T̢H͜E̵͟ ͏́͡TH͘͢I͠͞R͜͡͝D̷̶ ̛͞T̴R͏̨Į̷A̵̧L̡̨̀

[strangerpeople]

T̢H͜E̵͟ ͏́͡TH͘͢I͠͞R͜͡͝D̷̶ ̛͞T̴R͏̨Į̷A̵̧L̡̨̀

Attention, Strangers. It's time for the trial now.

Please bring whatever you see fit and not anything against the rules.

[And so it is, that the Strangers must come once more to the elevators, to the room where the force field sits and their podiums wait. Three more people are now Xed out, as if they never existed.

Once everyone is in place, five podiums light up red.]

THE BRITTLE	THE DISCORD	THE ENEMY	THE FORLORN
				THE JOVIAN

Once again, two bodies have been discovered. It sure is tragic. Please remember to vote accordingly.

[There is no hesitation, no pause, before the clock begins, and the ticking echoes through the chamber. The evidence is there for the remaining Strangers to see, and organize. Voting must happen to ensure justice. What else is there to say, then?

The trial for the murders of Vita Clotilde-Morris, the Bad Luck, and Jonathan Morris, the Double, has begun.]

Comments

[incendiarize]

I didn't see anything like that, but I wasn't searching the present.

Burns aren't really caused by quicksilver? It causes skin problems but not like those. This varies with if it's pure or a compound.

Though, quicksilver's sensitive to temperature changes, so if there was some nearby and it expanded enough with heat...

[otherworldlyking]

It could cause a fire?

[poorlovefool]

Maybe that's why they were burned in the kitchen.... although you gotta wonder why the killer moved the bodies anyway.

Unless... you think Jonathan crawled all the way back to his wife...

[But that thought really makes him miserable :(]

[otherworldlyking]

[ Speaking of upsetting things... ]

Their hands were linked together. Though, not sure if that was on his part or the killer's, but could be deliberate if they decided to come back.

[poorlovefool]

... Maybe he really did then.

[it doesn't seem like any of the suspects on the list to go that far.]

[incendiarize]

Some compounds are pretty flammable, so we're back to purity. Quicksilver itself it a metal.

I'm just thinking, if there was a fire, the quicksilver could expand and get out in the open that way, maybe. But like, everyone knows it's poisonous, so there usually isn't gonna just be quicksilver lying around in a kitchen, you know? So why's it there?

[otherworldlyking]

[ Thanks for the lesson in Chemistry, Arthur. ]

Someone got careless and dropped it in one spot in the middle of everything going on.

[ Occam's razor, maybe. ]