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 second 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, and will be given a pair of latex-free gloves and a hairnet by a staff members 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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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, 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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So Mira says her role is the soldier. She can't prove it since the statue's too big to move out of her room, but I was thinking...remember the first week, when we were thinking Jason's swan song had something to do with his role?

I'm thinking the same thing's happening here. A statue doesn't really have anything to do with a soldier, but the menu says they'll have war flashbacks, which could explain the voice she heard...and why she found herself in the lounge without any choice.

Plus she says her rulebook says she can talk to the statue. I'm...pretty sure that's not the sign of an ordinary lump of rock.

That makes it easy. You can demand to see it when the trial's done. If it isn't there, we lynch her.

That doesn't exactly help who we're going to vote for now, though.

No, it doesn't. But it turns suspicion away from her at the moment and to seeking out other possible ways to discover the Ghost, which might help us use the time we have left better.

Yeah. If she's telling the truth, then we're right back to trying to figure out how the Ghost managed to accomplish all of this in fifteen minutes.

The Ghost could have still done the initial parts with Rachel's murder and the blood. Mira could have been brought onto the scene for Marty to attack, and then Marty was brought up to the Dark Room. As long as we limit Marty to attacking Mira and going to the Dark Room, I think we can make the timing work.

Why would they need to attack Mira at all though? Or kill Rachel and paint the walls themselves? They would have already had two bodies just by possessing Marty and killing Rachel, they didn't need to add a third to it unless they were planning to set Mira up for the fall.

Isn't that like them? It's what they did with Hana.

[she grimaces] Yeah, you've got a point. I forgot what a bastard we're dealing with here.

Still, that means they would have known Mira - or the Soldier, at least - would show up. She obviously wasn't around for any of the other murders, so I gotta wonder what's so different about this one.

Can't the faceless men wheel the statue in here? If she's really the soldier, then we should be able to see it now.

We can ask. Even if they don't though, I think if no one else claims to be the soldier, she should be telling the truth.

But I don't think she's lying about hearing the voice in her head. Why would she come up with something so unbelievable unless it actually happened?

[She just leans back in her chair, head to the ceiling, wishing for sweet death to come.

so not her week.]

Can I see your rulebook?

I'm pretty sure the rules stay invisible no matter what, but...

[She flips open her rulebook to where the role area would be and it's blank, as she expected.]

We can ask Craftly to confirm if you're feeling unsure. Believe me I want to get this shit over with.

Did she show you her rulebook?

I didn't ask. You can get her to show it to you now though since...[since aloy kind of just revealed to everyone her role W H O O P S]

All right, well, um, Mira? I really... hate to ask, but, um, could you show us the rulebook? Please? Again, so sorry.

[She opens up the rulebook and it's blank.]

We should confirm with Craftly how this works. I know my item would be visible now, but the rules themselves may be a gray area.

But what does the statue do?

My guess? Influence her somehow so she hears voices and winds up at a murder scene.

But it could just also be an ordinary statue.

Aren't items supposed to be special? That kinda sucks for a role....

She didn't tell you anything about it?

Well, it's special, just...not special in a good way.

Just that it's too big to leave her room and that her rulebook says she can talk to it, but it hasn't talked back or anything.

Look how about this - if you don't vote for me, I'll be happy to invite all of you to my room to look at the statue. Okay? Sound fair?

Yeah! I wanna see your giant creepy statue!

( TRIAL - WEEK 3 )

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