CHAPTER FIVE ; TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 5 - WEEK 523 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 Dragon 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, cookies and cakes will be served as your trial snacks, along with hot cocoa...served in sippycups. 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 Dana (decals), 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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[asswipe]

... I don't know. I— I don't think she was at the morgue. Maybe we didn't check the right rooms, or... Something happened so we couldn't reach her?

[Yeah, uh. This is pretty bad, and she's cringing even as she speaks.]

I... I am so sorry, Nico.

[thesettingsun]

...Maybe she was in the lake? The people who checked it weren't exactly my top picks for diving...

[concasse]

Who went to the lake?

[randori]

[ no hiding it, since Ion saw ]

What would you guys have done??? Besides, we can't get the mirrors to bring the entire lake here to search through!

[concasse]

... Who the hell let you go to the lake unsupervised?

[OKAY NEW FUCKIN RULE, SANJI IS NOT LETTING NATSUO TOUCH ANYTHING FROM HERE ON OUT]

[randori]

I wasn't unsupervised! Magnus was there too!

[ drags him under the bus, don't let him ride this out by himself ]

[concasse]

[Sanji has no beef with Magnus but that kid does not have the stats to reel Natsuo in.]

Tell me exactly what happened.

Exactly what happened.

[randori]

We, uh. Went to the lake. Magnus picked a bottle up and the swans were fighting over something in the lake? I can't swim, so... [ vague gestures at Magnus' general direction, wherever he is in the crowd ]

We got chased out before we could get all of it.

[concasse]

[INTERNAL SCREAMING]

... Did you get any look at what the swans were fighting over?

[Oh my gooood]

-- Listen, I'm a good swimmer. Just for future reference, if shit like this happens again, come find me and I'll take a look.

[randori]

[ He didn't want to interrupt Sanji's tea time, okay ]

A scrap of cloth- orange and black, but even if you can swim, there's mean swans everywhere! If you try to kick them, they'll eat your leg!

[ And we have too many people! with missing legs!! ]

[concasse]

Shit, it's not like I haven't nearly died multiple times in this shitty castle already. Losing a leg isn't that much of a step down.

But fine, I won't kick 'em. Tell me next time, anyway.

[sorry Natsuo, he no care]

[randori]

You go to the kitchen every week though. I know that place is important to you, and you want to make sure it's safe.

[ Instead of promising anything, maybe he'll just... borrow Steph's grappling hook next time. ]

[concasse]

Yeah, and I can leave it for a couple of minutes at a time. It's fine.

[NO GRAPPLING HOOKS.]

[asswipe]

Dragon said it's possible to find her using the mirrors. I... think maybe we can? Look through the lake, at the very least.

[randori]

So we didn't have to go through there at all— we could've just looked through the mirrors...?

[ Why did he investigate yesterday? He should've just camped out in the lounge or something and not get pecked half to death ]

[asswipe]

Because this isn't some TV show, Jesus. Do you think Reyna deserves to be found by someone sitting in front of a mirror? Does anyone?

[resumed]

...it's entirely possible everyone missed checking the right rooms. Or there was somewhere people checked but didn't check close enough. You know how this castle is, Veronica. Things change all the time.

[It's still bad. The sympathetic words only get a bow of his head though.] ...we at least know they're on the Other Side somewhere. Wherever that is. It's better than how things proceed at home even if it isn't natural.

[fonlines]

We can still write to them. They can only write to much as we do to them, but... you're right, they haven't been lost to us yet.

[ everyone letterbomb the Other Side, go. ]

We have to remember that.

[resumed]

Death works differently where I'm from. It's harder to remember that sometimes but you have a point. If they can only reach out to us as often as we contact them...we should all be contacting them.