WEEK FIVE TRIAL

[grigori]

week five: trial i want to speak to a manager

23 Remain

Good morning, everyone! Hopefully you're well-rested, because there's a long day ahead of you.

The start of the day is yours to do with what you want, but come 11:45 AM, your daemons will feel a compulsion to lead you to chapel and will ensure that you're up and moving to head there. You can certainly resist it, but by the time 11:55 AM rolls around... you'll find your feet taking you there, regardless, if you aren't there already. There's no exceptions—it seems that this gathering is mandatory, as you'll find that your fellow travelers are all heading to the same destination as you.

Waiting in the chapel for your arrival are Satariel, Rameel, and Yomiel. Tables for offerings sit at the front end of the room. They've been left empty for the day ahead - save for one, where plates, bowls, cups, and cutlery have been stacked neatly for later in the day. Some snacks and drinks have been provided for the early portion of the day, and proper food for later. Come noon, once everyone is within the chapel, they'll find that the doors close and lock behind them.

Sporting a bit of a different look with their long blonde locks gone, Rameel will be leaning against the podium upfront with a lazy smile on their face. Their wounds and injuries from yesterday seemingly healed up completely sans one more permanent injury. And even though it looks as if they were going to say something, they ultimately don't and pass their turn.

Yomiel looks much better than yesterday, wounds healed, broken wings set, and clothing repaired. Speaking too much seems to be a bit of a strain, though, as their voice is still scratchy and rough. "You've don't have much time to find Mikotoba. Don't waste it."

Satariel is curled up in one of the pews, wrapped in their cloak and a blanket and looking tired. But they are paying attention, and their daemon paces slowly nearby as a bear, snuffling at anyone that comes close enough as though checking them over as well. It still does not touch. The Watcher sounds - quiet, for once. "Let's get started. And, while it won't matter to the trial... for your numbers, Miss Rika was a Celestial."

Every hour that passes, the chapel bell will ring out with the time. The pressure's on, good luck.

Trial start

Business stops for no one! Welcome, everyone, to our sixth trial. For the next nine hours, characters are expected to investigate the setting, compile and examine evidence, locate any unalive and unaccounted for members of their group, and theorize about the going ons of Thursday night/Friday morning that lead up to this point.

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Comments

[senjinrouha]

I think it might be. She had it at the ball the other week.

[ ... ah.

well, he's on it like a car bonnet. digging in the snow. is this what he's looking for? ]

[gregore]

[it is in fact Dust! there's also a little pile of gold Dust around the ice shard - not a lot, but it's a bit scattered in the snow. the sword is frosty.

yuri digs through the snow, and finds... a bot! it is having a time, all of the joints frosty and making the poor thing skip and stutter. there's a button on it just like before, but it's icy and frozen, so it'll be hard to press it until you get back to evidence...]

[voltadomar]

Hmh...

[That's a robot!]

Try to keep that warm. The cold isn't good for machines.

I found some Dust over here. Doesn't look like a fatal amount. But I think it confirms that some of the blood we're seeing was genuinely spilled that night.

[Since they're right here -- does the sword they found match the stab in the angel statue?]

[senjinrouha]

[ well, he's in a cosy nerak sweater so that bot is getting wrapped up snug and warm as well. good for the bot. ]

So, either Susato, or she got some good hits in on her attacker. That'll be fun to find this week.

[ ... ]

We need to check the maze too, right? [ he's doing another look over the garden to make sure there's nothing really obvious like susato impaled on the top of a statue or something. or a sign that says "[person] is the attacker" hewwo? ]

[gregore]

[i mean, it is a sword, and the mark seems to be the sort of slit you'd get from shoving a sword into a rock, so it goes into the stab mark if you force it a bit. it's not easy as butter though.

the bot whirs, and then goes silent, settled in yuri's warm tits.

there are the bear, lynx, snake and swan statues that are damaged. greg is sitting on top of the bear one? how'd he get up there.

otherwise the maze is there, waiting.]

[voltadomar]

[Kim stops to give a report of what they've found so far.]

Yes, we can probably move on soon.

[One last check before they go. Anything up with these other sculptures? Hi Greg. How's the view from the bear?

Also, any dust to be found around those bun prints?]

