WEEK 4 TRIAL

[foundationmods]

It was noon on Saturday.

No matter where they were, no matter what they were doing...the moment the chimes rang out through the hall, they felt a change.

The world...began to expand, as they felt themselves leaving the world they were on, and towards another, much larger world...🗈

...As always, the courtroom was there - along with the audience, watching, waiting for the entertainment before them.

The Witch - Nirrti - was there, sitting in the most important place, watching all of them with a sharp, cruel gaze, though no smile could be seen on her face today.

Watanuki was also there, but he merely lounged in the back behind them, smoking a kiseru pipe in silence.
...It seemed as if he was content to watch - that he had to watch - as part of the rules of the game.

There was no music to be heard, but... perhaps on another plane, in another place, someone else heard music as they gazed upon the proceedings.

Again, their forms had changed - perhaps into something different than last time, but...still a change, no matter how dramatic or inconsequential it was.

...There was a deep silence in the room, one that no one wanted to break. It was the faint tension in the air, like the moments before a race or a competition begins.

Truth was elusive, yet they had to find it.
No matter how painful, or upsetting.
No badly how much they all hurt.

For the sake of the dead...and the sake of them all.

Comments

[improbablenotimpossible]

And that would be the source of the ceiling footprints, it's a touch sloppy for what is suppose to be a carefully set up scene.

[youkaiwatch]

It's more than a touch, isn't it?

[ he's supposed to have walked on the ceiling in blood, gone back to his room to take off his shoes, and then gone back to the library again to die?? ]

[improbablenotimpossible]

[British understatement, yo]

Quite.

[anonnomnomnom]

It's sloppy, but it moved our focus away from the chapel for a long time, didn't it? [He seems unrepentant to have been the cause of some delay. Oh well.] And we still haven't found something there that would point to who the killer is. That's the important part.

[keydomhearts]

It did! Which might be the point. It was actually pretty smart... even if it doesn't make sense, you know?

[anonnomnomnom]

It's a dramatic way to set up the scene. And there were a few of us who knew Koide liked to hang out in the library ceiling.

[literalidiotball]

So... Wait. You're telling me that our culprit knew Koide well enough to do that?

[Keeping his distance but still.]

[anonnomnomnom]

Or they looked up while they were in the library at night.

[clearumbrella]

What if they just liked the library?

[excavated]

If they liked the library, why go out of their way to ruin it?

[clearumbrella]

Oh! That's true. Although, won't the goats just clean it up later? Ah...

I've got it! They like the library and were trying to throw us off by destroying it! They knew no matter what they did, it'd be cleaned up afterward!

[excavated]

Oh, right, that's true, isn't it... Although I wonder if we can get anywhere with this.

[rikuchi]

...That's an interesting theory.

[clearumbrella]

You really think so?

[ he's doing so good!!!! ]

[anonnomnomnom]

Agreed.

[fullbodied]

But if anything, the culprit did their best to not do that, didn't they?

They made the staging super obvious.

[excavated]

Yeah. It's almost as if they wanted people to know that wasn't the actual crime scene.

[fullbodied]

Mmhm.

And the books, the part that's most important about a library... they weren't that touched.

[literalidiotball]

Eh, that too. But there's still the whole vampire thing. I mean, who would think to attack him in the chapel and then drive a stake into his heart after they stabbed him? Someone who knew he was a vampire before, that's who.

[anonnomnomnom]

Yes. They were pretty insistent about that.

[aleph_armed]

I'd ask who all knew he was a vampire, but that's probably a dead end. I barely paid attention to him, and I still figured he was some sort of non-human entity, even if I didn't know the details.

[clearumbrella]

I didn't know. [ He sounds genuinely sad about that. He didn't know and he thought he was close to Natsuno, he has to wonder if they were even close at all. ]

But, even though I didn't know, I don't think he tried to hide it.

[anonnomnomnom]

He didn't. He mentioned it a lot even with other people around. [Please see: every mingle.]