WEEK 3 - TRIAL

[productions]

week three 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.]

victim



suspects



Character Statuses
Setting
Manor Rules
Cheat Sheet
Voting

Comments

[inthebones]

Voting based on your feelings is extraordinarily irresponsible. In the absence of actual evidence, you'd just be voting based on whom you dislike most!

[pandacea]

And if he was going up to the second floor to kill Mr. Altman, that would explain how someone managed to push him down the elevator shaft!

[notyetlost]

Fine.

[pandacea]

Yes, that would be a good idea! I shall come inspect it with you, Miss Kaoru. [after all someone as delicate as Kaoru shouldn't have to examine a corpse alone, right???]

[notyetlost]

Well, voting based on age is worse!

[aozaki]

Right, opening the doors and pushing him would be easy. As long as the culprit has the element of surprise on their side, a simple push would suffice. What about the sword wounds, then?

[pandacea]

You mean someone planted it on him? But why would they do that?

[vytis]

[And exit the room stage left as quickly as possible! Lithuania won't start talking until they're far enough from the room that he doesn't think they'll be overheard.]

You've been paying attention to the clues we have for this trial, right?

[respecting]

There was a note? Seriously?

... Bahaahha! Man, and I thought you were trying to knock me off instead!

[teenspirit]

[ Looking over the schedules, one in particular. ]

Igiari! The Ruby Wing bathroom smelled... 'odd'...? What does that even mean? Can you explain what the smell was like, Reiko? And... Touko, Latvia, Alice... Did you notice anything strange as well?

[notyetlost]

Um... [Not as well as he should... actually.]

Yes. Ish.

[inthebones]

How?

If a boat were sinking, you would put the people you like into the lifeboats, then? Is that what you would do?

I wanted Ukraine to fight harder instead of collapsing in on herself. I told her the things I did to aggravate her purposefully. And it worked. She fought. She showed me what I wanted to see - I respected her, even if I made the choice to vote for her.

You, on the other hand, appear to be representative of nothing more than immaturity and spite.

Go away and come back when you can act your age.

[throe]

Do as you must! We need to eradicate this spirit immediately, lest she possess those of us who are not skilled in waring off possession as a means to seek her revenge! Grab some of the candles from the parlor as well.

I thought the game runners might want to make it a little more authentic. [ She shrugs, it shouldn't be hard to put spoiled meat or something with one of their usual body dummies to give the illusion of a "decaying corpse." If they could use pigs blood last week, why not go with that? ] It doesn't seem like them to skimp on something like that.

[vytis]

It's looking like it might be possible that Dave was the one trying to kill someone. It's possible the person we're looking for acted in self-defense. [Lithuania heads downstairs to actually go outside, at least.] It's also possible they could have intercepted him while he was attempting to kill someone else.

[herpreciousrival]

Let me see... how would I describe it. [Siren taps her chin thoughtfully.] Sweet... but also potent?

I apologize, I was reluctant to investigate it any further given my status for the week.

[inthebones]

If it helps, I don't think any of us really know what to do with ourselves.

Still, try to stay where there are people if you can. You've created large holes in your alibi during the times when Dave could conceivably have been killed.

[pandacea]

Maybe it would have been better if I had not brought the subject up at all.... It is highly likely that I am wrong. There are still many things left unexplained. I hope I am wrong, at least, so it is messed up for the both of us.

[notyetlost]

[Poland is going away. Because Lithuania dragged him off somewhere around the boat part.

Doesn't stop him from turning around and sticking out his tongue as they leave though!]

BEEEEEEEH!

[teenspirit]

Like... perfume-?

[aozaki]

She could've been locked in, yes. However it happened, they probably wouldn't remove the body to remind us that we'll share the same fate if we abstain too.

[looking mildly put-off, she shrugs.]

The votes are changeable. [and to minimize pime taradaxoes at that, she glances up to see the nations being loud and dumb Poland taking one for the team.

...

well then.]

[souredsweet]

[god okay BACK TO THE BODY AGAIN, this time with May in tow. Kaoru's also stopped to pick up the katana, which had been retrieved with Latvia earlier.]

Please allow me to look first. [because CARD ASIDE May is still a kid okay that's gruesome, no one wants to look at dead people...]

[pasodoble]

What if someone wanted to make it look like Dave was trying to kill someone?

( Is he on to something here? Give him a minute to get his thoughts together. )

They chose a weapon Dave would have been familiar with and then left the key on him. Just because someone asked for an item, does it mean they really used it? ( . . . ) Well, they obviously used it if he was stabbed but if there was really a fight...

Miss Kaoru! You're familiar with the type of sword, right?

[souredsweet]

[Kaoru the Delicate seems very grateful for the offer]

I thank you for your kindness, Miss May. [off to the body!]

[pandacea]

The killer could have gotten the sword away from him? If they knew what they were doing and he did not, or even if they just got very lucky, it would have been possible.

Or maybe they stabbed him in the elevator shaft to make it look as if he had not simply been pushed or to be certain he was dead...I am not sure.

[inthebones]

...Perhaps like chloroform.