theairlock | fourth trial

[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.

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His hands and arms were scraped up pretty badly. Glass could've done it.

Maybe. Would Shadow have been wearing the unitard, though?

Did anyone ever see him wearing that?

[Togami didn't]

Exactly. I'm not sure they would even fit on him with his quills.

So it's much more likely that the unitard belonged to the culprit, then.

It's too bad we can't go back and find everyone's, and see who has one that's damaged.

I'd imagine that sort of investigating would make these trials infinitely easier.

[ and of course they can't have that ]

Right. Having to just come in here and stay without doing any further investigation is probably a bigger obstacle than anything the killers actually do to cover things up.

If we miss something in the initial run, there's no going back...how troublesome.

That's true. I'm wearing mine, so you can see it's okay!

Unless that's your spare.

I guess that's true. We should at least check what we do have on, though.

[Shucks.]

Of course we'd need the darned things on the first day I don't have to wear mine anymore...

Oh, yeah, you're wearing regular clothes now. I almost didn't notice.

Well we have been investigating things all day, so far.

And if we wear them, they'll just get in the way if we have to check for injuries again.

[Also wearing new clothes, for that very reason.]

[Eeuuuugh]

Yeah...I'd rather we have things that are easier to work with for clothes, too, and not wait for something to appear in those dumbwaiters out of pure luck.

...I got a fake skull out of them the other week. I really wish I'd get something useful.

Are you certain it's fake? You never know, in a place like this.

[ Surprise, it's McBurn's. CONGRATULATIONS. ]

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refusedtoleave - 2017-03-11 19:38 (UTC) - Expand

I got a seashell.

... I've gotten useful items and items I disposed of immediately.

[As in she's being targeted by the Benefactors and she wants to set them on fire.]

ratherdoweddings - 2017-03-11 19:54 (UTC) - Expand

stitch_in_time - 2017-03-11 19:57 (UTC) - Expand

No, I don't think I ever saw him in one. So whoever else was involved is down to their spare, then.

That also means he got a hit in on his attacker. [Holding up the scrap.]

Let's maybe hold off on the stripping this time, til we've got something more definite.

...yeah, I don't think it's ever really gotten us anywhere.