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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-10-28 12:21 pm
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first trial

[With the announcement, the Champions are free to decide amongst themselves what order the groups leave in. Once that's done the process of teleporting is automatic and happens in the blink of an eye. Once second they're in the center of the cafeteria before a soft blue light surrounds them and then they're standing in the middle of a circle of podiums.

The room itself it the same shiny, chrome-covered atrocity as most of the rest of the ship save for the sections of floor that aren't the teleporter: those are thick clear glass that show nothing but empty space and stars beneath the Champions' feet. As for the podiums they're the same sort of garish chrome with a digital screen facing toward the center of the circle. The screens each have a name and title associated with a Champion written in green block letters, all save for Chloe Price, the Champion of Max Caulfield, Miki Naoki, the Champion Support and Chitose Karasuma, the Champion of Mediocrity. Theirs are a striking red and, floating above their podiums, are greyscale portraits framed in some kind of bold, mechanical-looking frame.

The Overseers are waiting when they all arrive, standing on a floating platform just high enough to be out of reach and back far enough toward a far wall to have a full view of the courtroom. Both are dressed well, Rox in a pressed grey dress jacket and skirt and Blaze in a black suit with the sleeves rolled up to expose his numerous tattoos.Rox is again the one who speaks up.]


Welcome, Champions, to the courtroom! Twenty of you have entered, but - in the best case scenario - only nineteen of you will leave. The goal here is to compile the evidence that you've gathered and figure out who the killer is. Once you think you have an answer, we'll call a vote where you'll use the podium in front of you to vote on the title of the Champion who you all agree has broken the peace. If you're correct, the culprit will be executed and the rest of you will be allowed to go back upstairs. If you're wrong, however, the killer goes free and the rest of you take the punishment in their place.

There's no time limit, but we reserve the right to call for a vote if things drag on too long. Now let the first trial begin!
challengesfate: (unreadable)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-28 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I think. Both of them were wounded in the stomach, but it sounds like...beyond that, there's not much connecting the acts.
quadjumps: (a butterfly sparkles)

[personal profile] quadjumps 2017-10-28 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
And if the culprit had a knife when they killed Chitose, why not use the same weapon when killing Miki? Plus, their wounds are different. Miki's killer went to town on her; Chitose's was only in the stomach.
challengesfate: (somewhat exasperated)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-28 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
And the state of the bodies...Miki was left sort of slumped in the library. From what the others have said, Chitose was laid out with some kind of respect.
quadjumps: (i can't hear anything)

[personal profile] quadjumps 2017-10-28 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I'm pretty sure there was more than one culprit involved.

[ he scowls deeper: ] I can't believe someone actually did it.
photoshooter: (FADE 📷 I'm bleeeeding out)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-28 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
...It couldn't be one person who... who liked Chitose more than Miki?
andjerry: (you found the key....)

[personal profile] andjerry 2017-10-28 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...then we're looking for two very different people. One who wanted to kill, and one who really didn't.
theworldsliveliestcorpse: Boom Bitch. (Shit Just Got Serious)

[personal profile] theworldsliveliestcorpse 2017-10-28 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Dammit... so we're lookin' for two different people then.

[Zombina paused.... she didn't want to bring up the idea but...]

unless one of 'em was a culprit. I don't like the idea, but I'm just gonna throw that out there.
andjerry: (reconsidering my filing system)

[personal profile] andjerry 2017-10-28 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
...I don't like it either.

Are you saying that Miki killed Chitose? [and he just looks down, not able to continue with that thought]
Edited 2017-10-28 17:26 (UTC)
immaculacies: (slowly prolonging a cruel fate)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-10-28 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm starting to think that way, too. Maybe someone caught her with the body, wrested her shovel away from her, and chased her down with it. We know that her shovel can do damage to the floors and walls, after all.
Edited 2017-10-28 17:33 (UTC)
photoshooter: (RUN 📷 Run boy run)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-28 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No way!

[It bursts out of him. Don't attack his li'l blonde friend's honor like that!]

Miki wouldn't--she'd never! And--and besides, if she had the shovel, then how would she've used the knife? It's hard to use two weapons at once!
challengesfate: (somewhat exasperated)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-28 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Especially if the shovel were heavy enough to damage the metal...why would someone who could use that bother with a knife?
immaculacies: (slowly prolonging a cruel fate)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-10-28 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
If the wound to Miki's stomach came from the shovel, it sounds like an unpleasant way to die. Maybe she thought the knife would be more humane.
andjerry: (emily that is not how you make toast)

[personal profile] andjerry 2017-10-28 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, I wasn't saying she did it! But, um- I just told Yuri we have to think about every possibility.

She might not have taken the shovel. Knives are- they're a lot easier. And you can hide them.
photoshooter: (DUKES 📷 W-wanna fight?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-28 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
But she did have the shovel, right? I mean, didn't it belong to her?
andjerry: (dammit you ran right into it)

[personal profile] andjerry 2017-10-28 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but that doesn't mean she always had it in her hands.

...I don't like this any more than you do. I really don't.