CHAPTER SEVEN ; TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

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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[selfinserting]

[He’ll just be here to supervise, then, and stop the geese from fleeing as needed. This is fine!!]

Are you guys okay...?

[thesettingsun]

Fine - ow!

[The goose bites him and he drops it - thankfully in the coop.]

We're just fine.

[sanguinairy]

[SOUJI CAN HANDLE SOME GOOSE BITES TOO it's fine!! In the geese go.]

--Just one more, then?

[One glance toward Veronica is all he needs to tell him she probably won't be grabbing it SO AWAY HE GOES to catch the nearest one so he can gently yeet it into the coop, too.]

[asswipe]

We're— just peachy!

[Which is to say, no. Not at all.

Anyway, Souji is the MVP. With the last goose in the coop, one of the keys suddenly appears, gently falling into Souji's hand.




The other is just going to hit Dazai in the head. Hi.]

[selfinserting]

...That was easier than I thought.

[100% because he didn’t have to touch a goose.]

[thesettingsun]

Ow...

[Dazai rubs his head before tucking the key into his pocket.]

Do you think we can take an elevator for the clock tower? It didn't say we had to climb that one.

[sanguinairy]

[What a gentle and kind key. Souji will just pocket that and give Dazai an apologetic look... LORD.

But hm, that's fair. Except Souji doesn't know what an elevator is!!]

A what?

[Actually he's never seen a clock tower before, either. Help him.]

[asswipe]

[... souji, why.]

A giant box that takes you to the top of a building so you don't have to climb the stairs.

[This sounds like a legit explanation.]

[selfinserting]

...If there isn’t an elevator, it probably makes the most sense for me to go up.

[Since... Wind stuff.]

[thesettingsun]

[Souji doesn't need to apologize for anything, including not knowing what an elevator is.]

First we ought to locate the clock tower and then we'll see what we can do from there.

[sanguinairy]

Oh, I see.

[APPARENTLY HE JUST ACCEPTS VERONICA'S EXPLANATION this is fine... They're doing great.

But he'll nod at that, looking this way and that. Fortunately he does at least know... what a roman clockface looks like... And once he spots one in the distance, towering above the rest of the buildings, he points.]

--Is that it?

[asswipe]

[Souji is a champ.]

... Yeah, that would be it. Let's go check it out and then we'll decide how to approach?

[selfinserting]

[Time to jump over more rooftops!! He looks towards Dazai once more, especially since they’re even higher.]

You might need to, um, to do it again.

[Unlimited yeet works.]

[thesettingsun]

I promise to throw you over as many roofs as you need me to, Evan. Don't worry.

[but like, only one at a time.]

[sanguinairy]

Just don't get hurt, alright?

[Souji, who has no such reservations, will immediately start rooftop yeeting his way over. TO THE CLOCKTOWER.]

[asswipe]

He's not going to get hurt. Stop jinxing him.

[In any case, time to parkour.]

[selfinserting]

...You guys know I’m already dead, right?

[Just. Just saying. Anyways, here they go again, assuming Dazai is helpfully yeeting him.]

[thesettingsun]

Just because you're dead doesn't mean we want you to get hurt.

[Dazai is helpfully yeeting him! And so they make it to the base (?) of the clock tower. Where... there isn't an elevator. Or an obvious door.]

I guess the entrance is ground level... wherever that is.

[sanguinairy]

[can't believe varian's ghost is still haunting evan to this day.

BUT WHOOP. There they are... No doors, no stairs. He glances over toward Evan.]

...Should we look for a door or one of those elevators?

[asswipe]

... Does it look like there's a door from here?

[Varian's ghost is made of no chill and salt.

She squints at the clock tower, though.]

[selfinserting]

[Hm.]

Do all of us have to go up here, or just one?

[thesettingsun]

I don't think all of us have to do it. Just as long as our tasks get accomplished by our group.

You can send me up if you want, Evan. That might be easier.

[He knows Evan won't drop him.]

[sanguinairy]

You just need to move it so that it's at midnight, right?

[YOU CAN DO IT SQUAD go on and yeet your way to victory.]

[asswipe]

That's the objective... [SO, YEAH.] Dazai's right. I think it'll be easier if you send him up there to do it.

[Once in a blue moon, the stars align and Veronica stops being mad long enough to agree with Dazai. A miracle.]

[selfinserting]

[He nods, but...]

I don’t know how far away I can be to make it work, so we should both go. You ready?

[Off to fight a clock they go!!]