week 4 - trial

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week four trial



[At 9 AM precisely, the old grandfather clock chimes once again, and the doors to the drawing room are opened. They will remain open until everyone has come inside, after which they will shut behind them. It is not possible to leave on your own, although perhaps if you have a specific purpose the hostess will allow you to go, as long as you are accompanied by a partner.

The room is set up comfortably, with several tables by the fireplace set out to assist with the trial. The Hostess will also remain in a seat near the fireplace, next to the scales on the mantle. At lunch, the doors will open to bring in a large meal on an automatically rolling buffet, and at 3 PM, tea and finger sandwiches will be served. You'll be able to enjoy the trial in comfort, of course, but the information cards set out on tables will not allow you to forget your true purpose here.

At 7 PM, the trial will adjourn for the day. Players will be escorted by the Hostess to the ballroom, where dinner and wine will be served until 10 PM, at which point players will be required to return to their wings in groups with their wingmates and will be locked in their bedrooms until 8:30 AM the following morning.]

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[inthebones]

She was plotting to dispose of me?! And another person in this house simultaneously?

[Susan returns from Exhibit G with the sourest expression known to mankind.]

Well.

The rest of you can solve this murder then.

Obviously her creators accidentally churned out a defective product.

[vytis]

W-well, it's not as if she had the time to finish anything...

[You know, now that she's dead and all.]

[inthebones]

...

Does this mean I owe a debt to this week's murderer?

I do believe I feel a sudden oncoming wave of nausea.

[vytis]

I don't know if I'd go that far. Take it as... A somewhat unsettling compliment? At least people think you're helpful in the trials?

[inthebones]

No good deed goes unpunished.

Perhaps I shall try to be as unhelpful as possible. I could, you know. Perhaps I'll rearrange the crime scenes to make them all look self-inflicted in the future.

[souredsweet]

[SUSAN AND LITHUANIA...]

...Do you believe that she would have actually done so?

[vytis]

This house is all about trying to find whatever it is that will make us kill someone, isn't it?

[So MAYBE?]

[souredsweet]

That is certainly true... But I feel as though she was in a difficult position as well. Perhaps Miss Sto Helit's words against her were enough to rile her and she was simply venting in saying such things.

[or thinking... ROBOTS how do they work]

[notyetlost]

You are kind of annoying to have around at trials from the murderer's perspective.

And you're always hogging the immunity.

And you're kind of a sour puss.

[Case and point for the last one with that face.]

[inthebones]

Well, if the rest of you would be a little bit more proactive about solving these things, perhaps you wouldn't depend on me so much. And I wouldn't 'hog' the immunity then. It isn't as if I'm asking for it.

[Susan will not address that last point as her face becomes even more sour.]

[notyetlost]

Hey you told me to shut up yesterday. [Not that he listened.]

What was she suspicious of the nations for though? [We have been perfect angels so far, rude Rin.]

[vytis]

Probably everything we've ever done in trials.

[Though actually it's mostly the rest of you. Sigh.]

[pasodoble]

I've no idea.

[inthebones]

I told you to think about what you say before you say it.

Random accusations based on how much you dislike me aren't helpful in the least.

[humanic]

Yeah, I'm starting to lose sympathy for her here. [Someone's cross about being put on the Very Suspicious list...] Nice job preventing two people dying, killer, I think we can all agree to call this trial quits and go back to bed without executing anyone.

[inthebones]

I don't see what you did to make the list. Did your incessant speech threaten to overload her limited, malformed mind?

[given that rin is dead susan has to be angry at someone ok]

[humanic]

I miiiiiiight have asked her at some point whether we could repair her if she died. Which is a totally legitimate question! I wasn't saying she was worth less than the rest of us or anything, I just wanted to know if it'd be possible to bring her back!

[allice]

To chime in: theoretically we could. All her data up until Tuesday morning is in the computer, so it would just need to be uploaded into a functioning robotic body. The philosophical debate on whether it would be the same Rin or not is another 'food for thought' issue.

[inthebones]

I had the same thought. Golems can be repaired to an extent, far more than humans.

But if her memories are in there.

...And her body is... here.

Can't we put those back in... this?

[???]

[allice]

Oh lay off it, Susan. She wasn't in the right for thinking to kill, but she was paranoid. Being put on deadweight is practically a death sentence at this point: most of those who died at this point have either been on that or the dispensable list.

And she did make a good point: you've been consistently getting immunity for one reason or another. It isn't proof that you're behind what's happening, but it is odd. She probably suspected Stiles for similar reasons.

[inthebones]

Fine.

Stiles and I will sit in the corner and converse about our favorite mystery novels while the rest of you solve the next case.

[Susan drops the almost theatrical outrage now and speaks more seriously.]

I have no sympathy for anyone who thinks to kill. None whatsoever. You can excuse it all you want, but at the end of the day, it's that attitude that will result in none of us leaving this house alive. We cannot allow it to take root. All of us are capable of rational thought; the only reason anyone dies is because someone else chooses to do it. Being paranoid isn't a reason. Being afraid of something isn't a reason. Wanting something isn't a reason. There is no good reason.

The enemy isn't them, as much as we'd like to think so. The enemy is us.

We've inflicted all of this upon ourselves, and we're only going to continue down this slope if we don't stop it.

[allice]

...Ok, fine, then think about it this way: if we don't figure out who killed Rin, an innocent person out of four will die in the true killer's place. And your life is one of those four on the line. You don't have to approve of Rin or what she thought, but we can't just excuse whoever killed her as well.

[Alice wants to agree with Susan...but she can't. She's thought plenty of times about murdering someone, sometimes even in here. She almost killed an innocent person once because she wanted to escape a terrible situation: there's no bone in her body that can accept that thinking to kill is wrong. It would be hypocritical to say so.]

[obsideo]

Wow. That's...scary.

[inthebones]

Her suggestion of a double murder? Certainly it is. To think someone with the appearance of that girl could plot something of the like.

[susan probably knows very well felicia is talking about her face]

[obsideo]

(No, she means the murder.)

I guess I can understand why some people are tempted by these incentives, even if it doesn't excuse anything. But that someone would just act like that...they'd kill two people when they only had to kill one just for some stupid prize.

She didn't seem that way to me at all.