fourth trial

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[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

[playthedamncard]

Like a ritual of some kind.

[le_mat]

Possibly. If it was just the motive then everything they did after is pointless. It's not like they were hiding the evidence, just moving it.

[in4apounding]

Like a magic thing? That's- ...not very many of us, by now. ...Maybe they were. Trying to frame someone?

[le_mat]

... we also have to consider that one of us has snappped. People with no magic do things like this too. A mental breakdown and an irrational thought might be all it takes.

[andjerry]

...or trying to do something magical.

[he really doesn't want to talk about this, but.]

The ones I saw back home- they weren't exactly like this, but... he did certain things to each body so it would work.

[in4apounding]

Was it anything like what was done to Max?

[andjerry]

... not the same things. But it wasn't about who the victim as, it was about doing something to the body. Maybe it could have been any of us, not just Max.

[karappo]

It sounds like Max-san was awake painting, anyway. It...it is possible he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[andjerry]

...and how did they get him into the infirmary to do that? He trusted-

[karappo]

I do not know. As mentioned it was possible he was incapacitated or unconscious in some way...he couldn't have really struggled if that were the case, we just do not know how.