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[ WEEK FIVE – TRIAL ]

TRIAL

In the morning, the beach comes back to life. Birds are back to cawing, the fish splash in the ocean, and insects buzz cheerfully from the jungle. Crabs skitter across the sand and seagulls fight over food (possibly yours). 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 Chief stands at the front of the longhouse and brings his hand up to his mouth to let out a whistle. He'll thumb back to the hut-like building behind him and very clearly state --

"Trial time, everyone. Get in here and figure out who did it."

And then he'll turn to head in. The other Chief helpfully pipes up with a, "Make sure to bring a snack, and maybe some water. Hydration is key to catching murderers!"

The longhouse is set up like a meeting hall, with long benches on each wall, facing each other. 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. Aside from that, the room is empty. It’s only when everyone has taken a seat that the doors close and the Chief 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 tikirobo.

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...can I just say I kinda disagree about the lack of importance in figuring out the killers? I mean I get it, we should focus on what happens when the game ends, but we also have a lot of hours.

Do you know something about them, Hiro?

Not exactly. But I do think maybe we should consider who might have known Fie was a Siren? I know she told some people, including me.

"Not exactly"?

Not exactly. I know less than you do, I think. But all I know is that Fie only told a few people this week that she was a Siren, we have three bodies on our hands, and we don't know some other factors that might've happened on Thursday night. I know everybody wants to run right into figuring out the game's ending, but I don't think we should totally ignore everything else either.

Very well. I would prefer we not spend our last chance on "Two Truths, One Lie" on determining who took their lives, however, unless we truly believe it to be the most important thing.

I didn't say we should, no. But we should definitely think really hard on what we're using two truths and a lie for.

I'm saying we should try with the hours we have left. That's all.

I agree. And in the end, we still need to vote for someone, and I'd still rather vote for someone who is more likely to be guilty than anyone who's just volunteering, whether or not the game ends tonight.

That, too. I would volunteer at this rate but I kind of can't for obvious reasons. [He's dying as it is.] But if our ending is to minimize the casualties anyway then it's still important to at least try.

[ she nods. ]

And it's like you said, we're here for a while. We can still concentrate on everything else more. I agree we should probably try to figure out what ending we're going to get, and all of that, foremost. But...

[ who the fuck killed her friends :T ]

We can figure out a couple of things while we're at it. It wouldn't hurt to know where everybody was on Thursday night and where everyone ended up on Friday morning. Not alibis. Just locations.

That's true, since it seems like people were definitely not in their huts.

And we know that people were talking to each other on Thursday and passing around information. You and I talked on Thursday morning and you remember what I told you. Who knows what other people did?

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zerotohiro - 2017-09-09 17:36 (UTC) - Expand

Focusing on that has never brought us to a good conclusion. We should focus our efforts in a way that can actually help more than hurt right now.

[...]

We all want some form of justice for the people we lost, but after five weeks... I think we all know it's better to find the quickest way to end things safely than risk screwing ourselves over more.

You don't want to risk screwing ourselves over more, but you're fine with potentially calling it quits early, not bothering to even talk about who might actually be guilty and risk voting for someone else innocent again? That's exactly the point I'm making here.

What else are we going to for nine hours? Argue back and forth about what to ask with two truths and a lie?

What if the guilty party is the one we need to get us home? Should we just risk outing and killing them for the sake of getting it "right" this time?

[he doesn't know if that's what happened, he has no way of knowing who is carrying out the kills—but another siren is dead and that probably isn't coincidental, he thinks.]

I'm not saying we call it quits, I'm saying we use the time we have as a group to find the best solution we can instead of dicking around for a conclusion we've never been able to properly come to.

... Jack Vessalius suggested, in the third week, that the Wickies may have to kill the Sirens. If we assume that the remaining Wickie was aware of Fie's role, it may be unwise to find her killer, at least.

[yep, this is basically the same conclusion he's made based on what they know. let's not live up to our island's namesake by doing something extra stupid here.]

Edited 2017-09-09 17:01 (UTC)

[mmmm]

But Yona's death was an independent kill.

[eavesdropping on Hal questions]

Which is strange, because I had assumed she was killed by a Siren. If we do find the time to focus on who killed who, perhaps her death is the one to which we should pay the most attention.