fourth trial

[airlockedmods]

[With the announcement and the evidence, 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. More portraits and names in blaring red have been added this week. Karamatsu Matsuno, the Champion of Painful Secondhand Embarrassment That's So Cringe Inducing, Narcissistic, And Eye Blindingly Glittery It Makes You Wish He'd Go Away, Korra, the Champion Avatar, Yuri Plisetsky, the Champion Figure Skater and Max Olguin, the Champion Portrait Artist.

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. He's also sporting a black eye patch with a flaming snowflake embroidered on it over his left eye. Rox is smiling like that cat who ate the canary while Blaze is standing a little farther away than normal and looking uncomfortable.]

Welcome back, Champions! There are ten of you here but, if things go correctly, only nine of you will leave. I don't think I have to explain at this point what will happen if you choose wrong.

As usual there's no time limit but be sure to keep things interesting. [She folds her arms across her chest, looking down on the Champions with a grin.] Let the trial begin.

Comments

[le_mat]

Cloth? Like a shirt? Or something from the sewing room?

[karappo]

It could have been, though it is hard to say for sure. The cloth was crumpled, not neatly folded, as if they were taking it someplace in haste.

[andjerry]

...can I see it? There was. some missing, before.

[karappo]

[The tongue is definitely AWOL, but I'm going to assume here that Karamatsu did keep the cloth for evidence sake...which he very carefully passes to Thomas.]

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[andjerry]

[he's so glad he still has gloves let me tell you

is it a match to the missing cloth?]

[airlockedmods]

[It is.]

[andjerry]

This- I saw some of it missing from the sewing room earlier.

There was some ribbon gone too. It looked like they'd taken their time with getting it ready.

[karappo]

Missing ribbon...has anyone found that, or is it still gone?

[le_mat]

Ribbon... the fingers were in that room, right? Could they have been wrapping them up? Using the ribbon to tie it off?

[andjerry]

... like what Penny and I did. [this is so fucked] Except...

[le_mat]

Yeah, they wanted to keep the parts for later. For something.