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.
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robowest2017-02-18 12:00 pm
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Might have to see if it's something that would even happen, though. [would hal do that?
(hal would probably do that.)]
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I think both of those scenarios are likely, and we could always ask the Sheriff to confirm for us whether an individual with a role has also been chosen as a Bandit this week.
[since he was kind enough to give them that information last time]
I'd even go so far as to suppose that the one putting people in the stocks is purposefully assisting the Bandits, but. . . admittedly, that doesn't make complete sense. Jason and Shinnosuke survived their nights outside, after all.
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[...Hm.]
No. Rather--it could very well be that this is an unusual case due to the Bandit in question. If they were someone relatively trustworthy, perhaps they would have been able to convince that role to assist them.
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[which she looks a little irritated about, tbh]
We know that one Bandit had two roles. We know that this Bandit wasn't the one manning the stocks, and it also wasn't our second Coal Miner.
So that means whoever killed Russell did have some kind of contact with the role manning the stocks. So this individual is someone who was close to Percy, and also close to the person occupying that role.
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We don't have any time to waste going around in circles.
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[AND AWAY SHE GOES]