RECORDING 6: THE SECOND 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 - Olympia, staring balefully at you in all of her robotic glory.

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: JACK MORRISON
PEOPLE TO VOTE OUT: 1

WEEK 2 VOTING

Comments

[noneforall]

I'm truly surprised that they would have left something so instrumental lying around. I suppose this wouldn't be usable by anyone else, though?

[reanimania]

Still, we have an incinerator. Unless there's some reason setting it on fire would be dangerous, it seems like a fairly big slip-up, especially after the... plumbing debacle from last week.

[noneforall]

You'd have to ask those who might be familiar with this type of magic.

[But Hikage's idea does have merit, so who knows?]

[kaliedoscopes]

Unless they're hoping to get caught.

[reanimania]

[ Hm. ]

I suppose that's a possibility.

[ Though he can't really comprehend that mindset... ]

[kaliedoscopes]

The other possibility I can think of is that they thought we wouldn't check the garbage can, but that seems faulty as well unless they thought we were all that dense. Or averse to getting our hands dirty.

[ So yeah that doesn't seem likely to him, but gotta consider everything. ]

[noneforall]

Ah, then you're throwing in for the accidental death side of this? I wonder. It would require a lot of assumptions.

[kaliedoscopes]

It's reasonably likely. There's a few other possibilities, like the culprit believing we were inept or unwilling to rummage through garbage but that likewise makes a lot of assumptions considering last trial.

[noneforall]

They might have believed that their personal magic was unlikely to be deciphered far enough for anyone to pin them down. Otherwise, the accident would have to involve, at the very least, both the culprit and Morrison-san failing to notice the apple's toxicity.

They would have to be a very careless spellcaster to get this sort of result.

[sageking]

Hmph, they likely hadn't time to properly dispose of it, and do not even know a proper way of let us say, casting a fire to the paper.

That said, I don't think it can be usable as it is.

[reanimania]

[ we have an incinerator!!! why don't you guys respect machines more!!! ]

[sageking]

[ Bah, machines ]

[noneforall]

They had the time to shower, to bury the body, and very likely to get a change of clothes -- that's what was required of the two investigating the greenhouse, correct? They had time and means, which gives weight to the possibility that they simply chose not to, or that it has something to do with the magic itself.

[A shrug! He's not the magic sniffer here.]

That's too bad, though. It would be a lot simpler if the spell itself could be reconstructed.

[sageking]

Hm...I suppose that's true. In that case, the killer could've been flustered and didn't think of even trying to light it up or seeing to another method of disposing it.

[ What had his life come to, doing such things...but no, it was necessary. ]

The spell likely would be only able to be reconstructed by the culprit themselves, such as if they made another piece of paper like this one once more.