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

[mementodagger]

How can we be certain the cause of death we were given is accurate? I wouldn't trust anything that comes from our dear Commander.

[fashionfever]

Okay, then how can we even trust a suspect list? We might as well just act like she ran over and stabbed a person herself to get it over with. But that doesn't really make sense. Marie was super impatient when she announced the motive.

[mementodagger]

Do we even have to accuse only those on the suspect list? I wouldn't put it past her to protect the true culprit.

[fashionfever]

She has a funny way of protecting someone. Letting us post evidence, supposedly punishing the true culprit - you can totally just say "Hey, if you stab someone you get your prize and survive!" She's lazy. The base isn't even decorated that well. All this effort just to set a mood, it's crazy. I really think it's supposed to be this weird fair trial idea somehow.

[commandurr]

AHAHAHA! OK, I AGREE, THIS PLACE IS DRAB EXCEPT FOR THE PLACES I HELPED BUILD!

[tiefleaf]

...and how much of the base was that?
I mean, you could've at least, I dunno, put up some scented candles?

[commandurr]

A FEW ROOMS HERE AND THERE! MY ROOM, FOR EXAMPLE...

AND OH! SCENTED CANDLES! I WOULD TOO!!

[fashionfever]

You know, I could totally hook you up with this interior designer Francois Truffaut. He could... uh... make YOUR vision... a reality!

[commandurr]

AHAHAHAHA!

OH, THATSOUNDSGOOD, GOOD LUCK GETTING HIM HERE THOUGH!

[fashionfever]

Huh! Why not? You said you can toy with their lives, you can do Janet fricking Morgan and not him?

[commandurr]

OH...WELL, I MEANT IF YOU WERE DOING IT, NOT ME!

AHAHA!

[theserpentsmiles]

Well... I didn't examine the body, but there should have been a way to tell even around the knife wound, to anyone with some medical knowledge.

[tiefleaf]

Even if it's possibly bullshit, we've still got it narrowed down to either choking or... being fucked up with a knife.