second trial

[airlockedmods]

[Like last week the announcement sounds, the Champions with their gathered evidence file once again to the teleporter where the courtroom waits for them.

The a circle of podiums has changed since last week. The Griffin, Toby, and Angelica's floating portraits have joined Chintanda's above their respective podiums as well as the bright green having been changed to a glaring red.

The Overseers are waiting on their floating platform when the first group of Champions arrive. They're back in their black suits, side by side. Jamie's expression is grim but he looks more mentally present than the last trial. Bolton, on the other hand, looks stern but not grim, arms crossed over his chest. Once again, he's the one who makes the announcement.]

Welcome, Champions, to the courtroom. Sixteen of you have entered, but - in the best case scenario - only fifteen of you will leave. Compile your evidence and figure out who the killer is. If you vote correctly, the culprit will be executed and the rest of you will be allowed to go back upstairs. If you vote wrong, however, the killer goes free and the rest of you take the punishment in their place.

Remember, there is no time limit but keeping things interesting is in your best interests.

Comments

[imnotfat]

Were there any chances of comparing her handwriting?

[Togami doesn't have any hopes there was, but better to ask than make assumptions]

[damnfourthemerald]

[He brought more paper! He's the fucking paperboy.] There were more notes in the same handwriting dealing with research into space stations, like many of us have done, but unless we have a sample of her handwriting, I can't say for certain it's all hers.

[kingshaming]

We can compare it to the samples I have of everyone else's- worse comes to it there's the process of elimination. Though I would feel more confident if we had a sample that we could confirm is hers.

[damnfourthemerald]

But if it's a forgery, even testing everyone's handwriting wouldn't make it clear, would it?

[kingshaming]

Depends on how good they were at hiding their own tells.

[stitch_in_time]

Angelica's handwriting's pretty simple, too. It'd be easy enough to forge.

[kingshaming]

I actually have samples of most of our handwriting.

[He pulls out his sketchbook]

Unfortunately one of the few I don't have IS Angelica's. But if we suspect it's someone else who wrote it, we have something else to compare it to.

[imnotfat]

There's nothing to waste by comparing the handwritings you already have, in case it matches someone else's handwriting.

[What are the odds any of that matches the available handwriting?]

[kingshaming]

[He opens his book to the right pages and offers it to Togami. In it are all their answers to Yurika's poll, including the mystery one, all carefully pasted in. The only one's missing are Angelica, and Xander himself- though all the rest of the writing in the book is clearly his. More then enough for a comparison.]

[cyan_maid]

[Oh no, Xander, you didn't paste in Jane and Yurika's whole note conversation too did you, that's a lot of notes]

[kingshaming]

[He very well might have]

[cyan_maid]

[Xander no why do you do this to yourself]

[kingshaming]

[He looks rather proud of all the pointless busy work, actually]

[cyan_maid]

[asdfghjkl well you do you buddy]

[ratherdoweddings]

Sorry some of those were so long!

[kingshaming]

I had nothing but time. [He seems amused by it]

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[imnotfat]

[Togami raises his eyebrows, mildly impressed. This is rather detailed!

Supposing someone was kind enough to give Togami the note to compare, he starts comparing meticulously and very carefully.

Does any of the handwritings match or look similar enough?]

[airlockedmods]

[No. Other than the obvious similarities between all print writing, the note doesn't match any of the handwritings in the book.]

[imnotfat]

[Huh]

These handwritings are a dead end. None of them match.

I may be mistaken, but it seems Kurumi, Thomasin and Shadow didn't provide their handwriting. It's useless to ask them now to do it, of course, and this is a flimsy basis for suspecting anyone.

[ratherdoweddings]

Plus whoever did it must be a really good forger to begin with.

[curdle]

[ She hesitates before speaking. ]

Need they be? I've been copying words from our ledger the last few days. 'Twould not be easy, but if they had words to look to in her notes, they might imitate them thus.

[curdle]

I could not write my name a week past. If ye would, I can supply some few words now.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Sorry 'bout that. Yurika had asked me the questions on the poll in person so I never bothered with replying since she already knew.