murdermanor | week 4

week four 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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Maybe someone saw the body and ran off without saying anything because the first ones there usually get put on the suspect list.

Or maybe they're not saying anything because they're friends with the killer. [gaze sliding over to Gundam and Sonia...]

Maybe...

They'd have to have seen the killer in that last case...

An accomplice makes more sense though. I mean a sword's hard to hide right; but if you had someone checking ahead...

[He shrugs.] A murder at around three in the afternoon in an unlocked and open room? Honestly, I wouldn't be that surprised if someone actually did walk in.

But what you said makes sense too. Someone could have entered first, made sure Rin was alone, and then distracted her for long enough for the second person to stab her. It still doesn't explain why though.

With a sword though? You'd expect a knife if they were taking that route.

...Maybe it'll be clearer once we see the incentives. There's nothing to say the item can only benefit one person, right?

Who says it wasn't a knife or some other weapon? I mean come on, have blade wounds ever actually been exactly what they seem in this place? First it was Minatsuki's hair, then it was icicles...who knows, maybe a hamster managed to chew a hole through Rin's body that's the exact shape a sword could fit through. It'd make as much sense as anything else has in this game. I'm starting to think nobody in here actually knows how to stab someone to death with a real blade.

Yeah, we should definitely look into what people got. That'd be a pretty huge coincidence though, since I'm pretty sure none of us have ever met anyone else here before this place, or at least don't remember it.

I... wouldn't make assumptions about coincidence where the incentives are involved.

I don't know about swords or robots or... stabbing. But they can't have expected to have long to switch things, would they?

Yeah, plus there's the whole question of where they would have hid the real weapon if they didn't use the sword. No suspects with freaky hair powers this time.

On the other hand, let's say they did really use the sword. The murder took place during the afternoon - even if Rin had been alone in the music room, how did they manage to carry a sword around out in the open without anyone spotting it?

Like I said, an accomplice could check ahead for them.

[He frowns.] If you're right about the killer entering from the Sapphire wing, that means either they or their accomplice probably lives there. But the only person on our suspect list that fits that is Kanaya, right? And Kaoru said she was in the kitchen when the murder took place.

[Woah there CHIMING IN]

So Kaoru did.

Though I'll admit the sapphire wing hypothesis is a valid one, and one that would implicate me pretty much exclusively, might I point out that if the killer came in through the other door, the door to the sapphire wing would still be locked, making the other door the only possible exit for Rin regardless of its obstruction by the intruder?

Plus it's just way too obvious. If we could solve every trial because only one suspect lived in the wing nearby, we'd wrap these things up in under ten minutes.

And that's a good point. Yuzu, was the door to Sapphire locked when you entered?

I don't know anything about robots but... ( Voice trailing off some, thoughtful. ) Unlike last week, this is a sword I'm familiar with.

When the sword and body are brought in, I can see if there's anything I can do to help.

Silence! Igiari! We were doin' secret stuff outside!

Zatknisia - if you are a suspect it is right to be suspected!

But we were not even inside!

Claim only the two of you! If you have something better than words, defend yourself with that!

We don't know all the facts yet!

[ A small hamster pokes its way out of her shirt pocket, squeaking. ]

Then stop wasting our time.

It's hardly a waste of time! If I were going to kill someone, I would never do it in a way that would put an animal at risk.

[ She pats Sun-D. ] She has been on my person for days now. I would never face off against a robotic being when they could so easily crush her. I am sure T... Gundam feels similarly.

[ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS]

And putting the creature away would be completely impossible?

We are looking for evidence. Not excuses.

[ Very much so. ]

...I can't. I can't put her down.

You see... the reason she was given to me is because I turned out to be deadweight from last week's trial... So my life was- and it is even now- at risk. But you see... if someone targeted me, she would be able to alert the others very quickly...

So I have kept her on my person at all times since then. You cannot fault me for being cautious.

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[blinks] Iggy-what now? And any chance of letting the rest of us in on this secret stuff?

Um, well, we walked for a while... then we sat down, and the hamsters did some tricks... then some secret stuff.

Secret stuff...like murder?

Like other... stuff.