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

[zerotohiro]

That just makes it sound like you want to restab the body to check...[...well.]

[catraclysm]

Entrapta will do it.

[ catra don't just volunteer people for this ]

[zerotohiro]

No offense but do we trust her to do that?

[catraclysm]

You guys trusted her to put her fingers in the wounds.

[ entrapta has GROSS CORPSE HANDS now?? ]

[zerotohiro]

She did what?! [The fuck happened while he was fighting with Chuuya?]

[catraclysm]

She literally has corpse bits all over her gloves, how did you miss it while she was talking.

[zerotohiro]

I've been a little busy!

[hairckervoice]

What, stab the body again? I mean, she's already dead, isn't she?

[ truly entrapta is full of tact. ]

[unremorseful]

Exactly. So it's no big deal.

[hairckervoice]

Is this another scenario where feelings may be hurt?

[ should she also be doing a social experiment. ]

[zerotohiro]

Yeah but what about insult to injury or whatever? [...] You'll be careful?

[hairckervoice]

I think it's a little late for that.

[ rip. ]

But yes! It's part of the investigation to find the true killer. That's the best that we can do for the victim.

[zerotohiro]

...want me to come with you?

[tootsiepop]

If you are to examine the body again, please take care not to alter the pre-existing wounds.

[it'll break his roomba heart if they fuck up the evidence.]

[hairckervoice]

Oh, don't worry, I'll be precise and careful!

[ with her stabbing. ]

[hairckervoice]

Wait, what am I doing?

[ she's not even objecting. ]

[catraclysm]

You used a dagger to check the wounds or something, right? [ she was sort of. paying attention ] Do the same thing, but with some of the glass shards.

[hairckervoice]

Yep! Someone lent me a dagger.

[ a very kind armed someone. ]

But sure, okay. Where are the glass shards?

[catraclysm]

They just... lent it to you? [ oh my god. REGARDLESS, Catra just kind of shrugs and points at Souji and Nonon ] I dunno, ask them?

[covenantal]

Here. [ Yu will wave her over. He has a number of shards collected on his jacket. It looks like they're from a few different bottles. She's free to pick among them! ]

[unremorseful]

That's not a bad idea. We'd know for sure that way.

[zerotohiro]

We would...it seems kind of cruel, but she's also already sort of...gone. [A conflict of interest!]

[selfimmolates]

... Might as well, unless anyone here is completely against it.

[requiemed]

It's... gross, but it might be helpful.

[zerotohiro]

That's what I'm saying.