THE THIRD TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD TRIAL

[After the finale clues are found, the ticking which we totally didn't forget to add to the investigation post in everyone's head stops, and the Elder Steward's voice echoes through the webs.]

Excellent. Now, please, proceed to the ossuary! Do not tarry.

[Just like before, the Ossuary rumbles upwards to accept the remaining Strangers, with bats hassling those who take too long. Just like before, chains drag everyone to their respective coffins, and in the center are souls for sustenance. You might expect the only true difference to be that piles of skulls now replace the coffins where Zelda, Bangladesh, and Jun might have otherwise stood when they were alive. However, one more change has been made - Eric's coffin is now quite a bit fancier and even a little less coffin-looking. For example, it has a nice chair! Apparently there's some favoritism afoot.

Once everyone is in place, the Elder Steward strolls forward to the edge of the circle, hands crossed beneath his robes. The scrolls glow to reveal the evidence and the suspect list as this happens.]

THE OVERBOARD	THE CIRCUIT	THE RUBBER	THE NEON
				THE ENEMY

Now. Let us get started, shall we?

[And with that, the ticking begins anew. Someone killed. It's time to decide who's responsible.

The trial for the murder of Jun Ushiro, The Launcher, has begun.]

Comments

[notadinosnack]

Remember he also didn't see the arrow coming and it hit him in the chest. I think he was so absorbed in that scroll that he was completely unaware of his surroundings.

[incendiarize]

Wouldn't that have been after? I'm talking about when he entered the library.

[notadinosnack]

Okay let's try and figure out the possibilities here. First, Jun entered the normal way and set the trap. This makes little sense because he wouldn't have sat near the trap.

The second is he was there and unaware of someone else entering or being present while they were setting the trap. Not impossible if the culprit was very quiet about it.

[incendiarize]

Maybe we should think about why the trap. Emma wasn't crushed, so it's not like they were rigged to fall on the doorway...

[notadinosnack]

There's a lot of possible reasons. The most obvious seems to be to try and frame her. Remember how Eric reacted?