[senjinrouha]

Yeah, let's just... check those other statues. I have string for the maze so we can hustle.

[ greg, everyone's son, how DID you get up there? is there a sign? a little greg sized ladder? a CORPSE TO CLIMB? ]

[gregore]

[no dust around the prints!

greg squeaks from his perch. greg is eternal, he doesn't have to explain himself.

it depends, also, which statue are you looking at!]

[voltadomar]

[He's looking at the bear! Where you are, Greg. But he'll check out the lynx, too?]

[senjinrouha]

[ yuri will look at the snake and swan ]

[gregore]

[the bear statue has a slash across the chest. it's pretty steady looking in comparison to a much more haphazard slash across the lynx statue, the lynx's front legs wrecked enough to make the statue look like it's going to fall off it's pedestal.

the snake is also haphazardly damaged, broken in two, and the swan statue has a wing broken off, with a clean, steady slash.]

[voltadomar]

[Hm. Kim makes some notes.]

Okay, I think we should go to the maze now.

[senjinrouha]

[ poor snake. ]

Alright. Here -- [ he'll just dig out a... whole ass roll of thread and string. some looks like it's from the kitchen, some looks like he just unravelled a wholeass sweater or two. which is exactly what he did. ]

Hang on, I'll tie one end of this to something and then we have something to follow out again. [ he'll find something sturdy to attach, tie, or shove the string under. ]

[gregore]

[yuri, your sweater destruction.

but they can go through the maze! as they do, they can see one set of footprints (the medium ones) leading out of the maze, from the center. the string is helpful for getting out but you can absolutely follow the footsteps to the center!

at the center, the small footprints are also there, leading in from the other side of the maze. they abruptly vanish, though.]

[voltadomar]

[To be clear -- the medium footprints lead from the center of the maze, to the garden?

He's checking out where the small footprints vanish. Do they vanish near any other prints?

Also, the maze might provide a little cover -- are any of these prints clear enough to get a better sense of size?]

[senjinrouha]

[ i'm glad pazu remembered the clearer prints because my brain is just like PEETIES. ]

... The just vanish? Did someone pick her up...?

[ he's going to look at the ice walls of the maze. are there any marks on those that look suspicious? like someone climbed or walked them? ]

[gregore]

[yes, that's right. the medium and small footprints (and little rabbit peets) all lead into the maze, the small footprints abruptly vanish in the middle of the maze, and the medium footprints continue on alone out of the maze, to the ice gardens.

where the small prints vanish there's a bit of a like... deeper indent in the snow, like maybe someone dug their heels in briefly.

i'll say that at the very least you can tell that all of the prints are consistent. you can get a half print of both, though the smaller ones are the most clear.

the walls look fine and ordinary, nothing out of place.]

[voltadomar]

Maybe she jumped, or...

[But is there anywhere she could have jumped to? Anything else to find if they follow where those last prints are facing?]

[senjinrouha]

[ yeah like.

is there any sign where they went? anywhere? if pravda scurries up on the walls can she see anything? ]

[gregore]

[nope! the prints just vanish, and reappear in the gardens.

it looks like this trail started on the other end of the maze, though. like the garden was the secondary location, if that makes sense, SORRY I KNOW FOOTPRINTS ARE WILD. are you heading to the other end of the maze?]

[voltadomar]

[Kim looks at Yuri and shrugs.

I guess we'll just look to see where the prints came from!]

[senjinrouha]

[ letsa go, gregio. ]

[gregore]

[neat! what you can see as you follow those prints is the hotel in the distance. the small prints, the medium prints, and the bunny prints all lead from the hotel to the ice maze. and, along the way there's an impact mark in the snow that is vaguely in the shape of a person, with a few drops of red scattered in it.

to be clear its just a like... snow angel type of mark in the snow. there's no person in it. and it's not literally a snow angel.]

[voltadomar]

Somebody fell in the snow here...?

[Does the bodyprint line up with the footprints, looking like one of these two made it? And does the blood seem to be around a particular part of the body-print -- head, torso, limbs?]

[senjinrouha]

Someone was thrown in the snow here...?

[ like what. is there a nose print? did someone just trip and eat shit in the snow? ]