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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 21, 2017 12:48:17 GMT -8
[This tutorial trial is still under construction, but feel free to read what has been created up to this point.]
[Tutorial Trial]
[Welcome to the Tutorial! This Thread has been pre-generated to show how a generic trial might proceed. It has been setup to showcase how to use each color of truth as well as how to appropriately react to each item in trial. For your convenience, a small summary of the bullet colors has been placed below.]
[Colored Truth/Bullet Legend]
[Red Truth/Verbal Bullet: Undeniable Fact. Something that any player could confirm by examining something on the map. EX: Jim is Dead. Red as anyone can go examine his corpse.]
[Blue Truth/Inquisition Bullet: Theory or Question. A statement that introduces a possibility or theory, does not need to be backed by evidence. EX: Bob killed Jim. Blue as its an un-confirmed statement of a possible scenario.]
[Purple Truth/Testament Bullet: Testimony, Statement of what "I" saw/heard/experienced. Innocents may not lie in purple. Culprits may lie in purple. EX: I was asleep when Jim died. Purple because only I can confirm I saw or did not see this.]
[Green Truth/Flume Bullet: Statement of World State. A fact stated by the mastermind to rule out impossible possibilities. EX: There are no secret passages. Statement of fact about the world that only the host can ever really know.]
[Diamond Truth/Chain Bullet: Deduction based on other color truths and bullets. Allows creation of Undeniable bullets. EX: This video show's bob jumping over the wall. Therefore, Bob can jump 10 ft.]
[Tutorial Format]
This will operate like most trials, except with one person handling all posts. In an effort to save time, general banter between characters IE non-colored statements will be compiled into single posts. Colored statements will receive their own posts with a general explanation on why that color is used there.
[Tutorial Scenario]
The Next Post will cover the "case" to be used in this tutorial as well as all the Mastermind provided documents.
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 22, 2017 5:27:55 GMT -8
[Scenario]Seven people were sealed into a small series of rooms. Eventually, one of them breaks and commits murder in a bid to escape. Person G was found dead by the other six people simultaneously. The six are then told Person G was murdered by one of them and they will be required to attempt to determine that culprit in trial. They were provided with a report on the victim by the mastermind as none of the participants are capable of performing an autopsy. Lastly, they were given a few short hours to investigate the crime. Each did so with varying success and now they have met in the trial room to determine who is the killer. PS. For the tutorial, characters will refer to one another by Letter, ala A or G instead of full names. This is merely to make this tutorial more generic and reduce confusion. [Mastermind] [Victim] Person G[Participants] Person A Person B Person C Person D Person E Person F[Mastermind Documents]-Murder Report-Victim: G State of the Body: Found lying face-down in a pool of blood. A single gash in the back of G's shirt reveals a wound on the upper left portion of their back. He has a broken nose and a look of surprise frozen on his face. No other obvious items. Cause of Death: Critical Organ failure due to injury. Specifically the Heart. Who Found the Body: A, B, C, D, E, and F Time of Death: Within the past 24 hours. |
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 22, 2017 6:04:55 GMT -8
Mastermind: "Welcome Everyone! I hope you all investigated properly so that we can put the poor soul of G to rest! And execute his killer in hilarious fashion. Though that last bits more for me than anyone else!"
Person A: "Screw you! You might as well be the killer since you put us in this situation! So just go and execute yourself and save us the trouble!"
Mastermind: "Upupupupupupu.... You know the deal. The killer is one of you six! Do you blame god for gravity existing when you trip and fall? NO! YOU BLAME GRAVITY!"
Person C: "Don't think you can weasel out of it that easily! You could have easily come in here, killed G, then left to make us suspect one another!"
-The participants nod and mumble in agreement with one another as they look at how the mastermind will respond-
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 22, 2017 6:36:02 GMT -8
Mastermind: "Fine! Let me spell it out in a way you all can understand!"
Mastermind: "The Mastermind will not murder any of the participants! The Mastermind is NOT one of the participants! There are 37 People on Rokkenjima! I am the Mastermind!"
