RECORDING 3: THE FIRST TRIAL

[foundationmods]

The worst has happened... and now you're all here, in the living room where you first met Todd. As all of you enter, the Vessel is there - glowering at all of you, still missing the arm Dazai shorn from him with his touch.

On one of the tables away from the center is a small enclosed box entitled 'VOTES', with slips of paper nearby and a pen. It's sufficiently away from what will be the 'main' action, but not enough to really give anyone complete privacy as they vote.

Once everyone is inside, the doors automatically shut and lock themselves, leaving you trapped in here with the Vessel...and each other.

One of you is a murderer...however, in this game, the guilty do not need to be voted out. As long as there are enough people voted out that matches the victims...then it will be accepted.

...But, can you really let someone get away with murder...?

The choice...is up to you.

VICTIM: OLYMPIA
PEOPLE TO VOTE OUT: 1

WEEK 1 VOTING

Comments

GROUND RULES + NEW RULE + ANY QUESTIONS

[foundationmods]

[Todd still looks pretty unhappy, and once the doors are locked behind everyone, he raises his voice.]

Okay. First off, we've got a goddamn new rule because someone thought it'd be a fucking good idea to try and hide their evidence in a place it shouldn't be hidden!

[He slaps down a two very oily, soggy looking gloves and a piece of oily, waterlogged cloth.]

I can't fucking believe I have to say this, but I guess I do!

Don't try to flush down your goddamn evidence in the toilets! Don't put anything in the toilets that isn't supposed to be there! Jesus Christ...

[Once he manages to settle down, he sighs loudly.]

Ugh...alright. See the box over there? That's your voting station. After you've figured out who you're going to vote, vote there.

I'll give you a refresher, because I know your stupid asses have already forgotten the rules.

- Everyone living gets one vote. Whoever gets the most votes at the trial will be executed.
- The number of victims and 'those voted out' must be equal. If two people are murdered, two people must be executed. The two people with the most votes in that situation would be executed.
- Deaths during trials do not count for 'execution'. Someone must still be voted out and executed.
- You cannot vote for the dead, even if they were the original killer.

Got it? I've also got to clarify some stuff.

- You don't have to vote out the killer. If all of you want, you could just vote someone out who pisses you off the wrong way. 'S your choice.
- You still have to at least figure out who did it, though. At least make it entertaining for us to watch.
- You have to vote, or die. Not voting means that you're okay with being killed alongside whoever else is going to die.

Finally, you have six hours to figure out what you're doing and vote. That's all you should really need.

If you've got any other questions, or anything else for me to clarify, just say it.

EVIDENCE GATHERING

[foundationmods]

[Put links to evidence threads in reply to this comment.]

[golden_dream]

...All right. Besides physical evidence, what else do we know?

We should make a list.

[cw_suicide]

Ah, so it was gloves...

[he claps his hands together pointedly in Todd's direction, grinning]

What an honest death-game host we have, everyone!

[zweivoltage]

Can we see the gloves?

[He sure don't like that vote or die rule]

[foundationmods]

[Yeets a miasma ball at Dazai.

he knows it won't do anything, but it makes him feel better.]

[tsunderine]

[she looks so amused at how mad he is in spite of this, hence why she snorts a little bit under her breath in spite of herself. well, at least the killer did one amusing thing.

although...

she does have to ask:]

Quick question: what happens in the case of ties? Either a two-way tie, or a multiple person tie?

[kaliedoscopes]

And if we don't figure out who's responsible but manage to entertain you? [ Sorry to be pedantic but that one rule is hmm. ]

[cw_suicide]

[lol.]

[cw_suicide]

Motive-wise, we can't eliminate the idea that Olympia-chan was targeted for being a non-human.

Evidence examination

[accessorytomurder]

Can...

[She hesitates, but her pen and notebook are ready!]

Can you help me examine those gloves? And the other piece too?

[How big are they, on women versus men? What material? And what's that cloth look like, exactly?]

[foundationmods]

Then I get to decide what happens next.

[Y...yikes.]

Though by 'figuring out' I just mean coming up with something plausible. 'S not like I'm going to bother telling you if they were actually guilty or not unless their stupid asses confess or something.

[golden_dream]

Hm... Something less than "I hate her kind, and want her to die," and more like "It doesn't matter because she won't feel the same sort of pain or loss when she's dead?"

[foundationmods]

Yeah. Looks like the blond girl's already on it, though.

[cw_suicide]

The lack of prints was noticeable... but so was the use of Sho's "art".

[ghostricked]

...I can try smelling the inside of the gloves but I bet the litter bowl killed any scent left...

[cw_suicide]

If you think of it in a way of "If we don't pick someone to die, they're just going to kill us all", that sort of mentality fits, doesn't it?

[zweivoltage]

All right.

[accessorytomurder]

It's... it's physical adjacent but they... they took away her head and replaced it with a lightbulb, on top of... of e-everything else they did. Is, um, is there... some meaning to that, do you think?

[soupervillain]

Well, that's bull! Sure Doombot wasn't human, but she had feelings just like everyone else here!

[noneforall]

[He just starts laughing while staring at the sad glove pile.]

What a diligent host we have. How was toilet-diving, by the by?

And another question for you: in the event of a tie vote?

[golden_dream]

So, in other words, we can't eliminate someone as a suspect just because they would try to claim "I'm not capable of murder, I'm just too darned nice."

[nods]

[tangentlion]

[yikes forever]

[foundationmods]

I'm not helping you examine shit. Go ahead and look all you want, I'm not stopping you.

[The Gloves seem to be work gloves made of leather, and are now a dull wet brown. They seem to be sized to comfortably fit a man, though that's a little nebulous given they're work gloves.

The cloth seems to be a piece of fabric from the tool room. It's covered in oil stains.]

[cw_suicide]

I agree, but others here may not.