Third Trial

[airlockedmods]

[You get a little time after your investigation is over, but not too long. Your Overseer is right there, after all, and he can tell when you're finished.

Xander will lead you all out the door near Fourt's, opening what had been impenetrable sheet metal with a few taps and swipes on his tablet. This won't take you outside either; instead, it leads to a long hallway. Like a walk-through aquarium, the walls and ceiling are all made of thick glass, giving you an even better view of the stars outside. There's no sign that the mall is attached to some kind of large-scale station. There's really not going to be an easy way to escape here, unless you get transportation.

You're led to a wide-open area, empty except for a circle of podiums in its center. They're labeled so you can easily find yours. Soma and Togami's grey-scale portraits have joined the three ladies' portraits this time in the places they previously stood. Three of the podiums remain empty and nameless. The walls here are equally transparent, and they seem to have lines of large hatches going along them, as if this is where one might park one's spaceship when going on a fun space mall adventure. Shame you don't know anything about those.

You already know what you're here to do. You'd best be getting along with it.]

Comments

[induality]

...what?!?!

[daughterofthemark]

[Your son is dead.]

I have what remained here...

[induality]

[....fUCK.]

There... that's the... there should be a listening device-- where is it?!!

[nightcure]

A listening device?

[tokencanadian]

...Togami put a listening device inside it for the sake of [glances] spying on Xander.

[burninglight]

...Well.

['Fuck.']

How do you know that, did he tell you?

[tokencanadian]

[She nods.]

I ran into him earlier this week, he told me about his plan then, that he would take it into Xander's office and leave it there.

XANDER HEY

[cyan_maid]

...Wait. Then, why is it out here?

[Looking up at Xander now.] Excuse me? Did you still have the baby with you before you came out for this today?

[induality]

He said it picked up something that he wanted everyone to hear. If it's missing then--

[ratherdoweddings]

Then someone might have found the device and taken it to use.

[myocordial]

Or perhaps they just didn't want us to have it.

MODS?

[daughterofthemark]

[FUCK]

I--I'm not certain! What would it look like?

[She starts pulling all the Togaminime bits out of her bag for the more technically inclined people to examine. Does there happen to be a listening device among them?]

[induality]

[DON'T JUST PULL OUT HER DEAD CHILD'S BODY LIKE THAT???]

I... I don't know?!?! I'm not good with electronics...

[misanthropicprinciple]

You can pass them here if you want.

[Yo mods, Junpei would absotively posilutely recognize parts of a listening device if he saw some.]

[induality]

[HERE YOU GO JUMPY. Save us.]

[airlockedmods]

[There's definitely parts of a listening device here! Unfortunately, they no longer appear operational - looks like they've been slashed into.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

There was a listening device here. There's not anymore. RIP, spy-mic. Someone slashed it up.

[burninglight]

Fantastic. Nothing recoverable, I should wager?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah, no. I don't think anyone can fix this, it's not a matter of reassembling the pieces.

[induality]

...they destroyed it.

[SHE'S GONNA DESTROY THEM!!!]

Hey. If he had hooked that thing up to the tv, could he have played the audio that way? I think... that's what he was trying to do. He said he wanted us all to listen...

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Probably he could, yeah.

[myocordial]

My, someone really wanted it destroyed, didn't they?

[induality]

Why else would they attack the doll?

[cyan_maid]

...This is...could it be a sabotage? If it was something so important that the murderer went out of their way to destroy the doll...

[She has a half-baked idea but she doesn't know if she can say it, it feels like something she should know, but...]

[shikosuki]

If it's slashed that could be Beefy & Creepy, couldn't it?