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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Comments

[tongshi]

yeah and then maybe another word has the quotes around it instead of the whole thing, so that it fits.

[ballies]

oh good point, so we could be looking at a five letter word with "these", not a seven letter word.

[tongshi]

"keeps"? or "seeks?" like hide and seek..?
at least there's no N so there's no "moon."

[ballies]

don't say the m word in front of me.

i guess we'll just have to keep throwing things at the wall until they stick -- i doubt whoever did this is going to talk us through right and wrong words as we work it out

[stunwhistle]

Yeah, that feels unlikely.

[ballies]

it'd be really nice of them if they did

[inquired]

So there's not a chance of that happening.

[ballies]

i'm willing to be delusional and dream.

[stunwhistle]

If they were nice enough for that we wouldn't be dealing with this stupid puzzle in the first place.

[ballies]

could be that was the only way to give us information. we just don't know.

[tongshi]

moon moon.

[ sorry he's dying too ]

yeah i doubt it too.
the key
no probably not
poo

[ most of them are all in the courthouse just sitting on their phones in between checking evidence and bodies, stewing in silence over this fucking puzzle. ]

[ballies]

moon moon yourself!

[ what ]

i feel like we're reaching now but
that's fair

we're always reaching

[tongshi]

moonies!!

[ they're just spiraling right now let them do it. ]

you can't tell me you wouldn't have thought of that as a guess in any other hangman if the letters were there, tama.

[ballies]

there's no 'n', but-- yeah. probably.

[stunwhistle]

the two letter word definitely has to be just a two letter word since the "s wouldn't fit there right?

i guess maybe a three letter one could just be one letter with quotes around it but i dunno if that'd really work.

"i" something... i was thinking, like, "i" did but the letters don't work for that

[ballies]

right, we only have one 'd'... "i"... "we"? but if the last word is seekers or keepers then it couldn't have an 'e' either.

[stunwhistle]

hangman puzzles are annoying

maybe we should just like. decide which one we think has the quotes and see if we can come up with any words that fit it with that in mind

and if we can't get anything we can try moving the quotes to another word?

[tongshi]

that's probably a good way to tackle it and then we can go from there?
like what word would have the quotes and if there's any weird words.

[stunwhistle]

Yeah. and I guess like... do we think the quotes are at the beginning and the end of it? So is it starting with a two letter word and ending with a six letter one?

Or do we think it's around just one word.

[tongshi]

if it's around the ""sentence""...

"we
"me
"my
"im
"to
"do
"ok

[ out loud, so the courthouse can hear while he's typing the list systematically: ] God I hate this.

[ballies]

if we have the time -- but it wouldn't be there if it wasn't important. aaaaaagggh.

so, systematic and logical's probably the way to go yeah. figure out words, maybe the start and the end of the sentence, and maybe some of those clue cards can help? it seems like they're trying to tell us SOMETHING.

[stunwhistle]

Gods. Okay. Well.

Maybe just making as many words as we can with these letters will work too. We should probably try for seven letter words, six letter words, and five letter words in addition to the two, three, and four we've got from the other blanks just in case to account for the quotes maybe being at the start and end of the sentence.

[ballies]

seven letter is a good starting point. there's gonna be less of those and then can work backwards from there

[doghouse]

yeah unless the entire things a quote like saya suggested in which case i guess it could be "i ______________"

[stunwhistle]

if that was the case it'd be a two letter word at the start. we, maybe? "we something with the right number of letters here something else".