WEEK TWO: TRIAL

[cluedin]

WEEK TWO: TRIAL

OCCUPANCY: 28

Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey.

Despite the events of the day before, when you wake up on Saturday it almost feels as though nothing is out of place. Breakfast is still served at 7am on the spot, the house is still peaceful, and yet the distinct feeling that something isn't quite right continues to follow you wherever you go.

It soon becomes obvious that today is a different kind of day. One by one, all of you will begin to feel the urge to return to the ballroom where this event began. Try as you might, you'll find that these feelings can't be easily ignored despite your best efforts. Should you find yourself still resisting by 11:55am, a strong unseen force will guide you straight into the ballroom.

When all have gathered in the room, the doors will lock behind you at 12pm sharp. The feast table has been set to provide guests with hors d'oeuvres and beverages, but that's not all. In the center of this table rests a large wooden box and two baskets of crayons and notecards.

And of course, seated in front of the wall of profile plaques are...well. Two of your lovely hosts. Peach and Plum wait patiently for all to gather before drawing attention.

"Someone here is a murderer," they say, pointing up at the plaque of the house rules.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the third trial!

We'll go over a few notes briefly as we will be playing this trial a bit differently than other games.

While there was a mini-investigation on Friday, today is the day participants can really dive in to investigate areas in the game setting, check over the body and review evidence that they find! Please see the toplevels in this post for more information. To help with the ease of the trial and for IC mechanics, only one location may be visited at a time. One of your hosts will also be accompanying you on these visits.

Most importantly, before the trial is over, please place your character's vote over on the voting page. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST, and will serve as our activity check for the week, so please be sure you get your vote in before it ends unless you have contacted us previously. Please also be sure to read the voting page carefully, as we're trying a fun new bonus mechanic this game!

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[counterclocked]

...Yeah, once. With Asch.

[He'll move to the edge of the pond with Ash since there's nothing in the footprints.]

[cluedin]

[The ducks immediately move for the food, goodbye. Funny that Akira should be checking the size, because if he's measuring against his own foot it looks pretty damn close. How far is Ash looking, Becks? Is he just glancing around? He may notice something a few feet away at the bottom of the pond.

Hunter stops at the edge of the pond. Is he standing at the edge, or will he take the plunge...]

[survivaltricks]

[HOW CLOSE IS CLOSE??? is it an inch or two shorter or bigger?? Akira is doing his best to memorize so he can make comparisons later, idk how else he would make comparisons because he can't just WHOLESALE BRING THE FOOTPRINT TO THE BALLROOM]

The footprints are close to my shoe size.

[glancing up at the lake, expression thoughtful]

I think we should dive in and see if there's anything in the lake, too.

[since Galo found that fire poker in the underground lake last week]

[voidbreaker]

[ He'll do a loop of the whole pond after he's got himself over to the edge of the lake to squint in at the thing lying in the water. ]

... Yeah, we might have to. There's something in there, I think.

[ He does glance over at Akira. ] Just close, or are we ballparking it here?

[counterclocked]

Only one of us needs to do that, right?

[Maybe just one of them can take a dip instead of all of them coming back soaked. He looks towards the other two.]

[cluedin]

[It's...there's really not a lot of leeway in the size! Maybe half an inch or so difference, if that.

They can all continue to look at the lake...nothing happens as they stand at the edge and look. The ducks quack.]

[survivaltricks]

More than just close-- it's almost exactly the same. Maybe half an inch off? If that.

[okok gonna note that before drawing away and heading to the lake]

[. . .]

[brb he's taking off his shirt now AKIRA???]

I'll go.

[voidbreaker]

[ impromptu stripping session, go. ash just sighs and nudges him in the side with his elbow. ]

Alright. You and Hunter can fight out over who goes swimming. I'm gonna do that lake loop.

[ SOMEONE got stepped on in the stairway all night. He's fine not fighting the ducks for their water space too. ]

[ he is in fact going to do that wander around the lake, and have a look around for anything else that might look out of place, but a little closer. ]

[counterclocked]

Thanks, Akira.

[Well, since Akira is already stripping and Ash is going to look around the lake, Hunter is just going to see if there's anything else in the general area where he's standing.]

