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

[unwittingking]

…it was an accident?

I'm not sure about it, but...would anyone here want to burn a body? It just...doesn't strike me as something someone here would do on purpose. Even if it was to get rid of evidence, we have an incinerator. Setting a fire in the kitchen...it's unnecessary, and I don't think anyone here would do it.

[necroyalty]

I could see a few trains of thought coming to that conclusion, if our culprit wanted a diversion rather than a simple disposal.

[otherworldlyking]

Diversion from what?

[necroyalty]

Good question. Everything about this murder seems excessive.

[otherworldlyking]

Makes sense for it to be messy where the fight happened, but seeing as she agreed to her death in the first place, it didn't make much sense to have all of those injuries all over her.

[relieable]

We all assumed Jonathan was the one to die second. Maybe someone stabbed him first, then Vita put up the fight.

[because, yeah, she has so many more injuries. he doesn't know about the details of the vision, though, just that Jonathan had been crying]

[necroyalty]

And if there was a struggle, it's easy to understand why a fire could start on accident, or someone might want to obscure something especially incriminating that couldn't be moved...

[otherworldlyking]

Doubt Jon would be the one trying to fight if she hadn't died first.

[ So there's his thoughts on that. ]

[necroyalty]

Neither of them seems particularly likely to go down without a fight, and she could have still been threatened without necessarily being dead.

[relieable]

Arthur did say that Vita was gonna let them kill her. But maybe she wasn't completely dead, just passed out, and she saw Jonathan get hurt, and got sent into a rage.

[incendiarize]

Jonathan found her dead, he blamed himself, and Vita didn't fight - didn't even turn to face her killer.

[Maybe if he sticks to basic facts of what he saw, he won't upset Osomatsu again.]

[relieable]

That's why it's weird. I dunno why Vita would be more damaged, unless someone else really disliked her.

[incendiarize]

....I mostly can't figure out why someone felt the need to stab her with a runcible.

[He has at least theories about most of the other injuries?]

[relieable]

[what's a...]

You... You mean the spork? I can't figure that out either.

[unwittingking]

…they what?

[the hells a rubicle]

[necroyalty]

I guess I'm speaking from personal experience here. I have been in the position of disposing of a body for someone else's murder. No one was going to be executed that one time, but it still would have damaged our resolve and I didn't want an entire episode happening.

I didn't do a very good job. Tried to dissolve the corpse in chemicals, but they found the skeleton.

Anyway, it's not too unusual to think that someone might want to be needlessly dramatic so as to confuse us.

[unwittingking]

…Ambrosine, what the fuck.

[There is no other way to react to this, as far as he's concerned.]

[necroyalty]

[The most pained and moderately ashamed sigh.]

Not one of my proudest moments.

[unwittingking]

…important question, how was the guy killed? Because depending on that, it might've been better if you just...left him for them to find.

[Like, decapitation? Fair, he wouldn't want to find that. But poison or stabbing or something? Depends on how it went, but he'd most likely prefer finding that over even just a puddle of melted human.]

[incendiarize]

If it helps any, apparently Eddie was the same guy who did the thing on the plane that Jonathan and Vita went through.

[So like, no loss and he deserved it.]

[unwittingking]

I have the distinct feeling that it was still incredibly disturbing and traumatizing to find, whether he deserved it or not.

[Eddie may have deserved it, but everyone else in the mansion? He doubts it.]

[relieable]

Oh, it was.

[unwittingking]

Thank you for proving my point, and I'm sorry you had to go through that.

[unwittingking]

I hate to say it this way, but would anyone here be that extra? It doesn't seem like too many people would do something like that.

[It's one thing to do something like 'Have the corpses hold hand,' it's another to do 'Burn the dead body to add insult to injury and get rid of evidence.' At least that's how he sees it.]