FIFTH TRIAL

[umbralant]

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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[notbymyside]

We don't even know if echolocation was used for certain. It's only one of many possibilities.

And even IF it is being used as a tactic to frame someone else, I didn't know anyone else left alive had Sonui and I wouldn't try to frame Dazai-kun.

[psychophant]

We only have your word to go on for that, so it's certainly not very compelling.

[notbymyside]

Then please, tell me how I managed to talk to Rembrandt, get all the way across the city, murder Dist, rearrange the crime scene to look like someone killed in the dark, go clean off in the gym, and then got back to the clergy housing in time to get covered in flour and lectured for it all in less than an hour.

[He pauses there.]

Less than a half-hour, even, because I was with the others from midnight-onwards.

[psychophant]

It's true, I don't have a good argument for that. It does sound implausible.

But your power is Gravitas, and that's one I don't know very much about. When you demonstrated it during the second trial, you made Dazai lighter. Perhaps by doing that you could move faster.

[notbymyside]

You could have just asked! There's several Gravitas-users left alive, it would have been easy to tell you what you needed to know!

[psychophant]

I'm fairly certain you and Shiro are the only two left alive and I doubt either of you would give me that information for free.

I also don't hear an argument.

[raventhaw]

I'm almost certain Shiro would, actually, if it were the "right" thing to do.

[galrarm]

[ u get him ]

[galrarm]

[ iago... ]

I don't mind sharing whatever information I can. I have nothing to hide, and if it helps? I'm more than willing.

[psychophant]

Excellent, then answer this for me: when Gravitas is used on a person to make them lighter, can they move faster?

[galrarm]

I'm not sure, actually, for someone else; I've been hesitant to try it on anyone other than myself. I can tell you, though, that using it on yourself doesn't increase your speed.

[psychophant]

[gods!!! why isn't this info lining up in the way he wants it to!!!]

I see. So Ango couldn't have used it on himself to get to the autoshop that quickly.

[...hmm.]

But we don't know how it works on someone else, correct? Will you test that out for us now? Ango tested it on Dazai before and confirmed it's safe, so I want to see if we can eliminate this possibility entirely.

[or maybe confirm that there was a second person involved no he is not giving up on this yet!!!]

[notbymyside]

It's safe as long as you don't do too much. Slight alterations only.

[JUST. PUTTING THAT OUT THERE. He doesn't want to accidentally get anyone hurt.]

[galrarm]

[ a nod. ]

Agreed. And besides, if there are aftereffects from using it too much, we'd be able to see that on someone else, anyway--so we'd know if it had a hand in this.

[galrarm]

[ He... considers that, even though he doesn't particularly want to use his power on anyone!! Still. ]

If there's a volunteer, then it's worth a shot.

[deadlygoals]

It makes you super sore afterwards. I felt heavier for about half a day after he used it on me.

[ IT SUCKED TBH ]

So while it's safe to use on a person, there are side effects.

[notbymyside]

[He'll just gesture at Shiro. See? Was that hard?]

[pr159]

Did anyone else check the time you got back to the room, or was it only Rean?

[notbymyside]

Dazai-kun took the watch and showed everyone in the room.

[Dazai was shaming him fff]

[drydrown]

...Since we're making this an argument of time now, would the lot of you mind if we borrowed the watch and checked it against one of our own?

[seeing as, you know, watches can be reset and nobody knows what goddamn time it is right now.]

[pr159]

I'd like to second that. [ hey it's kind of a pun-- ] Can we compare that watch to Mikami's and make sure that they show the same time -- that no one's watch was turned ahead or backward?

I don't really think this would be an issue if you were all awake after that point until the investigation anyway, for the record, since hopefully everyone could estimate what half an hour felt like, but I'd just like to make sure we're not missing something fundamental about the timeline.

[deadlygoals]

Compare it to Lady's as well.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Mikami will hand his watch and unless the Lady has tampered with hers, it matches the Lady's. ]

Yes, that sounds wise.

[reanbeans]

[ ...Yeah same deal over here. ]

[umbralant]

[ The time on both watches match the time on the Lady's. ]