why?

[fonlines]

There are people who have loved ones who aren't here.

There are people who have things they need to do-- that aren't here.

And even if we all decided to kill each other, 'before we love each other' too much, then that just means we're all trapped together, with too many people that we don't like.

Tell me, what part of this is ideal or even favorable?

[randori]

I like everybody here. Wouldn't it be better if we all stayed together? Over there, there would be no killing, no being scared of every day, to see who's going to die and what's going to happen.

[alchemenace]

[ oh what the fuck. ]

What are you even saying? No one wants to stay stuck here forever! Or there! Forget what happens to us, our "stories" are dependent on us being able to get back home.

[randori]

Home and here aren't separate lives! It's all the same life- right here and now! Maybe being "here" is our story!

[alchemenace]

It's not mine! If I don't, if I don't go back, no one else is going to save my dad! I'm not letting that happen!

[ ... wait, shit. -- well he stands by it ]

If you want to die, then die again! Go ahead. But don't drag the rest of us into this because you're too stupid to understand how things are.

[asswipe]

[........... yikes. they need to have a Talk after this, but for now—]

Varian, leave it. We don't have a lot of time left before the trial ends.

[alchemenace]

Right. Right. Okay.

[ he's fine. :/ ]

[fonlines]

I told you about my position as Fon Master not two days ago, Natsuo. You said it sounded boring.

[ he remembers, okay. ]

Tell me, how should this be any different?

[randori]

Because that's just listening to fate and whatever happens- this is taking matters into our own hands!

[fonlines]

[ His voice goes very soft, curling, crooning, sweet. As if he's simply delivering a sermon, or a lecture of some sort. ]

Yes, you will take matters into your own hands--

by running away from the unknown, into what you think is a soft, comforting, swaddling security. Because you think it to be safer than the alternative, a better one, that promises prosperity.

And so you keep making this choice, this choice to forsake the ability to take matters into your own hands. You think yourself free when you are but a puppet to your own human nature.

[randori]

So what if I'm a puppet!? If I want everybody to be safe rather than to kill their friends and watch people die over and over again!? I don't want to see people die anymore! I don't want people to keep leaving me!

[fonlines]

Keep leaving you?

And what if we all cross to the Other Side, only for it all to vanish along with us as soon as there is no longer any game in play? You can't know what will happen.

What if you still lose everyone anyway?

[randori]

We don't know! Just like we don't know what'll happen if we stay here! But at least that way, we'll be together for at least some time!