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.

( victim )

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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Did she bring it back? [he's looking between the menu and his notepad, because bitch took Notes] There's no sign of dragging on Jason's body, right? And, no offense to our number one murder culprit, but she doesn't look like she's tall or strong enough to just pick up a body of his size and haul it around.

But something's been bothering me about Jason's role description. A swan song is the final performance of an artist, right? In this case, a final performance for any of us should be right before we die. What if that's what his role did? A final act-- that moves his corpse right by his killer to tell us who did it!

[a beat]

Which is a terrible role to have, by the way. Like. If I'm right.

My, now that's a theory. Do you think Craftly might confirm or deny that if we went and asked?

It's worth a shot, isn't it? Then we could definitely take the ghost off the table.

Do you want me to go with you, or do you have it handled on your own?

[that's. oddly nice of jay to offer.]

I'll do it. It's my theory.

[ wow rude jay is the nicest and sweetest person in this room??? ]

Let us know the results then.

(no subject)

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I believe that our host mentioned that Jason had nothing but a useless wooden soldier as per his role.

All the items must do something. Otherwise wouldn't they just be considered weapons?

[he's oddly confident about that....]

[ok dipper]

He also did mention that you could bludgeon someone with it, so perhaps my "useless" addition was a bit inaccurate.

But it's listed as an item, not a weapon. And if I'm right-- wouldn't you consider that item useless, as far as roles go? it only works when you die.

Perhaps. So, allow me to ensure we're on the same page: you think Jason's body was transported to Hana, his supposed killer?

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[. . . OH, WOW]

That'd. . . explain why Craftly wouldn't answer my questions about Jason's rules.

That's what got me on this whole idea! Why wouldn't he share unless it was relevant to the case? And the body was still warm when they found it, but she was settled in bed alongside her roommates. They'd have heard the commotion, right?

[DAMN. . . THAT MAKES EVERYTHING MAKE WAY MORE SENSE]

So maybe she didn't kill him in Room 111, and really was surprised to see his body there the next morning. Because she didn't expect it to be there, all things considered.

There's basically no way to know since the dude won't tell us about relevant items and how they work I guess, but it makes sense his item could do a thing, right? Like...if he had five rules.

How many rules do you need for "here's a thing, smack someone over the head with it"?

Right! And some of the other item descriptions seem like they're telling us what the item can do, but only Jason's can just bludger? That's weird.

parodeity - 2017-05-27 19:40 (UTC) - Expand

Maybe it wasn't his corpse.... but someone else's!

[ she's going along with this because its funny ]

[a beat]

That is about as far from what I'm saying as possible.

Ah! You think so? I was thinking that maybe the killer was moved.

[ shes

joking

im sorry ]

But if he was moved then why try to pick the other room's lock?

I'm... not sure. [bites at his own in thought] Maybe she did leave the body in room 112 originally, and picked the lock to do it? Or faked it, somehow? We still haven't found Jason's key.

How did she get into 112, then? Why take Jason's key?

[ IM SORRY DIPPER, SHES BLUNT ugh ] I think it's cool, but um... Probably unlikely.

So what you're saying is you think all of the menu listings are hints in some way? I just thought it was someone with a sick sense of humor, like everything else that's happened around here so far.

They sound like a description of the role to me. Why wouldn't that also work for the items?

[oddly. sure of himself.]

Wouldn't his corpse being moved be more of a skill, though? He can't have both.

What's...a swan? [this doesn't sound like any robot she's ever heard of???]

Huh, that would explain a lot. Do we know around when at night Percival and Marty saw someone run into their closet? If it was close to when everyone started waking up, then trying to unlock room 112 with a coat hanger could have just been a desperate move.