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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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

Yeah, that feels unlikely.

it'd be really nice of them if they did

So there's not a chance of that happening.

i'm willing to be delusional and dream.

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

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

That's a really charitable way of looking at it.

i'm trying to be positive.

That's fair.

We'll keep working on the puzzle. Good luck over at the warehouse.

aye aye. we found a walkie talkie, so it's likely the warehouse and the shooting range are related.

and seeing as we found citrus and plastic at the range... probably related to ponta too.

So like... something you find at the warehouse is supposed to help over at the shooting range, maybe?

I guess if you were investigating both at the same time you could have used the walkie talkies to communicate...

[ O: ]

... The compass, perhaps?

the compass...?

[ ................ ]

OH. NEWS!

[ looks at our time stamps

high fives you in brain blast ]

Bravo!

i guess that was a reference to the code number order, huh? whoever goes to the range should keep it in mind too, there was a lock there.

and shooting it didn't do a thing to it.

(no subject)

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the walkie talkie was locked in a closet though. like someone wanted to hide it?

[ ... ]

Oh.

The lock. It's N-E-W-S, North, east, west, south, not news.

i just brute forced it. no big

How many combinations did you have to try? That's really cool.

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...Gods, but you and Throné would get along...

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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. ]

moon moon yourself!

[ what ]

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

we're always reaching

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.

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