WEEK SIX TRIAL

[grigori]

week six: trial life's a squeeze

19 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 a courthouse, north of the library, 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 one of the courtrooms for your arrival are Shamsiel, Suriel, and Baraqiel. Some evidence tables have been brought in and arranged, 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 already have hot tea, takeout containers from various places around the city set out and perpetually warm (or cool, as needed), and some first aid kits for the more unfortunate to come in feeling a little under the weather. Come noon, once everyone is within the room, they'll find that the doors close and lock behind them.

Suriel stands to one side, hands clasped as if ready to say a prayer, wings tucked close. They have no smiles to offer today. "This should be the last time. Let's do what we can, so they won't have to wait for long to see you again."

"Right, as tired as all of you have become, there's an end in sight from all of this." Words that Shamsiel offers as a means to improve the mood some. They stand with a hand pressed to their chest while the other clenches at their side.

Baraqiel is quiet for a moment, seated on the judge's bench - not at it, on the edge of it, with wings and cloak spilling back on the other side as they survey the group gathered. The juror's stand is empty, and so is the audience seating. Everyone can fill in where they need to, or want to, for the next nine hours. "A-Qing and Scheherazade were Temporals. Kim Dokja was a Celestial. This is the final stretch - but that doesn't mean you can halfass it. Let's go."

Every hour that passes, they'll be able to hear a grand clock chiming from somewhere within the courthouse. The pressure's on—good luck.

Trial start

Court is now in session. Welcome, everyone, to our seventh 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

More Info On Stab Wound

[lefthandpath]

... I used a feather of Dust to gain some information on Miss A-Qing's body.

The information I received... was that Miss A-Qing was stabbed by her own hand with no resistance or coercion.

[greatdeduction]

But I have just been told that..."all of the killers are still alive".

[He looks.....deeply upset, though.]

Why...? Miss A-Qing...

[senjinrouha]

... Do you think someone talked her into it? If she made the decision herself that wouldn't be coercion, I don't think?

[greatdeduction]

Who would be so cruel as to do that? Was...was she the type of person who could listen to such a thing like that...?

[He doesn't know.]

[senjinrouha]

...


[ he looks thoughtful. ]

... Where was the knife when her body was found?

[lefthandpath]

Absolutely not.

But she was feeling down and vulnerable because of her injuries. But even with that... even with that, she was not the sort of person who would do that.

[quiz]

Maybe someone intended to kill her... ?

A-Qing could have seen them and just... y'know.

[rerouter]

Would they still count as a killer in that case?

[quiz]

I mean we don't exactly have a list of rules to reference to -- I guess we could ask the Watchers?

[lefthandpath]

I find that implausible, considering Miss A-Qing's personality.

[quiz]

Then you think someone asked her to do it herself?

[callalilies]

[ oh that's. not a vibe. frowns deeply. ]

[perfectdistance]

[Really don't like that.]

[yueshen]

[ haha oh no

hate that ]

Oh, A-Qing...

[lefthandpath]

... we have to be missing something. I don't believe Miss A-Qing would take her own life. And the number of living killers doesn't match, besides.

[voltadomar]

[Kim takes off his glasses and seems to be examining them for dust.]

Is it possible that that wound was not the cause of death...?

[lefthandpath]

It's... possible. Mr. Kaburagi was the one who checked her, right?

[sponsoredby]

I couldn't see anything else on her, but someone else is welcome to try. I checked the best I could.

[bloodyromance]

It's what the song said, didn't it? The sacrifice chooses to enact a plan and all that.

[lefthandpath]

You think it might've been her, then?

[greatdeduction]

Wouldn't that be Mr. Dojka? What with...that whole contraption, and from what others have said.

[malewife]

[ Crosses his arms. ]

I remember last Sunday, he for some reason theorized having the teams closer in number may buy us time to retrieve Baraqiel's item and for whatever else we need to start preparing.

Where it came from, I'm not sure, but Kim Dokja isn't one to take information lightly without trusting the source with something that sounds like only a possibility.

[greatdeduction]

Hmm. So are you saying that it is likely, or unlikely that he would have been behind the mechanism in the room? Would he have told someone to set up something like that?

[yueshen]

[ .... ]

.... That is exactly what he thought. [ DOKJA.

xie lian pulls out his letter, and reads: ]

If anyone can understand my decision in this very moment, it's probably you. I'm not sure if this will buy us much time- if any, really. But I figured it was at least worth a try. Rather than have one team win... I want to try and even the numbers out.

[escardos]

[ oh...he doesn't like that. ]