week 1 - trial; day 1

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 1 trial, day 1 ♫ saturday At 9AM, every television will go off, loud enough to wake anyone sleeping. The calm, apathetic voice will advise everyone to gather in the chapel for the trial. Static will continue to blare in the head of anyone dillydallying. Once all of the guests have gathered in the chapel, the doors will lock. Most of the pews have been moved aside to allow for more space, and a few tables have been set up on the altar. On the first, there is an additional copy of the rulebook, and the information cards of the victim and suspects laid out, with space for the suspects to provide their whereabouts, as well as an autopsy report. There is also a large wheeled chalkboard upon which you may write theories. On the second table is a pitcher of water and some glasses, as well as very simple sandwiches and pastries. The door behind the altar has finally been unlocked. It's a rather plain room with an area set off by a folding screen. Inside, you will find a table on which the victim's body has been laid out. Next to the table, two black and white photographs have been hung on the screen. they are close ups of the victim's body, as it was found when the body discovery announcement chimed. A few sticks of incense burn in the corner to avoid any smells. At 6PM, the trial will adjourn. Everyone will be escorted back to the hotel by Miata, after which everyone is allowed to head to either the kitchen to get dinner, or to their rooms. Attempting to wander off into the other areas of the hotel will trigger the static alarms in everyone's heads/televisions. >Discuss? victim suspects         cast setting rulebook

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[muties]

[ Let's just all eat spaghetti like losers, that sounds like a good idea. Roxy peers over to see what amazing notes Hinata's making, and is... not really disappointed so much as amused. ]

Shitty, like everyone else, but less shitty than I could be?

[ After all, they haven't executed anyone yet, soooo. ]

What'cha drawing?

[hopefragment]

Hah, that's a good way to put it.

[He snorts an unamused laugh through his nose and just draws a couple more random, jagged lines on the paper. Then she asks what he's drawing, and he's forced to take a look at the paper, to reveal a stunning, exact likeness of the Mona Lisa rendered in ballpoint pen-!]

Uh... I dunno.

[--It's really just a bunch of lines and random shapes.]

I was just trying to... do something other than think, you know?

[muties]

That makes sense. Thinking is lame, and we've been doing it all day. It was Thinkapoolooza 2kwhatever-year-this-is.

[ It wasn't even a particularly successful thinkapoolooza. ]

Your thoughtless squiggles are very artistic, though. Good job.

[hopefragment]

Hah, thanks. At this rate, you could probably put them in one of those fancy museums for millions of dollars, I bet.

[YOU NEVER KNOW... That's enough Art from him for the moment. He offers her a wan smile and pushes the notepad aside, leaving the pen with it.]

So in the interest of avoiding another... thinkapoolooza, [what a phrase, he'll probably never say it again. Even saying it now feels too silly,] what do you suggest, Captain Roxy?

[Apparently they're both captains now?? Promotions come quick.]

[muties]

You'd be the Van Gogh. Just don't chop off your own ear.

[ Or anyone else's, BUT SPECIFICALLY. ]

Right now, or in general? 'Cause in general I think the best way to avoid stupid thinkapooloozas like today is that no one kills anyone again and/or they leave a note stating they did it. Just, like, common courtesy really. Tragically no one's got that.

[ Now all they need is captain hats and maybe people will listen to them more. ]

[hopefragment]

Yeah, I like my ears where they are, thanks.

[Even if he doesn't have sweet ear bling like Faize.]

In general, yeah, that'd be the ideal, but I meant more... right now. We have to continue the trial tomorrow, and I'm... not sure I want to keep turning the same information over and over again in my head, you know?

[muties]

Yeah. I don't feel like thinking on it all night'll help anyway, just make ya go crazy over it. Then we'll all end up going "fuck it" and vote Vegeta just 'cause.

[ That's... basically their back-up plan at this point, anyway, isn't it. ]

Hmm. We could play a game? Tic-tac-toe, gather everyone for a lil' bit of spin the bottle, build a pillow fort in the lobby, take our mattresses and see if we can ride them down the staircase...

[hopefragment]

Hah... I never thought I'd say it, but he's actually our least likely suspect, I think.

[Just... shaking his head. Ugh he doesn't like Vegeta but he's not going to vote to murder him, either.]

Maybe tic-tac-toe isn't a bad idea... I think everyone's going to be a little too tired to play a big party game tonight. Maybe next week?

[Or maybe never, considering that next week, two people will be dead instead of one.]

[muties]

Weirdly enough, yeah.

[ She's expecting him to be on every suspect list ever, honestly. ]

Ok, tic-tac-toe it is.

[ That's exactly why they'll need it, to lift the downtrodden spirits.

Swipes one of Hinata's notes to make a t-t-t board on it. ]

You wanna be hugs or kisses?

[hopefragment]

[No one will ever suspect him when he actually does murder-! The perfect alibi.

But-]

W-wait, what? I thought we were playing tic-tac-toe??

[Please calm his poor, easily-flustered heart and explain what that actually means.]

[muties]

We are? Haven't ever heard someone someone be like "xoxo" for hugs and kisses?

[ LAUGHS... ]

Xs are hugs, Os are kisses!

[hopefragment]

O-oh, right... uh, I'll be Xs.

[Ugh he's embarrassed now. HE MISUNDERSTOOD??]

You can go first, though.

[muties]

[ Daily Embarrassment Mission accomplished, then. ]

Ok!

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[ just pretend the -s are free spaces ok I TRIED ]

that's so cute help??

[hopefragment]

[Ugh... please let him stop blushing soon. Between Roxy and Inaba, he's going to have a heart attack.]

So... where are you from again? I've, uh, never heard this game called that before.

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[muties]

[ Teen girls will be the death of you, Hinata. ]

I just made it up, the name. I'm technically from Rainbow Falls, New York. Buuuut it's kind of a waterapocalypse and I was only one of two humans left on the planet, so y'know.

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[hopefragment]

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[Is what it looks like, and then he almost scratches a line right through the whole thing because wait what-]

H-hang on, only one of two humans left on the planet?!

[muties]

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Yeah, me and my homebro Dirk got there a bit late, so everyone was kind of. Extinct, I guess, is the word. I had some alien chess peeps around. They made for good neighbors.

[hopefragment]

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I... sorry. I didn't realize you came from a situation like that. I can't even imagine...

[muties]

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It wasn't all that bad-- ok, it kinda sucked. But the last few months I got to be with my buddies somewhere else. [ homestuck speak for "fuck explaining sburb" ] They were dramawhores for a while, but now we got a whole buncha peeps around-- not as many as here, tho.

What about you, Hajime? Lemme guess, suburbs with parents and a dog? Was the dog named Spot? Or, uh, Japanese for Spot?