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

[refusedtoleave]

Who are you then!?

[What's going?????]

[wrathfulambitions]

Allow me to introduce myself!

[ He spread his arms wide and sweeps a dramatic bow. ]

I am the Serpent! A researcher of parallel worlds, an assistant in the creation of worlds, dragon kin, and a mad scientist! And I have survived the destruction of two worlds!

[misplacedxsheath]

Then the symbology wasn't merely in reference to your duplicitous nature.

[voltrounds]

A monster to be destroyed.

[Ricky is not here to humor your apocalyptic bullshit. Where's an ill-defined superweapon when you need one?]

[cyan_maid]

And a sick jerk.

[Don't forget that part.]

[bylight]

[This is like Barthandelus hiding as Galenth Dysely all over again... Where is her crew to take down another guy like this with her.]

1/2

[stitch_in_time]

[Have a sarcastic golf clap, Seth.]

Yeah, that's very dramatic and all, ten out of ten on the evil laughter, really.

And I will say one thing, when I compared you to those other lunatics? I was wrong about one thing.

2/2

[stitch_in_time]

They were actually clever.

[misplacedxsheath]

[That line? Gets a chuckle out of Margulis. One of his meaner sounding ones.]

I assume they at least would have had the sense to leave the failed forgery attempts in their own quarters?

[stitch_in_time]

And they'd manage to not, say, deface paintings of the dead if they were trying to feign some modicum of empathy.

[wrathfulambitions]

And yet, I had you fooled. All of you... Thought I could actually connect to anyone.

[ That has him laughing again. ]

[cyan_maid]

Does it count as a successful fooling if we figured you out before all was doomed?

[stitch_in_time]

Yeah, I'd almost hoped.

[Before this? He'd actually done a decent job of showing the Doctor just enough of himself, even if he's never going to admit that.]

Those paintings? That's cruel, an' painful, an' human. But then you went and oversold it, like any hack actor with a rubber forehead.

[bylight]

[Well, she could connect her fist to your face. That enough of a connection?]

I don't really care who you connected to. You killed a girl who trusted you.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Y'know, I'm just saying if you get chucked out of the airlock I'm not going to even be sad.

[voltrounds]

I'd do it myself if I could.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Good thing you can't.

[Ricky, you really don't want to go there.]

for the sanctity of the doctor combo

[curdle]

[ WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT!!! THE FUCK hey she's muttering something ]

Oh God my Lord I now begin--

[kingshaming]

...

Of course, it had to be a dragon.

[LOOK, HE HAS NO IDEA HOW MUCH 'OF COURSE IT WAS A DRAGON' HIS CANON ACTUALLY GETS, BUT FROM LEGEND ALONE HE IS SO DONE?!]

[yukionna]

You talk a lot, you know that?

[ratherdoweddings]

Survived, or caused?

[wrathfulambitions]

Both. That is my duty. The Serpent exists to bring about the end of all that the gods create. Even if I helped them to build it in the first place. It's so funny, watching them think they can escape the inevitability of an end.

[curdle]

Thou art Satan in the flesh.

[refusedtoleave]

[Just give her a few seconds to process that...]

And you're the one who killed her?

[What the hell is this?]

[damnfourthemerald]

And why kill her? Because only Ricky would miss her?