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]

Is there something else you want to say, perhaps? At this point, guilty or innocent, you're fighting for your life. You might as well struggle with all that you have.

[backuphero]

Aside from that crack I made while we were all stuck cooking for Red's amusement, I think I told somebody what kind of weapon my family's always used, but I can't remember who, and... that's the other things that went missing from Weapons Storage. But I didn't even know they were there!

[mementodagger]

You mean the whips, then. And if you did? Would you have taken one? Not exactly a practical weapon for self-defense.

[backuphero]

They aren't practical for much, except fighting monsters, and... well, up until yesterday I'd've said nobody here qualified as that. It's family tradition, that's all. I took a combat knife, didn't feel like a sword would really work if I had to fight somebody in hallways like the ones here.

[mementodagger]

Is the knife you took the same kind they found with Vita?

MODS, A QUESTION

[backuphero]

Not that it matters, but I had mine til we got in here. Couldn't get the image to display, hold on...

[So, while he's busy fighting with that crazy future wristwatch - what kind of knife WAS it that was found with the body?]

[strangerpeople]

[By the cut, it looks to be a small knife with a thin blade.]

[backuphero]

Okay, yeah, that's... definitely not what I've been carrying.

[His was a saw-backed trench knife, after all.]

Can't think as I've seen anyone else with one like it, either.