[In this situation, the mastermind cannot rule out themselves as a suspect using normal means. This is due to the existence of the mastermind being a mysterious figure following mysterious rules. If someone proposed the MM can teleport, how can that be proven false? Normally logic would dictate that option as ridiculous, but sometimes murders and events are magical in origin so it can't be ruled out. Using Green Truth/Flume Bullets, the mastermind declares the rules of the world. These rules are much like gravity. You simply have to accept that it exists and work with/around it.]
Mastermind: "Happy now? The killer is most definitely one of you six!"
[This green isn't provable at all! The Mastermind could be lying! This doesn't mean anything! All valid concerns with Green Truth, but this is more an area where you have to suspend your sense of disbelief. There have been many trials that are ruined due to too many magical possibilities being introduced. Green is a way for the mastermind to keep the trial reasonable and on topic.]
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 27, 2017 17:07:51 GMT -8
Person F: "I...I suppose we don't have much of a choice. Though I find it hard to believe any of us could kill G just to escape this place..."
Person B: "There is nothing to doubt. One of us is the killer and we need to determine who that is, no matter what. Can or can't doesn't matter at this point, because this tragedy has already happened."
Person A: "Pft, you idiots couldn't even walk in a straight line if you tried, but I bet that stupidity could lead one of you to actually kill G."
Person B: "Is that an accusation A?"
Person A: "You **** well bet it is."
Person B: "Then would you mind being more specific? I fear that us...idiots...can't know whom among us you are speaking about."
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 27, 2017 17:21:14 GMT -8
Person A: "Fine then. Let me spell it out for you! I bet that you, F, came up behind G and killed him!"
[Person A uses an Inquisition bullet/Blue Truth here. She poses a possibility and, in this case, specifically accuses another player as the possible killer. Due to this statement, F is now considered a possible suspect. Unless this blue truth can be denied, F will remain a suspect.]
[Why Use Blue? Blue is an offensive trial tool in most cases. Its used to probe towards the truth and attack other players. Use it to dig out the truth! Force players to defend themselves as its in those defenses you can determine who is lying! If you aren't sure where to go with a trial Blue is also a way to get other players to think! Lets look how A follows up!]
Person A: "I mean, come on, you can't face anyone face to face so you stuck him in the back! Unless you think for some idiotic reason G was killed from the front!"
[Person A introduces another possibility, but its not targeting a person. Rather its asking about how the murder occurred and isn't really directed at anyone in particular. It gives other people ways to insert new information into the trial and who knows, maybe that info is exactly what you need to determine the killer.]
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 27, 2017 17:26:13 GMT -8
Person F: "B-But....Why would I kill G? HOW could I kill G? You're terrible A....you immediately shifted to accusations as soon as you couldn't say it wasn't one of us."
Person A: "Tough luck, Best have a really good alibi, or has A already caught the perpetrator?"
Person E: "F, cease taking this buffoon's insults at once and show them their peasantry accusations are groundless."
Person F: "Y-Yes ma'am."
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 27, 2017 17:59:57 GMT -8
Person F: "Well... I-I do have an alibi. I was with D for the day, looking for a way out of this place! D can confirm that I was with them!"
[F presents a rather simple alibi in Purple Truth/Testimony Bullets. Purple is a great way to prevent yourself from being voted as the guilty party. It can't outright deny blue, but if players still want to accuse you, they will have to find a way around the purple or accuse you of lying. Remember, Innocent players MAY NOT lie in purple. The best purples are when multiple player's purples support one another, as its unlikely that all those people are the murderer or accomplices.]
Person A: "So? Got anything to add D?"
[The Inquisition bullet here is used to provoke a response from D. It isn't necessary to ask this question in blue, but its a good way to show that a specific question may be important to the case.]
[Don't accept purple truths outright. Take all of them with a bit of doubt. There are ways to not lie in purple, but to still be deceptive. Lets look at the next post and see how F's statement is a bit misleading.]
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 27, 2017 18:47:40 GMT -8
Person D: "....Well, F isn't lying. We did spend the day searching for a way out. But its not like we were hand in hand the entire time. We were away from one another for a couple minutes at a time while using the restroom."
