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🎪🍬🔪 ([personal profile] wringmaster) wrote in [community profile] bannerline2022-08-19 11:14 pm

FIRST TRIAL

First Show


The show starts with not a bang, but smoke, and the exit of Diluc and Fujino stage left. Once everyone's had some time to poke around the circus and examine what happened last night, Joker calls everyone to the Main Tent. (Those who would try to ignore the summons will find themselves magically rerouted no matter how hard they try.)

Inside the stands look much like they did over the week, although spotlights are trained on some of the profiles in particular. Twelve of them, actually.

In the middle on the raised platform, Joker stands with Gina, grinning ear to ear.





[[Welcome to your first trial! You will have 8 hours (8PM EST) to find out whodunnit. You may vote for any of the suspects at anytime prior to the end of trial, and you are free to change your vote as many times as you like.

About halfway through the trial, there will be the opportunity for room searches for four(4) of the suspects. ]]
victorypose: (I swear I'll do it all)

[personal profile] victorypose 2022-08-20 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
H-how can you look happy about this?

[Two people are dead, and she’s a suspect…there’s handling with stress and then there’s this.]
walktodeath: (2)

[personal profile] walktodeath 2022-08-20 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy? No, I'm not pleased it's come to this in the slightest.

[ She's still smiling though. ]

Things just went about as I expected.
victorypose: (Spend my money like it's stolen yeah)

[personal profile] victorypose 2022-08-20 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Then why…?

[He shakes his head.]

Because you expected someone to die, or because they’re suspecting you did it?
walktodeath: (4)

[personal profile] walktodeath 2022-08-20 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Both, I suppose.

Having it confirmed to me that supernatural causes do exist, I couldn't help but wonder... is the pattern I told you about really no more than coincidence? Will it follow me here?

[ And this is certainly tipping the scales towards a possible answer. ]
victorypose: ((Goddamn what the fuck what the fuck?))

[personal profile] victorypose 2022-08-20 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[In contrast, Subaru seems to only get more worked up.]

Even if it did - could that even count as your responsibility? That’s - it’s not even like you would’ve done anything!
walktodeath: (5)

[personal profile] walktodeath 2022-08-20 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Unless I turn out to be the culprit, of course. You can't discount that possibility for the duration of this affair.

[ Her smile's a little softer though, how sweet of him... ]

But if I'm not, this is still valuable information to me.
victorypose: (Fuck sleep and his cousin yeah)

[personal profile] victorypose 2022-08-20 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods firmly. He doesn’t believe she could’ve done this; perhaps she is capable, but for someone who is followed by death, he can’t imagine why she’d choose to have more blood on her hands.]

Then I’ll be sure to help prove your innocence, so you can work out what to do with it.
walktodeath: (7)

[personal profile] walktodeath 2022-08-20 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tokiko pauses for a moment, inhaling deeply. ]

Thank you. I also don't want to be condemned for an act I did not commit, after all.