robowest | [ WEEK FOUR

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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Are you sure? Maybe I somehow escaped the stocks while Yuna was busy fending off coyotes, killed them, dragged them to the homestead an hour away, and went back and put myself back in the stocks before Yuna dragged herself back to me. All while blind.

[sneaks up on him as quietly as she can manage with one leg

and smacks him lightly on the back of the head]

Stop saying stuff like that before someone takes you seriously, idiot! You're not allowed to die yet.

[WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SMACKING HIM]

If people are so desperate this early on that I become the number one suspect, then you guys are doomed to fail.

"We're" doomed to fail! You're one of us whether you like it or not, Shinnosuke!

Technically, if you all start suspecting me, I'm the only person who knows that I'm innocent, so it'd be your desperation and screw-up, not mine.

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[just

smacks him with the rulebook again]

[Rude???]

[but was it not deserved????]

You wanna maybe dial down the sass a little for once?

[He is so tired.]

Can't, it's ingrained in me.

[Sorry, Eliot.]

Right, of course.

[as earnestly as ever:]

I-I know there was a lot going on, but I think I would have noticed something like that...!

Yeah, even you're not that stupid. Well, thanks for being my alibi.

[Along with... everything else that's his alibi, really.]

[pppause. ah yes. hold on. that was sarcasm. that thing he said earlier was sarcasm. she gets it]

You're welcome!

[that's completely sincere too though]