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]

[ lmfao that icons sends chills down my spine every time ]

Because they're still alive!! That's as okay as they can be!

[fonlines]

[ well you wanted a way to tell the ions apart ]

They're not alive.

Being trapped-- as some wandering entity, hardly able to even send a letter without issue, is not being alive.

If you would give up any hope of your own freedom to join them, Natsuo, you might as well already be dead, because what would be the difference?

[randori]

How is any of this being alive? We can run around and do what we want, but having to kill people. Having to lie about it. How is that living?

[fonlines]

Because you would willingly throw away a chance to escape this-- for something you don't even know about. You would allow yourself to languish in complacency simply because without the fear, it seems like the better option.

How long will it stay that way?

[randori]

[ it's a mumble to himself, really ]

As long as I'm with her, I don't care.

[fonlines]

With who.

[ natsuo did you fucking suicide pact with someone ]

Die if you want, it's your life to lose-- but don't you dare take the rest of us with you.

[randori]

[ it's not a suicide pact if he's not dead!
or if he didn't make one
but we will never know, because he shakes his head ]

[fonlines]

Natsuo. Please, if we were ever friends.

[ you're the one who wanted to know what he was like, you're the one who declared friendship so openly; ]

Who do you want to stay with, so badly? Who are you so afraid to lose?

[randori]

[ he swallows, looking a bit like he wants to cry. ]

...Monika. She said as long as she's there, I don't have to be afraid. But now somebody killed her, and I—

I don't know what do to. What am I supposed to do?!

[fonlines]

Find the one responsible, and enact retribution.

[ he says that so easily, but his tone does gentle slightly for this... ]

That's all you can do, for now-- and then we must find out how to retrieve all the others.

[randori]

[ Is that so easy? Looks at the clock with 25 minutes left. ]

[hairbrain]

Natsuo....

[ as usual she is extremely fucking concerned. ]