second trial

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[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

[ratherdoweddings]

What I did was tell you how disgusting you were, and that someone might target you just to spare the rest of us! And you thought that was fun!?

[damnfourthemerald]

Yurika--don't! Don't let him get to you. This person...was never a person at all! He just wants to see you suffer...

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika slams a fist down on her podium and breathes.]

I know. There are people like that out there, and they're the ones who want the rest of us to be like them or die.

[damnfourthemerald]

He's so much less than human. If there's such a thing as evil, then he's it.

[ratherdoweddings]

I think he'd agree with you, from this.

[cyan_maid]

[Brusquely,] That's what people like him do. They...they literally don't care, Miss Yurika...

[ratherdoweddings]

Well, we will. Even if he's more terrible for it.

[stitch_in_time]

It's not your fault. Even if he hadn't done it with the paintings, he would've found some other way of makin' everyone else feel awful, it's what people like him do. They're just schoolyard bullies on a bigger scale, enjoyin' any kind of power they can get over someone else.

[ratherdoweddings]

There are always people like that, right? It's why we have to try, even when people say it's the reason it's no good to try.

[stitch_in_time]

That's what a good crew does, right?

[ratherdoweddings]

You're right. And we'll get past all of this like always!

[fatherofsin]

...You all had such fun reactions. It was almost as fun as when Levia sabotaged the HERS scanner so she could bring her own infected alternate self to the Third Period.

[damnfourthemerald]

Was there ever a real Seth, or was it just some persona you adopted?

[wrathfulambitions]

Oh, no, Seth Twiright is this incarnation's name given at birth. Don't worry about that.

[damnfourthemerald]

But...this is all about souls. Vessels, incarnations. If he existed before, then what happened to his soul...?

[wrathfulambitions]

I am the soul. The name Seth Twiright is only the name of this body.

[stitch_in_time]

Does that really make you proud? Jabbin' an open wound to make someone hurt? What next, you're gonna show us what a great marksman you are by shootin' at a barn?

[wrathfulambitions]

I don't have a sense of pride except in my work, Doctor. Most emotions are simply lost to me.

[refusedtoleave]

I think we're done here.