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]

It's not something we want to see, you monster!

[commandurr]

HEY! I'M NOT THE ONE WHO KILLED SOMEONE! SO WHO'S REALLY THE MONSTER AROUND HERE, HMM?

BESIDES, AREN'T YOU THE ONE SAYING HE DESERVES WHAT HE GETS AND YOU CAN'T TRUST?? I WOULD THINK YOU'D BE HAPPY TO SEE HIM GET HIS!!

[mementodagger]

The blood on his hands is as much your fault as it is his!

[commandurr]

OH? I'M NOT THE ONE VOTING, AM I??

THEN I'M NOT THE ONE SENDING HIM TO HIS DEATH!!

[mementodagger]

[Yurick growls and flings his hands toward her...

Only to tremble and spit curses as nothing happens.]

Damn you! Give it back!

[commandurr]

GIVE WHAT BACK?? AHAHAHAHA!!

[mementodagger]

[He’s mad. He’s not thinking clearly, not faced with the impending death of someone he could’ve called a friend, given time. He forgets he has secrets.]

You know damn well what! Give me back my magic!

What is chronology? A miserable little pile of secrets!

[backuphero]

Yurick -

[He doesn't know what to say, but it's not even really Yurick that he sees with that gesture and that desperation. There's someone else who wears blue, someone who isn't here, someone who would have done exactly the same thing right now, and knowing that feels like a knife in the gut.]