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TRIAL IV

Trial IV

The story presses onward as you gather in this now familiar "courtroom" to deliberate the deaths of two more of your number. By now there's more space for everyone with the population dwindling down to twenty, and by this weekend's end it will dip ever further. But maybe in a time like this more space is needed, though one most always be mindful of the clock.

Adora and Norton Campbell are dead, and the price must be repaid.

[OOC NOTE: Please keep in mind the only mod run checks are those that directly involve a piece of evidence found during the investigation. Those checks that involve player participation will rely on each player's willingless to partake in the check, for the sake of keeping IC choices intact]

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To avert suspicion from your group maybe? But that seems like an awful lot of effort.

If it was Adora, she had about 20 minutes between everybody falling asleep around her and meeting her end - I am not sure why she would barricade the ones who aren't targets though, when she could likely tell she was one.

Up until ten minutes ago we thought that a culprit getting too close to a sleeping person would wake them up even if they weren't targets So maybe that was why?

Not ta mention they would know about the sleepover... That's why I was wonderin' if anyone else knew you guys would be in there.

That timeline makes absolutely no sense.

Barricade the door and then eat poisoned food, whatever it was? Cyanide takes minutes to be effective, so it would have to have been consumed after the barricade was constructed?

Edited 2021-06-26 22:26 (UTC)

... It is possible that she barricaded the door each time she left the room that night, to be safe, as we have no warning when the enchanted sleep begins.

But that does not explain why she consumed the cookies afterward, unless she simply didn't... think that it was possible to be attacked in that way.

In that case, everyone else in the room would have noticed her leave.

... Forgive me, it's been a little difficult to put together two timelines at once--

[And one of the timelines is just rude, just saying. A small sigh, but also.]

I suppose it would be too much to guess that everyone simply fell asleep just before she walked out. But perhaps we are focusing too much on the chairs themselves.

I doubt it would have been Adora. If the culprit was close to anyone who they knew to be at that sleepover and wanted to keep them safe, it would be worth the effort to take suspicion off of them.