CHAPTER SEVEN ; TRIAL

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The Story Continues... CHAPTER 7 - WEEK 711 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. The garden is strangely silent and there are no snacks today...it seems as though you'll be left to your own devices. 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 or sooner if the game ICly elects so. 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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[wearys]

Great, thanks for this. I've always wanted to be in a dungeon.

[ he's joking. on both counts? ]

[asswipe]

Wow, Belph. How dare you.

[SARCASM.]

Let's just get out of here before we lose our heads. Literally. Either at you good at breaking out of prison?

[axilium]

Got a lockpick handy?

[wearys]

Can you use a sword as a lockpick?

[ that's. the best he can offer. ]

[asswipe]

Unless you're a rapier... no?

[UNSURE.]

I, um. I could try making lockpicks with my gift, maybe? Everyone knows I'm a villain by now, anyway.

[axilium]

Yeah, try it. Your ability will be way more useful than mine, at least.

... If all else fails— [he whips out shirasu's headband] —I've got this?

[... sorry shirasu]

[wearys]

Yeah, mine's only good if we rip our clothes, so. [ pause. ] By the way, I can also repair fabric.

[ may as well share that info.

squints at the headband. ]

[asswipe]

... Why did so many people get clothes related gifts?

[@castle wtf?? Also, squinting at the headband as well.]

Okay. Great. That's cool. [LORD.] Just— Give me a second and if this fails, we try that.

[Whatever that is!! Either way, she's just kind of... mashing her hands together repeatedly to create ice until she has something that more or less resembles a lockpick. She then promptly proceeds to shove it at them. Take it away.]

[axilium]

[listen, shirasu gave it to him?? and he can't give it back yet because shirasu's still a ghost.

anyhow, belph takes it and promptly starts trying to pick the lock like someone who may or may have picked a lock or two in their lifetime.]

[wearys]

Because they're obsessed with fashion?

[ but okay, that power is neat as fuck veronica??

he'll watch belph get the lock open. belph can be the professional here. magnus is more a credit-card-in-the-door-jam thief. ]

Good news is if it breaks, it can melt in there and Veronica can make another one?

[asswipe]

I think I can, um, cold glue it back together if it breaks. I— I think.

[PROBABLY. The most she's done with her powers is keep her drinks perma-chill and ruin the Kitchen for Sanji and Evan. :(]

... It should be strong enough to make it through, anyway. They wanted me to stab someone with an icicle? Kind of counterproductive if it snaps the moment it hits something hard.

[axilium]

Have you never heard of killing with an icicle? It's a murder mystery classic.

[anyway, fiddle fiddle fiddle until the lock opens! hurrah!]

[wearys]

[ honestly that's the best use of elsa powers, veronica. ]

Did you ever stab anyone with an icicle?

[ nice nice nice ]

Okay, let's escape and then... I guess we need a sleeping potion?

[asswipe]

[SQUINTING AT BELPH

but also.]

Tempting [eichi!!], but hell no.

[Making her way out of town, walking fast, getting the heck out of this dungeon...]

If one of you has a convenient sleeping potion on them, now would be a great time to speak up.

[axilium]

If we still had access to the lab, maybe... but nope. I've got nothing.

[leaving the dungeon... also presumably a key pops up or something, so someone should. pick that up.]

[wearys]

Fair enough.

[ if veronica or belph doesn't, magnus will swipe that and tuck it into a pocket. one down!! ]

Sorry, fresh out of potions. Maybe there's an... apothecary lab down here? For potions and poisons or whatever?

[asswipe]

[Magnus is the walking storage they all need. Bless.]

Maybe? It's a kingdom. And— We're in knock-off Wonderland, anyway. For all we know, someone could have left a potion laying around.

[Off they go, presumably towards the exit.]

[axilium]

Seems pretty unfair to fail us for not having a sleeping potion handy...

[off they go to hopefully not die.]

[wearys]

[ make good use of men's bigger pocket sizes in jeans. ]

That'd be shitty. Keep an eye out for vials or bottles that say "DRINK ME" I guess?

[ slipping through the exit they go, probably. hopefully uh. no guards are near by? ]

[asswipe]

I don't think the castle cares if we pass or fail.

[The castle is a piece of shit!! Anyway, lbr. If there are any guards, they're totally snoozing because these three idiots aren't exactly quiet.

That, or, you know. They're going to comically wander past their empty jail cell and realize the prisoners have escaped just about now, making a racket in the distance? Unfortunate.]

[axilium]

... Well, can't deny that. I don't suppose you can magically make an ice potion, Veronica?

[yeah uh

they should probably be more sneaky about this.]

[wearys]

[ walks faster!!

he's looking for signs of like, an apothecary or wizard's lab or whatever the fuck. if he was a sleeping potion, where would he be?

in a pharmacy aisle, labelled ambien. ]

Let's try not to get caught.

[asswipe]

I can make an ice vial. For the potion. Which, you know, isn't going to help if we don't do as Magnus says and avoid getting caught.

[So, no. Might want to speed things up before a guard seriously finds them, though. Can they miraculously hide in a guard's ambien stash. Just asking.]

[axilium]

[hiding in a guard's ambien stash sounds like a bad idea.

whispering—]

If worse comes to worst, we can always stab them?

[wearys]

[ whispering back-- ]

We're not stabbing anyone!

[ but ambien stashes aside, maybe if they pick a door to go through to hide they can find where potions and shit are kept? ]