♪ my class trial, our class trial ♫

[heroicpolonaise]

Who: Everyone + Hiro if ori wants
When: January 12th, then anytime past January 15th
Where: Common Room
What: please let's wake steph and also maybe prove miyuki innocent if he really is
Warnings: tbd

[there is no gentle way to do this on the pda.

but you know what that is perfectly fine they were doing CSI rp earlier what's one more--]

All hands, round up.

Think we've got as much as we can right now, so let's settle in and work it out -- together. Come to the usual meet-up spot as soon as you can, and we're not leaving until the perp's worked out. Bring your own joe and a wit sharp as can be, because we are in for the long haul.

Detective Akamatsu, signing out.

[...

a-anyway.

meng yao's done his best to preserve one (1) stephanie meanswell and she's currently laying on the couch in a state some may find familiar and others not at all, but she's very much alive -- if barely. have your shock and surprise, this is going to be once all evidence is collected icly. also after noah and kaede make a grave for miss vp god rest her soul.

...

hiro is allowed to be here, if he wants, if only because part of this is his sister's death and one of y'all had BETTER take care of him.

there are no snacks, no drinks unless you byoj (bring your own joe), and kaede will wait until... all or presumably all are filed in before she speaks.]

I hate to say this, but you all are easily more experienced with this than I am... Still, there's no reason to wait on this when one of our classmates has turned up dead, and another [she is assuming stephanie is theirs] is in the state that she is. I don't want to think one of us had anything to do with it, but turning away from the truth only invites more pain--

So let's lay out what we know and try not to go at each others' throats about it.

[please. even the most unbelievable, impossible happenings have roots to them, and she wants it solved -- not just for hiro's sake, who's pain is something she can barely imagine, but for stephanie and the vice principal, too.]

[links:

○ investigative miroboard
○ round up one
○ round up two

Comments

[commences]

( hey leave some movement for other people!??!?! )

S- Stephanie...

( uhm, uhm...

sdr2 voice: )

Hey... can you hear me? Are you okay?

[closewithnewintown]

[she blinks a few times, frowning.]

… Ow.

[heroicpolonaise]

[kaede's close by as the caller of the meeting, like behind the couch close, so--]

Huh?!

[mermaidcursed]

( WHAT- OH- AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO DO SOUL THINGIES???

stephanie is getting. the tightest hug move out the way komaeda )

1/2

[closewithnewintown]

[she doesn't seem to respond to it, still frowning. her hand moves to clutch her head. as if her mind and her body are still trying to get on the same page, and one of them is very much stuck on "the back of your head is killing you."]

[commences]

"Ow"?!

( from the blink, to frowning, he get it, he get it. a small, nervous chuckles leaves past his lips first as he thinks about can she really hear him? or if this is a fake out? why is she waking up with him here, isn't her soul broken or something... haha he feels like he's in danger. )

I understand, seeing something as unsightly as myself upon waking up is unfortunate, but... ( ... ) did you return to us...?

( it's like he's trying to compose himself, he didn't see this coming... WAIT nene pushed him out the way, so he's going to crawl away before he gets trampled. )

2/2

[closewithnewintown]

[and then her gaze falls on Komaeda, and her frown goes from frowning (confused) to wide-eyed (realization) to frowning (pissed off).]

Komaeda, you jerk! [voice rough with disuse, and it throws her off for a second. she shakes her head.] Why'd you hit me?!

jesus god what is happening

[commences]

Hit you...?

( he's NEVER seen stephanie go through that many phases of anger, he's more of a five stages of grief guy himself, but he's staring at her confused.

it only takes a couple of seconds to stand up properly. )

You shouldn't tell lies during an investigation, we're trying to solve a murder.

[starrypoint]

[????????]

Maddy, you shouldn't hit kids. Or girls. Or girl kids.

[crystallomancy]

The correct reply to this is "You shouldn't hit anyONE," Baru-kun.

[starrypoint]

I gotta disagree. Some people definitely deserve to be hit, Natsume.

[crystallomancy]

I didn't say it was the right ONE, but the correct ONE.

( subaru's right that there are people who deserve to be hit )

[closewithnewintown]

-- We just went a whole month without killing anybody, and then you had to go right back to doing it?

[mermaidcursed]

( has nene let go? no. is she still managing to dig out her pda, turn it on and point to the date of the most recent messages? yes. it's january 12th... 2000. )

[crystallomancy]

...We went two months without killing anyone, actualLY, and unless Nagito-kun's decided to redefine our relationship as "Natsume Sakasaki's Enemy" he hasn't murdered anyone this month at ALL.

[closewithnewintown]

The only reason I'm not dead is because he's got weak little arms and can't swing a baseball bat too hard.

[she doesn't even know it's him she's just guessing]

[crystallomancy]

( .........actually that's really fair, he probably does suck at swinging baseball bats, you may continue )

[commences]

What a farce! Tell me, where did I...? Place your proof and I'll answer accordingly, there's no blood on my hands.

( he even shows his hands to say that's proof enough. )

What month are we in?

[closewithnewintown]

[crosses arms]

November.

[commences]

...November?

[closewithnewintown]

It comes after October and before December.

[commences]

So it's... November 1999 to you, right now?

( ... )

[heroicpolonaise]

[go back to murdering...]

[heroicpolonaise]

[go back to...

she's gonna stare at komaeda.]

[filialdeception]

[ And she awakens!! ]

Stephanie? How are you feeling?