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TRIAL | WEEK ONE
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;
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.
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 (![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
entrappings) is taking point on the trial today, and Britt (bloodthirstiest) is her backup. Thank you, and have fun!
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 (
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[onwards!! presumably starting to see if there's anything in the entrance and initial hallway]
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[ OR NOTHING. both is good?? He'll start eyeing the places where people were staying/resting first for any clues. ]
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[ and majima goes straight to the third floor. it's becoming his favorite place... he might actually be a little sad if it disappears next week :( ]
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Is it? Could it be?
Mr. Mew.]
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Oh, what's this? Could it be the doll they mentioned her carrying about?
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It looks like it.
[ he'll carefully pick it up and examine it. ]
Didn't she always walk around with it? Why would she leave it here?
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...hah, she dropped it in the dream. I remember that much.
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I suppose that retains with the theory that she had been stabbed first.
[are the like
beds okay??? what is the actual state of the first floor bedroom]
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It certainly does but we don't know whose blood this is.
[ ...little girls and their dolls :( why this. ]
I'm...going to hang onto this, if it's alright with everyone?
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[ 'cause guess what, majima also has specific hangups about young girls and dolls ]
I didn't find anythin' upstairs, for the record. We goin' back?
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There is a very light trail of blood droplets leading toward one of the beds in particular. It's easily overlooked, but while they're all standing and examining Mr. Mew, it's not terribly hard to take notice.]
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[sure, that's fine. saint-germain will go to investigate them.
and he will disturb the bed? lifting up the sheets - ]
And if I might ask one of you to peer underneath the frame, just in case.
[his knees are bad, he's old]
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Do you want to look underneath or should I?
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[ . . . awkwardly gestures to uno eye ]
Gimme the doll if ya don't wanna... mess with it or whatever?
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If Jude does look under the bed, he'll discover that the hole pierces the entire way through the bottom of the bed.]
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[though he doesn't appear to have strong feelings on the matter aside from that! is the pillow all good. is there actually a trail of blood going anywhere or is it just the drops by the bed]
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[ take good care of mr. mew :(
aaand totally seeing the damage and holy hell. he's unafraid of the blood so he's going to touch the hole and see if there's anything unique about it? ]
...whoever stabbed stabbed Shiki needed to have quite a bit of strength to through her and the mattress.
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in light of this, majima edges around shiki's bed and double checks all the others. do any of them look like they were slept in last night? ]
If there was anyone else in here, there's no way they couldn't'a known she got fuckin' impaled, yeah?
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Regardless, there isn't anymore evidence to be found.]
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welp!]
The magical sleeping drought they impose upon us must be powerful indeed. Though I suppose this does provide some answers.
Shall we depart, gentleman? We have a very dearly missed cat to return to everyone, after all he has seen.
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[ somber and rather quiet. ]
We can bring this to the others and maybe figure things out and see what new things they've come up with.
[ also if majima wants to keep mr. mew then that's cool or he can hand it back to jude, no big. ]
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...
sorry jude he's gonna hang onto nyantan :( ]
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protecc the fuzzy nyantan ]