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.]

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Comments

[inthebones]

Her suggestion of a double murder? Certainly it is. To think someone with the appearance of that girl could plot something of the like.

[susan probably knows very well felicia is talking about her face]

[obsideo]

(No, she means the murder.)

I guess I can understand why some people are tempted by these incentives, even if it doesn't excuse anything. But that someone would just act like that...they'd kill two people when they only had to kill one just for some stupid prize.

She didn't seem that way to me at all.

[inthebones]

[Susan performs an incredibly rapid about face as she realizes that Marlow is actually being serious about the subject matter. Gold Star Marlow.]

Apparently, Rapture had been talking to her.

[she would let the explanation stand there, but.]

Rin was a child, still. What amount of conscience she had was probably assuaged by the entertained delusion that this truly was a game. ...And what children want, they take. The consequences are considered afterwards.

It doesn't excuse it in the slightest, but I suppose... I shouldn't be surprised.

[obsideo]

That's true, I guess. But...I'm glad we didn't lose two people.

[inthebones]

I should say I'm rather pleased myself.

...

To be honest, I doubt she could have done it. I was checking on her whereabouts constantly, after all. Perhaps if she had attempted first, there wouldn't have been a murder at all this week.

[obsideo]

It's just a little surprising. Bernkastel, Annie, Reiko...it was all kind of like, yeah, okay, you've been putting off some weird vibes. But not so much Rin.

[inthebones]

Lithuania raised a good point earlier. We've met each other expecting that everyone necessarily conforms to our own cultural mores and concepts of morality when in reality, it might be nothing of the sort. We know nothing about Rin's society apart from that it can create artificial life - perhaps this sort of thought process isn't regarded as aberrant.

I would reiterate how we mustn't place trust in each other so easily, but I'm sure everyone's tired of hearing it by now.

[obsideo]

Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't trust anyone to give them the key to my room or something. Or not vote for them if they're the best suspect.

But we have to at least trust our impressions.