theairlock | fourth trial

[When the announcement sounds and the evidence gathered it’s time for a trial. When the remaining champions are all gathered by the 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 Oda, Akande and Leon's podiums have been turned off and their floating grey scale portraits have joined the six from last week.

Blaze Dudely stands on a repair deck on top of his ship, which looms over the proceedings ominously. His expression is still hard to read but his arms are folded across his chest and if you squint close enough there's a somberness about him that hasn't been at other trials.]

Ya'll know how this goes by now. [He's in no mood for pageantry this time.] Take the time ya need but don’t bore me.

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No homo.

[Ignoring that.]

The point is, we might have to ask you some questions.

Mhm.

...Just, to make some things clear, of course.

[ Speaking of.... ]

Maybe we should try and figure out the order things happened in. Might help.

[A hearty nod.]

Yes, that would definitely help us figure things out. [she thinks about it.] Maybe figuring out who died first would help us with piecing together everything else.

[ Looking at the case stuff... ]

It says here that Leon died first, at six. One hour or so before we opened the room. So that's probably our timeframe for whatever confrontation happened in there.

[ checks his pip-- ]

He was pretty badly bruised, too, like someone just went all out on him. And he asphyxiated, just like Akande.

Do we think Akande did the bruising? If so, why?

Probably, since it sounds like Will didn't find anything in the cell that might've done it.

Alright, so Akande beat him up. Really excessively badly. Why?

Might be he saw something he wasn't supposed to.

... [Oh man...??]

Or thought he saw something he didn't.

... Potberry leaves.

Short term effects of pot usage includes hallucinations, paranoia and psychosis.

It would answer the question of why he was on that floor in the first place.

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So he was beat up, but... do we even know for sure that he was beat up in the solitary room? He wasn't exactly in a normal falling position, and it wouldn't be great to knowingly get into a fight in there.

So... he was still alive until he was asphyxiated. [Leon...]

Which means he and Akande had to be in there at the same time, and long enough to be affected by the gas.

... Yeah. Sounds like it. Which means Akande was breathing in that gas for a long time before we pulled him out.

Probably it took longer for the big guy to die because of his size.

Not to mention the injuries Leon had too.

[Check the pip time.]

According to the pip it was a combination of both trauma and asphyxiation. That might be why he died sooner - if the injuries were bad enough, combined that with the lack of oxygen and his smaller frame...

[Akande lasted over an hour longer...]

It would have been... much harder to breath.

[She assumes. God. Poor, poor Leon...]

Meanwhile, Akande died of asphyxiation, from the gas. [According to her PIP.] So he wasn't hurt nearly as much, outside of the strange bruising on his head. ...Maybe he was struck from behind.

Yeah. It looks like it was centred around his stomach and chest.

[Horrible, but probably a mercy compared to slowly suffocating in there for over an hour.]

I doubt a single blow to the back of the neck would have done much to him. But it might have caught him by surprise if he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings.

....Or if he was preoccupied with something else?

Yeah. Something that might have kept his attention more than anything happening around him.

Maybe something like... the bottles?

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