THE SECOND TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND TRIAL

[Soon after the failed attempt to contact the dead, the tell-tale alarm suddenly rings out, rattling everyone's teeth alongside Marie's voice.]

ATTENTION! EMERGENCY ALERT! PLEASE GO TO THE ELEVATORS IMMEDIATELY!! HMHMHMMM! I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF SAYING THAT...!

[And so, once again, the elevators bring everyone back down to the trial room, where the table has been...altered, slightly, color-wise, to reflect those who are no longer among you. And once more, upon entering the force field, weapons disappear - and powers fail to work.

Bottson hops up onto the center of the table, transmitting the evidence found.]

heRe yOU Are eVerYBOdy! THe sUsPECt lISt!



YoU cAN Do THiS!


[Above everyone once more is Marie, floating around in her hover platform.]

WELL, WELL! FANCY MEETING YOU ALL HERE AGAIN! I GUESS YOU ALL FAILED TO KEEP THAT GUY ALIVE, HUH?? AHAHAHA!!

WELL, LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN GET WHO DID IT THIS TIME, HMM??

Comments

[losergod]

[ Uh. This is embarassing. He hates this! ANYWAY, let's examine and. Wait. ]

... You have a cut. Um. On your chest. It looks relatively recent.

[tiefleaf]

...well, fuck.

[losergod]

... That's... not an explanation. That's an expletive.

[tiefleaf]

I'd been doing some knife-throwing practice earlier this week, there was no way I was letting being trapped in some weird metal prison make me get rusty.

[ He's not bringing up the weird blood powers, gdit. He's not even sure if that would go over well, but also, this is a man who lies out of force of habit. ]

[losergod]

...

[ Wait. ]

You use knives?

[tiefleaf]

Doesn't everyone?

[losergod]

No. I can't use weapons with high proficiency at all, even if the body I'm inhabiting has some kind of nack for it, usually I'm just flying blind.

[tiefleaf]

Alright, alright. You got me there.

[losergod]

Mister Tealeaf, the problem is that knives were part of this case. We'd assumed Mister Rosenkreuz had all of them, but... we found so many... do you understand where I'm going with this?

[tiefleaf]

Yeah, but it sure doesn't mean I'm liking the outcome.

[losergod]

[ He frowns. ]

My question is, how fast do you normally heal?

[tiefleaf]

About as fast as a human does, more or less. Tieflings aren't that far off, I mean, we're sort of already part human...ish.

[losergod]

...

[ You know what? He isn't even surprised. In fact he doesn't seem all that weirded out at all. ]

... I'm reminded of the Pythias. ... In any event, with a shallow cut, usually it scabs up fairly quickly, so we've got something of a problem with disproving that you aren't the one behind this.

Unless you were framed.

[theserpentsmiles]

...what kind of knives were you using?

[tiefleaf]

The smaller ones from the kitchen. Gods, any bigger than a fruit knife and you're just begging to lose a hand.

[theserpentsmiles]

[Sometime in all that stripping nonsense...]

Did you clean the blood off the knife after cutting yourself?

[tiefleaf]

Well, yes.