THIRD TRIAL

[whimsicalism]

THIRD TRIAL

THE CONTAINMENT CENTER

Still hungry, and perhaps with some new fashionable shoe colors, the students are herded into the elevator, which is lined with a plastic tarp this week. With the elevator becoming a perpetually emptier space, there's plenty of room for the Prefect herself to squeeze in next to everyone else, standing at the front of the group and ineffectively covering the side of her head with her free hand as soon as the tearing screen of metal and high-buzzing florescent lights kicks in.

The descent this time takes the group of students past several new chambers. The first is occupied by a grotesque caricature of a lunch lady, who ladles unidentifiable pitch black goop onto a constantly rotating line of trays as she smiles at the group with a single tooth. The clown, ever present for the show with his dwindling collection of balloons, rides a tiny tricycle through pools of spilled acrylic paint, the wheels squeaking as they paint out blood red patterns on the cell floor. The last chamber the students will see before arriving in the trial room is completely empty, save for a cloudy grey fog that blinks inside it like a thundercloud.

Instead of the usual black ram emblem on the telecom screen, the Principal's flame-wreathed silhouette is visible this week, though his chair is turned away from the camera and only the outline of his back seems to be visible. There's an empty container of Rocky Road ice cream sitting next to him on a side table, the spoon still balanced in the carton. The entire trial room itself smells like the lunch time rush at a cafeteria or fast food restaurant, the smells of grilling meat, roasting vegetables, and sweet dessert occasionally passing through a chamber that is completely devoid of any actual food.

With some hesitation, Nanami goes to the desk next to the podiums and takes her old seat. She glances back at the projector screen, then her shoulders slump forward and she leans down against the desk.

"It's happened again. Valmont, the... Boss...Baby. Has been killed. Maybe this really will go on forever, until no one is left... Anyway, you need to find out what happened if you want to live and not starve. ...Don't forget the rules. Get started."

As she finishes speaking a sheep walks around the trial room, handing everyone an apple and some graham crackers. Of course, even Nanami gets a small treat. The Little Brother glances at the shape of Father in his chair before quietly placing a finger to it's robotic face only for the angry voice of your Principal rings out. "Hey! Don't--ah, forget it. That'll get you through the trial. Maybe you'll bust a gut or something. What are you waiting for?! You heard Miss Kiryuu, start already!"

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OOC NOTES

Welcome to the third trial! Consider this your reminder to make sure to get in your Week 2 AC by tomorrow's weekly post and to start getting your Week 3 AC ready to submit. Make sure to get your regains in by tomorrow night!

Remember, if you can carry it you probably can bring it. We mainly want to discourage corpse desecration, if we can, so while the body itself isn't allowed into the trial most things are. If your character has access to a piece of evidence and you don't know if you can bring it in, you can either ask the mods privately if that's possible or by pinging them in the post itself. If a piece of evidence is forgotten, you can either assume retroactively that someone did or that the sheep brought it in to make sure that everything is tidy.

As always, just put MODS in the header of your comment to get our attention for any clarification.

Good luck!

Comments

WEAPONS CHECK

[canreallymove]

Ok, ok, ok. So. Let's assume we're dealin' with specific weapons, right? Namely Throwing weapons and/or curved weapons. Just to cover our bases on both the one injury and two injury...stuff.

Ok, so who among us had either of 'em? Step forward and let us know!

...I'll go first. I got a sword that's curved, a lot like what Adorabat described, but I put that in my drawers along with the other weapons. Not like I'm gonna use them anyways.

[violence_ensues]

Dylan's got my combat knife, in his room, but I don't think either of us are good at using it. I also got a bear trap that Yuta gave me!

[canreallymove]

I know, kid. I'm pretty sure neither of you did it, actually. But I just wanna make sure we got an idea of who's got what.

Re: WEAPONS CHECK

[lets_dewey_it]

I have an axe for chopping wood. Not really curved and I think trying to slit someone's throat with it is impractical anyway.

Re: WEAPONS CHECK

[cellpreservation]

Like I said, I got a sickle from the vending machine this week, but I threw it away along with some bloody clothes covering it.

[violence_ensues]

Did anyone else know you threw it away?

[cellpreservation]

I think it was just you.

[Unless someone backtags him later.]

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

I...so still have that combat knife Adorabat got. I also ended up getting a weird folding knife, an axe, and a bear trap. They're all in my room still.

Of course I can't use most of it, not that I would.

[copycut]

Well, I've already showed everyone mine. Let's see, other than these... I've got a pair of chakram, a hunting knife, and an axe, too. I haven't had any reason to use them since I got these back, but I don't want to protest too much, you know?

[canreallymove]

Yeah. I got you. Still gotta note it obviously.

[keyringwitness]

Hm... didn't you also get a bunch of broken versions of those knives, Kuro?

[violence_ensues]

Wouldn't broken swords be unusable?

[keyringwitness]

They're still sharp, they'd just have a shorter reach. Plus, if you threw one, the lack of balance might throw off your aim.

We can't really single out Kuro for this one, though. A lot of those things came out of the machine.

[shinedsobright]

True. I got a couple of those too. They seem kinda useless though.

[copycut]

[ She hums an affirmative. ]

I know at least one or two others did, too. With the way they were broken, though, I don't think anyone could have done much damage with them. I couldn't even use mine as a shiv...

[ implying she thought about this?? don't worry about it ]

[keyringwitness]

Alright, then... but, hm...

S- Sorry, this is going to sound weird, and I'm probably wrong, but... I'm just being thorough...

[Yasu pauses, unsure of how to put this delicately.]

Are you human, Kuro?

[copycut]

Hu~h? Isn't that a little personal, Yasu-chan?

[ She says it like she's teasing, but... ]

Yeah, something like that. My body is just a little special, that's all.

[keyringwitness]

How so?

[She pauses, thinking back to last week's trial, when she saw Kuro's motive folder.]

That girl in the picture... you can't be her twin with how different your skin and eyes are, but other than that you look identical. Are you, um... a...

a clone...?

[copycut]

You've looked at my profile, haven't you? Illya is "the other me." Actually, I'm the original, but... I guess you could see this body as something like a clone's, if that's how you want to look at it.

[temmapathy]

I did get a pair of bracelets that are shaped like round throwing weapons, but I don't think I could actually throw them or cut anything with them.

[panglici]

Wait - you got those?

[She has other questions, but that can wait.]

[temmapathy]

Oh, those are yours?

[holyironmade]

I was given a trick knife in the past as well as a combat knife and nailbat that were rather threatening. These all totally differ from the wound. When I gave a few more of my coins to Valmont to gather for the sake of food, I suppose it's possible that a weapon was given out at that time.