second trial

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[When the announcement sounds and the evidence gathered it’s time for a trial. When the remaining champions are all gathered by the repaired docking bay doors they slide slowly slide open.

The two lines of sentry robots are there again, creating a border path from the docking bay doors to the circle of metal podiums. The podiums themselves were made of strange metals in red and gold and orange and black, each one etched with the name of one of the Champions. There are flood lights - like spot lights - in front of each podium. The lights on Diego, Kiss-Shot and Erika's podiums have been turned off and their floating grey scale portraits have joined the four from last week.

Blaze Dudely stands on a repair deck on top of his ship, which looms over the proceedings ominously. Rather than the glee the Champions may think he would take in this kind of display, he merely stands there with his arms crossed, expression unreadable and his cyborg eye scanning the Champions with a piercing scrutiny, like he's searching for one of them to act out of line.]

Mornin’, Champions. Here’s how this is goin’ to go: take the evidence ya found, piece together what happened and find who took out the Champion Detective and... [He pauses, running through Kiss-Shot's excessively long title in his head.] The vampire one. Founders, I regret giving her that title. If ya find them, they’ll be dealt with. If ya don’t, they’ll be free to go and the rest of ya will face punishment. Take the time ya need but don’t bore me.

Comments

[canted]

Draining their blood doesn't kill a vampire, it keeps them from coming back to life. She would have died from the knife wound.

As for why you'd keep the blood . . . Like I said: it has healing properties. Even here I suspect ingesting it would cure most minor wounds for a mundane. It would also run the risk of the person turning into a vampire, but I doubt this person was particularly concerned about that.

[empathiser]

Do you think someone was specifically after those healing properties? Could you give us a run down of what drinking a vampire's blood would do to a non-vampire?

[tenimuho]

If they survived this trial and escaped, it wouldn't be much use to them. Unless they planned to drag a bucket of blood along.

Unless they were injured during the fight and needed some to heal those wounds?

[power_of_dominance]

If that's the case, checking for wounds would be pointless.

[Thank god, because he's not having a repeat of the first trial.]

[tenimuho]

Not necessarily.

We've already established that vampires don't work the same way everywhere. It's possible that drinking her blood didn't heal them at all.

[power_of_dominance]

[Oh god.]

... I am not stripping first.

[tenimuho]

...If I do it first, will you strip second?

[power_of_dominance]

... as long as no one makes a big deal out of it this time.

[He looks like he wants to melt into the floor.]

[tenimuho]

Alright. It'll be professional.

[heartswapped]

[Look, she knows this is a serious trial and two people are dead, but she can't help but try to stifle a snicker.]

[tenimuho]

...It'll be unprofessional?

[What do you want from him, Elaine.]

[heartswapped]

Oh, don't mind me.

[She's just going to see where this goes.]

[tenimuho]

Okay, I won't.

[enjoy while he strips]

[rickdiculous]

It's okay, bud. I will.

[canted]

I never said it was for them. Vampire blood is a resource.

Maybe they thought something good could come out of this fiasco.

[tenimuho]

That's true. If Kiss-Shot had just killed Erika, they might well have thought that someone had to kill her then and there. Or else not been confident about surviving if they didn't kill her.

[silverguitarhero]

Depending on when they drank it...the smell of blood might be on their mouth still.

[tenimuho]

...Is there anyone who's going to volunteer to smell people's mouths.

[tuskenlancer]

[ Ew. ]

People brush their teeth.

[ she fucking hopes. ]