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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[tsarcasm]

Stiles has a point about the window thing. I was thinking about this when I was investigating. The culprit could have left the dirt on the Sapphire bathroom window and climbed in to throw suspicion on someone living there. After all, it's not like you need a key to get out, only to get in though the door.

[humanic]

Yeah, that's been bugging me too. Speed or not, it shouldn't take that long to wipe dirt off a window sill, so unless our killer didn't notice it or couldn't wipe it away for some reason....

Still, it'd be pretty risky having someone in the Sapphire wing catch you coming out of the bathroom in a wing you didn't live in.

[inthebones]

Less risky than waiting for Minatsuki to stand under a window and leaping out of it?! How are you even making these distinctions?!

Are the windows able to be opened from outside? Anastasia, you checked them, didn't you?

[humanic]

Well yeah, because if you lived in Sapphire or Opal and someone tried to come into the bathroom while you were waiting, you could just clear out without anyone even thinking you were up to something! No harm, no foul! Sure, you wouldn't have been able to kill her, but you wouldn't be caught doing anything weird either!

Whereas if you left a bathroom that didn't belong to you after someone was already murdered and someone saw you doing it, that would pretty much put you right on the executed list!

[tsarcasm]

... Wait. Could someone have climbed up to the Sapphire ledge, knocked dirt off their shoes there to divert suspicion, then climbed back down to go into Opal, which they could have had previously unlocked the window due to having regular access...?

[ Yes, she's aware this points to a certain suspect, but no, she won't say it directly. ]

[humanic]

...Opal's above Sapphire.

But that could still work.

[tsarcasm]

Up, down -- yeah, my bad. Doesn't mean it still couldn't have happened.

Lithuania didn't find any dirt around the Opal wing, right...

[humanic]

No, he didn't. And if they climbed up, they couldn't have cleaned the dirt off.

That just leaves one person though. To execute someone based off of such flimsy evidence....

[inthebones]

Opal is above Sapphire. Do you mean they continued climbing up?

[tsarcasm]

Yeah, okay, I mixed them up, but that is absolutely what I meant. If they could get up one story who's to say they couldn't go another?

[inthebones]

But that's not evidence of anything! It's just a theory...! What else sets Annie apart from the others?

[tsarcasm]

Nothing... all three are strong enough to possibly overpower minatsuki or climb a wall. There's only the question of why the Sapphire residents would knowingly leave dirt on their own bathroom sill -- and I say knowingly because it definitely looks like it was stamped off on purpose.