[This purple is a bit more in depth than F's. It confirms they spent the day together, but reveals that "spent the day together" does NOT indicate a perfect alibi. This brings up an important point with Purple Truth. Purple is about how the speaker perceived something. In this case TECHNICALLY F's statement is false as he did not spend the entirety of THE DAY with D. Be prepared to have a to dig for details as most people aren't going to include the nitty gritty in their testimony, both to avoid revealing it and/or cause they are lazy.]
Person C: "Yeah, but does it matter? Is F really capable of killing G, cleaning up, and rejoining D in the time it takes for a bathroom break?"
[Another example of blue encouraging conversations]
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 28, 2017 9:00:18 GMT -8
Person B: Well to determine if that time frame is enough, we need to figure out how G was killed.
Person C: Yeah, I guess that makes sense. How do we do that?
Person B: Lets start out with what we know.
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Mar 28, 2017 9:12:38 GMT -8
Person B: We know everything in the report the mastermind gave us to be true. If we doubt it we may as well go back to accusing them to be the killer as well.
Mastermind: Exactomundo! The Murder Report contains only facts, regardless of their relevance to the case!
Person B: So we can confirm that G died in the past 24 hours. We also know that G died due to an injury to his heart.
[Here person B uses Red Truth/Truth Bullets. Since these bits of knowledge are from the murder report, they are undeniable. Any player could verify their truth by looking at the murder report so they are red.]
Person B: I also examined the body and found that G has no bodily injuries beyond the broken nose and wound on his back.
[Its here that Person B introduces new information. B claims to have examined G's body and then states fact. No one can go check if B examined the body, so that bit is purple, but anyone can go look at the body and confirm the injuries, so that portion is red.]
[UNIQUE SITUATIONS: There are some times where evidence that can be confirmed by simply examining a certain item is NOT posted in red. This would be if the evidence in a place that only a few people can access. Since the majority cannot confirm the truth of the red, it has to be purple instead. EX: Betty, a small child claims there is blood inside one of the floor vents. Only Betty can fit down them to look around and anything they find must be considered testimony]
[UNIQUE SITUATIONS: What if someone changes the body? Say the murderer returns and stabs the body more to try and confuse people. This CAN affect red truths as any destroyed or damaged evidence is no longer confirm-able. Generally these affected reds then become purple. Say someone finds a bloody knife in the kitchen, but later on they return to find only clean knives. However, if enough people examined and confirmed a Red fact prior to its being affected, it will not be changed to purple. This is to prevent killers from just running around before trial screwing with everything to remove all red truths.]
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Post by The City [EclipseZwolf] on Apr 7, 2017 10:51:17 GMT -8
Person E: "Then lets use those details and establish a new, and more thought provoking, theory. You have had your fun accusing people A, time to reap what you have sown."
Person E: "I declare that the murder was committed in an aggressive manner and here is how it happened. G was approached directly by the killer. G likely didn't suspect anything so when the killer got close enough and attacked he was unable to defend himself. The killer punched G in the face as hard as they could, breaking his nose and knocking him over backwards. Stunned, G fell down and tried to escape. Shaken as he was the best he could manage was to turn himself over and crawl desperately towards the door. During these vain attempts to escape the killer came up from behind and finished him off with a stab to the heart."
[One full paragraph of blue here, Don't be overwhelmed! There are plenty of players who like to make massive, and I mean MASSIVE, posts in blue with sprinklings of other colors. Don't think you have to shoot the whole thing down at once. In the end, even a paragraph of blue is just a series of smaller blue truths. Identify a single blue and try to tackle it. Eventually the argument will crumble due to how reliant it is on itself. The points that were impossible to argue won't have any ground to stand on!]
Person E: "And of course, the only person brutish enough to do that is you A."
[On the opposite side of things, don't be afraid to throw out big blue theory's yourself. Its a great way to refine a theory. Think of it as a rough draft. Players will chip away at your weak points while your strong points hold fast. Then you just need to find suitable evidence to replace your lost blues and your theory will return even stronger than before.]
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