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The Dreaded Trial News
Have you been wondering where the competition and struggle between Hell and Heaven is? Aside from the personal squabbles, struggles, and growth that Satan and God watch between the events, there are also the more official trials.

Whenever a trial, tournament, or whatever term you would prefer between Hell and Heaven is coming soon, this is where to look for information on it. Characters will not know about the tournaments except when the NPCs inform them officially, but helpful planning details will be contained here. This is also the place where you can check out the results of the previous trials.

If the trial about to take place confuses you in any way, feel free to ask questions about it here as well.

Upcoming Trial Information

Currently, the first trial has yet to be announced and is being created and negotiated between Lucifer and Metatron. God and Satan each have their own desires, and Lucifer and Metatron are their representatives, discussing until they can reach some sort of trial agreement.

The trial has become a trial of the mind. Metatron and Lucifer have left their respective headquarters temporarily to create a creature to give riddles. The creature, known as Sphinx, will be a temporary NPC controlled by the moderator. The trial is going to be a trial of riddles, puzzles and cryptograms. Each chosen representative from Niflheim and Asgard will receive one puzzle to solve. This puzzle will have three parts - figuring out what the puzzle itself says or is asking, figuring out the answer to the puzzle, and retrieving the answer (which may or may not be a difficult quest.)

How Does The Riddle Trial Work?
On Friday, August 1st, an official trial 'newsletter' of sorts will be sent to the door of every single character in the game, featuring a list of the representatives for each side.

The chosen representatives will be gathered and each character will receive a puzzle in a later ceremony. This will be the first thread revolving around the riddle trial, signifying the beginning of the trial. After this, characters can return to their homes or do what they'd like.

Characters that are not representatives can help representatives with their puzzles - but be careful, because not everyone should necessarily come to successfully complete their puzzle. Keep in mind that the trial parts of Chaos Unraveled aren't a true contest but another way to have fun with plot and character interaction. The moderator highly encourages that players seriously consider whether or not their character should solve their puzzle.

The trial will last for about an entire month, spanning from August 15th to September 14th, to give players and characters plenty of time to work on the trials and plot/thread with each other.

No one character should solve everyone's puzzles for them - try to let everyone have an opportunity to have a character help in some way, if they want to.

Anyway, the answer to the puzzles will not be given out immediately, because actual players might want to have fun trying to solve the puzzles on their own outside of the game or to add some authenticity behind how their character(s) solve a puzzle. Two or three weeks into the game, the answers will be publicly shared. Before that, I expect players to converse with me in comments or via email about their riddles and the actual answers, if they need to know quickly.

When a character finally correctly figures out the second part of the puzzle (what the puzzle actually is asking of the character), players should email me so that I can share extra details about the quest portion of the puzzles. Why the request that people alert me to this? This is because it's the best way I could think of to add in an interesting quest portion into the trial without giving away the answers.

Keep in mind, everyone, each trial in CU is an experiment - I hope we can all improve them together, over time! =3

Current Trial Representatives
Asgard
Blythe
Frank
L
Maria
Mitch

Niflheim
Dr. Cox Unconfirmed Understudy: Jazz
Flauros
Light
Una Unconfirmed Understudy: Mello
Wesker

Previous Trial Information

No trials have taken place yet.