fourth trial

[airlockedmods]

[As the last of the evidence is gathered, the voice chimes in with a call to come down to the courtroom.

In the slowly swindling podium circle McBurn and Shadow's portraits have been added and the green in their scrolling names replaced with red.

Jamie and Bolton are waiting on their floating platform, back in black and ready for a trial. Jamie still looks tired and his posture is a little more slouched than usual but he's here and there's not much else they can ask of him right now. Bolton's put on his usual showman's attitude despite the dark circles under his eyes, and he spreads his arms to make the announcement.]

Welcome, Champions, to the courtroom. Eleven of you have entered, but - in the best case scenario - only ten of you will leave. You all know the drill by now: 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.

Remember, there is no time limit but I'd advise you to keep things interesting.

Comments

[imnotfat]

[Togami doesn't seem to share the shock of everyone else. Instead he's looking at her with suspicion]

[tasteslikesurvival]

[She'll glare back at him. He's suspicious of everyone, jeeze.]

[bylight]

I was there when she jumped. She was as dry before going in. Natsuhi can tell you that, too.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Right. My hair is pretty long, too. It wouldn't be dry even if I toweled it off if I had jumped in earlier.

[refusedtoleave]

She was. Though I'm not sure what possessed her to just jump in like that, if the ice hadn't thawed as much as it had...

[bylight]

That's because sometimes she doesn't think before doing something.

[She's calling you out, kid.]

[refusedtoleave]

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by now.

[Do you feel judged yet Kurumi?]

[tasteslikesurvival]

If it was up to you two, no one would have tried the temperature of the water.

[She's going to cross her arms and try to look as annoyed as she can. Stupid grannies.]

[bylight]

... there was ice in the water.

[MEANING IT WAS COLD]

[tasteslikesurvival]

Uh, well.

[Look, she's an impulsive teen. She does dumb stuff. What more do you want?]

[bylight]

[This is why she can't take you anywhere.]

So what does that teach you?

[Better say look before you leap.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Sorry.]

To look before I leap? But I did look.

[refusedtoleave]

You could have just dipped your hand in!

[tasteslikesurvival]

So could have you! But you two were busy so I did it.

[refusedtoleave]

You didn't do that. What if you'd hit your head on the ice or there were bigger shards there!?

[imnotfat]

I don't think it'd be useful to disguise having touched water. That has a million different explanations.

But it'd be useful to disguise the smell of chlorine. Especially from hair, that tends to keep smells better than anything else.

[It's not an accusation yet, but he's not discarding his suspicions just because she was dry before]

[cyan_maid]

Well you're not going to glean anything out of smelling her hair now, Mister Togami.

[Don't you go there, buster]

[voltrounds]

Nobody is smelling anyone's hair.

[Honestly you guys take things in the weirdest directions.]

[imnotfat]

You're the one who made the suggestion, not me. I merely stated a fact. I didn't want to find out about your..."tastes"

[Would have been easier to say "Be quiet", since that's his intent]

[cyan_maid]

Excuse me? You're the one implying that we should smell Kurumi's hair!

[tasteslikesurvival]

No one's smelling my hair, thank you!

[cyan_maid]

Exactly!!!

[imnotfat]

How unfortunate for you.

[He wasn't implying anything, really, you're the one who thought it. But yeah, this is leading the trial nowhere and Togami is embarrassed he technically kickstarted this useless detour]

This is a stupid discussion. This topic won't be touched again.

[ratherdoweddings]

Sounds more like your tastes.

[voltrounds]

[Have a glare from your almost-neighbor.]