Week 6: Trial

[becomemod]

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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INVESTIGATIONS

[becomemod]

[ Once you have requested a location, an investigation sub top-level will be posted below this comment. ]

WAREHOUSE

[becomemod]

[ The prinny and the police lead them back to the warehouse.

Where are they looking on the outside? ]

[doghouse]

[ uh???? i don't know, is there something outside besides the door? literally all the location description says is that they're made of metal and brick. we'll look at whatever's out here???? ]

[ballies]

[ praying there's a banner with the shooting range lock code on. she'll really squint up high if she has to. what's there. ]

[becomemod]

[ On the outside of one of the warehouses, on the side, is something graffiti'd.

There's a little gallows image, some lines that form blanks, and letters and symbols to the side.

The letters and symbols are: dhow"sekesper"itomy

The blanks are: ]

[doghouse]

What the...?

[ WAS THIS HERE YESTERDAY????? ]

Is this hangman??

[ squints and starts working on this ig... ]

[ballies]

... It looks like hangman??

[ HELLO?? ]

Uh... Temenos mentioned something about a locked cupboard with a four digit lock. [ bends time and space. ] Do you want me to check that out and then we can figure out this word puzzle?

[becomemod]

[ Correction:

spaces: 3, 3, 4, 2, 7

Hangman is always here. Hangman is eternal. ]

[doghouse]

[ oh ]

Uh, yeah, might be a good idea to save time. I'll try to figure this thing out and then join you? ...Unless I fail really hard at this and then I might just come in to ask you for help.

[odoruhinokaze]

[ Axel will ask the Prinnies to send the compass to the investigation team! ]

SHOOTING RANGE

[becomemod]

[ The prinny and police lead them over to the shooting range.

There’s the check in area where Datz found a walkie-talkie. There is a trashcan in this room that’s full.

The guns and bullets are stored in one room, and the arrows and bows are stored in another, but they're right next to each other.

There's a door into the shooting range, and there are 10 "lanes" for people to use. Five of them are for guns, and five of them are for bows and arrows. Go through the door to check what’s going on back there.

The lock on the closet is currently locked. Examining it, reveals it's a lock that requires a 5 letters in a sequence. There are three slashes around average shoulder height. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

Okay, what a mess...

[ Okay first of all...he heads to the lock. Is it like the kind of lock that can be broken off? Like is it hanging off the closet or something or is it like a lock ingrained in the door? ]

[unsync]

You're telling me.

[ Alright, let's get crackin'. He'll dump out the trash can, fuck it. Show me your secrets.

He'll look around the entire room in general as well to see if he can't find anything in here that looks unusual -- blood splatters, scuffs, stains, knocked over furniture, etc.

Also wants to come and look at this lock I guess is it like a rolly lock or a press buttons to enter letters kind of lock. ]

[becomemod]

[ It can't be broken off of the door. The lock is the press buttons to enter letters kind of lock.

There's not much in this room that looks unusual. No blood on the floor, no scuffs or knocked over furniture. Just the slashes that are in the wall next to the door.

Dumping out the trash can nets Ryuki a bunch of trash, papers, candy wrappers receipts, and also a card. The back has a printed note.

Weaponized Soft Drink
Who knew they were serious when they said soda kills? For signs of this weapon, sniff around for the scent of oranges.
Light-weight • Made of Liquid and Carbonation]

[odoruhinokaze]

[ Glances back at the network. People were mentioning Ponta's name on there right? Does it open up the lock if he puts his name in? ]

Hopefully this works.

[unsync]

[ He was going to tell Axel to do it because his phone buzzed and Tama told him to but this is good. ]

Are you trying his name? Tama just told me to try that, I know they were talking about it over... um, Hangman.

[ He'll pocket this card. Do all of the rest of this trash look irrelevant?

He'll take a picture of the slashes, both... on the wall and on the locker? Right? There's two different sets of slashes?

Three slashes, which are on the locker(?) -- by 'average' shoulder height, are we talking like... closer to Ryuki or Axel since they're both here rn.

How many on the wall and what height there? ]

[becomemod]

[ "ponta" does not work. Try again.

The rest of the trash looks irrelevant.

The are three slashes to the left of the locked closet door. They're closer to Ryuki's shoulder height than Axel's. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

Urgh, damnit...Ponta didn't work.

[ ...

What about juice? ]

LASER TAG

[becomemod]

[ Back to laser tag. Immediately, there's the table that had the three drinks on top of it. ]

[sharkgirl]

[she's gonna check the table - under it on the ground, under it on the like, underside of the table, under all four or however many legs this table has.]

[inquired]

Onwards, my dear Nimona.

[ There's the cash register area, the check-in desk, some tables and chairs, the changing room and then the maze itself. this is still what we're looking at, right?

onwards!! tem will go check out the chairs around the same table if there are any? are there any other tables in this area besides the one with the drinks? he'll sweep around those to see if there's anything interesting to find - checking under chairs and tables of those! ]

[becomemod]

[ Correct, they are in the area with the register, check-in desk, tables and chairs.

There is nothing underneath the table itself.

Since Temenos is checking underneath the chairs, he will find a typed note taped there: A witness claims that the victim did not die of stabbing, drowning, or strangulation. ]

[sharkgirl]

Hopefully there's more stuff.

[not on the underside of the table either? like if she got under the table and looked up at the underneath part.

she'll check the other tables and chairs, under them, on the underside, anywhere.]

[inquired]

Aha.

[ another goddamn clue. he pulls it out to show nimona and then goes to check the... check in desk? does it have any drawers or anything? a table? a chair? is there anything underneath it? ]

[becomemod]

[ There was nothing taped to the underside of the table, even if she looks up from underneath it. The only thing left to find here was the note taped underneath a chair.

They can examine the check in desk, but it was already examined.

Nimona and Temenos have found everything left in Laser Tag. ]