first trial

[notreadyatall]

[Once you make your way to the portrait gallery, Facilier's snarky voice chimes in as per usual.]

One of you folks actually went and did it. Not surprised: they always do. Besides, if you were gonna kill someone, the grandma ain't a bad start. Figure it this way: how many of you actually liked her?

[Suddenly, the whole room seems to move downwards. The walls get longer, and the ceiling grows further away from you. The portraits themselves seem to extend, as the room moves downwards at a startling pace.]

Things are not always as they seem, gentlemen. Can it be this room is actually stretching? And notice this: this chamber has no windows and no doors, which offers you this chilling challenge… to find a way out. Of course, there’s always our way.

[Suddenly, the floor stops. A new door opens at the side of the room.

Inside is what appears to be an old voodoo shop, covered in various artifacts and an unsettling large voodoo head at the back of the room. There is a summoning circle painted into the floor with a deep red paint. Each of you has a place within this circle, with a wooden podium marked with your room number waiting for you there. Podium 26 has a single candle lit aflame, as well as what appears to be a voodoo doll of Madame Mim stuck to the top of it.

Light music plays in the background.

Once you all take your place, Facilier himself appears within the middle of the circle, out of a cloud of smoke.]

You're here to figure out who did this. Once you have a hunch, you can feel free to write it down on the podium in front of you, but there are no takebacks. Majority rules, and your participation is mandatory.

'Course, you have all the time you need, if you want it.

Comments

[hasit]

"S".

[Okay, well.]

Who has a name beginning in "S"?

[stanbyme]

Is that really the new bar for accusations?

[hasit]

If she was trying to write the killer's name, then it could be, Stanley.

[sorrydoods]

I-It couldn't have been Stan! That...that puta was probably trying to pull another one over us!

[SOOS, LANGUAGE]

[sharpasanarrow]

[Did someone do a swear.]

[sorrydoods]

[...maybe...]

[tanukey]

[Rocket will attest that it is not a swear.]

[If pressed he'll claim the "in English" was obvious but unspoken.]

[stanbyme]

Hey, easy Soos. She's already a stiff.

[It's an almost fatherly chiding. Don't speak ill of the dead.]

[sorrydoods]

[Deep breathes...deeeeeeeep breathes...]

She...she shouldn't've tried framing you.

[nachosquire]

Whoa, there are kids here man!

[INCLUDING HIM]

[sorrydoods]

[!!!]

Sorry!

[FORGOT SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT]

[not_over_yet]

I wouldn't put that past her myself--but why couldn't it have been Stan? Does he have an alibi?

[sorrydoods]

I-I...

[He leans forward a bit onto the podium.]

I-I don't know, but...he wouldn't, I swear!

[Is he lying? Probably, but he'll never admit it.]

[stanbyme]

Why would I kill somebody just 'cause I couldn't lie for a few days?

[bayoublues]

Maybe...n-not because of that. M-Maybe be-because of Mabel?

[Just throwing ideas out there. Not really accusing him of anything.]

[not_over_yet]

...What was Mabel's curse?

[upgradeit]

. . . Would you do it for Mabel?

[bestchefinparis]

[With some hesitation because he doesn't want to accuse anyone:]

Stan?

[It fits the S and the line could be part of a T]

[stanbyme]

What?

[Beat.]

Oh, come on!

[lovelylilmouse]

[She thinks.]

Soos and Stan are the first people coming to mind.

[stanbyme]

Soos wouldn't hurt a fly.

[Just dismiss that out of hand.]

[lovelylilmouse]

I agree. He doesn’t look like the type to hurt anyone.

But what about you...? I’d like to think you wouldn’t, either.

[stanbyme]

Well, I sure didn't do this!

[...he's pleading the fifth, otherwise.]

[lostbutnotaboy]

....Well, he was giving some of the wax statues quite a beating last week.

[He tackled Captain Hook for her. She was very happy.]

[stanbyme]

Yeah? So was I, so what. It's just a pile of wax, it ain't a person.