first trial

[airlockedmods]

[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!

Comments

NIISAN HERDING

[titularly]

[Well since we're getting off track here -- Osomatsu included -- Osomatsu decides to take this chance to try and.. do..... sssomething.]

OIIIIIII!!

[And that's by screaming at the top of his lungs to get everyone's attention, as he's used to with five younger brothers who always argue about something.]

Isn't this just a big waste of time? We found out one murderer already, but we still gotta find out the other if we don't wanna die too, right? That's how this works, ain't it?

[He looks around the room at the other podiums, sweeping everyone a glance.]

So what are we missing? Cause it's gotta be something. There has to be something that someone missed! Everyone went around and looked for clues, right? Let's bring 'em all out again.. but like, the ones that have to do with Miki-chan.

[quadjumps]

[ fuck you man but you know what

for miki's sake he'll cooperate with you. just this once. ]

There was a table that was shoved near the door in the library. There was a dent on the wall behind her that was covered in blood. The library door was also dented and scratched up.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Okay so, do we know why the table was up against the door? Was it like, a barrier or something?

[quadjumps]

My guess is that Miki was using it as a barrier, yeah.

[karappo]

We need to find out how the wall and door was dented and scratched. The cafeteria floor was scratched in a similar way. It would take a lot to scratch metal like that, would it not?

I have a hard time believing someone did that with their bare hands. Is there another weapon or object not accounted for, here?

[keepmeinyourheart]

What... if it wasn't a weapon, but an ability? There are those of us who do have superhuman abilities.

[Not that she's implicating anyone. But it's something to think about.] I know my trident would be unable to do such damage, since the one I received here is a poor imitation made of plastic.

[lovecolored]

I think someone mentioned that it looked like Miki was barricadin' herself in the library. The table coulda been used for that.

Was the library door dented on the outside? That would be signs someone was tryna get inside.

[quadjumps]

It was.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Can't believe I'm agreeing with ya, but yeah. Osomatsu-kun is right. There's gotta be something we're missing.

[Zombina's kinda stumped though tbh.]

[karappo]

[Karamatsu snaps to attention, reflexively. ...force of habit.]

Er...the only thing I found was the shovel. A shovel, spade smeared with that purple substance, with scratches in the metal floor beneath it.

It is also very heavy. We also confirmed it could not have been used to make those dents in the doors. It would have shown damage in that case, but it is not damaged at all.

[quadjumps]

Are you sure the purple stuff on the shovel is the same as the blood?

[karappo]

The only real indicator of this we have is that Marisa-san said it tasted like blood. Otherwise, it did not look like any blood I have seen.

It for certain was not paint, I can confirm that much.

[discalibur]

That seems easy enough to compare, doesn't it?

[batfortheprincess]

There was a broken camera in the storage room, with broken glass scattered on the floor and upper shelves. The purple splatter that we identified as blood was also on the ground. Lastly, a number of cardboard boxes were scattered.

It seems like... there's two possibilities for who broke the camera: Miss Miki, or the culprit.

[andjerry]

Someone probably tried to climb the boxes, but... why would the camera be broken? [The answers are going to be really different depending on who.]

[karappo]

I wonder if someone was doing something they would not want to be seen by the Overseers. Why else destroy a camera?

[immaculacies]

It seems more likely that it would be Miki, doesn't it? Unless Petuu-san gave the murderer special dispensation for killing.

Mods?

[batfortheprincess]

Well... if they were that intent on having someone kill, then perhaps.

[He'll turn to where the Overseers are.]

Miss Petuu... would an exception be made if a murderer were to break the rules?

[in4apounding]

What. Whatever did that to Miki, it was very sharp, but not a knife or her shovel. The wound didn't fit.

[titularly]

Okay.. then what other weapons are sharp? I've used a big pair of scissors before but I don't think you could stab someone with 'em that easily.

[in4apounding]

Lots of things, but I don't think I've seen anything else on the station that would do it. There was the glass Lucina found, but I doubt that a bottle would hold up well enough to- to pierce as far as it did through Miki.

[challengesfate]

...She had two cuts, one on her shoulder, one on her thigh. And then, a piercing wound in her stomach. There was glass on her clothes...possibly from the broken camera. And nothing we've discussed seems like it would be the correct murder weapon.

[She is going to fIND YOU, MIKI'S MURDERER...........]

[le_mat]

If the glass is from the camera then she was there first, then maybe escaped and hide in the library? Barricaded her self in?

Maybe we're looking at it wrong. We didn't find a weapon but could some of us have abilities that could possibly destroy the camera and dent the door?

Mods!

[le_mat]

[think think]

Petuu! Do you dole out all punishments yourself, like you did with Chloe?

[theoverseeing]

Not necessarily. I don't need to come over here to do that.