THE THIRD TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD TRIAL
(~SK. 17-18)


[When the investigation ends, the D O N G rings throughout the ship, followed by Zero's voice.]

It is time. Everyone, come to the theater. Time is...wasting.

[And so it is. The seating has once more changed to reflect the fallen-Moriarty and now Brain's podiums are draped in black. And, of course, there is no food-

The screens come up, and the mask of Zero appears, ever inscrutable. Their instructions are brief.]

Your Brain is gone, I'm afraid. Cut into pieces and cast aside...and someone here knows why. Now, it's time for you to discover the truth as well...if you can.


[The trial for the murder of Brain, the Blue, has begun.]

Comments

[not_a_lego_maniac]

That, and what word would he have even been guessing?

[exequte]

Something with seven letters, if that is what was happening. I don't know if there's any other information that we have right now though.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

That's true...and there are a lot of seven letter words we could use, I'm guessing.

[exequte]

Any of them.

[pegasinister]

Seven letters, correct? Sadly the culprit didn't note any right guesses he might have made.

[exequte]

Wrong letters are usually marked down as well as correct guesses, so that the person or people who are playing are more easily able to avoid repeats.

Um.

Is... is it possible that someone was trying to 【set up a game】 for someone else to play, rather than playing it themselves?

Though... if that were the case I'd have expected him to also be decapitated.....

[pegasinister]

A mystery for us to play? Things with letters...

[He brings out the two notes and the book again- the one with his name- does it have any other letters on it? Does the book have any missing letters he hasn't seen?

He also hands the cipher note over]

The slash. What letters do you suspect it could be? It seems tilted so I don't suspect it is a letter like H or L- More like a V or maybe a W.

[exequte]

[She frowns at it, then quickly flips to a clean page and writes down the entire alphabet in the cypher, in order, and compares the mark.]

It seems like the letters that contain some part of this stroke are A, M, N, R, V, W, and X. Of those, I'd consider V, W, or X to be most likely. Any of the others would need to be written in some way other than the standard left to right.

[superstylishsquid]

....What if the word we're supposed to be guessing is the killer's name?

[He hates suggesting this, since it implicates him, but...]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

....So...someone with seven letters?

[onychomance]

That would narrow it to Valerie or Alastor, I believe.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...

[Oh. No.]

[superstylishsquid]

Yeah.

[Val, he's looking at you with intensely glowing eyes and an angrily lashing tail.]

And I hope it's obvious which of us is more likely to pull something this twisted.

[onychomance]

Can it really be that simple...?

[Well, now Valerie is freaking out, so he's just.

Deadpanning.

He can't fucking believe this]

[superstylishsquid]

Considering she's also the one having a breakdown here? And it's not like I didn't like Brain, too.