THE FIRST TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE FIRST TRIAL

[Minutes after Detective Beauford Bottson rumbled off, an alarm suddenly starts to go off, complete with flashing red lights. This is followed by the very unwelcome sound of you-know-who.

Oh, what fresh hell is this.]

ATTENTION PRISO--GUESTS! GO TO THE ELEVATORS IMMEDIATELY! IT'S TOTALLY AN EMERGENCY! AHAHAHA!!

[And indeed, the elevators are open and ready for fast travel. Only this time, the elevator immediately takes the Strangers downwards, and into a large room of controls with a force field in the center of it. Beneath everyone is a semi-translucent floor, revealing a massive, futuristic engine beneath them. Despite how giant it is, it's unnervingly quietly, only letting out a hum that can just be heard.

The controls are beyond the force field in the center, so there's no way to get to them without naturally passing through it first. And as everyone enters into the force field - complete with a slurping sound as they pass through it, they will realize two things.

The first is that any weapons on them are somehow gone.

The second is that they can't get out of the force field once they've entered it. Instead, they will have to stand in a circle, with Bottson in the middle, transmitting the evidence found to the wristwatches.]

bASed on tHe inFormATion I have hEre IS...the suspects who stole my HnduyFDUFB mu-uu-U-rdered!



tHeRE yoU Go!


[Finally, above everyone and beyond the force field is Marie, flying around on a floating platform. She looks smug as ever as she leans over, chuckling.]

WELL, SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HIGH AND MIGHTY RESOLVE, RIGHT?? SO GO ON, JUST TRY AND SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT WHO KILLED THAT WOMAN! AND REMEMBER...IF YOU VOTE WRONG, YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF KILLING SOMEONE INNOCENT, WON'T YOU?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Comments

[theserpentsmiles]

[Interesting... Nagisa keeps a careful eye to his surroundings. Lots to take note of here.]

I think it's safe to say that whatever happened, it happened in the theater. There was blue glitter everywhere inside, including on the door. Specifically on the theater-side of the door.

[toushiro]

The strangulation could have taken place there, with how much of a mess there was in the theater. There may have potentially been a struggle, too.

[theserpentsmiles]

I didn't see much knocked over, but there were trails of glitter between the door and a chair.

[toushiro]

And the same trail of glitter was also found in the first floor hallway.

...She may have been strangled in the theater before being brought to the bathroom.

[tiefleaf]

That poor glitter never did anything wrong in its entire life.

[MOLLY...]

[theserpentsmiles]

I'd agree with that. I think Clotilde-san had some source of glitter already. Maybe she tried to use it defensively?

[crouching_sin]

Like trying to blind the culprit? Why would we have not found what that source is, then? Other than her clothing...

[theserpentsmiles]

...Assuming the source was an object - no one has the power to generate glitter, and I'm not certain her clothes would drop that much - then...it would follow that the killer took it.

... unfortunately, hlitterbomb being as it is means we can't search people for glitter. We're all kind of sparkly just from investigating.

[crouching_sin]

[Most of them, anyway.]

Hm... then simply having glitter on you won't be a clue... unfortunately.

[backuphero]

[He can sort of appreciate deadpan humor in the middle of what feels like a really shitty Russian play.]

Might be the only thing in this hellhole that hasn't, for as much as we've been able to figure out.

[Did that come out sounding a little bitter? Oh dear god yes.]