week 3 - trial; day 1

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 3 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? victims   suspects      cast setting rulebook

Comments

[hopefragment]

But that wouldn't explain why both of them were drugged. One of them, sure, but both...? Unless the third person drugged both of them and... somehow got them to fight each other. Like what Faize said about them being tricked.

[herbgrace]

I suppose it could happen if you drugged both of them without their knowledge and had them wake up in a room together. They might, in a panic, attack anyone they saw, thinking that they were going to be killed.

[symbologic]

But why go through all the trouble of doing that? Especially if they were just going to eviscerate them once it was all over?

[herbgrace]

Maybe the killer didn't believe they could kill both of them without them being weakened first? [Actually...] We should probably consider the question of why they would kill two people, as well.

[symbologic]

Mmm, I've been thinking about that since yesterday. Two victims means we could be more realistically looking at an accomplice this time.

[brawlhalla]

Each of them killing one person?

[symbologic]

Or assisting in some other fashion. The rules don't say that they both have to kill. Just that there has to be two victims.

[brawlhalla]

Well, that's true. It'd be the only real reason to set out to kill two people, unless you just...wanted people to think you had an accomplice, which seems weird so I'm assuming that's not a thing.

[detanimetion]

Maybe one of the victims walked in and saw something suspicious happening.

Or maybe the killer's just a sick murderous jerk. You have to be some kind of twisted to do what they did to just one person, let alone two!

[lastgirl]

Or maybe one of the victims is an accomplice themselves who got unlucky. Either way, at least 3 people entered and only 1 left.

[crazily]

Hm. This could be a possibility, actually. It's a rather morbid thought, but a killer would have reason to want to kill an accomplice if they didn't trust them to stay silent.

[brawlhalla]

Now that is entirely reasonable to me.

[crazily]

It's sad, but I do think desperation is probably the best context in which to view our murders, right~? Think about it in that frame of mind can create scenarios like this.

[detanimetion]

Was anyone on the suspect list friends with Youko or Zelos? Or can anyone here tell us if either of them were the type of person to trust someone they didn't know that well?

[hopefragment]

Why bother making them fight each other in the first place, then? If they're already in a position where they're drugged and unconscious, why not, you know...

[Just kill them? He's a good Dangan boy, murders are not supposed to be quite this messy.]

Unless it's to... "deepen the mystery."

[Suddenly he sounds annoyed by something that may or may not have to do with this particular trial.]

[herbgrace]

It's a good question. If they were semi-conscious, it could be so they would both be weakened by the other first. It could also be to make things more confusing. There could also be some other reason we're unaware of, of course--unless we're to entertain the idea of an accomplice, a single killer doesn't have anything extra to gain by killing two people, so there must be some reason it happened. [Be it chance, plan, or sadism.]

[hopefragment]

It could be an unwitting accomplice, too. We can't forget that as a possibility, I think.

I... honestly hope you're right about that. Instead of it just being someone making the crime scene more confusing just to mess with us.

[dereban]

[ Guess who doesn't want to butt in but is doing so anyway... ]

If there was an accomplice - unwitting or otherwise - they'd be listed as a suspect as well, wouldn't they?

[herbgrace]

Do you think that a dead accomplice would be listed as well? [Technically they'd be an accomplice, but they'd also be dead...]

[dereban]

I highly doubt it, but... we can always ask.

[herbgrace]

Something like--a first person drugged them, and then a second person walked in and took advantage of the opportunity later?

[symbologic]

In that instance...the two may not have even truly been working together. Even the accomplices wouldn't know the identities of one another.

[Oooo. Tricky.]

[herbgrace]

Perhaps the first person was detained in some way, which could also explain the two victims fighting each other. If it's like that, however, it would make things much more complicated. [Also, who would they vote for?]

[minogame]

But there are only two ways to get to the school if they were drugged... either they went there on their own or were somehow brought there by someone.

So why would they go there on their own or how would someone get them there otherwise?

[herbgrace]

Do we know when the last time either victim was seen alive was? It could be they were drugged early on and only killed later.