THE THIRD TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD TRIAL

[After the finale clues are found, the ticking which we totally didn't forget to add to the investigation post in everyone's head stops, and the Elder Steward's voice echoes through the webs.]

Excellent. Now, please, proceed to the ossuary! Do not tarry.

[Just like before, the Ossuary rumbles upwards to accept the remaining Strangers, with bats hassling those who take too long. Just like before, chains drag everyone to their respective coffins, and in the center are souls for sustenance. You might expect the only true difference to be that piles of skulls now replace the coffins where Zelda, Bangladesh, and Jun might have otherwise stood when they were alive. However, one more change has been made - Eric's coffin is now quite a bit fancier and even a little less coffin-looking. For example, it has a nice chair! Apparently there's some favoritism afoot.

Once everyone is in place, the Elder Steward strolls forward to the edge of the circle, hands crossed beneath his robes. The scrolls glow to reveal the evidence and the suspect list as this happens.]

THE OVERBOARD	THE CIRCUIT	THE RUBBER	THE NEON
				THE ENEMY

Now. Let us get started, shall we?

[And with that, the ticking begins anew. Someone killed. It's time to decide who's responsible.

The trial for the murder of Jun Ushiro, The Launcher, has begun.]

Comments

[incendiarize]

I think it was the Scroll of Binding? [To answer Osomatsu!]

[relieable]

[that... doesn't make much sense to him. has anyone in here talked about binding]

...I'm sure "binding" in this sense doesn't mean what I think it means.

[Osomatsu, you're talking to a kid, here]

[icanhearscreams]

[HE IS THIRTEEN AND GREY-ACE. NO THANK YOU.]

[necroyalty]

I can assure you that it most certainly does not.

[relieable]

[thank you Ambrosine]

Yeah, yeah.

[he was just trying to spice up the trial, leave him alone]

So, what does it mean?

[whiterosefoes]

To summarize, it means the scroll had nothing to do with the clay. The only component needed to cast the Spell of Binding is the scroll itself. I looked at it last week.

[relieable]

[oh! that's a good answer]

I see. Then the clay being there is still a mystery...

[necroyalty]

It wasn't exactly clay, now that I think of it.

[relieable]

[.......slow head tilt]

What was it?

[necroyalty]

I'm not terribly familiar with the process, but... you know the waste that's left over when you extract ore? While I'm hardly the craftsman, I have visited dwarvish lands.

[relieable]

[he... has no idea about that process]

...Still doesn't explain why it was in the library. [maybe he'll just put a pin in this discussion and come back to it later]

[incendiarize]

I haven't really looked at those scrolls myself, so I dunno if they're binding like a binding contract, binding like Dark Hunters do, or some other kind of binding....

[There is an entire class devoted to that sort of binding....]