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

[respecting]

[Yeah he noticed that... but he's not going to say anything about it.]

I don't know. This is ... messed up. Even when we catch the killer, they ain't all like Siren and Bernie. Hell, the victim was more like 'em this time, but we don't know if she would have really killed or if she was just thinkin' crazy thoughts cause the rules is so jacked up. I just can't feel good about helpin' catch the killer when it's like this.

[humanic]

[A sighs.] Tell me about it. Now that we're starting to weed out the psychopaths, it's all just going to get harder from here. Maybe that's the point. We're not supposed to feel good about seeing anyone die, killer or not.

But if we didn't catch her, then someone else would have gotten executed for doing nothing wrong at all. So we don't have a choice - we have to catch the killer, no matter how sympathetic they are.

[respecting]

And then what? It just starts all over again...

Damn it. I wanna come up with somethin' else. We already got rid of all the poisons. We could try to find the rest of the passages next. But we always doin' things after they're too late...

[humanic]

Yeah, we need to stop focusing on just catching the killers and actually try to stop the murders before they happen.

Even if we get rid of everything we can think of in the mansion, they can just get new items by targeting a deadweight. We can't even give them that opportunity. Annie and Rin had the right idea, just terrible luck - everyone should have at least one partner at all times. No going even to the bathroom alone. Trying to find all the passageways is a good idea too - if a killer gets the map like Kanaya did today, we can try to block them off first so no one can use them or at least know where they are so we can search them.

[respecting]

Well, at least no one else can sniff people out by their blood or whatever the hell she said she did to tell they weren't together. Maybe the buddy system can finally work.

[humanic]

We'd have to make it public first. Everyone has to announce who they're partnering up with so we don't get any instances of someone pretending they want to look out for someone else when they're really just getting them alone to kill them. And we should switch it up every week too so there's no predictable routine.