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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DECISION;

[themodsgrimm]

[The final petal of the rose in the glass case falls as the clock chimes 9 PM. All throughout the garden, it rings, rings, rings nine times to let everyone present know that the trial has concluded. The light from inside the case dims and all the flowers begin to glow softly from within.

The Tiger uncovers the rose and picks up the petals in her hands. With an elegant flourish, she scatters them onto the ink table where they turn into ink splatters and a message:]



[She clears her throat, and speaks.]

Narrators, you have voted in a single-vote majority for Yamatonokami Yasusada and decreed his fate To Be Continued. Unfortunately...the poor dear was Innocent of any crime committed this week.

Overall, votes were submitted for Sanji, Goro Akechi, Jae-ha, Rapunzel, Natsuo, 2b, Osamu Dazai, Lord El-Melloi II, Kyouka Izumi, Zelos, the Ion no longer bearing the title of Fon Master, Eichi Tenshouin, and Stephanie Brown.

Two of you cast a vote for yourself--Stephanie Brown and Rapunzel shall be facing punishment tomorrow for the transgression.

Tomorrow Yamatonokami Yasusada will face the ending of his story. I'd say apologies are in order.

[A wave of her hand.]

Yamatonokami Yasusada, my lovely darling, if you have any last words, now is your time to speak.

[Yams will have time to speak, but once done, he will find himself surrounded by two suits of armor and escorted away to a night spent in the dungeon.]

Re: DECISION;

[hairbrain]

[ a look of slowly dawning horror vrosses rapunzel's face as she processes all this. ]

No, no, there has to be some mistake, Yasusada is innocent, he didn't do anything.... He can't be... This is all wrong!

[asswipe]

[oh, jeez.]

Rapunzel...

[hairbrain]

I can prove he's innocent! We have to redo the vote.

[asswipe]

I know he's innocent, Rapunzel. But— They're not going to allow that...

[okitactless]

[...Well, okay, now he has two (2) regrets, oops.]

I'm sorry, Rapunzel-kun... I said I'd protect you...

[hairbrain]

[ time for hugs?? time for sad hugs. ]

And I said I'd protect you. I'm so sorry, Yasusada.

[okitactless]

[TIME FOR SAD HUGS and he looks truly apologetic.]

No, it's my fault... I should've listened to you. [She warned him that people would suspect him, even if he'd mostly asked out of a desperate need for a solution.] I didn't mean to put you in danger.

[He'd just been thinking of Okita.

...You're right. Okita-kun's destiny can't be changed. I won't let it be changed... not by anyone!

As always, he'd just been thinking of Okita.]

[alchemenace]

... Princess...

[ hm. yike. he puts a hand on her shoulder. ]

It's. It's too late now. It's already done.

[hairbrain]

There has to be a way to change the vote--- something---

[ ripunzel. ]

[alchemenace]

Princess, please. You know there isn't.

[toughchoices]

[Rapunzel's horror snaps Reyna out of the worst of her anger at Waver - she doesn't trust herself to speak, just yet, but she puts a hand on Rapunzel's shoulder.]

[hairbrain]

We have to redo the vote, he's innocent, we can't end things like this!

[ give her a bit she's... processing.. ]

[toughchoices]

[She waits, to see if she'll finish processing it on her own... but when she doesn't seem to, she speaks up, her voice soft.]

...Rapunzel, they won't let us redo the vote.

[concasse]

[Sanji is empathizing hard with that shock right now.]

... Rapunzel-chan...

[What the hell is there to say?]

[hairbrain]

We have to redo the vote... we have to.....

[function]

...

You should be more worried about what's going to happen to you tomorrow.

[ harsh, but that's democracy, babe. ]

[hairbrain]

Don't you feel the same way I do? About Monika?

[ distraught!! ]

[function]

...

She's already dead.

[okitactless]

[Oh

Well

After he recovers from blinking in surprise, he immediately lifts his head from Okita's shoulder to look at Tiger with wide, pleading eyes.]

Will you let Okita-kun and Rapunzel-kun be partners? Please? [Literally all he wants is for Okita to be safe. If he has to die for that, then so be it.]

[themodsgrimm]

[ :( she truly looks sad.]

I'm afraid it isn't within my power to make that decision. Someone else will have to come through for them.

[okitactless]

Oh...

[Slowly, he lowers his head, silent for a moment.

But then he lifts a hand to rub any lingering tears from his eyes, looking back at Okita.]

Okita-kun... I'm sorry, I failed you again...

[function]

[ it's over.

the results are... unfortunate, to say the least. yasusada, for all his last minute bravado, did not deserve to be sacrificed. and honestly, she isn't surprised to hear her name called out as someone who received votes. the suspicion placed on her was fair enough. but she did not lie—she did not kill her partner. she did indeed swear upon her life to keep monika alive.

...

but at what cost does she have to keep going now that monika is dead? the dragon said there may still be a chance to save the deceased, but there's a decent chance she may very well end up as one of them if the mysterious role keeping the partnerless alive doesn't pull through for her and the others this week.

this sucks. ]

[discardia]

2B...

[ there's no way she would have killed her partner. Cardia just looks distressed that someone would have even thought that. ]

[function]

[ some people sure did, cardia.

2b does not respond verbally. quiet sobs are the only sounds she makes. ]