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]

[....Rosenkreuz has always seemed the logical type, so...]

How, exactly, was this him betraying you? I don't think he'd have done this if Clotilde-san hadn't tried to hurt him first. Akira-senpai isn't an assassin.

[stealsyourduelist]

Yet he was already carrying with him the weapon to enact a murder plan. If Vita had not attacked him first, he may have worked up the nerve to find another victim, with all that he had at stake.

[He sighs.]

Although I admit that with what we've seen here, nerve is not exactly what I expect.

[fashionfever]

Yeah, a cord and a knife! He literally covered up the strangulation with the knife, right?

[beguiledcard]

No, I didn't.

[fashionfever]

[Angela just - turns away from Akira and shakes her fist at the ceiling.]

HEY, WHOEVER THINKS IT'S FUNNY TO STAB PEOPLE WHO ALREADY DIED? I'M ONTO YOU!!! BAD STUFF IS COMING YOUR WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theserpentsmiles]

If he'd acted only on his own motivation, then.... I still deserve some of the blame. Part of his motive was....reuniting me with someone I didn't know had died.

[stealsyourduelist]

Nonsense. You might as well say you're to blame for merely existing, by that logic.

However, it does appear to be the case that getting away with murder would allow him to resurrect your friend. If you are willing to die for that friend, then that much I respect. You would have to make your case however.

[he cares more about pragmatism than justice hahahaha]

[theserpentsmiles]

[Karma has always been better than him. At everything. There's no reason it would be better to have Nagisa here than him...]

In terms of sheer practicality.... You'd want him around instead of me. He's troublesome - but strong and fast and the second-smartest person I know...the first isn't alive either, but bringing him back isn't on the table. Karma-kun would be much better at figuring out a way to upend this.

[Which might. Say something about Nagisa's own thoughts for how to move forward.]

[fashionfever]

Hey, is that all you've got to put yourself down? You're knowledgeable about space and the military - both of those are pretty relevant to our predicament!

[theserpentsmiles]

....So is he. He and I were in the same position for the last year.....and he's the one who went with me to space.

...Though I guess there's no guarantee bringing him back would bring him here, is there...

[stealsyourduelist]

I highly doubt that it would. Marie would not see fit to replenish our numbers.

If that's all you have to say about it, then I believe you must live. For Karma's sake as well.

[theserpentsmiles]

..... [For his sake....for Karma's sake. Akira had said Karma cared about him, but....]

If he were....then he'd... [Nagisa runs out of words. His teacher and two of his classmates are gone. He doesn't know where the others are, if they're safe....and there's a chance his entire universe is in danger (already gone?).

This is much bigger than anything he's been involved with before. Maybe he has graduated after all.]