MOCK WEEK - WEEK 1 TRIAL

[foundationmods]

It was noon on Friday.

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...🗈

This new world looked like...the inside of an ornate courtroom, like something that wouldn't be too far from some kind of grand fantasy novel.

The Witch, Lambdadelta was there, sitting in the most important place, smiling brightly at everyone. 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.

As they looked around, they might have also been surprised to see that their forms had changed - perhaps only slightly, or a much more dramatic change. It seemed like this place demanded a different form in some way, even if it was just a change of clothing.

...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.

Yesterday had been the start of the game. But now, armed with all they knew...now, they had to truly go up against the Witch, and somehow.....win.

Right?

Comments

[helmdivide]

Wasn't all the blood right by the door though? I don't think he let them in. I think they stabbed him at the door.

[overlordad]

Maybe they stabbed him and pushed their way inside.

[helmdivide]

Was there any blood on the door itself? [ Where is Big Blue? ]

He might have tried to shut the door on them. Might be when he tried writing the message, but the killer pushed his way in anyways.

[overlordad]

On the doorknob, if I'm remembering right. So he might have tried to close it on them after his hand was stabbed. Hell, they might have stabbed his hand and that's when he wrote the word- after trying to lock them back out.

He gets stabbed, slumps over against the door to keep them out... then they use the window to get in and shoot him?

... no way... is why the weapons were hidden in two places because there was two people involved?

[helmdivide]

[ Nod nods. ]

Either they used the window, or managed the door again. There was blood up to the middle of the room, right? So maybe Riku was trying to move away. Hey, I know it's dumb, but do you think someone could have leaned him against the door? So when they were shutting it behind them, his body could have kept it closed?

[overlordad]

...maybe? Do we know for sure it was locked or was it just held closed? Bruno?

[beastlybruno]

It was locked. I wouldn't have torn the door off its hinges if it wasn't.

[helmdivide]

It locks from the inside though, right? Would the door have to be closed to be locked? Or can you lock it while it's opened and let something fall on it to close it behind you?

[beastlybruno]

[Over here!]

There was dried blood on the door handle, yes.

[helmdivide]

[ There you are. ]

Okay. Then maybe he was holding the door closed, trying to get a message out during that time before he was interrupted by the killer pushing his way in.

[accitio]

Could he have been stabbed through the hand while writing the message?

[helmdivide]

Maybe. Hey, maybe he had his hand over the opening to keep it closed? Maybe the knife was even acting as a block to keep the door from closing fully?

[ He's trying to make a knife out his fingers and then the door with the other. ]

[accitio]

We have no way of knowing which scenario is correct... And now I'm beginning to wonder just how much we must guess correctly to combat Lady Lambdadelta's claim. [ There are so many possibilities here. If they must answer everything, this will be very difficult.

And they're running out of time. ]

[artificialhighness]

There was less blood in the middle of the room than by the door. If I had to guess, he was first wounded farther from the door, and then moved closer, judging by where most of the blood is.

[helmdivide]

Or both. He was at the door, tried getting away and was shot, then moved back?

[ It just seems like a lot of work, but then who knows how much the killer planned first? ]

[artificialhighness]

If most of the stab wounds came before the bullets, I wonder how much mobility he still had. We should think in the simplest terms.

[Occam's Razor this shit, maybe?]

Riku let someone into his room. They were talking, somewhere in the middle, when they stabbed him in the stomach and chest. At some point, he was defending himself and was also stabbed in the hand. He may have been backing towards the door, in order to try and escape, but the door was locked, and then the killer used the gun to finish him off.

Before the bullets, however, he managed to write a message with the blood from his stab wounds.

[curryparty]

He fell to the ground before he was shot. So maybe that was because of blood loss, but he wasn't quite dead yet?

[overlordad]

Gut wounds are nasty, he was probably pretty fucked up.

...if the door and window were still locked- is it possible the killer stayed in the room overnight?

[helmdivide]

Whoa. That's creepy. And they slipped back to their own room after? But wouldn't you and Big Blue have found them?

[overlordad]

Depends on how long they were willing to wait- we didn't do a head count or anything. And for a while it was just me in there. They could have left through the window to hide the weapons, then snuck back in and locked it behind them and hid all night in the closet or bathroom.

[artificialhighness]

Do we know if he fell, or if he lowered himself to the ground? If the message was his, then there would need to be some way to hide it from the killer.

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[overlordad]

That's definitely a possibility. He fell over when Bruno took off the door, so we don't know how exactly he was laying-

[He recalls where the words were when he was comparing himself to the door before: would it make more sense position-wise to be written while standing? Perhaps from behind the back?]

[strawberryshortcackle]

[Written while standing and facing the door.]

[helmdivide]

That's why I think the killer pushed their way in. He wasn't shot in the back, right? So the killer might have shoved the door open, which knocked him down.

[ Waving her over. ]

Okay, you're the killer and I'm Good- I'm Riku.

[ Want to roleplay? ]

[artificialhighness]

[She goes over willingly enough. This is silly, but she doesn't really have an opinion on roleplay either way.]

You're saying that the killer would have to be about Riku's size.

[Which she is now, but if Jack wants someone to throw Riku around, then in real life? He'd need another musclebound jock or something. Hm.]