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

[unremorseful]

And who told you that?

[bakaomi]

Look, if you run around pretending to be a pacifist, but also you get other people to murder for you, word will eventually get around. And people will switch to a different god.

[unremorseful]

Not if you ask the right people. And there's only so much time that we'll actually be here. All they have to do is play their cards right, and nobody will be any the wiser.

Do you seriously think that there are any of these gods that don't want to win?

[bakaomi]

If a god is smart enough they can win without killing. Just because whoever you've been talking to might not have a shred of intelligence doesn't mean they're all idiots.

[unremorseful]

Oh, right, I'm sorry. Only a few of them are willing to kill. That's why they came up with this whole trial system as part of the game, because it was just so unlikely.

[Blackfire spreads her hands and shrugs.]

Would they really have set up all of this if they thought they could win without killing anyone?

[bakaomi]

No, my point is that there are different ways to play the game. That's how games usually operate, you moron. If you keep doing the same thing over and over again then nothing will surprise you. And for something like this to work, you need to keep everyone on their toes or else they'd get too used to the formula.

[unremorseful]

Is it? I've always found that games operate by having everyone play by the same rules.

Seriously, think about it. What do you think is more likely - someone just decided to go rogue on the first week and kill on the behalf of one of these pacifistic gods, risking ticking off their god and potentially getting themselves cursed or left out of the rewards if their god happens to win, or that these gods aren't being entirely honest with us and one of them was more on board with it than they've been implying because it benefits the gods to have their competition's numbers whittled down?

[bakaomi]

Just because the rules are the same doesn't mean every move you make is also. That's basic chess.

I'm not saying that there is a zero chance of them lying about something like that. But why would they show their ass the very first week? If that's the case, then they really are an idiot who can't plan ahead.