week 1 - trial

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week one 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. 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.]

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[agentx13]

I'm familiar with Latin, but it doesn't look like any Latin I've ever seen.

Let's presume that the mark is significant. After all, the missing chair seemed insignificant until it was used to block the bathroom door. The missing piano wire was likely used to help close a door or keep the doors from locking behind them. I'm not sure which - I'd have to try and see if either were possible. Had anyone else tried?

[ She pauses as a thought occurs to her. ]

Could it be a musical symbol? Or part of one? We haven't found the piano wire yet. Maybe the killer has some sort of obsession with music?

[humanic]

How would she have known that though? None of the info cards say anything about music for any of the suspects. Unless one of you guys had a conversation about music with her, but even then, it's not like she would have known the rest of us would know.

Wow, know doesn't even sound like a real word to me anymore. Anyway, if she did draw the symbol - which I still don't think so but whatever - it has to be something that would point out the killer that we'd all kn--understand.

[agentx13]

No, what I'm saying is, what if the killer left the mark and is obsessed with music? I think you might be onto something when you say Lydia wouldn't have had time or been able to write on her hand. So could the killer have left it because they were trying to send a message? Or maybe because they couldn't help themselves.

[humanic]

If the killer left the mark, then I think we're wasting our time trying to decipher it. They probably meant for it to be an S in order to throw suspicion on someone whose name started with it. I mean, I guess they could have some kind of obsessive compulsion to leave a signature, but does anyone on the suspect list strike you as that kind of person?

[agentx13]

But it doesn't really look like an S. It just... looks like a symbol. Something similar to an S that isn't an S.

It could be a red herring, or obsessive-compulsive behavior, or, as you said, a signature. And yes, several of them strike me as that kind of person.

But I've been a government agent for years now and I apparently view the world with more suspicion than other people.

[ But come on. Clyde's excuse had been his hair. Bernkastel had been in transit during the possible murder time and might have been able to pull it off. Marlow had ingratiated herself into the investigation pretty quickly - her knocking on the bathroom door could have been a ruse. And Susan? Susan is clever. All Sharon knows for sure is that she herself didn't murder the girl, and she's seen too much to believe anyone is incapable of murder. ]

[humanic]

Dude--uh, I mean lady, I'm way suspicious of everyone. My town has a turnover rate of like a body a week. My English teacher wound up being this psycho with a penchant for virgin sacrifices, which was not fun for me, let me tell you that. Do you know how many people want to sleep with me? None. Zilch. Nada. Freaking crazy poison revenge lizards and antisocial werewolves living in a rundown subway get more action than me just because they have abs and supernatural muscles, which is totally cheating by the way.

...where was I going with this?

[inthebones]

...

I see the information cards provide a satisfactorily well-rounded description of us after all.

[humanic]

Hey, in my defense...

...yeah, I got nothing.

[throe]

[ Upon hearing the musical statement, Rapture speaks up. ]

The symbol is nothing I recognize musically, not even from the sheet music I've seen over the years.

I'm only a bass player, but I haven't seen it for vocal or percussion either. The only thing I can think of is that weird shape on the body of a violin... but that looks more like a 'f' than a 'S.' Even then, that wouldn't be related to the piano, minus that they both require strings to be played.