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

[crouching_sin]

I meant the latter part of your statement.

What's putting this universe in danger?

[commandurr]

AHAHAHAHAHA HAHA!

WHAT, YOU DON'T REMEMBER? AWWW~

[crouching_sin]

[Now that? That makes him bristle.]

Get down here, you.

[To mock him losing memories, of all people...]

[commandurr]

OH, LET ME THINK ABOUT THAT...

NOPE!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[crouching_sin]

[Ffffff he has to focus. He takes a moment to calm himself.]

How imminent is the danger?

[commandurr]

HM......PRETTY IMMINENT!!

[Said with the urgency of needing to go grocery shopping.]

[crouching_sin]

Time frame? Weeks? Months?

[commandurr]

OH, I DON'T KNOW...I'D SAY...ABOUT ONE MONTH FROM WHEN YOU LOT FIRST ARRIVED??

[crouching_sin]

And how do we stop that?

[commandurr]

YOU CAN'T!

[She seems...very pleased about it too.]

YOUR ONLY HOPE IS TO ESCAPE ON THE TRANSPORT WHEN IT COMES FOR ME! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?

[crouching_sin]

And I imagine you won't simply give up a spot. How many spots are there?

[commandurr]

OF COURSE NOT!

THERE'S ENOUGH FOR WHOEVER GETS AWAY WITH MURDER IN THE NEXT THREE WEEKS!!

[crouching_sin]

At least three, then. Good to know.