yuggoth | ( TRIAL

At exactly 11:30 am, all residents who are still asleep will be jolted awake by a sharp, burning pain that spreads across their whole body. A simple look will reveal no visible injuries, oddly enough, and the pain will fade away as soon as they're properly awake. Those early birds who are already up and about will feel nothing — except maybe a strange, mysterious sense of relief as they go on about their business. Lucky them.

Moments later, an announcement will come through the static-filled PA system:

"This is Craftly speaking. My apologies for the rude awakening [not really], but your presence is required in the Dining Hall. Our first trial is about to begin. Please do try to be there before noon. My staff members have simply too many duties to tend to, to be escorting each and every one of you out of your quarters. Good day."

And true to his words, anyone who doesn't make their way to the Dining Hall before noon will be dragged kicking and screaming regardless of where they've sequestered themselves. Sucks to be you, huh? Upon arriving there, however, residents will be given the menu, one copy of the rulebook, one pencil, one notepad, and a cheque folder. Lunch and dinner will be served at the appropriate times, and appetizers, desserts and beverages (of the non-alcoholic variety) will be available throughout the trial. All you have to do is ask one of the faceless men, and your food will be delivered to you in ten minutes or less depending on what it is.

The Dining Room itself looks about the same as it does any other day — save for the fact that the lights have been dimmed. Why this, you ask? Because the projector is now in use. Transparencies containing each resident's profile will be displayed on the pull-down screen, with one of the staff members rotating through the images every minute. The profiles of the deceased are included, and if current discussion deems it necessary to focus on one particular resident, anyone is free to ask the faceless man to pause on the appropriate profile for a while.

A small area has been sectioned off with a transparent, plastic curtain right next to the pull-down screen. Its use will become rapidly apparent once the victim's corpse has been wheeled in. Anyone who wishes to step into this area will be asked to wash their hands in the kitchen, and they will be given a pair of latex-free gloves and a hairnet by a staff member who is stationed nearby. Residents are required to dispose of both items before returning to the dinner table; a trash bin is available outside of the curtains for this purpose.

Evidence found during the investigation, on the other hand, will be displayed in the back of the room. Two, long tables have been taken out of storage for this occasion, and any items found by the residents on Friday will be displayed here for further examination.

Finally — a clock above the pull-down screen displays the current hour. Please do remember you have until 9:00 PM to figure out whodunit and cast your vote.

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Welcome to our first trial! Characters will be given nine (9) hours to discuss everything related to the investigation to hopefully solve the mystery behind this week's murder. No one will be allowed to leave the Dining Hall without explicit permission from the Innkeeper (and only then to take a tinkle), and all characters must cast their vote before 9PM EST. You may do so on this week's voting page.

If you have any questions or doubts, shoot us a PM or a PP over at

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Or maybe, the murderer is a resident of Room 111 to begin with. That's a possibility as well.

[Just sayin'.]

[ Rachel smiles. It's a small smile, but not entirely a good one. ]

So they would have picked the lock of the other room and then dragged the body over to theirs. I examined the body, there was no struggle of significance. Someone Jason already knew, perhaps?

It's still in the air whether or not they did manage to break into the other room. The scratches were done in a rushed fashion, and their success in picking the lock is questionable.

As they say, Occam's razor.

Jason could have left. That's possible as well. He had to have been awake to put up a struggle to begin with.

I had considered the possibility that he was drugged, but I do not have enough equipment to determine that right now.

A hypothetical - that he was lured out after the criminal tried to pick the lock. And with the fact that they knew each other, he put up less of a struggle when he was killed. Without anyplace else to dump the body, they decided to drag it into 111.

Could they not have taken just Jason's key off of his body instead? That would be a more simple explanation.

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restlessgods - 2017-05-27 18:24 (UTC) - Expand

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. . . yeah. I agree.

Based on the evidence we have so far, I absolutely think the culprit is a resident of Room 111.

Same here. It's what makes the most sense and requires the fewest ridiculous leaps of logic.

Did Percival not say that he remembers seeing a figure dart into the closet?

He did.

A slender figure. Female.

[he's asking Marty about this right now]

... how many people were already in the room when this figure darted in?

nowyouseeit - 2017-05-27 18:32 (UTC) - Expand

crushcard - 2017-05-27 18:42 (UTC) - Expand

Hana?

[The only female resident of 111, but he has a feeling you guys are already on the same page.]

nowyouseeit - 2017-05-27 18:33 (UTC) - Expand

godly - 2017-05-27 18:35 (UTC) - Expand

restlessgods - 2017-05-27 18:34 (UTC) - Expand

He did. Which is where the clothes hanger was found.

So... the clothes hanger was taken and used as an attempt to lockpick Room 112. Do you think Jason had already been dead before all this transpired? It sounds as if they were attempting to dump his body back into his assigned room.

parodeity - 2017-05-27 18:22 (UTC) - Expand

godly - 2017-05-27 18:26 (UTC) - Expand

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godly - 2017-05-27 18:34 (UTC) - Expand

parodeity - 2017-05-27 18:38 (UTC) - Expand

I think that's not a impossibility! Do we know why Jassy's body was in 111 anyway?

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Edited 2017-05-27 18:14 (UTC)

I would assume that it's because the killer may have panicked and brought his body back into 111. Maybe because they had initially planned on dumping him in 112? I'm still not convinced the lockpicking attempt was a success.

[ hmmm ]

Okay! Let's say it wasn't. The lockpicking was a no go. How to say.... um. Was Jassy alive when he got into 111, or dead? That's what I want to know.

I don't live up there, Andie! Do you? Did you see anything weird?? And he was breaking curfew, right, so... someone else must have, too, then. [ ummm. ] Tat's a set time, so... I wonder if time could narrow this down?

g101 - 2017-05-27 18:39 (UTC) - Expand

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g101 - 2017-05-27 18:51 (UTC) - Expand

... That sounds plausible. Once he was attacked from behind in the hallway, it'd make it difficult to retaliate given the area and his position.

I want to know that as well. [That is to say, he doesn't know yet!] I want to say that he was found in 111 because the killer panicked and didn't know what else to do with the body, implying that he was already dead at the time.

It may be prudent for someone to put a timeline together, so that we can parse this out better.

Edited 2017-05-27 18:31 (UTC)

And perhaps that Jason had not come out with his key, leaving the option of returning him impossible.

godly - 2017-05-27 18:36 (UTC) - Expand

restlessgods - 2017-05-27 18:37 (UTC) - Expand

Lighligh and I had the same idea, hooray! As for me, I wonder, I wonder, maybe he was let in...? Who knows. Only the killer!

Me and Andie were talking, do you think sometime after curfew was listed might be right for Jassy's death?

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