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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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AGENT REPLICA IS HERE]
Hey!
[there's a pause. he doesn't seem to have considered what he was going to say after that.]
You can't just... walk off with a corpse!
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The other option was bringing the weapons to the corpse. It would be harder to investigate without the use of our arms.
[That's really the long and short of it.]
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Oh, hello! Did you want to investigate the corpse too?
[ she's not even phased by the replica police. ]
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Oh.
[all the air seems to go out of him at once.]
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Also she's just going to give Luke a light pat on the shoulder. There, there.]
We would have made an announcement, but everyone seemed a bit busy with the crow.
[And Itachi and Julius. But clearly the crow is the important part here.]
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[Just when he finally thought he was getting somewhere in all this, instead of just standing around.
Instead he's standing around with two people he's never met, and a corpse.]
Uh, who are you guys, by the way?
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I'm Entrapta! And this is Emma.
[ the small robot will come say hi to luke too. entrapta's busy. ]
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[Neither Entrapta nor Luna bothered to introduce themselves to each other before this....
She gives a pleasant smile, though, or as pleasant as it can be while standing next to, yes, a corpse in the process of being russian stabrouletted. She definitely knows more or less who Luke is from his statue, but it's fine.]
And you are...
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Uh, hi Luna, Entrapta, and you too, Emma. I'm Luke.
[He gives Luna, and then the robot, a little wave of greeting, nonplussed. Has Guy seen this? Guy would love this. He must have seen this.]
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I wish we could be meeting under better circumstances. But it seems that these are the cards we've been dealt.
[And then I guess Entrapta Sword from the Stones Shiki's corpse so we can probably get down to business over there now.]
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[ emma beeps happily at luke, she is a very friendly little robot. entrapta is just a fuckin weirdo. luke should be used to that by now, though. ]
Ooooh, I think we're really getting somewhere!
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[Entrapta's exclamation is enough to cause him to start, and swing around, following Luna and Emma.]