week 2 - trial

[productions]

week two 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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Comments

[obsideo]

That could be.

(To Lithuania)

I'm with you that climbing with it would be unwieldy but the window thing doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't be hard to get it through a window at all. Sorry, I know she's your friend, but...we have to find the truth, even if it's hard.

[vytis]

Oh, when I mentioned the window, I meant if it was on her back. If she tied it to a rope or something that wouldn't really be a problem. If she really did kill Miss Takami then it's better that we vote her off than anyone innocent, of course, it just still seems odd to attack someone with blood powers by actively attempting to draw blood.

If she was going in and out of the bathroom with a pitchfork at around seven, maybe someone in her wing noticed?

[obsideo]

Yeah, could be! We should interview the wings.

I agree with you about the blood, but she was bleeding, so unless we have a theory about how else it was done, we have to assume that that's what the culprit did. Maybe they didn't understand her powers.

Unless you have an idea...?

[vytis]

It's difficult to know without knowing more about what Miss Takami's abilities actually involved--specifically, I mean. At the least I think if any stabbing happened it had to have been a plan B. Presumably, if it's Miss Ukraine, she would have had to have brought a knife as well, since pitchforks don't cut like a blade. That would be easy enough to carry, though.

We still need to figure out what caused her pupil dilation, the bruising, and the vomiting, right?

[humanic]

So basically we're back at square one.

Okay, so let's assume the stabbing wasn't the cause of death. We know the symptoms weren't caused by head trauma because she didn't have any wounds on her head. It might be that there's more than one cause to the symptoms - maybe she somehow had her right eye injured and was strangled and something else that would cause vomiting?

[vytis]

They would have had to do that quickly enough that Miss Takami didn't get to seriously fight back, though, right? Or they'd be covered in injuries and blood.

[humanic]

Yeah, but all of our suspects seem like they'd be pretty fast. Or maybe there was a way they could paralyze her before doing all this?