week 2 - trial

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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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[speakveryclearly]

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Can't you slash someone with a pitchfork? If you move it in such a manner as--[she makes a strange stiff arm gesture implying the scoring of a line across skin with a pitchfork]

And couldn't you turn somebody's body over with a pitchfork? Isn't that what it's for, turning over hay?

[motheringnation]

They do not work that way!

[Ukraine is finally starting to lose her temper.]

You kill someone with a pitchfork by impaling them. It is a blunt instrument, it is not a knife.

[vytis]

It wouldn't make a clean cut like a blade would, and those wounds seemed to be from something like a blade. Even assuming she turned the body over with the pitchfork, she would have to approach the body to cut it up.

[pasodoble]

Then you would have a set of cuts and gashes that were parallel!

[speakveryclearly]

With so many cuts and gashes, how easy would such a pattern be to obscure?

[pasodoble]

There are several points on a pitchfork. Depending on how you were holding it, you would have to drag it perfectly horizontal or vertical to make it look like one gash but a part of it would still be more shallow than the rest of the the wound because the rest of the points would never catch up with the first.

Even with all of the wounds, if it was a pitchfork, there would have to be some level of consistency.