becomehero | Week 6: Trial

week 6:

trial

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Rise and shine. The sirens that filled the streets on Friday have died down, allowing you to spend the morning peacefully despite the news. It isn't until 11 AM that an alarm goes off on everyone's phone, citing a reminder for the trial taking place at the courthouse at noon. It turns off soon, but pops back up every ten minutes to ensure that you don't forget.

Shortly before 12 PM, all heroes feel a compulsion to head to the courthouse, where the staff direct you to one of the courtrooms reserved for the day's events. Attendance is mandatory, it seems, and once everyone has arrived, the doors close and lock behind them.

Yesterday's investigation was only the beginning. The real work begins now.

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Welcome to your week one trial! Over the next nine hours, characters will have the chance to investigate, and theorize about the murders, as well as examine the body of the victim and explore relevant locations with NPC permission. As you gather evidence and discuss, we encourage you to revisit the investigation post to refamiliarize yourselves with the events of Friday morning.

There will be a mod-tag break between 5 PM EST / 2 PM PST to 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST. While the trial may continue and players can tag each other, mod-led threads such as questions and investigations will be on hold.

To vote for a culprit, head over to the voting page! Voting is mandatory in this game, so please be sure that your vote is in by the time trial finishes at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST.

Good luck, heroes!

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Yeah. [she's staring at the cards...]

The tallest person and the shortest person on the list are Fox and Hana, so they didn't get controlled. The second tallest person was... Vane? So he was holding a sword?

The person with a convenient gun was either possessed by the moon or suffering from a loss of control... that wasn't Vane, though, right?

Does an ax count as a sword?

[ ?? is that not the lie ]

I don't think so, so... that has to be the lie, right? Which means everything else is true.

...that's the thing, it said one of the witnesses was lying, right?

So that'd be one of the things that started with "a witness claims" that would be a lie...

[she ignores him. wow that's really rude of her.]

[wow, he sees how it is]

"Mysterious sword." Both weapons have blades and handles, so...you could maybe count it if you squint about it.

Mysterious Sword. I wonder if that's just mean to be an axe...? But why not just have an axe card for that. [ mysterious sword... ]

Did Vane know how to use a gun? [ ... ] We think it was a modern one, but honestly looking at what Axel told us about Ponta's body, maybe the 'gun' was convenient because it was in the shooting range?

Yeah, I think the convenient gun was the shooting range one because - that's the one that had the rubber bullets in it, right, so.

I... don't know a lot about Vane. I never talked to him, so I don't know if he knew how to use a gun. But he didn't use that to kill Danny.

I doubt he knew how to use a gun.

Yeah.

Did we check all the weapons against the wounds the bodies had?

I don't think so.

Edited (MY ICON?) 2023-11-04 23:54 (UTC)

I mean, to be fair, that's kinda part of what the shooting range is there for, but. I dunno.

[ she rubs her eyes. ]

So. Putting aside Vane killing Danny, because we're pretty sure that's what happened there. Do we assume Ponta's death was due to what's been mentioned here? An inter-team kill? It wouldn't surprise me if there was collaboration there, because we found the two walkie talkies and the connecting puzzles to find Ponta's body and evidence someonea at the shooting range would've been able to talk with whoever was at the warehouse. It's just... who that collaboration was between that I'm not sure about. Ponta and someone.

Making it obvious something was hidden, but making us work to find it. But Vane and Danny are also dead. We think Vane was controlled into killing Danny, and then whoever controlled him killed Vane to clean up any loose ends. Does... that seem like a potential order of events?

Edited 2023-11-04 23:57 (UTC)

That makes sense to me.

[she's sitting here just thinking about all of this and very slowly turning to smoke.]

I don't think Vane was supposed to end up dead. I don't think Danny was either.

Yeah, the photo of Danny -- he doesn't look stressed or scared, he's dressing up and it looks like he's trying to drag someone into the booth with him?

[ ... ] But, his body-- [ the CRIMINAL TEARS. ]

Yeah, I don't...

... Maybe he just wasn't expecting it to be that violent. Maybe it was Danny being taken out but they promised to do it nice. Or maybe Vane and Danny met up, found someone coming for them, ran away, and then Vane got controlled into doing it.

There's so many possibilities. I don't have a way to confirm it.

I imagine it's ... not nice, even if you agreed or knew it was coming. But -- his missing arm was flipping someone off, wasn't it? It seems like he was mad at someone.

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Anybody can learn. You go to the shooting range to learn in the first place.

Unless the employees think you're eight and refuse to let you in. [ SALTY ]

[ He's suffering in cards and murdle. ]

Tama, tell me I'm not insane. The statement says there should be five, but we have... six motives? And we found the cards in six different locations.

[ He's so fucking tired this game is a sham. ]

[ Wait these revenge cards should be the same. LOCATIONS THOUGH someone help me. ]

[ i don't know anything anymore lowe i'm spiralling. ]

To fulfill a quota, loss of control, just for kicks, possessed by the moon, and revenge for a friend. Those are the ones I know about?

But there's a statement talking about the perosn whose eye colour is always changing admiring a hero trading card, and I can't see where that fits in.

It's the dagger. It comes with a free trading card.

... ugh, right. I've had that when I bought a Remedy.