week 4 - trial; day 1

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 4 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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[sobowtor]

[Poland's attempting to re-make the bed but.] Do you just want to take a nap?

[Because Poland isn't in any actual rush to go back to sitting in that stuffy chapel with Lithuania.

Let's just chill in Faize's room for an hour. Poland doesn't think he did it anyways.]

[symbologic]

[Thank you for the vote of confidence, Poland. And also for at least making an attempt with the bed. You failed, but at least an attempt was made. He'll just...re-make it himself. When he gets back tonight. This is fine.]

[As for the blood...wouldn't you like to know? :) Maybe he's a vampire space elf wizard.]

[earie]

Yeah, those trials put me to sleep. [ She's just going to hop onto the bed closest to the window. Nap Time courtesy of Faize. ]

Maybe if we think about the room a little more, we'll find something. [ By thinking she means sleeping. ]

[sobowtor]

[Poland walks around for a little bit, trying very hard to see if anything sticks out as weird?

Or at least something else that is ashy?

Eventually she just grabs a bottle of alcohol and flops onto the opposing bed.]

He's not dumb enough to leave something incriminating in a bedroom he knew we were going to search anyways.

[symbologic]

[Nope, no ash anywhere else in the room. No signed confession notes taped to the ceiling or disembodied hands under the bed. No squeaky floorboards hiding pools of blood underneath.]

[So he's either a very innocent victim of a frame job or a very clever killer who's good at covering his tracks. Who can say for sure at this point.]

[earie]

[ Poland and Sadie say he's good which makes it official. Anyway, she is absolutely making herself at home in this bed. ] Have you ever noticed how we find absolutely nothing in anyone's rooms, ever? Probably because we do it every single time.

[ Kicking the covers off the bed. Just because. ] We should start making it totally random. Like, one week we search the rooms. Another week we don't. The killers won't have any idea when to hide their evidence.

[sobowtor]

Yeah? Isn't it dumb that we usually do room searches and body searches on different days anyways?

I mean.

They could hide stuff on their body day one when we're searching the rooms. Then hide it in their room on day two when we're searching their bodies?

It's all so pointless.

[earie]

The only thing interesting is finding out people's secrets. [ And Faize has been the worst of all. ]

Maybe when we get back, we should do a strip search on him. Like, total surprise.

[sobowtor]

Apparently Faize's big secret is getting rock hard about learning.

You think? [Poland's kinda iffy on strip searching.

Namely on herself. But.]

[earie]

Ew. [ God. Nerds. ]

Well, we can always give him a pat-down. I think people mostly look for bruises and stuff on the strip searching, but like, we can just punch him in a few places and see if it hurts. [ They can revolutionize the system. ]

[sobowtor]

Aw. I don't want to beat him up.

...

I do wanna touch his ears though.

[earie]

Sure, that too. He's an alien, right? We can find all his weird alien-parts.

[sobowtor]

We have to. [Because apparently Hinata didn't.]

But not yet.

[Poland takes a swig out of her bottle. That chapel sucks she's never going back. For an hour at least.]

[earie]

[ Sadie is nodding and yawning all at once. ]

Okay, wake me up when... it gets dark or something. [ And so they never returned to the trial again. ]

[sobowtor]

Deal.