FIFTH TRIAL

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Trial V

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From what you can see, all the lights in the opera house are turned on. Only when you enter and see the open doors that lead into the main theater, you can see that room's lights are currently turned off. It's very dark in there.

Like before, Rembrandt escorts everybody to the stage. In the dark you still can see the many blue-eyed things you may be getting used to. They're still very scared of Rembrandt, staying as far away from the assistant as possible. The stage is illuminated by the spotlights, the only light in this theater.

The Lady and Rembrandt are at their balcony. She stands up, addressing the group:

"If you don't make this trial go like I want it, every single person in this room is getting vivisected!"

It has been a couple hours and she's still furious. It doesn't seem like her mood is going to improve anytime soon...if ever. Behind her, Rembrandt doesn't seem very impressed with her gratuitous threat. At least she probably won't get to make good on that threat, hm?

Let the trial for the death of Dist the Rose begin.

[OOC NOTE: From the halfway point of the trial and onwards, you'll have the option to ask the masterminds for the chance to get a hint! Be warned, though: the price will involve some body horror for your character. Keep that in mind when deciding to use this option!]

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[baitless]

You didn't hear anything either? I must admit, I am not sure how well those sounds would travel.

[notbymyside]

I didn't, no. There's also the possibility that it happened after I got back, isn't there? Rideaux said 'an hour at most', so that leaves an entire half-hour after I got back where something could have happened.

[baitless]

I see. That is true enough...

[notbymyside]

And yet you still sound unsure.

[baitless]

I'm simply keeping an open mind. That is all.

[pr159]

To be clear, I wouldn't have said "an hour at most" if I thought it had happened fifteen minutes earlier.

[notbymyside]

What do you think the actual time is, then? Closer to one hour?

[pr159]

It's not easy to pin it down that well without being able to get an accurate temperature, but I'd estimate closer to that end, anyway.

[ Should have shoved a meat thermometer up his ass after all, I guess!! Live and learn. ]

[notbymyside]

[It's fine, no ass-investigations needed.]

Then it's likely that the gunshots happened before I left the art museum, which would explain why I didn't hear anything. If I had been closer to the dorms, I should have heard it.

[pr159]

It's possible.

[ Not going to go so far as saying "likely" though. ]

Out of curiosity, since we're on the subject of sounds, how does that little silence-jar trick of Dazai's work?

[ NOT THAT HE'S STILL ANNOYED BY THAT ]

[notbymyside]

You would have to ask Dazai-kun to know for sure, but I do know from our past experiments with it that the jars always give off what they 'record', so to speak. They repeated phrases we said into them in our tests. So I think if you record no sound at all, it plays silence?

[pr159]

That makes sense, I suppose. Do those only work when a Sonui user is present? Or do they only have to be the one to record the sound, or lack thereof?

[notbymyside]

That is a good question, actually. I don't know. Maybe? I've never seen Dazai-kun use that ability without touching or being close to the jar.

[deadlygoals]

The user needs to be within five meters for it to work. It doesn't work when they aren't in range.

[pr159]

Thank you for clarifying.

[drydrown]

That's correct, yes.