week two: trial

[getawaymods]

WEEK TWO: TRIAL

Morning dawns bright and early the day after the announcement of the dead, and as the sun tracks its way across the sky, the voice's message is likely not far from anyone's mind. Friends are still missing, people are still dead, and time is running out.

Finally, the sun reaches its highest point. A low, deep thrumming sound echoes throughout the entire island, which turns into ringing, a drawn-out signal that grows louder and louder until it seems as though all other sounds on the island fall to a hush.

It is then that the lighthouse beacon becomes illuminated, drawing them all to the southern beach. That same voice as before rings, audible throughout the entire island.

"There are those of you who hope to escape from this with clean hands...you may find yourselves successful. Will it be worth it? You are all participants in this game, and you will all be complicit in the sacrifices that take place here, or else you will not have earned your passage home. Twenty-four hours remain before the ritual must be completed, or you will all suffer the consequences. There is no consolation prize for less than eleven sacrifices.

You have until the sun vanishes beneath the horizon. Choose your next sacrifice, and choose who will dispatch them. Speak the names of your choices into the conch. Failure to cooperate will result in a fate worse than death.

...perhaps you should investigate the deaths. The bodies are out there, and the evidence as well... but you will have to find it yourselves.

...oh, and one more thing. There is a way to save yourselves...if you select the right sacrifice.

Tick-tock, tick-tock! Your time starts... now."

Once the entire group has gathered, the lighthouse's beacon flickers out.

It is time to choose the next sacrifice... and hopefully, to catch a killer.

Good luck.

OOC NOTES

Welcome to your last trial, everyone! This trial will take place from 9am PST/12pm EST/4am NZST, and will last until 6pm PST/9pm EST/1pm NZST.

There will be a one-hour trial break from 1pm PST/4pm EST/8am NZST to 2pm PST/5pm EST/9am NZST. We recommend that you use this time to get something to eat if you haven't yet already, play some Animal Crossing, or even just take a quick nap. During this time, no mod tags will go out; we also ask that players refrain from starting any intensive threads such as interrogations, strip searches, hair or injury comparisons, etc. While we're not going to say you're not allowed to tag during this time, we also don't want anyone to miss out on anything important during an official break.

Please remember to have your character cast a vote on the voting page! Voting is mandatory, as it functions as the activity check for the game. If you do not cast a vote by the time trial is over, your character will be killed off. Please contact the mods prior to the end of the trial if something comes up and you are prevented from voting (i.e. 504 errors, etc).

If you have any questions, please go ahead and ask! Your mods and fellow players are always here to help. And most of all... have fun!

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[getawaymods]

[Hello Dimitri...well! She's not impaled like Marie was, at least, though that may have been more from luck because she looks as if she's taken a bit of a nasty fall. Her limbs are a bit contorted and out of sorts, and upon looking at her at a first glance, it seems as though she's...burned a bit? Ah. That's something.

There are also several small cuts across her body.]

[overruns]

[ Burned...?

Well, first off, cuts: he'll look over her body to find where they show up, and how long they are? Does it look like they were made by a weapon of some kind? ]

[getawaymods]

[Burned! At least she has some experience with that :)

Anyway, the cuts are jagged and a few different sizes despite being in the same general areas, as if they were made simultaneously but not by a clear weapon. They're slash-like marks, as if something struck without much precision. Some of them are deeper than others, but others are equally shallow.

So. That's incredibly helpful, isn't it?]

[overruns]

[ STOP IT :) : ) :)

So maybe she was mauled by something. He'll move onto The Burns now, looking for where they're localized—are they severe enough to be the cause of death? Do they seem deliberate? ]

[getawaymods]

[They're pretty severe and could potentially be the cause of death, given their size and location. The thing about the burns is that while they're scattered over her body, the skin appears to be kind of torn apart and bubbled a bit. Some areas are red, while other burns are more blackened.

They seem to be a bit too apart to be seem purposeful though.]

[overruns]

[ Maybe she was... trapped somewhere with flames? Assuming these don't look like chemical burns, that is.

It's difficult to look at her like this, but he leans back on his heels a bit, surveying her body top to bottom. Marie's body had bloated a bit—does Akane look like she's been in the water long? ]

[getawaymods]

[In some places, they may in fact look similar to chemical burns...if Dimitri knows what those look like well enough. It's a bit hard to tell.

Akane's body has also bloated a bit now that he's looking; it's a similar case to Marie in that sense as well. Looking from top to bottom, there are also some bruises across her body though likely from impact.

At least with bloated fingers she won't lose her diamond ring though. That's nice.]

[overruns]

[ sorry to jumpy, wherever he may be...

Well, he's too medieval to know too much about chemicals, but he's seen many, many normal-burned bodies!! It's enough to tell that this is strange, perhaps acid or oil.

In any case, it seems the body's been there a while, even if she was possibly disposed of there, somehow. He looks over her hands and under her fingertips, though he makes no move to remove the ring—dead or not, that's hers to keep. ]

[getawaymods]

[As he looks at her hands, he may notice there's a bit of dirt under her nails. It's pretty deeply embedded and didn't wash out from the water, but there's no telling how recent or old it may be. Her fingertips also appear to be slightly cut up though, but not as deep as the other cuts on her body.]

[overruns]

[ Maybe she was trying to claw against something—? Akane, where did you go???

He'll check her face and neck next. ]

[getawaymods]

[Equally burned and slashed. Whatever happened, she was at close range. There's also the same bruising on her face, slightly bloated from the water.]

[overruns]

[ Hm. He'll take a closer look over the cuts: anything caught inside of the deeper slashes? Does the nature of the abrasions look like she struggled against something? ]

[getawaymods]

[Well, since he's looking closer...he will see that there seems to be small slivers of glass in some of her cuts. Wow. That's awful. It's hard to say if she struggled against something, but ow.]

[overruns]

[ The discovery leaves him looking crestfallen—poor Akane. All he can hope is that her death came quickly, because it obviously wasn't pretty. They'll just have to find who did this to her.

Next he, very gingerly, pats down her clothes to search her pockets(?) for anything. ]

[getawaymods]

[Strangely, she has nothing on her. It seems as though another investigation team may have found the two items she had on her at all times though.]

[overruns]

[ Maybe it's time to report in, then. But he'll make one more search of her extremities, turning her carefully on her side to see if he missed anything on her other side. ]

[getawaymods]

[Dimitri is a good boy...but alas. She's just a broken, burned and dead girl. That's unfortunate.]

[overruns]

[ For now then, he leaves her to rest, only spending a moment on prayer. May the goddess watch over her. ]

[overruns]

[ whoops follow up to this: was her watch on her wrist? ]

[getawaymods]

[I forgot to mention that yes, unfortunately, the hellish watch is still attached to her wrist by the laws of physics and bullshit science.]