week 4 - trial

[productions]

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.]

victim



suspects



Character Statuses
Setting
Manor Rules
Cheat Sheet
Voting

Comments

[pasodoble]

I confess, I thought maybe Miss Susan had seen the body with her powers and hadn't told anyone for some reason but... I don't know.

No one eve found the missing pokers. Maybe there wasn't time to put them back so they had to hide them? Perhaps in one of the empty rooms or-- but that would mean they had a key.

( Spain is forever going to be awful at this. )

[obsideo]

No, they could have had a key. They skeleton key. It's definitely possible.

They had to have hidden the murder weapon somewhere we haven't thought of yet.

[pasodoble]

If they used a skeleton key, that means the box Poland found isn't really a mystery box unless the box randomly contained one of the other items but that would be really convenient.

... The box might be a fake clue after all.

[obsideo]

I think it is. The culprit so far has successfully hidden the murder weapon and whatever they supposedly took out of the box. If they could do that, why even leave the box in the music room at all? It's just a cardboard box, they could have stashed it anywhere and no one would have thought twice about it.

[pasodoble]

There's no reason to take the entire box if they only needed one item from it and what ever it was, it might have been easier than a sword to hide on their person.

Everyone has said how difficult it would be to sneak around the house with a sword but can you imagine what it would be like to also be carrying the box?

[obsideo]

Well, it's just a cardboard box. They could have just stashed it in the pantry.

[pasodoble]

How much time do we think they had? They already had to heat the poker, get to the music room, kill Miss Rin, and hide the murder weapon. Would they really have time to get to the pantry too?

[obsideo]

That's a good point. How did they have time to do any of that? Did they really heat the poker and then just casually go upstairs holding a heated poker?