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.

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...so by telling us that the Sheriff set us back not just one step, but two.

[SHE HATES THIS]

Seems like it. We're going to end up talking circles around the subject just like last time.

[REMEMBER WHEN NUI...]

Damn it.

[she hates this so much]

This is ridiculous! Why can't we just... Ugh... [She takes a deep breath to try and calm down.] Any evidence we get doesn't ever seem to help us!

The game's designed to work against us. Any physical evidence we're allowed to see might as well be there to confuse us.

[LET'S NOT THINK ABOUT THAT...]

Before we despair, we must do our best to make use of this new information to find the truth.

[it could!! be possible!!]

What can we surmise from the use of drugs on her?

That our killer didn't think they could take her down through force alone?

... That is one possibility, yes. That they felt a struggle would put them at risk, perhaps.

So someone inexperienced in fighting, injured, or blind?

[just listing out possibilities, okok]

[...... SIGH.]

And therefore the people we struck from the list of suspects at the beginning of this trial.

[he's going to lose his mind]

Good to know we'll be going in circles forever.

Inexperienced in fighting could be someone smaller, too.

Shinnosuke!

What? I'm just pointing it out, unless you think I said something incorrect there.

You were in the stocks, stop saying things that might make you look guilty!

I was just covering all possibilities. I'm not exactly inexperienced in fighting, so it's not like I was painting a portrait of myself, you know?

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[aaaaaaaaaand, smacking again.]

Hey.

[What'd he do????? Gosh.]

You're going to get yourself killed one of these days.

Geez, sorry for speaking the truth?

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Or they just didn't want to deal with a struggle. Hacking someone up still takes some effort, doesn't it?

[w h y]

...Yes. It would.

[w h y]

It seems an inefficient method of murder, if nothing else.

Super inefficient. Which makes me wonder why go for it at all?
Not like you and Papika had any trouble tripping over the parts.

[...]

It was not to hide the body.

[He can say that with certainty.]

Her head was... was very clearly left on the dock--I can only surmise...to be certain that it would not be missed.

For all we know they just did it so we'd waste time talking about it.

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So we either have a theatrical type on our hands, or it's as Elizabeth said. Great.

[He's... He's sorry that the crows, since Papika told him.]

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