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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-11-18 12:07 pm
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fourth trial

[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.
immaculacies: (in sleep there is no sorrow)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-18 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, do you think... He had been working on those, and was interrupted? But... You said the portraits were in his room?
dejabrew: (I'm screaming the whole way)

[personal profile] dejabrew 2017-11-18 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
They are. If he was working on them in there, where... [His voice doesn't break, but it wavers.] He could surprise us.

He might have had the supplies in there while he was working, but if he finished them he would've put the supplies back in the art room.
immaculacies: (slowly prolonging a cruel fate)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-18 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm... And whatever happened didn't even give him time to wash the brush.
dejabrew: (to keep this party together)

[personal profile] dejabrew 2017-11-18 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
He must've thought he could come back and do it later.

...Or he didn't leave the art room under his own power.
le_mat: <user name="tanabata"> (27)

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-11-18 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He was jumped there then.

Max wasn't especially strong, but he was tall and a full grown man. It wouldn't be easy to move him without a struggle. I didn't see any damage that looked like he was, like, cracked over the head or knocked out...
dejabrew: (I'm neutral)

[personal profile] dejabrew 2017-11-18 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I checked the art room this morning when I was... When I was looking for him, but it didn't look wrecked.
immaculacies: (grow old; let your hair grow)

[personal profile] immaculacies 2017-11-18 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Manaka shakes her head.]

There didn't appear to be any signs of a struggle, when I looked around the room. Just the canvas and the brush.
le_mat: <user name="tanabata"> (45)

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-11-18 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
There was no struggle in the infirmary either. The killer had to have some way to keep Max unconscious or still either way.

...he might have gone to the infirmary to check on the painkillers or clean up more after the DnD game too. So he might have just intended to come back.

Though the black painting doesn't sound like his style. Did the culprit paint it?
karappo: (tuesday is my official)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-11-18 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
And do we know if the painting really looked like anything, or was it just random black splatters?

[It would be helpful if they had it, but alas.]
le_mat: (10)

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-11-18 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't see it, but if it looked like anything it apparently wasn't obvious.
karappo: (filthy)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-11-18 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. So what purpose would that have been for? It sounds like someone has completely lost their mind...