TRIAL | WEEK ONE

[divus]

FIRST TRIAL

The participants' sleep the night before is blessedly free of god-sent dreams, and when they wake and the morning dawns bright and early, they find themselves drawn to the courtyard.

The courtyard looks mostly the same as it did the day before - filled with statues of each of the participants, with frosted glass-topped coffin at the center. However, now that the trial has begun, Shiki's coffin is open, and her body is available to be examined.

Patience is standing among the statues, waiting for everyone to arrive. Once the entire group has been gathered, she speaks.

"Last night, a champion was taken from us, and a God has been angered. Reparations must be paid in kind...so today, we gather to determine which among our suspects will be held accountable."

She gestures behind her, and above the altar room's doorway, marble busts appear depicting the masked faces of five gods, names etched upon their stands. The culprit is among their ranks, but which team will bear the burden?

Good luck, everyone. You have nine hours to decide... and your time starts now.

VICTIM;



SUSPECTS;

OOC NOTES

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first trial!

A few notes on logistics, as this will play out a little differently than trials in previous games -

Firstly, in lieu of an investigation on Friday, during the trial itself, participants will have the chance to investigate a preserved version of the temple as it was on murder night - a copy, if you will. This can be done by providing the name of the location you wish to investigate to the host. For the sake of your mods' sanity, only one location may be investigated at a time, and no more than three characters should take part in the investigation. Your host will be accompanying you into the area and can manipulate the environment upon request to allow you to test theories, which you can then report the results of to the rest of the group at large. For this purpose, we suggest that you visit locations to confirm or deny theories that have come up in discussion at the trial, or to search for clues if you get stuck. The others can and should continue to brainstorm while the investigation crew is away.

Secondly, rather than having a traditional suspect system where your vote is for which individual you think committed the murder, trials at Plasmatio focus on determining which god is responsible for the actions of their follower, and in turn, which god will therefore lose a follower in reparations for stealing the life of one of the participants. There are multiple ways of taking part in this trial - you can focus on solving the murder, or focus on lowering the numbers of a suspect god you don't want to win the whole competition, or focus on your own character's goals, whatever they may be. Ultimately, your task here is to sway the group at large into voting the way you want them to.

And speaking of votes... before the trial is over, please place your character's vote over on the voting page. Voting will close at 6PM PST/9PM EST, 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.

If you have any questions at any time, please let do us know by pinging us on Discord or on plurk! Danielle (entrappings) is taking point on the trial today, and Britt (bloodthirstiest) is her backup. Thank you, and have fun!

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Comments

[tootsiepop]

[hm. bad.]

Hiro suggested taking stock of what everyone has on their person at this time. If that yields no results, we should compare the wounds to the blades available in the kitchen and armory.

[hairckervoice]

A sound idea! We should have everyone surrender their blades as well. For observation.

[tootsiepop]

Perhaps it would be wise to check for injuries while we're collecting everyone's belongings. We still don't know for what purpose Shiki's body was burnt, after all.

[Maybe there were signs of a struggle? A mystery.]

[hairckervoice]

Are you suggesting we all strip?

[ kyuu you monster. ]

[tootsiepop]

[i gotta.]

Yes. Would that be a problem?

[hairckervoice]

My previous social experiments seems to indicate that it would be!

[ people like to keep their clothes on, typically. ]

[tootsiepop]

[ah. right. humans.]

We could ask Patience for a privacy screen, if that would make the others more amenable to cooperating. But I must insist that we be thorough in exploring all possibilities.

[goatsongs]

Don't ask the kids to strip! Pervert.

[that's like 95% of the people here chuuya]

[tootsiepop]

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I'm sorry, I'm asking everyone to prove they're not wounded.

[goatsongs]

And I'm telling you no. Go fuck yourself with a rake.

[socrash]

It's fine, I don't mind. I bet everyone wanted to see my killer abs anyway.

[ what abs ]

[usogi]

[oh my god

senri claps]

Wow. I admire your confidence.

[goatsongs]

I forgot you're at the age where boys can't keep their pants on anyway.

[artificialhighness]

Chuuya. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to look for injuries, especially with all that was done to the victim during the murder.

If you’d like, I can offer to help supervise the younger ones.

[goatsongs]

If they're okay with you supervising, that's fine. But they have to pick who they want to supervise.

[in_a_bottle]

There is no way.

[tootsiepop]

Then should we assume you have something to hide?

[hairckervoice]

Oh, I agree! We have to investigate thoroughly in order to solve this murder!

But feelings may be upset. [ see: above comments. ]

[tootsiepop]

"Feelings" are going to allow a murderer to get away. It's necessary to explore every possibility if we want to get to the bottom of this.

[socrash]

Can I at least keep my underwear on?

[ pls ]

[hairckervoice]

I think it's unlikely that the killer would have injuries on their groin area and nowhere else, so sure.

[terca]

I sincerely hope you do.

[ wtf dude ]

[tootsiepop]

Why wouldn't you?

[bart.]

[terca]

Where, specifically, do you suspect someone will be injured? Perhaps if we narrow that down, we can avoid, uh.

This.

[ She doesn't want to drop trou for you, Connor ]

[tootsiepop]

Arms, legs and torso. Areas that may be feasible for the victim to reach in a moment of panic, taking into consideration her own height.

[everyone is so up in arms wtf :'(]