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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[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? ]

[unsync]

Try "sword" too.

[ Or he puts it in himself just to get it going in this current tag round.

Also, okay, so does this mean the 'three slashes' set described a while ago, and the slashes described just now, are the same set? There's only this one set of slashes?

Can he check how deep they are visually. Like, reasonably speaking, does this look like something a knife would cause or would it need something larger like an axe or a sword? ]

[becomemod]

[ "juice" and "sword" do not work.

Right, the three slashes set are the same set. There is only one set of slashes.

Depth-wise, it's too deep to be something like a knife. A sword or an axe seems more likely. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

No good over here.

[ What about poems, mopes, or swords? Does that work? ]

[unsync]

We're losing time...

[ Try MOPES as per suggestions being thrown at him rn. Me trying to also think of other five-letter words. Put in his own name (no. unless?).

Actually, fuck it. Presuming we're not going to get locked out (please god no). Also try: Tokki, Angel, Cujoh, Flame, Ghost, Brave, Smile, Mayer, Robin, Norma, Satan, Hound, Danny, Ryuki, White, Tiger, Snake, Mouse. ]

[becomemod]

[ It opens with "poems".

There is a body in the closet. Ponta Hayari is dead... You already knew that. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

[ ...Yeah.

But seeing his body up close isn't great. It sucks, actually. ]

Ponta's body is in here. Poems worked, for the record.

[ ...

Okay, anything around the body or all that? Like, is there anything else notable about the closet other than Ponta's body being in here? ]

[unsync]

Yeah.

[ He's right here so he can see it unfortunately but he doesn't say that. ]

Eugh... who the hell locked his body in a closet and made a puzzle to get him out?

[ There is audible disgust. Anyway, using his flashlight to check the inside of the closet... let's remove Ponta first though. ]

[becomemod]

[ Removing Ponta's body- underneath him is a note, typed, not handwritten: Bottlecap Bestie wanted to fulfill a quota.

Near the place where his body was is a small charm of a sword. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

...That's something I wanna know too.

[ Eying that note, because hm. Might as well take those things with them too.

Anything else hanging around here they should take note of in the closet or is this spot clear (with Ponta's removed body.) ]

[unsync]

[ For good measure, Ryuki will go and check through all of the lanes through the door for anything unusual as well. ]

[becomemod]

[ The left most target for the bows and arrows looks like it has something pinned to it.

It's a card.

Printed on the back:
Signor Sunbeam
A friendly dude with a sunny smile. He wears clothes with lots of pockets and usually has a first-aid kit on him.
5'7" • Right-handed • Blue eyes • Blond hair • Leo

The right most target for the gun side also looks a bit strange, but he'll have to get it down to check. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

[ Okay assuming nothing else is in the closet right??

Because he will head towards the check-in area to make a second sweep to ensure nothing else might have been missed. Anything within that area that should be taken note of?

Otherwise he will head back on over to Ryuki. ]

[unsync]

Found another card here.

[ He goes to get this other weird looking target. Hi Axel, he will recruit your help if he can't get this on his own. ]

[becomemod]

[ Nothing else of interest in the closet, just general cleaning supplies, mops and buckets.

There's garbage on the floor of the check-in area, because Ryuki dumped it out to find a card. Other than that, nothing of interest.

For Axel, if he's looking at the ground when he walks into the shooting range portion, there's a little bit of blood droplets that lead to a blood puddle further in the shooting range- where Datz found the gun.

Ryuki, the back of the target has another typed note: A witness claims to have seen a person whose eye color is always changing admiring a hero trading card. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

[ Yeah! He's keeping an eye out for that. ]

...Think we want to do one last sweep? Or do you think we're good?

[ No idea where else to look, but he offers, just in case. ]

[unsync]

[ Ryuki is so unbelievably annoyed with every note he's finding. ]

...If you don't have any other ideas of where else to look -- I think we should get Ponta back as soon as possible.

[ He'll get a picture of the blood trail just in case we didn't already have that. ]

[becomemod]

[ They are returned to the courtroom along with Ponta's body. ]

[odoruhinokaze]

[ He'll nod. Also, that is a entire mood. ]

Right, let's get him back ASAP I'm fresh out of ideas.

[ They're done here! Time to get Ponta back ]