Second Trial

[rech]

[Once everyone makes it the portrait gallery again, they will hear Randall's voice echo through the room.]

I'm not sure what everyone expected. There are a lot of children here and given the situation it was only a matter of time they started dying.

[Charming.

The floor descends once again as Randall begins his speech.]

Our tour begins here in this gallery where you gaze upon the sweet innocence of youth. Ah, but things are not always as they seem. 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 my way.

[The floor stops again and doors open to the trial room.

At least the trial room doesn't look terribly different, although there are strange burn marks in the summoning circle now. And now, along with Mim, now Woody and Noby's podium has a lit candle and a voodoo doll resembling them (which is perhaps a little redundant in Woody's case).

Randall is already standing within the summoning circle, holding his stick with Facilier's head on it.]

Now then, I hope everyone has fun today.

[Trial Start]

Comments

[upgradeit]

Cats don't usually scratch like that. They -

[Please imagine Hiro stretching his arms upward and dragging them down an imaginary couch. Dignity? He doesn't know her.]

[not_over_yet]

Perhaps trying to catch some...thing? one? [ That's kinda just down to him and Remy at this point, though... ]

...Can any of us change form?

[upgradeit]

But the walls weren't scratched, right? I dunno, if a cat were trying to scratch something I'd expect the marks to be a lot more random.

[not_over_yet]

...

[ Well fuck.

Finally gets out his pipe and starts pacing the top of his podium. ]

[upgradeit]

[He's been marking his map with all the locations of clues people have found and is staring down at it.]

. . . Okay, someone who saw the claw marks and actually looked at them this might sound weird but . . . did they even seem like an animal made them? Because I dunno - it feels like a weird red herring.

Mods?

[kickbuttseatnuts]

...I'm a bit of an animal expert myself. I could probably ballpark it.

[She closes her eyes to try and remember what what it looked like.]

[bestchefinparis]

Like the culprit is trying to frame Basil or me?

[Because there has to be better people to frame than the two small animals, so Rémy is a tad skeptical about that possibility, but eh...]

I guess it's possible they may have been made to distract us, but it's a bit risky to be making scratches at people's rooms over and over. What if someone heard them and opened the door?

[...]

When were they made, too? Before or after Noby died?

[Maybe they should have considered the possibility the marks were made before the death instead of after]

[bayoublues]

Do you...hm.

I know we talked about it earlier, but...maybe it was from the rock tryin' to wake people up? Tryin' to get help?

[upgradeit]

I thought that one wouldn't leave Noby's side? [That's where he put it on the map.] Sorry, I must've marked this down wrong.

[bayoublues]

Yeah, that's the one, but...maybe, I dunno, it first tried to make its way to the bedrooms. [SHRUGS] These are all assumptions, anyways.

[upgradeit]

Why - he was carrying those things everywhere. I guess it could have gone - but I thought Spinny was the exhausted one.

[He kind of sounds like he's talking to himself.]

I don't know, something about this just doesn't fit.