grimmoired | CHAPTER 3 ; TRIAL

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CHAPTER 3 ; TRIAL

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!

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After all of this is over?

[ he seems a little confused. ]

No, no-- they made it clear that it was in the context of this game. [ like, as insurance or something. ] For that to apply, it can't be after the game has ended.

What did they tell you?

[ he sounds a little more serious. ]

[ he just freezes a little, looking back and forth a little furtively, not out of fear of Hikage but more as if he's not sure whether he's allowed to say anything.

"Striving to dismantle this war from the inside out, the Beauty attempted to kill one of the Crafters without the Beast's knowledge, and both of them were banished to the Other Side, left to rot even as the other Narrators were returned to their own stories..." ]

They're on the other side, I- there must be some complication, in getting messages to us.

But I believe they were trying to say-- the wishes, made when we complete our objectives...

[ "they came true with███ ███ problem." ]

[ there's something going on here. Hikage has no idea what. ]

... Wait. What are you talking about? Are you saying someone other than the Crafters told you this?