week 1 trial

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W1: TRIAL

34 REMAIN.

In the morning at 11:30am sharp, you hear the intercom speakers blare loudly across the entire airport, perfectly audible no matter where you are.

All passengers, please report to Terminal 0 Gate Area effective immediately. All passengers, please report to Terminal 0 Gate Area effective immediately...

...But that's so far...! Groan. Still—even if you try your best to resist, you'll find your body moving against your will and taking you all the way over there anyway. After what feels like forever of walking, you'll arrive to the gate and see that a few things are different. Most of you probably had a feeling this is what you should expect, right?

The gate has been refurnished a little bit for the proceedings today. The metal gates will not let anyone out of the Gate Area without permission, but at least there's some snacks set out, and Allstars Coffee is still open in case you need a coffee break. Your Hosts await you near the front behind the counters, carrying various, but all expectant attitudes. After all, we knew this was coming.

► OOC Notes

Welcome to trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will need to discuss the circumstances, investigate relevant locations, and put together theories about the truth behind this week's murders!

Trial will last from 9am PST/12pm EST until 6pm PST/9pm PST. There will be an hour-long break starting 1pm PST/4pm EST; while players are free to continue tagging during this time, it is intended to allow players to take a minute to eat, rest, what have you.

Lastly, voting is mandatory. Please be absolutely sure to get your IC vote in before the end of trial, or there are severe IC consequences!

DM the mods if you intend to use a curse during trial. Curse duration may be altered or subject entirely to mod approval depending on how many curses are in play. Curse duration must end before break.

Good luck!

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INFO

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SETTING

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REPORTING

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Comments

[ballies]

Thank you, North!!

[ well the fire is slightly less of a worry than initially thought.

anyway.

if there are two prints that are near to each other, she'll try and get a picture of both the prints next to her foot for some idea of the size of both. are there any more trampling patches anywhere? anything that could give them and idea of where the people here went to, their movements around the course?





also she's gonna check some holes. you never know. ]

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[tama will see that these foot-shaped indents are actually all over the mini-golf course. its two sets of vaguely foot shaped indents in grass, one set larger than the other. they are indents in grass, so they are not distinct enough for a size comparison, but the impression is two people running all the fuck over this mini-golf course. if you followed the trail a bit, you might find some other evidence too.

tama can also look in all the holes, but she will not find anything. but she will find a set up golf clubs set up to be returned near one of the holes, and it looks like one of the clubs in there is sort of sparkly...?

dante will have to pick one of these things to look at first, but since tama is looking at the trampled grass, he can look at the debris. i assume he's steering a bit clear of the fire for now, but he will notice what looks like some broken glass. it is actually quite near more of the foot indents.]

[foreverphantom]

[ hmm!!! how much broken glass? is it curved (like from a cup) or flat? and if he looks around, is there anything in this golf course that has glass in it--or normally would? does the windmill have windows that are now shattered, perhaps?

wait i actually forgot to ask--any blood or dirt or other debris on this broken glass? ]

[ballies]

[ someone really loves this bedazzled stuff from cl*ire's, huh?

okay, so first thing's first -- this golf club set. IS it bedazzled ala cl*ire's? or is it just weirdly sparkly for some reason? she'll give it a look over for any blood or dirt or dust, before making the choice to bring them with her.

once she's done that, she will pick the smaller set of footprints and follow them to see where they lead. ]

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[what dante finds is just broken glass, but it looks like it might be fragments from a bottle. if he examines the glass closely enough to pick it up, he will find that there's a scrap of fabric on the ground nearby, and also the grass in this area is a bit wet and there's a strong smell. the windmill does not have glass windows, it's just a mini-golf windmill!

most of the golf clubs tama sees are normal. tama only sees one sparkly club, but when she examines it, she sees its not a club at all, it's a sparkly pink staff. so yes, she can bring that with her.

tama can also follow the trail of indents. she will see that they run around the course, and there are more small black feathers here and there along with them. and then, at a certain point, there's a small splatter of blood in the grass, and after that if she continues to follow the indents, she will spot more red in the grass along with the indents here and there.

at this point, north will come jogging back with a fire extinguisher.]

Alright, how shall we do this?

[anyway someone can take this extinguisher and try to extinguish one of the fires if they'd like.]

[foreverphantom]

[ fascinating. huffs the grass. what does it smell like? is it discolored at all? is there any trace of liquid on the glass shards?

pockets the fabric scrap. takes a picture of the glass shards just in case, and NOW starts pocketing them with his bare hands and shoving them into another pocket. it's fine.

anyway i'm envisioning dante closer to the windmill so ]

Give it here, I'll put this one out.

[ballies]

[ oh wow. a whole staff... she will keep it safe. i'm assuming trial eyes for the staff so no peeking? ]

I think Dante wants to-- oh. Yeah. The windmill. I'll leave you to that one.

[ for the moment at least. i see there is blood for the blood gods en route here. what else is there to peek at here, hm. nothing else along the trail? no rhinestones, or... ]

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[it is a strong smell but you will need a trial nose to smell it. but fortunately, there is trace liquid on both the glass shards and fabric.

north will hand dante the extinguisher, so he can go on ahead and put it out! it will take him a bit to put out the windmill, but once he does, he will see some additional glass shards at the base of the windmill.

the staff is for trial eyes. but tama can continue to follow the trail. yes, the red she sees here is blood! there are blood drips like whoever was running was bleeding and then, over near the area where she found the golf clubs, tama will see another area where there is blood splatter in the grass. after that, the trail continues, and there is even more red mixed in with the grass.]

[foreverphantom]

[ yay!!! more glass to take pictures of and then pocket with bare hands!!

is the smell here too? does the glass look like it matches the glass from earlier? and if he peeks into the windmill, is there anything else in there? ]

[ballies]

[ there is just so much blood here. ]

So, someone was definitely injured -- maybe Anders, because of the feathers? [ interesting.

if dante's done with the extinguisher here, she'll nab it and go to try and put out the other fires to make sure there's nothing there. ]

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[the glass looks similar but you can't tell if it's identical or not, its just broken glass. there's no obvious smell.

he will not see anything else in the windmill. he can hand off the extinguisher to tama so she can go put out the other fire. as he does, though, he may notice that some of the red in the grass near the trampled indents, a little away from the windmill, is not blood.

tama goes and extinguishes the other fire! there is now a burnt and crispy golf green and also more broken glass in that area.]

[foreverphantom]

[ owo? non-blood red? leans in closer to get a look. is it still liquid like ketchup? or some solid item hiding in the grass...? ]

[ballies]

[ more glass!!

someone really wanted this glass to remain unfound. does it look like it's melted a little or not...?
and while she's over here, are there more footprints and blood splatters to indicate an ongoing chase? ]

[mgtropes]

[the non-blood red is some small solid chips of something! you will need trial eyes to see more.

tama will find more glass. you will need trial eyes for meltiness. but yes, the trampled chase scene and blood splatters does pass nearby the scorched areas and then heads out the door.]

I'm realizing now I can summon an extinguisher. [oops.] Shall we return?

[foreverphantom]

[ lol. lmao.

dante pockets the chips as well and then stands up. ]

One last thing.

[ runs to snap a photo of the blood drips leading to the golf course, bc he didn't do that earlier. ]

Alright. Tama, you ready?

[ballies]

[ stood here holding a sparkly staff, an extinguisher and some feathers like :man_standing: ]

Yeah, I'm ready. And don't worry, North-- you got us one, that's what matters most.

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[get out of here]