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.

Mod breaks will run a little differently than they have in past games. There will be a three hour block starting at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST and ending at 7 PM EST/4 PM PST, where we'll be cycling one mod out at a time to take an hour long break while the other two remain to keep tags going and answer any questions players might have. We encourage players to take a break at any point during this timeframe, but the player-designated break will be at the traditional 5 - 6 PM EST time! Reference our timezones if need be.

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Comments

[grigori]

[ maybe a little bit? not much, though, and only a couple of bears. the rest are either untouched (further away) or mildly damp and definitely glittery (were closer to the epicenter of glitter). your poor hands.

the window is undamaged! reze gets to find out that it's actually open! the heat of the sauna offsets the chill from outside, at least. the window opens outwards, likely more for maintenance and cleaning than enjoying the weather, or something like that.

some blood drips lead to it, no discernable pattern and like someone was bleeding sluggishly and periodically drip dropping - just like the locker room. there's a trail of partial shoeprints of glitter water, but it would be hard to get a proper impression of the size from them since they're only partials. gomen.

on one of the walls, there's a piece of paper stabbed into the wood with a kitchen knife. wow!

there's a pile of towels that you can rifle through if you like. ]

[quiz]

[ Can she lean over the window and spot anything? Any blood that runs against the side of the building or in the snow?

Once she's done investigating that she'll go through that towel pile. ALSO ANOTHER RANDOM ASS KNIFE WHAT'S GOING ON!!!!!! ]

[rerouter]

["some blood drips lead to it" by that, do you mean the hearth? And just to confirm, is there nothing inside the hearth itself?

Monika will raise her eyebrows at the knife. Um.

Before she pulls it out, she will check for blood and scratches on the knife itself. And since Susato has shown her knife at trial before, does it seem to be the same one?

Is there anything visibly written or scribbled on the paper?]

[grigori]

[ blood drips lead to the window, across the room and past the hearth! which reze is now leaning out of. that's fine. there's no blood around or on the window, or in the snow, but there is an imprint in the snow of someone landing after jumping out. footprints run off from there, but it's hard to get a gauge of their size.

knife! knife is fine, with general use, and monika will recognize it as that knife yet. the note says the following:

I do not want to allow another person to be made into a murderer, nor do I want to die. As I write, dawn is approaching, and I will try if I can to still be here to see the sunrise.

If you have found this letter, I might have failed, or I might have been whisked away to that place out of time.

There is an item that may help you find the person responsible.

reze rifles through the towels and finds one (1) fingerprinting kit. ]

[quiz]

[ Is it only one set of footprints? Just for confirmations sake. Also it's okay even if she got a little blood on her shirt she'd just say she got a nosebleed, teehee.

Anyway, once she finds the kit, she turns back to Monika. ]

Hey, I found this.

[rerouter]

[...]

Oh, jeez.

[Carefully, she pulls the letter and the knife down.]

It's a gift from Susato, I think. Here, read this.

[She will show Reze the letter for her convenience.

To double check, aside from what's already been described, Monika will not notice anything different from Thursday night in the sauna?

ALSO-- just to double check, the footprints seem to lead to the previous invest locations right??]

[grigori]

[ hard to tell if there are multiple or only a single set! snowfall makes it hard.

nothing else will be different, and the tracks do lead off to the other invest locations.

satariel is standing in the doorway, waiting, avoiding stepping on evidence. ]

Anything you want to double check, ladies?

[quiz]

[ Reze tucks the kit into her satchel bag. Taking a look at the letter she feels a little solemn, heart sinking -- yeah, that hurts.

Ski poles? Check. She'll grab the snowglobe bases, as well as one (1) teddy bear. ]

Using the kit here would probably just make things more confusing, I think we should just keep it on hand unless you wanna use it for something in particular?

[rerouter]

[At Satariel:]

Hm... How would you rate our thoroughness, Satariel?

[And at Reze:]

It's likely most of this was Susato, so... I agree. Let's see what everyone else found.

[I just realized the description says the sauna is separated by genders.

Is... Is there another room in this sauna they haven't checked, or is the description a liar and it's just the one?

For thoroughness, Monika will walk through all the rooms while avoiding the evidence, looking at the floor, walls and ceiling for anything they may have missed. The door frames and light fixtures, too. She will also double check the lockers, just in case.

Will Satariel help them bring back the rest of the teddy bears?]

[grigori]

Thorough, Monika. I think you've found everything - it just boils down to how it pieces with everything else.

[ if you want to check the other saunas we can handwave it but there's nothing else to find in them or this one. satariel would have made sure to point that out at the start so you guys are good.

everything is all set with that, though, even with a double check - and your watcher will help you carry things, so long as you don't tattle on them to the other two. go write your report xoxo ]