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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[nivation]

[ Lovingly... Kyouka catches it without a problem, and she looks a little glad the fish is finally free. ]

I'll do what it takes.

{ Before she can say more, two eels come swimming their way, visible through the water's surface. ]

[disclosures]

[Great, she was not prepared for this, but at least she has a piece of driftwood at the ready-

She takes a stab at them and totally misses.]

Fuck-

[discardia]

[ She's just smacking one as it rears up, sending it skittering back. And-- ]

Oh right, the net!

[nivation]

[ Kyouka immediately dives for the pieces of net and throws them at both Cardia and Rebecca. ]

If you can trap them, I'll finish them.

[ Hopefully, none of them get electrocuted in the process. ]

[disclosures]

[Rebecca will throw the net over at least one of the eels. It's properly trapped and can't get away!]

Okay, that's one!

[discardia]

Two!!

[ after some wrestling. ]

[nivation]

[ google unhelpfully told me stuff like put eels in fresh water and get rid of eel slime

so here comes Kyouka!! She goes over to Rebecca first, and with one hand she stabs the eel in the tail with one knitting needle to keep it from thrashing too much. In as quick a motion, she whips out a fork in her other hand, and the fork goes straight in between the eel's eyes.

She drives it in deeper until the eel stops moving. It can't electrocute them if it can't think about it. Probably. ]

[disclosures]

[Probably! Who knows! Helpfully the eel in Rebecca's net seems to cough up a silver key.

Which she does take but she also grimaces at.

Gross. She doesn't want this, but at least she holds on to it.]

So all that's left is a sandcastle.

... Do we have buckets, or are we just going to make a really tall hill of sand?

[discardia]

We-- might have to kill this one, too. It said two, right?

[ please, she's trying to hold it still and it's trying valiantly to swim out to deeper water. ]

[nivation]

I'm coming. I won't let it get away.

[ Kyouka unsheathes her weapons from the first eel and swims over to do the same with the one Cardia holds: stabs its tail so it can't escape and forks its brain to death.

RIP, Flotsam and Jetsam. ]

[disclosures]

[Good bye electric eels. Now that it's done, she'll just... let this go floating out into the water.

She can't believe she had to hold an electric eel today.

Gross.]

To the shore?

[discardia]

To the shore-- thank you, Kyouka.

[ OKAY, GUYS, LET'S TREAD ON BACK. ]

[nivation]

[ There's a flash of surprise, and some warmth rises to her cheeks. No one has thanked her for killing before, not like that.

It takes a moment, but she smiles a little before she follows them back to shore. ]

... I've never built a sand castle.

[disclosures]

Good job.

[2/3 objectives: DONE!

Time to swim back to shore where Rebecca just shakes the water off- it's not effective, but she feels better.

... She'll just... kneel down and start shoving some sand together.]

What counts as a sandcastle? You usually just pile sand together. It's supposed to be fun. I mean, usually there are buckets and shovels, but we'll just have to work with our hands.

[discardia]

I don't know anything about sand castles either.

[ But she'll take off her hat to fill that with sand, too. When in doubt, use what you have. ]

[nivation]

Fun...

[ She nods. She will try her best... and mimic exactly what Rebecca is doing. The closest thing she has to shovel is a fork covered in eel guts. ]

How much should we make it look like a castle?

[disclosures]

[That's... better than nothing!]

Hm... well usually there's like sea shells you put on it? And you add some details. But a four foot high sandcastle is... going to be kind of difficult without any tools.

So maybe we don't have to be totally accurate with the castle part? Let's focus on four foot and then deal with the castle part once we've gotten that done.

[discardia]

All right.

[ time to heap up clumps of sand. WE WILL PROBABLY BE AT THIS FOR A WHILE. ]

[nivation]

[ It's not the freeing gorgeous fish or killing eels they have technical difficulties with. It's a sand castle.

Decorating with sea shells sounds like a great time because sea shells are really pretty? Kyouka looks a little jazzed by that.

She picks up handfuls of (dry) sand and dumps them on top of the pile they're making and tilts her head when the sand just.... slides off like sand does.

Hm. ]

[disclosures]

If you want it to stick, you're going to have to get it wet first.

[Luckily for them, they're not that far off from the ocean.]

But if you dig deep enough in the sand- [Rebecca will just do that now.] You can find some already wet sand to use and stack up.

[discardia]

... Do people normally make them four feet tall?

[ this seems to be aiming more for "tower" than "castle", but they can make it look slightly pretty later. ]

[nivation]

[ It's a sand tower for the sand castle gods.

Kyouka thinks this question is best for Rebecca, so she goes over to where waves meet sand and starts collecting as much wet sand as she can. ]

[disclosures]

Not unless it's for a contest or something like that? Usually they'd stop at like... a foot? Maybe a foot and a half?

[She shrugs!]

I didn't grow up by the beach.

[discardia]

I've never been to a beach. But we'll just have to do our best.

[ okay, they're apparently going for the grimm record of sand castles here. ]

[nivation]

[ Kyouka comes back with all the wet sand she can carry and starts piling it on top of their sand creation and makes sure it sticks. It gets higher and higher, way past half her height. ]

I live near a port, but I never got the chance to go to a beach. Even... like this, with these circumstances.... to experience it... is nice.

[ It could be worse. ]