sixth trial

[airlockedmods]

[Six weeks, thirteen Champion dead out of their original twenty as well one half of the former Overseer pair. With Jamie now counted as a fellow Champion in the Benefactors' eyes, their numbers have dwindled down to eight.

C.E.C.E.'s announcement sounds and for what may be the last time the Champions must file to the teleporter with their evidence and the Champion Landscape Artist now officially among them. The courtroom is empty this time around, the floating platform as empty as the updated circle of surviving Champion's podiums. Jamie makes a small, humorless sound when he sees the lack of a portrait at Lightning's podium and his own name in glaring green where she once stood.

There's no Bolton to speak to them this time around so it's C.E.C.E. whose voice rings from on high.]

Welcome, Champions, to the courtroom. Eight of you have entered, but if you vote correctly only seven of you will leave. Compile your evidence and select the correct culprit is. If you vote correctly, the culprit will be executed and the rest of you will be allowed to go back upstairs.

Thank you!

Comments

[stitch_in_time]

...If there'd been some kind of long-standing offer, the lockdown could've put the recipient into panic-mode, yeah. Shut down the program, get rid of whatever carrot was being held in front of their nose, and maybe let loose the stick behind them at the same time.

[kingshaming]

[He doesn't look at the Doctor, but his lips narrow into a tense, angry line]

True... do you remember what CECE said when the motive occurred?

[stitch_in_time]

Exactly. They didn't call it an incentive, they said they were discontinuing the experiment permanently.

I figured they were just being petty, but... remember what I said, everything they've done's had some kind of solid reason, yeah?

[kingshaming]

Exactly. They said that the motive was by request.

[ratherdoweddings]

I'd assume either Overseer's request, and that's why they're not Overseers anymore. They sympathized too much.

[kingshaming]

Very possible. They'd make the most sense. We could ask Jamie, but it's possible Bolton could have requested it without telling him.