MOCK TRIAL WEEK

[themuppeteers]

[Constantine Kermit the Frog has revealed his true motives for bringing you all here. What was once a warm and welcoming house has now become your prison, encased in five feet of snow. If it's any comfort, be glad that the heater and electricity still seem to be working. For now. Perhaps searching for an escape route would be in your best interests.

Let's just hope no one gets stir crazy and tries to kill someone else, hm?]

[MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY]

((ooc: this is the week log for the mock trial! tuesday-onwards is locked until the motive is posted. on friday, an investigation log will be posted, and a trial will commence on saturday (in-game friday). backtagging is encouraged! have fun!))

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[tobeginwith]

Are you kidding? Give every character the same motivation and you'll get bored within the first two chapters. No, I need to know your real motivation. What do you want? Really want?

Anyways, I thought it was all pretty straightforward. Everybody's got a flaw. Sometimes it just happens to be fatal.

[its_not_fair]

And why should we all tell you what it is?! For all I know, you could be working with Kermit and will just give him this information so he can use it to destroy us.

[She tilts her head at him, propping a hand on her hip]

Haven't you ever heard of an unreliable narrator? [Oh yeah, high school English is really paying off!] How can a story be interesting if all of our flaws and deep motivations are revealed at the beginning? Isn't it a better story if they're revealed at important moments? Where's the drama? It's like looking at the end of a book to see how it ends!

[Well I guess that answers the question about whether or not she can monologue]

[tobeginwith]

What? I'm the author, I can't be a mole for Kermit. If anybody's a mole it's Boober. He's easily persuaded and he lives underground.

[He's filling out one of the forms as he's talking, though he's attempting to be subtle about it. Alignment: Protagonist? Fatal flaw: Rebels against the narrative.]

And I'm not unreliable! You can't judge me without reading my work, I'm just here to organize your flaws and motivations for structural purposes! I'll only reveal them when it's narratively convenient. What kind of half-rate novelist do you take me for?

[its_not_fair]

If you're the author of this story, shouldn't you already know all of this? [She waves the piece of paper at him] Maybe you're a character, like you've decided the rest of us are.

[Well his notes weren't wrong. Just ask Jareth.]

[tobeginwith]

You-- well, I-- it's-- don't be ridiculous. Authors can't be characters. That's a self-insert and I never write self-inserts.

[But... you know, between her and what Kermit said yesterday he's... kind of starting to wonder... but he can't let it get to him.]

[its_not_fair]

Then you should know all this stuff about me already. So, you tell me: What's my motivation?

[She crosses her arm like the petulant teenager she is]

[tobeginwith]

Why, to get out of here, of course. Didn't you say that should be everyone's motivation?

[Is he cheating by grabbing at the only hint he's got? ...Perhaps.]

[its_not_fair]

Hey! You're just saying that because I said that earlier. That's not fair!

[cheater!]

[tobeginwith]

Maybe you shouldn't reveal your deep motivations in the first act of the story.

[its_not_fair]

[She's got him, now! She holds out a finger]

That's a motivation, but that doesn't make it my deepest motivation.

[Geez, spending time in the labyrinth among all those puzzling creatures has made her able to speak crazy. That can't be good]

[tobeginwith]

[Hm. She's got a point there.]

Yeah, well, sometimes it takes time to figure out a characters real motivation. Great authors need time to work, you know! But give me until the rising action and I'll have it all figured out.

[its_not_fair]

Uh-huh. [she's still skeptical. She holds out the blank paper] Well, when you figure it out, be sure to let me know.