morningdewsvalley | TRIAL ONE

TRIAL

Once the various investigations have concluded, and the majority of the evidence has been dropped off with Makima and the ducks -- said ducks will scatter to start shepherding any travelers along to JojaMart, for some reason! Those already at JojaMart have a little less walking to do. Meantime, Makima has loaded the evidence onto the daycare wagon -- carefully packaged, because who wants a spill here -- and driven it off after the ducks.

There is, in fact, a back entrance to the JojaMart -- almost like a loading bay, but once it's opened and the wagon has been driven in, you can see that there's a small podium there along with a number of chairs and small tables. It looks like extra pieces used in either the Community Center or other areas around town may be stored here. The ceiling is tall and it's roomy, there's a scant few windows, but the white LED ceiling lighting and rather bare interior is only livened up by some larger spare whiteboards, extra shelving containing tools and knickknacks and a plant or two.

Once everyone is in -- Adela, Makima, a number of assistant ducks and the current inhabitants of the village -- the loading bay door is tugged closed by some enterprising assistants. There's a small door that probably leads into the front of JojaMart, but that's it. One of the ducks sets about serving tea in the slightly gloomy atmosphere.

You're welcome to examine the evidence in the wagon, discuss amongst yourselves, and figure out whodunnit in these first murders.

(( OOC: Welcome to your first trial! You'll have 7 hours (until 8 PM EST/5 PM PST) to vote one (1) person guilty of murder. As this is scapegoat style, a correct vote is not necessary. Please remember to vote unless otherwise discussed with the mods, as that is our AC for this game. ))

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For what it's worth, Enkidu was the one person from our farm who didn't return. Though we could also be dealing with a note written by the deceased like people theorize...

... That's right. Baldr was looking for them during the investigation.

[ Stares at Enkidu?? ]

Oh. I was with Vayne in the Community Center.

We were unfortunately trapped together and couldn't leave.

That doesn't quite rule you out.

Though if Sampo were to write that note, would this be his favorite place or somebody else's?

We would... have to revisit the thought of where this case started then. Because that would probably be this person's, whether it's Sampo's or the culprit's "favorite place".

... The most signs of struggle were found at the store, right?

[ whose favorite place would be the supermarket??? ]

[It's the place with all the duct tape.]

[ he'll say the bracket texts out loud, don't worry: ]

Whose favorite place would be the supermarket?

Someone with low standards.

Unless you're insane enough to like canned tamales, likely no one.

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These flyers with all our information have some mentions of animals and fishing on there.

[ She holds them up. ]

Doesn't mean that's their favorite spot, though.

Edited 2024-03-09 22:19 (UTC)

Thank you!

[ he'll take those and spread them out on the table, quickly glancing at them. ]

I guess... 2B's profile says "fishing" outright, while Enkidu, Dongrang, Beelzebub say "animals", Mr. Healy's has, uh...fish tanks, specifically, and then a few others have, um...specific animals.

Well, a lot of people aren't ruled out just yet.

As for whether it's his or someone else's favorite place...I'm not entirely sure. It could be someone else's, if he was the personable type who got to know people relatively quick enough to get that information.

Or, it could be his favorite place, and he more or less indicated as such in some manner to the person he was inviting.

Edited 2024-03-09 22:14 (UTC)

You know, this whole discussion has me thinking...

We were all apparently trapped in various places, right? [He says "apparently" because this is very recent news to him.] I wonder when that lifted? A lot of what happened really hinges on the freedom to move around the town.

More than just that... I found that I had unexpectedly fallen asleep without any memory of having done so. Was that the case for everyone else, I wonder?

[ raises hand ]

I'm terrible at sleeping in general so finding myself waking up at the crack of dawn was weird to say the least, I haven't done that since Cloud Recesses and that was years ago.

[He nods.]

It's much the same for me. I... don't tend to sleep well, so having fallen asleep so quickly - and then having remained that way - was decidedly unusual.

Huh. The plot keeps getting thicker.

Something knocked us out, then...and well enough to keep us asleep. Aside from whoever ended up becoming involved in this case.

That's a good question that I don't know the answer to. But, oh...

One more thing.

Both of us heard a strange sound that was a hum that gave a strange amount of pressure which caused a headache. It happened when we tried to break out and removed the door, and ran into a barrier.

Yeah, it got to be a lot more noticeable once the door was gone...

That happened to us, too. The headaches and pressure. Miss World's Greatest Detective over there busted out our window with a rolling pin.

[He jerks a thumb at Erika. It wasn't a bad plan but also their window is now broken...]

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[His eyebrows furrow at that.]

Sounds like we've got some mystery technology on our hands.

[Or magic. But the line between technology and magic is so blurred in Project Moon lore so same diff.]

[Barely more than a murmur,] Dlanor, your father is rolling in his grave...

[Hmm...]

If they had planned to commit a murder, wouldn't it have made more sense for them to have returned to the farm with the rest of us so that we would have known they were there before we all fell asleep?

Enkidu was with me in the community center when we got locked in there. I was just going through the bookshelves, but they were the one to let me know that something was wrong.