[cluedin]

[I'm still busy crying about Akira. Anyway. Ash can walk around the lake, enjoying his leisurely stroll! There isn't anything too out of the ordinary here...but from this angle he can see that there's some kind of hunk of something about two feet from the shore. Hunter gets to chill with the sludge and footprints.

Akira, unfortunately, is going to start wandering into the lake and as he moves through the shallow parts of the water, he will immediately feel a sharp prick against the bottom of his feets. Akira your feets!!!]

[survivaltricks]

[LOOK. . . I THOUGHT THE DUCK POND WAS DEEPER LEAVE ME ALONE!!]

[anyway he's shirtless for no reason I guess, but he took off his shoes and rolled up his pants before wading into the water. which turns out to be a mistake, because-- ow]

Shit-- [he immediately jerks back, out of the water, and lifts up one foot to see what stuck him!! he's also peering at the shallow parts of the water to see if he can. . . see. . . what is lying there]

[voidbreaker]

[ Well. He's gonna try and get a good look at that hunk of something two feet from the shore! Until, y'know. Akira is swearing and jerking out of the pond. ]

??

What happened?

[counterclocked]

—Are you okay?

[He's heading Akira's way as soon as he hears that exclamation, expression concerned.]

[cluedin]

[We're going to address this first. That hunk isn't going to move but Ash can probably tell that it's...metallic?

Akira will lift up his foot and he'll find a bone shard sticking out like a splinter. Owie. If he looks, he'll see that there are other bone shards hidden along the bottom of the water right above where he stepped.]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . why are there. . . BONE SHARDS. . . ??]

[????]

[okay, first off: Akira's going to pluck the bone shard out of his foot. second, he's going to PUT HIS SHOES ON and wade back into the water with them on to collect the other shards]

I stepped on something sharp. They look like broken bits of bone.

[voidbreaker]

[ Ash is gonna just crouch down and -- can he pull the metal thing out? Is it easier to see when he gets closer? ]

...

I really hope those aren't human bones.

[counterclocked]

Careful where you step...

[He looks a little nervous, even though Akira has shoes on. Gross! This is gross. Why bones!!]

[cluedin]

[While Akira's on bone-hunt, he'll find that it looks like something potentially just exploded. The shards can't really be pieced back together, but some are larger than others. Please be careful.

Ash can fish the metal thing out of the water! Congrats. He has a gun now! Hunter is allowed to be nervous considering Akira's holding bones in his hands.]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . hmmm. he is going to carefully bring those back to the shore, then. how big is the biggest shard? and is the bone flat, or round, or sesamoid or cuboid I TOOK AN ANATOMY CLASS I KNOW THINGS ABOUT BONES NOW!!!]

Hunter, do you have something I can put these in? I want to bring them back to the ballroom.

[ALSO is there anything else in the lake that he can see if he wades back in to check? or were the bone shards and the gun it??]

[voidbreaker]

[ AL YOUR BONESTICKS. ]

... [ well then. Ash has been fishing and he found uno gun. He checks it over, before straightening up and holding it up in the air. ]

Someone didn't try all that hard to get rid of this.

[counterclocked]

Uh, not really, but I can hold them?

[Sorry, Akira.]

[cluedin]

[The biggest shard is maybe the width of two fingers and the shards are more rounded than flat. There isn't anything else though! Ash has the gun though so uh. Have fun holding that I guess!]

[survivaltricks]

[THEN ARE WE GOOD FOR THE DUCK POND MODS, just to make sure]

[also Akira will foist the bone shards onto Hunter, sorry. just so he can extend his hand for the gun that Ash has]

Can I see that? I know a thing or two about firearms.

[if Ash complies he's gonna take a look at the gun. . . open the chamber, see how many bullets are left in there, try to gauge how many times it was fired, etc etc]

[voidbreaker]

[ UN GUN. ]

Sure. It's not an orbal gun, so I'm not sure how much I'd get from it. [ he's walking around the pond again and handing it over. there ya go, strip teaser. ]

[counterclocked]

[Neat! Except, not neat at all. Still gross. Regardless, he's accepting the shards without a word, handling them carefully so he doesn't damage them or cut his hand. As Akira handles the gun:]

Is your foot okay, by the way?