[ WEEK FOUR – TRIAL ]

[sheriffexe]

TRIAL

In the morning, the town comes back to life. Birds crow overhead, a snake nearby hisses, a lingering coyote dips behind a shop before disappearing into the wild. It's a frightening contrast to the stillness of yesterday but it doesn't mean it's over yet. After all, today is the trial. The Sheriff stands on the porch of the Town Hall and brings his hand up to his mouth to let out a whistle. He'll thumb back to the Hall behind him and very clearly state -- "Trial time, folks. Get in here and figure out who did it." And then he'll turn to leave before pausing and adding on, "Bring a snack or somethin' too. The Town Hall is set up more like a court house, a Judge's bench at the front but instead of at center, it's off to the side as if more for observation than participation. There's a table at the front of the room already holding a small box and a pad of papers and pen, for voting apparently. A side room containing only a metal gurney is next and today it's obvious why there's a gurney there at all with the corpse, resting right on top of it. Aside from that, there are rows for everyone to take a seat and it's only after everyone is inside and settled, that the doors close and the Sheriff speaks. "Well, have at it. You've got till nine." And then, he points to a clock on the wall that reads 12:00. Good luck. Welcome to the trial post! Characters are free to discuss everything related to the trial here. They won't be let out of the room until 9PM when voting ends. Every character must vote and the voting post can be found here. If there are any questions, please shoot a message to this journal or to robowest.

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Comments

[hitsitoff]

Yeah, we talked a lot. Dunno what of that's really relevant or what she's got in common with the other victim, though.

[Give him a sec, he's just going over everything she told him in his head right now.]

...She mentioned she's got involvement in espionage. Who knows if that's got anything to do with all of this, but that's a thing.

[hydrokinetics]

At this point everything is relevant until we can rule it out, I think. What kind of espionage involvement? Did she say?

[hitsitoff]

Specialty work for the government, she said. With a group.

She didn't go into too much detail beyond that and I can't really blame her. It's not the sort of thing you talk about lightly.

[hydrokinetics]

And she didn't tell anyone else did she? I'll be honest, I don't really get what all of that means.

[hitsitoff]

It's... I don't really know what kinda government she's got, so I can't really say what it entails. Info gathering. Considering her wanted poster, probably more serious stuff too.

[He's not saying maybe assassination but he's saying maybe assassination, who the fuck knows.]

But I don't know if she told anyone else. Not that I know of, anyway.

[hydrokinetics]

I was just wondering if it was possible she was targeted because she knew too much. If she was trained to do that kind of info gathering, maybe somebody figured it out based on her poster and got her out of the way before she knew too much. But then it turns into a huge game of "what do people have to hide" here.

When was the last time you saw her anyway?

[hitsitoff]

If someone was paranoid enough, then sure, guess that's a possibility. Going by just the posters, there's a lot of reasons why someone might go after her, but that all depends on how much stock anyone puts into those.

[Like, he doesn't think about them much, for one, but. That's him.]

Saw her around town during the week. Last conversation I had with her was Wednesday.

[hydrokinetics]

Well from what Shinnosuke said Simon was pretty paranoid. Maybe we should confirm that our two victims weren't fighting each other, too. I feel like we shouldn't put too much stock into the posters, but also I don't think we can just ignore them, too.

[He frowns a little.] If we could at least maybe narrow down who besides Mr. Barnham saw her on Thursday that would help, I think.

[hitsitoff]

Not exactly the kinda info anyone wants to volunteer right now, I think. So that'll have to depend if someone saw someone else with Lust and they wanna share that.