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

[backuphero]

I do. I don't know why, but... for crying out loud, I didn't even know there were whips in with everything, I couldn't find any when I looked.

[earietale]

Is...is there anyone on that list that you're enemies with? Someone that might want to frame you?

[She really doesn't want to suggest it, but if it's a possibility, she needs to.]

[backuphero]

No. Sure, I only barely talked to Hitsugaya, but... what if it's none of us? Didn't the rules say something about being able to frame people? What if the robot only figured it was us because somebody else removed every trace of what they did?

[toushiro]

For starters, the motive was irrelevant to me. [ well...not entirely irrelevant, but he didn't have as much of a reaction to it, at least? ] I agree that it's entirely possible that the robot made have made an error in its culmination of suspects.

...And for what it's worth, if I were the culprit, I wouldn't want to pin the blame on you.

[backuphero]

For what it's worth... thanks.

[Jesus. He's younger looking, but only the narration knows that than Nagisa - who shouldn't be under consideration here either!]

This is... I don't think English has words strong enough for what I want to call it, and I don't speak enough Romanian or Spanish....