sixth trial

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[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

[ratherdoweddings]

But you knew something else. That request was actually yours!

[kingshaming]

...

That is correct. I made the request for the motives to end.

[ratherdoweddings]

How would you get access to the master computer? The Doctor tried to contact her before and nothing happened.

[kingshaming]

It was not CECE I was in contact with.

[ratherdoweddings]

So you had Bolton-san or Jamie-san ask for you?

[kingshaming]

No, they had no idea. It would in fact have been counterproductive for them to aid me in any way.

[cyan_maid]

...

Temerity. Or...the Benefactors?

[kingshaming]

Neither. Or I can at least say to my knowledge they have never claimed to be either of those groups but I would suspect they are with the Benefactors.

Come on, you know who already. We've seen what they can do to a man with the right carrot.

[cyan_maid]

...EP.

[She says it with such raw, spitting poison in her voice.]

[ratherdoweddings]

EP?

[cyan_maid]

...It's...it's the person who put Bolton and Jamie up to being Overseers and who promised them freedom for conflicting conditions. Whatever it's supposed to mean...

[ratherdoweddings]

Someone who just wants blood, no matter what they have to promise.

[refusedtoleave]

Isn't everyone supposed to be in here? If that thing can't lie...